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Marion General Hospital Selects Streamline Health(R) for Integrated Document Workflow Solutions
2008-07-15 06:30:00
Marion General Hospital Seeks Improved Operational Efficiencies for Health Information Management Using an Integrated Approach to Workflow CINCINNATI, July 15 /EMWNews-FirstCall/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRM) today announced that Marion General Hospital, located in Marion, Ohio, will implement Streamline Health's document management and workflow solutions integrated with its GE Centricity(R) Enterprise clinical information solution. Through this integrated solution, Marion General looks to enhance their health information management processes, boost productivity and ultimately, provide outstanding patient care. For nearly 85 years, Marion General's 250-bed, comprehensive regional healthcare facility has been serving its patients within a 7-county area in its North Central Ohio community. Marion General is a part of OhioHealth, a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare organization consisting of 17 hospitals, 20 health and surgery centers, home-health providers, medical equipment and health service suppliers throughout a 46-county area. Streamline Health will help Marion General gain efficiencies with the implementation of a permanent, document-based repository of health information and workflow solutions to improve their business processes. These solutions will offer the hospital seamless access to critical patient health information, expediting clinical decisions based on comprehensive electronic health records. "Our physicians, in particular, will benefit greatly from the Streamline Health solutions available within Centricity since it provides remote access to data and documents via a secure Internet site, which in turn, greatly improves the speed and ease of connecting from a physician's office or home," commented Jerry Feyh, vice president of finance at Marion General Hospital. Marion General will utilize Streamline Health's document management solutions to provide convenient electronic access, including secure web-based access, to all forms of patient information from any location. Marion General plans to deploy the following Streamline Health's HIM Suite solutions: -- accessANYware(TM) - Health Information Management (HIM): Provides enterprise access to a patient's medical records to better coordinate patient care. -- Completion Workflow: Expedites the completion of the medical record, including online review of chart documents and electronic signature by physicians. -- Coding Workflow: Improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home-based employees. -- Release of Information Workflow(TM): Facilitates efficient compliance with requests for patient information from third party requestors. -- Document Capture Solutions: Delivers high speed production scanning and indexing as well as departmental document capture and management. "The seamless integrated workflow between Streamline Health and GE Healthcare solutions will offer Marion General Hospital a flexible, automated process that will increase productivity and reduce costs," commented Brian Patsy, President and CEO of Streamline Health. "We are pleased to work with Marion General and help them achieve improvements in operational efficiencies to enhance patient care."
About Marion General Hospital A 250-bed facility, Marion General is North Central Ohio's largest and most sophisticated hospital and is a part of OhioHealth, a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare organization based in Columbus, Ohio. The hospital is a two-time recipient of OhioHealth's President's Award, provided annually to the top performing hospital in the system. In both 2006 and 2007, Marion General was named Solucient Top 100 Hospital: Performance Improvement Leaders. For additional information about Marion General, visit our website at http://www.mariongeneral.com . About GE Healthcare GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our 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, treat and monitor disease, so 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. Our 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 $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at http://www.gehealthcare.com . About Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that enable strategic business partners and healthcare organizations to improve operational efficiencies through business process optimization. The Company provides integrated technology solutions for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, portal connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR), and interoperability. 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. For additional information, visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net . "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Statements made by Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, included herein. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the timing of the closing of contracts and the timing of the subsequent revenue recognition related thereto, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, key strategic alliances with vendors that resell the Company products, the ability of the Company to control costs, availability of products produced from third party vendors, the healthcare regulatory environment, healthcare information systems budgets, availability of healthcare information systems trained personnel for implementation of new systems, as well as maintenance of legacy systems, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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