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November 7, 2005
For The
Record Software & Technology Buyers’ Guide
Vol. 17 No. 23 P. 16
| A4
Health Systems
5501 Dillard Drive
Cary, NC 27511
Phone: 888-672-3282
Fax: 919-851-5991
E-mail: sales@a4healthsystems.com
www.a4healthsystems.com
A4 Health Systems is a leader in providing community-based healthcare
via healthcare IT solutions for consolidated clinical, financial, and
administrative patient information management. Founded in 1970, A4 has
nationally implemented software and services in more than 1,500 healthcare
organizations.
Alfred State
College
10 Upper College Drive
Alfred, NY 14802
Phone: 607-587-4544
Fax: 607-587-3295
E-mail: ccet@alfredstate.edu
www.alfredstate.edu
Credit-based online programs include health information technology and
coding/reimbursement specialist. Noncredit online programs include medical
coding/billing and medical transcription. Noncredit courses include the
Coding and RHIT ExamPreps. Noncredit courses under development include
HIPAA 101 and ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS.
Allscripts
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 2024
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: 800-654-0889
Fax: 312-506-1201
E-mail: info@allscripts.com
www.allscripts.com
AMA Press
515 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 800-621-8335
E-mail: cptonline@ama-assn.org
www.amabookstore.com
The AMA delivers the resources healthcare and coding professionals need
to stay in compliance. In addition to a wide range of coding, billing,
and compliance products, check out our coding software solutions, including
CodeManager, which combines 11 essential medical coding references on
one CD-ROM. We also offer CPT Electronic Professional Edition, CPT Changes:
An Insider’s View 2000-2006 Archives, and CPT Assistant 1990-2005
Archives.
American
Data
P.O. Box 640
Sauk City, WI 53583
Phone: 800-464-9942
Fax: 608-643-2314
E-mail: info@american-data.com
www.american-data.com
AMES Color-File
12 Tyler Street
Somerville, MA 02143
Phone: 800-343-2040
Fax: 800-633-2637
E-mail: info@amespage.com
www.amescolorfile.com
Antek
HealthWare
228 Business Center Drive
Reisterstown, MD 21136
Phone: 800-359-0911, ext. 3
Fax: 410-517-0331
E-mail: dbinfo7@antekhealthware.com
www.antekhealthware.com
A leader in LIS software, Antek HealthWare introduces the next generation
in Practice Management Systems. DAQbilling3 utilizes an Application Service
Provider technology format, providing enhanced functionality with respect
to scheduling, electronic remittance, reporting, and scanning.
Arrendale
Associates, Inc.
20484 G. Chartwell Center Drive
Cornelius, NC 28031
Phone: 800-344-1323
Fax: 704-895-8725
E-mail: sales@aaita.com
www.aaita.com
AAI provides Web-based TA+ software for HIPAA-supported dictation, transcription,
document management, and e-signature. Authorized TA+ users have browser
access to transcriptions, real-time turnaround reporting, automatic incentive
calculations, and audit logs of viewing, printing, and faxing. TA+ design
reduces start-up costs and IT support.
AssistMed,
Inc.
7095 Hollywood Boulevard, No. 690
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: 323-281-2877
Fax: 323-851-1081
E-mail: contact@assistmed.com
www.assistmed.com
AssistMed, a secure Application Service Provider, digitizes and integrates
clinical medical records, transcription services, information cross-reference
and knowledge-extraction processes for the healthcare industry. Products
include MediPort*Plus, an EMR/PMS suite; DictAide, a dictation/transcription
solution; and VPOE (Verbal Physician Order Entry).
Axolotl

800 El Camino Real West, Suite 270
Mountain View, CA 94040
Phone: 888-AXOLOTL (296-5685)
Fax: 650-965-9049
E-mail: info@axolotl.com
www.axolotl.com
Axolotl’s e2 Web-based technology optimizes HIM processes by accelerating
chart completion, shortening billing cycles, enabling real-time report
management, and evolving a department to a paperless EHR. Our offerings
for HIM departments include the following:
• electronic document management;
• e-signature;
• report distribution;
• chart completion;
• enterprise repositories;
• HIM automation;
• patient index; and
• transcription.
