Hospitalists Turn to PatientKeeper to Remain Efficient and Competitive
Hospitalists in Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio Join PatientKeeper's Rapidly Growing User Base
Cleveland, OH, Las Vegas, NV, and Boston, MA - May 3, 2006 - PatientKeeper® today announced that Community Hospitalists and Inpatient Physicians Network (IPN) have joined a rapidly growing number of hospitalist groups across the country that have turned to PatientKeeper as their physician information system to enhance effectiveness and competitiveness. PatientKeeper's award-winning applications address the information needs of physicians, including highly mobile hospitalists. Community Hospitalists based in Cleveland, Ohio, and Inpatient Physicians Network (IPN) based in Las Vegas, Nevada, have recently deployed PatientKeeper Charge Capture™ to save time, streamline the billing workflow, and increase revenue. PatientKeeper also supports hospitalists in managing patient lists and schedules from multiple sources.
According to the Society of Hospital Medicine, a Philadelphia-based association, hospitalists represent the fastest growing medical specialty. Numbers have grown from 800 in the mid-1990s to about 15,000 today, and the number is expected to increase to over 30,000 over the next six years. In the course of a day, hospitalists often practice in multiple hospitals and need to access patient information stored in numerous disparate systems. PatientKeeper applications allow hospitalists to access patient records, capture services provided in the hospital, communicate patient hand-offs, and much more.
Community Hospitalists provides full-time inpatient care specialists to the greater Cleveland area. PatientKeeper eliminated a cumbersome billing process and rapidly became the tool that doctors use to manage their day. The physicians arrive at the hospital with their patient list on a Pocket PC. Charges that they capture for each patient are submitted to the billing system throughout the day. Reporting tools allow billers to review charges and monitor activity. PatientKeeper has helped the organization to eliminate legibility issues, improve coding, and increase revenue.
"We needed software that could keep up with our physicians," said Chris States, vice president of operations at Community Hospitalists. "PatientKeeper had the product maturity, integration capability, and proven track record we required. Additionally, PatientKeeper's sophisticated reporting capability gives us a real-time dashboard of the activity and financial health of our organization."
Only PatientKeeper is designed to support a physician's entire day. PatientKeeper's applications allow physicians to access their patients' electronic records, write prescriptions, enter charges for services, document patient encounters, and securely send messages to other caregivers - using PDAs, Smartphones, tablets, or any computer with a Web browser. PatientKeeper has integrated to all major healthcare information systems, including Cerner, Eclipsys, Epic, GE Healthcare/IDX, McKesson, MEDITECH, QuadraMed, and Siemens, as well as many leading EMRs.
Inpatient Physicians Network (IPN) provides hospitalists services for 44 hospitals in Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada where IPN hospitalists use PatientKeeper Charge Capture.
"We needed an application that would help physicians manage information and ensure the organization would not lose charges," said Patti Berry, R.N., senior vice president of medical management at IPN. "PatientKeeper delivered on our objectives, successfully integrated to our homegrown HealthTracker system, and has made everyone's job easier."
"We have been working with hospitalists and hospitalist groups for almost five years and are excited to welcome Community Hospitalists and IPN to our growing list of hospitalist customers," said Paul W. Brient, president and chief executive officer of PatientKeeper. "Our ability to simultaneously integrate with multiple different systems across different organizations makes PatientKeeper uniquely suited for the needs of a growing hospitalist group."
About Community Hospitalists
In 1998, Community Hospitalists started the first non-academic hospitalist practice in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area providing full-time specialists in inpatient care dedicated to effective and efficient care or patients. Long-term relationships with numerous hospitals and healthcare facilities provide proof of Community Hospitalists commitment to quality programs for clients. For more information visit www.hospitalistinfo.com or call 440-542-5025.
About Inpatient Physicians Network
Growing at the forefront of the hospitalist movement in the late nineties, Inpatient Physicians Network (IPN) has become a leading regional provider of hospitalist services with an established track record of performance in 44 hospitals located in Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. At these centers of medicine, IPN hospitalist teams have overseen the admission and discharge of more than a quarter of a million patients. IPN is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Health System, LLC. For more information, visit www.ipn-corp.com or call 702-216-3343.
About PatientKeeper
PatientKeeper®, Inc. provides physicians with software that delivers clinical and financial benefits. Only PatientKeeper is designed to support a physician through the entire day. At any time, anywhere, physicians can access their patients' electronic records, write prescriptions, enter charges, dictate notes, document encounters, place orders, or send secure messages to other caregivers - all in a single integrated environment. For more information, visit www.patientkeeper.com or call 617-987-0300.
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