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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 .
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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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