Call us today, our consultative team can help you evolve.
Beacon
Health Informatics
303 George Street, Suite 200
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 800-497-3063
Fax: 732-418-9140
E-mail: info@beaconhealthinfo.com
www.beaconhealthinfo.com
Our customers use BHI to leverage their information technology platforms.
A small investment in data mining technology yields huge results from
data previously hidden in hospital databases. Mine the data “diamonds
in your backyard” using our internally and externally focused applications.
Bytescribe
3603 Pine Lane Southeast
Birmingham, AL 35022
Phone: 408-987-5628
Fax: 205-425-4314
E-mail: postmaster@bytescribe.com
www.bytescribe.com
Captiva
Software Corporation
10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92121
Phone: 858-320-1000
E-mail: info@captivasoftware.com
www.captivasoftware.com
Captiva provides input management solutions for the healthcare industry.
Its products manage business-critical information from paper forms and
documents into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely, and cost-effective
manner, thereby speeding business processes and cutting costs.
Cardone
Record Services, Inc.
1960 South Carboy Road
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
Phone: 800-572-7272
Fax: 847-806-0248
E-mail: info@cardonerecords.com
www.cardonerecords.com
Care
Communications, Inc.
205 West Wacker Drive, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 800-458-3544
Fax: 312-422-0106
e-mail: info@care-communications.com
www.carecommunications.com
Remote Coding Technology Made Easy and Affordable
Send your coders home with confidence while bringing a smile to your CIO’s
and CFO’s faces.
• Enhance coder productivity and say good-bye to backlogs forever
• Attract and retain quality coders
• No capital investment and low operating cost
• HIPAA-compliant, state-of-the-art technology
A great bridging solution as you migrate to an EHR.
Call the #1 Choice.
CHARTCARE,
Inc.
7403 Lakewood Drive West, Suite 12
Lakewood, WA 98499
Phone: 800-438-1277
Fax: 403-259-2400
E-mail: marketing@chartcare.com
www.chartcare.com
CHARTCARE is the leading provider of electronic medical record (EMR) applications
to group practice physicians in the United States and Canada. CHARTCARE
has received the “Best in KLAS” Award for two consecutive
years for being the No. 1-rated Ambulatory EMR for groups of six to 25
physicians.
ChartOne,
Inc.
3 New England Executive Park, Suite 200
Burlington, MA 01803
Phone: 800-733-2679
Fax: 800-878-3631
E-mail: info@chartone.com
www.chartone.com
CodeCorrect,
Inc.
2803 River Road
Yakima, WA 98902
Phone: 877-937-3600
Fax: 509-453-5570
E-mail: sales@codecorrect.com
www.codecorrect.com
CodeCorrect is an industry-leading provider of online coding and compliance
tools, enabling healthcare organizations to manage their chargemasters,
track APC performance, maintain compliance, and attain medical necessity
determination. CodeCorrect’s products are peer-reviewed by the Healthcare
Financial Management Association.
CodeRyte
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 700
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: 301-951-5300
Fax: 301-951-5349
E-mail: crsales@coderyte.com
www.coderyte.com
CodeRyte’s technology successfully automates the coding process
through a combination of machine translation, Natural Language Processing,
statistics, clinical expertise, and other technologies, streamlining workflow
process and optimizing compliance and reimbursement.
Compass
Care
2801 Lakeside Drive, Suite 207
Bannockburn, IL 60015
Phone: 312-224-2692
Fax: 312-896-1453
E-mail: info@compass-care.com
www.compass-care.com
A practice management system that includes an EMR that delivers invoices
faster, reduces payment cycles, and increases the efficiency of case management
and claim adjudication. Compass Care provides an integrated Web-based
clinical information system and communications platform. Sets up quickly
and is easily configurable.
Comprehensive
Healthcare Services
P.O. Box 5555
Ft. Oglethorpe, GA 30742
Phone: 706-861-7733
Fax: 706-861-7777
www.chswebsite.com
Web-based transcription system can be used as an ASP in-house system,
a platform for outsourcing, or both. Outsourcing provided with obsession
for quality and service, an ability to search on at least eight criteria,
any turnaround time, complete transparency, and auto “cc”
forwarding, via fax or Web.
