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December 2, 2002

American Hospital Association
Central Office
One North Franklin Street, 29th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 312-422-3366
www.ahacentraloffice.org
The American Hospital Association (AHA) Central Office is the official clearinghouse on ICD-9-CM coding and the publisher of AHA Coding Clinic on CD. The CD-ROM includes the complete series in electronic format—more than 17 years of AHA Coding Clinic.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
2401 Commerce Drive
Libertyville, IL 60048
Phone: 800-654-0889, ext. 200
e-mail: info@allscripts.com
www.allscripts.com
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is the leading provider of point-of-care decision support solutions for physicians. The company’s TouchWorks software products enhance physician productivity and utilize wireless handheld or desktop workstations to automate the most common physician activities, including prescribing, charge capture, dictation, lab orders and results, patient education, and clinical notation.

American Medical Association - AMA Press
515 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 800-621-8335
www.amapress.org
Code medical claims more accurately with the AMA CodeManager 2003. Just enter a key word or code, or point and click and 10 of the most widely used medical coding references are instantly at your fingertips. CodeManager provides full-text descriptions, illustrations, color-coded symbols, quick linking, and more. And, since CodeManager is arranged just like the books you’ve become so familiar with, navigating the system is simple.

Arrendale Associates, Inc.
20484 G. Chartwell Center Drive
Cornelius, NC 28031
Phone: 800-344-1323
e-mail: koziep@aaita.com
www.aaita.com
Arrendale Associates, Inc. has been marketing dictation, transcription, document access, and management to the healthcare industry since 1989. Their newest software, TAeSeries, provides a platform-independent, integrated, Web-based system solution for in-house and at-home transcriptionists, while providing HIPAA-compliant immediate viewing, routing, printing, electronic signature, and optical storage options.

Axolotl Corporation
2203 North Lois Avenue, Suite 1100
Tampa, FL 33607
Phone: 888-AXO-LOTL (296-5685)
e-mail: solutions@axolotl.com
www.axolotl.com
Axolotl is a leading provider of Web-based applications for the healthcare industry. Our Elysium Transcription Service provides electronic transcriptions, data management tools, and a data repository for the HIM department that facilitates department workflow and communication with affiliated physicians.

Baxa Corporation
14445 Grassland Parkway
Englewood, CO 80112
Phone: 303-690-4204 or 800-567-2292
e-mail: baxamail@baxa.com
www.baxa.com
Baxa systems facilitate medication preparation and handling. Baxa software includes: TPN-PC and TPN-PC Plus Software for provider order entry, calculation, and label printing; and CALC, a calculation engine and formulary management program for a 32-bit client server or Web-based application.

Bytescribe Development Company
1832 Russet Woods Lane
Birmingham, AL 35244
Phone: 408-987-5628
e-mail: oratorsales@bytescribe.com
www.bytescribe.com
Bytescribe is a progressive developer of digital dictation and transcription products. The Orator Digital Dictation system was introduced as a multiline call-in system. The Orator offers export capabilities of digital files via the Internet or LAN environment. The WavPlayer by Bytescribe is one of the top-selling WavPlayers in the market and plays a large number of audio formats. Our DocShuttle product is an Internet-based file management and transfer package. Please visit our Web site for product listings and pricing.

DataHand Systems, Inc.
3032 North 33rd Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85017

DataKey MT, Inc.
1410 North Crain Highway, Suite 2B
Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Phone: 410-787-2650
e-mail: lspangler@datakeymt.com
www.datakeymt.com
Provides professional medical transcription services to nationwide facilities through state-of-the-art dictation and interface software utilizing U.S.-based MTs.

Dolbey and Company
7164 Beechmont Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45230
Phone: 513-624-2424
e-mail: mlepore@dolbeyco.com
www.dolbeyco.com
Dolbey and Company has been a leader in transcription and dictation products since 1914. Built with an open architecture, our core products STAT Report Maxima M2 transcription and DOCview electronic signature are now complemented with M2 Speech background speech recognition application.

Eclipsys Corporation
1750 Clint Moore Road
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Phone: 561-322-4321
e-mail: info@eclipsys.com
www.eclipsys.com
The health information management package of Eclipsys’ Web- and component-based SunriseXA product family is an electronic record system that creates completely paperless medical records, patient accounts, and other enterprise records while adhering to all HIPAA privacy rules and regulations.

