News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Streamline Health Solutions Integrated with GE Healthcare’s Centricity Enterprise Solution Ensure Business Process Optimization through Efficient Information Management .
Cincinnati, Ohio August 1, 2006 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM) today announced that The Nebraska Medical Center will implement Streamline Health’s enterprise workflow and document management solutions to integrate with its current GE Centricity Enterprise solution (formerly IDX® Carecast™). In their continuing partnership, GE Healthcare and Streamline Health will enable The Nebraska Medical Center to improve the flow of information across their enterprise through the integration of GE Centricity Enterprise and Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions, creating a comprehensive way for healthcare professionals to manage patient information.
As a leading medical center and a partner of the sole public academic health science center in Nebraska, part of The Nebraska Medical Center’s mission is to improve healthcare throughout the state by offering the highest quality patient care and through outreach to underserved populations. Streamline Health will enhance clinical efficiencies at The Nebraska Medical Center through a permanent, document-based repository of historical health information. “The Nebraska Medical Center will implement an enterprise-wide integrated solution that is strongly focused on creating greater operating efficiencies across departments,” stated Cindy Owen, corporate vice president at The Nebraska Medical Center. “Our healthcare professionals will now have convenient access to patient information which helps them to manage the spectrum of care, efficiently and effectively while streamlining business processes and reducing costs.”
Fully available within the GE Centricity Enterprise solution, an integrated clinical, financial and administrative system, Streamline Health’s enterprise solutions will equip healthcare professionals at The Nebraska Medical Center with a single sign-on and immediate access to all forms of patient information.
“Our business process management solutions offer The Nebraska Medical Center interoperability, which makes it easier for information to be shared throughout the enterprise,” according to Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. “Streamline Health’s ongoing relationship with GE Healthcare ensures that our integrated solutions will meet the everyday demands of clinical, financial and administrative challenges at The Nebraska Medical Center and will accelerate cost savings to generate a real return on investment.”
James Campbell, M.D. affirmed, “We are delivering a higher quality of patient care with innovative solutions that improve accuracy, increase turnaround time and enhance productivity. Our physicians will have real-time access to all forms of patient data, which aids in the clinical decision making process and offers a streamlined approach to managing healthcare. We are especially excited that our clinicians will have one place to access important patient information, such as current lab values and historical records, within the physician inbox of GE Centricity Enterprise.”
About The Nebraska Medical Center
The Nebraska Medical Center located in Omaha, Nebraska is rich in tradition and renowned for medical excellence. With a history dating back to 1869, The Nebraska Medical Center is known for excellence, innovation and quality patient care. As the teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska's health sciences programs, this 689 licensed bed facility has an international reputation for providing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation services and is well known nationally and regionally for its oncology, neurology and cardiology programs. The Nebraska Medical Center, one of only two certified trauma centers in Nebraska and western Iowa, treats patients from across the region. A heliport atop the University Tower gives critically ill and injured patients quick access to The Nebraska Medical Center’s Emergency Department. LifeNet Helicopter, an air ambulance service bases its medical operation here and many of the neonatal nurses who fly with LifeNet are on staff at The Nebraska Medical Center. For additional information on The Nebraska Medical Center, please visit their website at www.nebraskamed.com.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Their expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Their vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit their website at www.gehealthcare.com.
About Streamline Health
Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners and healthcare organizations to improve operational efficiencies through business process optimization. The Company provides integrated tools and technologies for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, portal connectivity, and interoperability.
The company’s workflow-based services offer solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, abstracting and completion, remote physician order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and signature capture, insurance verification, secondary billing services, explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing. The company’s solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human Resource and Supply Chain Management processes of the healthcare enterprise. All solutions are available for purchase or through a remote hosting services model that better matches customers’ capital or operating budget needs.
Streamline Health’s solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location, including secure web-based access. These integrated solutions allow providers and administrators to link existing systems with documents, which can dramatically improve the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart processing, document retention, and archiving. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net.
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