Intuitive EMR with level 4 interoperability capabilities offered through
traditional purchase or ASP.
Craneware,
Inc.
5770 Hoffner Avenue, Suite 102
Orlando, FL 32822
Phone: 888-601-4162
Fax: 407-384-9413
E-mail: sales@craneware.com
www.craneware.com
Craneware, Inc. provides high value, easy-use PC, and Web-based chargemaster,
coding, and workflow solutions that help 650-plus healthcare providers
improve their daily operations, optimize revenue, encourage compliance,
and manage their health information more effectively and accurately.
Crescendo
Systems Corporation
5305 Notre Dame West, Suite 200
Laval, Quebec, Canada H7W 4T8
Phone: 011-1-450-973-8029
Fax: 011-1-450-973-4449
E-mail: info@crescendo.com
www.crescendo.com
As a worldwide provider of digital dictation, speech processing, transcription,
authentication, and workflow management systems, Crescendo continues to
set the standard for technology. Leading the industry since 1990, Crescendo
is continually introducing groundbreaking new solutions for the medical
environment.
CTech
Medical Transcription & Physician Billing Services
1607 East Big Beaver Road, Suite 102
Troy, MI 48083
Phone: 877-526-0078, ext. 32
Fax: 248-526-0199
E-mail: swallace@ctechus.com
www.ctechus.com
CTech is a national provider of leading-edge and comprehensive acute care
and clinical medical transcription services, ASP services, temporary on-site
transcription services, operation reviews, and physician office practice
and revenue management outsourcing.
CyberCowboys.com
11 Dark Star Court
Edgewater, MD 21037
Phone: 301-440-8119
Fax: 866-897-8342
E-mail: ron@cybercowboys.com
www.cybercowboys.com
Take control of your transcription and dictation while saving money. Don't
be handcuffed by your transcription company anymore. We offer a complete
turnkey package. See what BayScribe can do for you. |
EDCO
- The Document People
1351 North Belcrest
P.O. Box 7010
Springfield, MO 65801-7010
Phone: 800-999-3456
Fax: 417-864-7428
E-mail: info@edcogroupinc.com
www.edcogroupinc.com
Don’t wait for the EHR. Let EDCO’s DocuDisk scanning services
turn paper records into scanned images for quick retrieval and distribution.
Our variety of software packages let you decide how to manage records from
simple point-and-click to intricate networks to the eventual EHR.
e-MDs
500 West Whitestone Boulevard, Suite 200
Cedar Park, TX 78613
Phone: 888-344-9836
Fax: 512-335-4375
E-mail: sales@e-mds.com
www.e-mds.com
e-MDs Solutions Series is an integrated suite of administrative, financial,
workflow, and clinical software solutions that help create an efficient
paperless medical practice. e-MDs software solutions help transform your
medical office by improving workflow, increasing physician income, and
optimizing patient care.
First
Class Solutions, Inc.
11426 Dorsett Road
Maryland Heights, MO 63043-3414
Phone: 314-209-7800
Fax: 314-209-1911
www.cortrak.com
The complete solution for managing release of information. Fully HIPAA-compliant:
includes accounting of disclosure, alerts, and suspension. Comprehensive
security controls. Flexible billing system: billing by type of request
and type-specific rates. Comprehensive reports and form letters. Scanning
module optional.
Health
Revenue Assurance Associates, Inc.
10097 Cleary Boulevard, Suite 513
Plantation, FL 33324
Phone: 954-472-2340
Fax: 954-370-0157
E-mail: info@healthrevenue.com
www.hraa.com
Health Revenue Assurance Associates, Inc. is committed to providing the
most intuitive revenue integrity solutions in the industry.
APC AuditorPro is the leading internal auditing technology for outpatient
claims. Please visit www.hraa.com for demo.