EDCO - The Document People
P.O. Box 7010
Springfield, MO 65801-7010
Phone: 800-999-3456
e-mail: info@edcodoc.com
www.edcodoc.com
EDCO’s affordable options computerize your patient archives for quick retrieval and distribution. Our SecureDisk imaging services convert paper records to CD-ROM. Use Express Image software with CDs or import to the network to search records, then click to view and print.

eWebCoding
1140 Hammond Drive, Suite F200
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: 877-661-CODE
e-mail: beth.friedman@eWebCoding.com
www.eWebCoding.com
Home coding is the most effective way to find and keep coders. And, the leader in home coding is eWebCoding. Hundreds of hospitals have discovered:
• higher productivity
• improved cashflow
• reduced costs.
Need online record access but can’t afford an EMR? Discover eWebExtend ... the safest way to share and store records.

First Class Solutions
2060 Concourse Drive
St. Louis, MO 63146-1214

HBO Tax Academy
Marilyn Chin, RHIT
Independent Associate
930 Clay Street, #E
Phone: 510-251-0840
e-mail: taxfree@airmessage.net
www.coder.hboacademy.com
HBO is a tax education program for the self-employed professional. It provides books, tapes, and ongoing teleconference modules in your home office. You don’t have to be a CPA or tax-minded to learn the rules of the financial game.

Health Forum
One North Franklin Street, 28th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606

Healthcare Compliance Resources (HCR)
507 West Jefferson
Augusta, MI 49012
Phone: 800-973-1081
e-mail: info@complianceresources.com
www.complianceresources.com
HCR offers both a HIPAA solution and a compliance program solution for your organization. Our software is user-friendly, updated, customizable for your needs and affordable. HCR also offers the Certified Healthcare Compliance Officer and Consultant courses and examinations.

Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (HTI)
2820-B Lassiter Road, Suite 150
Marietta, GA 30062
Phone: 800-648-0665
e-mail: jrt@ehti.net
www.ehti.net
Featuring its MediScribe product line, HTI is a national market leader in the development of HIPAA-compliant, high-end, multifunctional medical transcription systems. Electronic signature, diverse distribution methods, remote transcription via the Internet or standard dial-up, and speech recognition are among MediScribe’s many features.

HealthcareOne
224 Harrison Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
Phone: 877-867-4101
e-mail: info@healthcareone.info
www.healthcareone.info
HealthcareOne empowers transcription companies to grow. Mobile Dictation is a PDA-based digital voice capture product. The Transcription Processing System software allows routing, typing, and storage of notes. The Voice-to-Text Service takes the physician’s dictated voice and delivers/processes the voice using the correct process for each dictator.

H.I.M. ON CALL, Inc.
1033 Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18101
Phone: 610-435-5724
e-mail: him@himoncall.com
www.himoncall.com
H.I.M. ON CALL is a leading “technology neutral” provider of health information management services, including medical record coding (remote and on-site), validation audits, and other related services to healthcare organizations across the United States.

HIPAAnswers
8941 Aztec Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55347
Phone: 866-326-6785 (toll-free)
e-mail: sales@hipaanswers.com
www.hipaanswers.com
Looking for a cost-effective, comprehensive HIPAA compliance solution? The solution is HIPAAnswers. HIPAAnswers is an easy, Web-based service covering all final regulations of HIPAA administrative simplification. Find out more information by calling 866-326-6785 or go to www.hipaanswers.com

HSS, Inc.
2321 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Phone: 800-999-3747, ext. 181
e-mail: marketing@hss-info.com
www.hssweb.com
Improve coding, increase reimbursement, and avoid compliance risk!
• WinStrat with AccuCode - Manage coding and reimbursement.
• APC Assistant - Knowledge resource for APC success.
• EASYGroup - Cut correct bills.
• Hospital Insight - Target areas for improvement.
• Consulting and Education

iMedica Corporation
2250 Charleston Road
Mountain View, CA 91024
Phone: 650-960-6890
e-mail: mchapman@imedica.com
www.imedica.com

IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
100 West Evelyn Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94041
Phone: 888-GO IMPAC
e-mail: salesinfo@impac.com
www.impac.com
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of information technology solutions for cancer care—from detection and diagnosis through treatment and follow-up. For more than 10 years, IMPAC has provided innovative solutions to effectively streamline cancer center management.

