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Radiology Healthcare Provider Deploys eGistics' Digital Medical Solution
-- Solution enables healthcare providers to improve administrative operations, reduce costs --
DALLAS, October 27, 2009 -- eGistics, Inc., today announced that Consultants in Radiology, P.A. (CIRPA), a Texas-based radiology practice led by 14 board-certified physicians, has deployed eGistics' Digital Medical Practice (DMP) solution. The hosted eGistics solution will help CIRPA improve operating efficiency, accelerate document research, and streamline secondary billing.
CIRPA offers advanced imaging technology through two clinics and 40 telerad locations, as well as radiology services through two Texas Health Resources facilities. Its radiologists also provide interpretation services for the imaging centers, and for the hospital units themselves.
CIRPA is deploying the eGistics DMP solution to all of its practice facilities and to the offices of all of its radiology interpretation partners. Using Scan-to-Web technology, DMP converts paperwork to digital images that can be used across the practice, from reception to billing. CIRPA is scanning and archiving a wide range of documents related to care delivery, accounts receivables, accounts payable, equipment management, facilities accreditation, physician/technician accreditation, human resources, and state and federal government compliance. The eGistics hosted solution makes document images immediately available for research and for assisting with documentation for secondary billing.
"Moving administrative paperwork across a physicians practice is inefficient, and typically requires staff to waste a lot of time handling, filing and retrieving documents," said CIRPA Administrator Rebecca Greenwood. "With the eGistics DMP solution, we can quickly scan patient and practice documents and electronically have them at our fingertips when we need them, from any PC."
Built on the eGistics hosted document management platform, DMP enables physician practices to digitize much of their office paperwork, streamline administrative operations, and reduce the costs associated with managing and distributing physical documents. By placing all administrative documents online, practice staff do not waste time trying to locate documents or correspondence, in turn, reducing the time to resolve denied or underpaid claims. In addition, the solution facilitates regulatory compliance by electronically managing credentialing documents. And it ensures disaster recovery and business continuity by storing information online and making it accessible via the Web.
With DMP, practice groups can also set document-specific expiration dates, such as when contracts need to be renewed. And, because eGistics DMP solution is built on the company's hosted platform, it requires no capital investment and offers a variable expense, "pay-as-you-go" pricing model.
"Despite all the hype about personal health records and other initiatives to electronify document management in the healthcare space, the industry still faces a daunting combination of paper-based processes, fragmented systems and processes, and little optimization across organizations," said eGistics Executive Vice President of Sales and Corporate Development R. Edwin Pearce. "eGistics is delivering solutions such as DMP to bridge information silos and optimize the management, storage and delivery of information that healthcare organizations need across the enterprise."
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