Additionally, Andrea Clark and our team of industry experts provide hands-on
strategic analysis of your revenue cycle and compliance-focused, in-depth
APC and DRG coding and documentation audits; customized education/certification
programs; chargemaster data integrity reviews; and seminar speaking engagements.
Healthcare
Technologies, Inc.
2820B Lassiter Road
Marietta, GA 30062
Phone: 770-640-1220
Fax: 770-640-1102
E-mail: law@ehti.net
www.ehti.net
For 16 years, Healthcare Technologies, Inc. has developed scalable dictation,
transcription, speech-recognition, and document management solutions for
hospitals, medical clinics, and MTSOs. HTI provides you with “CHOICES”
to develop your own business rules. MediScribe.NET is our newest Web-based
solution that provides a complete system “snapshot” with a
single click.
HSS,
Inc.
2321 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Phone: 800-999-3747
Fax: 203-407-3912
E-mail: hss_sales@hss-info.com
www.hssweb.com
HSS, an Ingenix company, streamlines coding, compliance, and reimbursement
management processes with software, analytical tools, and consulting services.
Solutions include the following:
• Web.Strat — Web-based encoder with logic- and book-based
encoding tools; automatic regulatory updates.
• APC Assistant — Online resource for minimizing claims denials.
IMPAC
Medical Systems
100 West Evelyn Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94041
Phone: 888-GO-IMPAC
Fax: 650-623-8912
www.impac.com
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., a company in the Elekta Group, provides healthcare
IT solutions that streamline clinical and business operations across the
spectrum of cancer care. IMPAC’s open integration to multiple healthcare
data and imaging systems offers oncology-specific patient charting and
practice management, as well as best-of-breed systems for anatomic pathology,
clinical laboratory, and cancer registry.
Innovative
Health Solutions
75 West Front Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
Phone: 866-822-6700
Fax: 732-383-4981
E-mail: info@ihs.com
www.innovativehealthsolutions.com
Innovative Health Solutions is a leading resource for providers and consultants
for coding, compliance, reimbursement, decision support, and revenue cycle
management software. Our Web-based product suites include HEALTH DATA
FOCUS and CODING FOCUS. Our Clinical Coding Expert software is available
for the PC or as multiplatform bolt-on components.
InterFix,
LLC
52 West State Road
P.O. Box 894
Newaygo, MI 49337
Phone: 231-652-6260
Fax: 231-652-6263
E-mail: jsimmons@interfix.biz
www.interfix.biz
InterFix helps transcription services achieve performance improvement
and privacy compliance through the intelligent use of technology. InterFix’s
interface engine and voice and data conversion libraries eliminate barriers
and help MTSOs grow—all without programming. In addition, InterFix
provides HIPAA solutions that help ensure compliance at all levels.
Kforce
Professional Staffing
1001 East Palm Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
Phone: 800-397-9814
Fax: 813-552-2122
E-mail: snagel@kforce.com
www.kforce.com
Kforce provides permanent and temporary staffing solutions to medical
record departments. Clients include hospital systems, managed care networks,
and physician practice groups. Solutions include on-site coding, remote
coding, interim directors, transcription, assembly and analysis, cancer
registrars, and MPI clean ups.
Lakes
Health Systems Inc.
419 Phillip Street, Unit 3
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L-3X2
Phone: 011-1-519-746-5995
Fax: 011-1-519-746-0793
E-mail: info@lakeshealth.com
www.lakeshealth.com
Lakes Health Systems, working actively with doctors, has developed a high-quality,
affordable EHR system. MerCure EHR provides small-practice medical professionals
access to complete patient information at the click of a mouse. See how
MerCure can improve your practice today!
MC
Strategies
495 Circle 85, Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30349-6001
Phone: 800-999-6274
Fax: 404-669-9339
www.mcstrategies.com
MC Strategies, a part of Elsevier, offers organizations improved patient
care while enhancing the bottom line. Our e-learning solution, WebInservice,
provides Web-based training 24/7. We also offer consulting services coupled
with prescriptive training and assessments for ongoing performance improvement.