Ingenix
2525 Lake Park Boulevard
Salt Lake City, UT 84120
Phone: 800-INGENIX (464-3649)
e-mail: customerservice@ingenix.com
www.ingenixonline.com
Ingenix simplifies the business of healthcare by delivering extensive coding, compliance, billing, benchmarking, and consulting services to facilities, physicians, and providers. We offer more than 110 titles, via books, audio seminars, newsletters, and electronically.

Innovative Health Solutions
A division of BESLER
Phone: 866-822-6700
Fax: 732-545-4024
www.codingfocus.com
Innovative Health Solutions—through its Coding Focus suite of products—provides Web-based revenue enhancement services in the areas of CDM, APC, DRG, and medical denial management. All you have to do is come and get it. Right now, right here @ www.codingfocus.com.

Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc.
60 Revere Drive, Suite 475
Northbrook, IL 60062
Phone: 888-466-6246
e-mail: gwycoff@e-imo.com
www.e-imo.com
Innovations in complex medical systems design and development to rapidly deliver electronic medical records, warehouses, repositories, and other large systems to exact specifications at unbeatable cost. Medical vocabularies, LMRP tables, search engines, patient scheduling. Check out our products and services.

IRP Systems, Inc.
5 Alexander Road
Billerica, MA 01821
Phone: 800-634-0496
e-mail: sales@irp.com
www.irp.com
Clinical Coding Expert is the most comprehensive and affordable coding, reimbursement, and compliance software available. Complete DRG and APC support, quarterly updates, and the revolutionary CliniGuide coding reference ensure compliance and proper reimbursement. Call today for a free demonstration.

JLG Medical Transcription Service
141 Stephens End, Suite 15
Oldsmar, FL 34677

Kforce Healthcare Staffing
1001 East Palm Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
Phone: 800-397-9814
Fax: 813-552-2122
www.kforce.com/healthcare
Kforce Healthcare provides permanent and outsourced specialty-staffing services for medical records and business office professionals. Our clients include hospital systems, managed care networks, and physician practice groups. Our consultant services include on-site or off-site delivery of medical records coders, coding supervisors, HIM directors, transcription services, and certified tumor registrars, as well as other outsourced personnel.

Kimball & Associates
200 Executive Way
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Phone: 904-273-2111
Kimball & Associates is a family owned and operated contract coding and review company. We provide a superior quality of services through an experienced, certified staff with a broad spectrum of skills.

Lanier Healthcare
6 Concourse Parkway, Suite 2250
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: 866-856-3000
www.lanierhealthcare.com
Lanier Healthcare provides software applications to help healthcare professionals create and manage mission-critical health information by delivering dictation, transcription, electronic signature, and speech recognition solutions. Lanier Healthcare streamlines medical document management by interfacing with multiple systems and reducing total cost of system ownership.

LanVision, Inc.
5481 Creek Road
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Phone: 513-794-7123
e-mail: tcostello@lanvision.com
www.lanvision.com
LanVision’s enterprisewide Web-based document imaging and workflow applications for health information management, registration, and business office provide document viewing, electronic chart completion, coding, and remote access through a single login. Applications are available via ASP model or the traditional purchase model that supports HIPAA regulations.

MC Strategies, Inc.
495 Circle 85, Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30349
Phone: 800-999-6274
e-mail: sales@mcstrategies.com
www.mcstrategies.com
Since 1986, MC Strategies has provided coding, consulting, and training services to healthcare professionals. Coders.com remote coding and consulting services are HIPAA compliant and employ biometrics, a dedicated Internet server, and HIPAAGUARD VPN technology so records can never be duplicated, stored, manipulated, or printed.

Medco Consultants, Inc.
P.O. Box 650484
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365-0484
Phone: 718-217-3802
e-mail: medco@nycirr.com
www.medcoconsultants.com
Leading healthcare consulting firm specializes in compliance, certified professional coding, reimbursement analysis, physician education, practice management, credentialing, chart audits, and discounted coding products (Ingenix/St. Anthony’s/Medicode). Superior service … proven results.

