Scheduling.com and PatientKeeper Partner to Deliver Mobile Scheduling Solutions for Healthcare
LOS GATOS, Calif. and BOSTON, Mass. - September 17, 2003 - Scheduling.com and PatientKeeper today announced a partnership to jointly develop mobile scheduling applications for physicians, hospitals, and healthcare providers. Scheduling.com is a leader in access management solutions, and PatientKeeper is a leading provider of mobile computing solutions for healthcare.
"With physicians covering numerous miles each day, it is no surprise that mobile solutions are playing an increasingly important role in the provider's practice of medicine," said John Holton, CEO, scheduling.com. "Together with PatientKeeper, we will offer scheduling, access to schedules, and other access management services via the PatientKeeper Platform, a well recognized standard in healthcare. Its broad portfolio of applications is valuable to our clients, and its robust technology is ideally suited for advanced mobile applications such as scheduling."
The PatientKeeper Platform connects mobile devices with existing hospital information systems and supports a broad and growing portfolio of mobile applications, including clinical results, charge capture, dictation, and others.
"Scheduling, patient tracking and referrals are important components in supporting the 'day in the life' of a physician in both the inpatient and outpatient settings," said Paul W. Brient, CEO, PatientKeeper. "Our partnership with scheduling.com allows us to offer best of breed scheduling solutions to our clients."
The scheduling.com solution for access management includes an advanced, web-based enterprise scheduling solution with modules for physician offices and consumers to self-schedule, integrated medical necessity checking and eligibility verification, authorization and referral management, pre-registration and automated appointment reminders.
About scheduling.com
Headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., scheduling.com has developed a cutting-edge Access Management system that enables healthcare professionals to initiate clinical care delivery and sets in motion the billing process before appointments occur. Scheduling.com is the first company to provide true enterprise-wide access management solutions to the healthcare industry via the Internet. Scheduling.com offers the benefits of a robust scheduling and registration system, integrated with solutions to improve customer service, ensure accurate insurance data collection, and reduce no-shows. For more information, visit www.scheduling.com or call 866-I-schedu.
About PatientKeeper
PatientKeeper®, Inc. provides healthcare professionals with mobile computing solutions that deliver clinical and financial benefits. The PatientKeeper Platform™ easily integrates with existing information systems. PatientKeeper and its partners have created a portfolio of applications that allow doctors to interactively manage patient information, view clinical results, enter charges, dictate notes, write prescriptions, and more. For more information, visit www.patientkeeper.com or call 617-987-0300.
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