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.
Contact:
Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper, shau@patientkeeper.com, (617)
987-0304
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