The Medibase Group, Inc.
777 Franklin Road
Marietta, GA 30067
Phone: 800-399-1255
e-mail: baseinfo@medibase.com
www.medibase.com
Medibase specializes in helping hospitals achieve and maintain duplicate-free Master Patient Indices. Medibase’s comprehensive solution identifies existing duplicates, presents them side-by-side for easy resolution, and performs merges in the host system. Prevention tools continuously monitor introduction of suspected duplicates.

MediConnect.net
10705 South Jordan Gateway, Suite 100
South Jordan, UT 84095
Phone: 888-483-5679
e-mail: lseach@mediconnect.net
www.mediconnect.net
RapiDisclose by MediConnect is a complete accounting of disclosures and release of information solution designed to enable you to centrally track all information disclosures for HIPAA compliance in a secure and flexible environment. By having all information tracked centrally and in real time, RapiDisclose helps you meet all HIPAA disclosure accounting regulations.

MedQuist, Inc.
5 Greentree Centre, Suite 311
Marlton, NJ 08053

National Health Systems, Inc. (NHS)
1104 Fernwood Avenue, Suite 404
Camp Hill, PA 17011
Phone: 800-222-2607
Fax: 717-763-9291
e-mail: ntlhealth@aol.com
www.nhsteam.com
NHS, a preferred provider of AmeriNet, Inc. and a Siemens Health Services Allied Partner, provides nationwide coding support and validation for hospitals. NHS offers on-site and eWeb Internet coding support for inpatient, outpatient, emergency department, and clinic medical records.

Novell, Inc.
1800 South Novell Place
Provo, UT 84606
Novell, Inc. is the leading provider of information solutions, delivering secure identity management, Web application development, and network infrastructure services on a variety of computing platforms.

Physician Micro Systems, Inc.
2033 6th Avenue, Suite 850
Seattle, WA 98121
Phone: 206-441-8490
e-mail: info@pmsi.com
www.pmsi.com
Physician Micro Systems, Inc. publishes Practice Partner software: Patient Records, one of the nation’s leading electronic medical records; Appointment Scheduler, a sophisticated multiclinic scheduler; and Medical Billing, a complete practice management system.

Precyse Solutions
198 Allendale Road, Suite 201
King of Prussia, PA 19406
Phone: 866-PRECYSE (773-2973)
e-mail: info@precysesolutions.com
www.precysesolutions.com
Precyse Solutions offers a full line of outsourced HIM services to help meet your department’s needs, including interim HIM management, clinical coding, and cancer registry services. Specialists in consulting, project management, and outsourced staffing, Precyse delivers quantifiable results that directly impact your medical records return on investment.

PRG Publishing, Inc.
P.O. Box 528
St. Petersburg, FL 33731
Phone: 888-383-7741 or 727-526-3163
e-mail: pjsprg@aol.com
www.prgpublishing.com

QuadraMed
22 Pelican Way
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: 800-393-0278
e-mail: info@quadramed.com
www.quadramed.com
To ensure the right fit with your organization, Quantim Health Information Management Consulting Services are customized to each engagement. Services offered include coding, compliance, and education services; HIM department operations consulting; HIM interim management; HIM departmental outsourcing; and compliance and regulatory services. Our senior staff includes credentialed medical records professionals and healthcare attorneys.

Siemens Medical
51 Valleystream Parkway
Malvern, PA 19355
Contact: Mike Brensinger
Phone: 610-219-2386
e-mail: mike.brensinger@smed.com
www.smed.com
Siemens Enterprise Document Management Solution includes coding management record analysis/completion. Siemens health information management services include HIPAA services; strategic planning; remote coding readiness consultation; and enterprise master patient index services.

Signature Associates, Inc.
158 Highview Terrace
Hawthorne, NJ 07506
Phone: 877-962-6178
e-mail: a.mang@signature-staffing.com
www.signature-staffing.com
In order to provide our clients with higher quality service and candidates compared with our competitors, we conduct individualized candidate recruitment in addition to utilizing potential candidates already in our database, as well as the Internet.

Smead Manufacturing Co.
600 Smead Boulevard
Hastings, MN 55033
Phone: 800-216-3832
e-mail: smeadsoftware@smead.com
www.smeadsoftware.com
Information is the lifeblood of any business. The ability to quickly locate and use information determines how productive and successful a workgroup will be. Smeadlink Express document management software puts both paper and electronic documents where you need it, when you need it.