MediNotes
Corporation
1025 Ashworth Road, Suite 222
West Des Moines, IA 50265
Phone: 877-633-6683
Fax: 515-327-8856
E-mail: info@medinotes.com
www.medinotes.com
Charting Plus Electronic Medical Records
Proven. Powerful. Peace of Mind.
Why let your EMR dictate how your office is run? Charting Plus is infinitely
customizable, letting you define the details of the medical content and
workflow. Charting Plus is currently being used effectively by more than
3,200 clinics.
MedQuist
1000 Bishops Gate, Suite 300
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
Phone: 800-233-3030
Fax: 856-206-4020
E-mail: info2@medquist.com
www.medquist.com
CodeRunner is a computer-assisted, remote coding system. It pulls costs
and time out of the coding process for your coders, outsourced coders,
or both. CodeRunner shortens the time between patient visit and cash collection
and gives you more control over the coding process.
Meta
Health Technology, Inc.
330 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 800-334-6840
Fax: 212-643-2913
E-mail: brosenberg@metahealth.com
www.metahealth.com
Meta Health Technology, Inc. develops, markets, and supports healthcare
software that operates in Windows PC and client/server environments used
on site by healthcare facilities, from hospitals to physician groups and
HMOs.
The software solution automates the health information department with
modules for chart abstracting, chart tracking, deficiency analysis, release
of information, electronic signature, and imaging.
Nauvalis
Healthcare Solutions
2160 North Fox Hollow Drive West
Nixa, MO 65714
Phone: 800-882-7107
Fax: 417-725-3103
E-mail: info@nauvalis.com
www.nauvalis.com
Nauvalis’ HealthPort is an EDMS that provides access to healthcare
data and assists in EHR transition. Via ASP or Enterprise deployment,
HealthPort provides document capture, management, indexing, retrieval,
viewing, distribution, and chart completion. This includes electronic
signature and physician notification.
NextGen Healthcare
Information Systems, Inc.
795 Horsham Road
Horsham, PA 19044
Phone: 215-657-7010
Fax: 215-657-7011
E-mail: sales@nextgen.com
www.nextgen.com
OCERIS,
Inc.
515 Spackman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35816
Phone: 256-694-2650
Fax: 256-722-8624
E-mail: sales@flexmedical.com
www.flexmedical.com
Flexmedical is the medical software package of choice for the selective
physician. Featuring seamlessly integrated modules for billing, scheduling,
EMR, and document management and support that is second to none.
SpeedType
2024 Magestic Woods Boulevard
Apopka, FL 32712
Phone: 407-880-2189
Fax: 407-880-8461
E-mail: betsy@speedtype.com
www.speedtype.com
SpeedType is a Windows-based macro expander program that is compatible
with the whole PC and expands in all Windows applications, even your instant
message boxes and e-mails. It allows the user to build his or her own
short-form dictionaries that will expand with a simple keystroke. The
program was created intentionally with the MT in mind. It is simple to
use with a less-than-five-minute learning curve. SpeedType is fast and
efficient, keeping productivity the goal.
Spheris
720 Cool Spring Boulevard, Suite 200
Franklin, TN 37067
Phone: 800-513-7864
www.spheris.com
Spheris is the leading global outsource provider of medical transcription
technology and services to more than 450 health systems, hospitals, and
group practices through the United States and Canada. Spheris directly
employs more than 5,000 professional medical transcriptionists and offers
a choice of technology and workforce solutions to help facilities manage
transcription and clinical documentation.
3M
Health Information Systems
575 West Murray Boulevard
Murray, UT 84123
Phone: 800-367-2447
www.3Mhis.com
3M Health Information Systems is an international leader in clinical information
management, providing advanced software tools and consulting services
that help healthcare organizations capture, classify, and manage accurate
healthcare data. Implementation and process improvement services are also
provided.
Universata
12800 Middlebrook Road, Suite 400
Germantown, MD 20874
Phone: 888-364-0540
Fax: 301-916-8776
E-mail: sales@universata.com
www.universata.com
Universata is an electronic release of information solution and health
information exchange. The Internet-based application improves patient
privacy and ensures faster release of information processing. Universata
complements any electronic record strategy and creates a secure, noninvasive
foundation for regional health information organizations.
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