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| Surgical Notes and SourceMedical Create Strategic Alliance |
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| Thursday, 06 November 2008 | |
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Surgical Notes has entered into an alliance with SourceMedical that integrates the technology of both companies to improve the efficiency and financial performance of ASCs and surgical hospitals.
The alliance lets VMR Express, Surgical Notes’ proprietary electronic medical forms generator and document imaging solution, import patient scheduling data directly from SourceMedical’s AdvantX, Vision, and SurgiSource solutions to create medical forms as needed, store them digitally and manage them as needed. The solution empowers ASCs and surgical hospitals to progress beyond the use of cumbersome pre-printed medical forms. “VMR Express enable SourceMedical’s customers to reduce expenses and labor costs, improve accuracy in medical forms creation and coding and boost revenue through enhanced billing and collection,” says Jeff Blankinship, founder and president of Surgical Notes. “This seamless solution is a win-win for patients, physicians, management companies, business managers, and anyone else who touches medical charts.” The intelligence-driven VMR Express has the ability to seamlessly pull data from the practice management program and automatically create accurate digital forms based on physician, procedure, insurance and other specifications. Digital patient forms can then be printed as needed, filed digitally, then sorted, retrieved and analyzed using a broad range of criteria. The solution’s hassle-free, state-of-the-art scanning and intuitive file management systems preserve the integrity of patient data and reduces the hard costs and time dedicated to creating, filing, storing and retrieving old-style paper patient charts. “SourceMedical’s goal is to make our customers more successful through the implementation of technology solutions,” says Ron Pelletier, SourceMedical’s vice president of market strategy. “By facilitating more seamless integration, our mutual customers can more easily realize the benefits and efficiencies offered by the VMR Express system.” This alliance lets VMR Express pull patient data from the practice-management databases, and pre-populate customized patient forms with the necessary information. It also barcodes each page for easy file management. The solution eliminates the need for pre-printed forms, “sticky labels” and the hours of time spent creating patient charts. The completed forms, and even notes and e-mails, can then be digitally scanned into VMR Express using a scanning system that is accurate, fast and almost fool-proof. The digital chart is then accurately organized electronically, pages are automatically put in the proper order, saved in the correct tabs, and the images perfected as needed. Once saved, the digital patient files can be indexed and manipulated based on several user-defined criteria such as physician, patient name and procedure. Learn more about SourceMedical and Surgical Notes. |
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