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.