SNOMED International
325 Waukegan Road
Northfield, IL 60093
Contact: Kathy Ax
Phone: 800-323-4040, ext. 7280
e-mail: kax@cap.org
www.snomed.org
SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) is a scientifically validated clinical terminology from SNOMED International, a division of the College of American Pathologists. This comprehensive and expressive terminology for global healthcare delivers uniformity for medical communications spanning languages, clinical specialties, sites of care, and geographic boundaries.

SOURCECORP HEALTHSERVE
3720 Langley Oaks Place
Marietta, GA 30067
Contact: Gene R. Marzano
Phone: 770-955-5808
Fax: 770-955-5809
www.srcp.com
SOURCECORP HEALTHSERVE provides a broad range of document and information management outsourcing solutions for the healthcare industry. We serve more than 3,000 hospitals and other healthcare providers in 40 states. We offer one of the most comprehensive sets of industry service offerings for HIM organizations.

SpeedType
2024 Majestic Woods Boulevard
Apopka, FL 32712
Phone: 407-880-2189
e-mail: betsy@speedtype.com
www.speedtype.com
SpeedType is a basic user-friendly word expander program. Build your own short-form dictionaries that will expand with a simple keystroke. The program was created with the MT in mind. Simple to use with minimal learning curve! SpeedType is fast and efficient, keeping productivity as the goal.

Textware Solutions
58 Lexington Street
Burlington, MA 01803
Contact: Marianne Kleen
Phone: 800-355-5251
Fax: 781-272-1432
e-mail: info@textware.com
www.textware.com
Instant Text is the most advanced expander solution for Windows 95/98/NT/ 2000/Me/XP. Reliable, powerful, and flexible, Instant Text speeds up text entry and offers the industry’s highest transcription productivity. Unique features include glossary compilation, natural language processing, abbreviations without memorization, and patented continuations that show what they will say next.

United Audit Systems, Inc. (UASI)
360 Gest Street
Cincinnati, OH 45203
Phone: 800-526-0594 or 513-723-1122
e-mail: sales@uasi-qc.com
www.uasi-qc.com or www.valicode.com
UASI provides hospital clients with expert temporary coding, compliance audit services, and software products, including QC-Suite, the coding compliance and casemix analysis solution for inpatient and outpatient services.
• QC-Code
• QC-Case
• QC-APCode
• QC-APCase

VertiSoft
70 Mansell Court, Suite 210
Roswell, GA 30076
Phone: 770-640-5587, ext. 18
e-mail: info@vertisoft.com
www.vertisoft.com
The QuickRecord System can provide a cost-effective, virtual electronic medical record that includes: QuickRecord, for enterprisewide imaging and retrieval; QuickChart, for secure Web access; QuickScan, for desktop imaging; QuickSign, for electronic signature; and QuickDelivery, for automatic delivery of records.

Vianeta Communications
694 Tasman Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035

WebInservice
495 Circle 85, Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30349
Phone: 800-999-6274
e-mail: sales@mcstrategies.com
www.webinservice.com
WebInservice, a division of MC Strategies, delivers Web-based training to healthcare professionals via the WebInservice Knowledge Deployment System e-learning platform. The WebInservice content library includes more than 2,500 always current, expert-authored lessons in areas ranging from coding/compliance and HIPAA to nursing and desktop applications/information technology.

Webmedx, Inc.
564 Alpha Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15238-2912
Phone: 888-932-6339
e-mail: info@webmedx.com
www.webmedx.com
Webmedx enables clients to more efficiently and cost-effectively produce, manage, distribute, and access high-quality clinical reports. More than generic software, but a unique and powerful combination of best-of-breed application technology and outsourced transcription services—all delivered in modular and scalable fashion.

Wellogic
222 Third Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-621-9775
e-mail: info@wellogic.com or kristie@wellogic.com
www.wellogic.com
Wellogic provides advanced clinical applications and development consulting services to the healthcare industry. Its flagship product, Wellogic Consult, is a modular, Web-enabled clinical workflow manager for coordinating clinical care; it securely connects hospitals and clinics to deliver results, provide decision support, activate care plans, and manage referrals.

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