| Medical Billing technology has witnessed continued | | | | eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, GE Centricity, H-Quotient, |
| expansion during the first two months of this | | | | Healthnostics, IngeniousMed, JPI Data Resource, |
| summer, as evidenced by press releases about some | | | | LEAPpm, Massachusetts Medical Society, MedLink, |
| ninety products accumulated in BillingWiki. A practice | | | | Misys, medFORCE, medHost, MediSys, Nexplicit, Nicka |
| manager may find it difficult to select the best | | | | & Associates, Nightingale On-Board |
| product from such a large product variety. This article | | | | Communications, PatientKeeper, Quantum Group, |
| roughly tabulates some eighty-five press releases | | | | RXHub, Scandent, Streamline Health. |
| about medical billing technology products and/or | | | | Electronic Charge Capture: MedAptus |
| vendors across two-dozen service categories. | | | | Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): The ability to |
| Asset Life Cycle Management: Products that help | | | | access one single source of continuously updated |
| healthcare organizations optimize the performance of | | | | claims tracking data to perform real-time status |
| their capital assets, uncover hidden expenses, gain | | | | checks directly from local PCs instead of spending |
| more visibility and control over their asset and facility | | | | hours on the phone calling one insurer after another |
| operations, and improve safety. Such systems also | | | | to track down the status of submitted claims. See |
| serve as repositories for hazards, alerts and recalls | | | | MicroSys. |
| facilitating a closed-loop process that documents the | | | | E-learning: AlphaQuest, Care2Learn |
| hospital's course of notifications and corrective action. | | | | Enhanced website: CAP-MPT, Companion |
| See St. Croix and LYNX. | | | | Technologies, Patientrak |
| Audit and Compliance: Products that help providers | | | | Factoring: Factoring provides healthcare professionals |
| and payers to manage compliance by facilitating | | | | with automated electronic insurance claims |
| internal audits and planning external audits | | | | management solutions and advance funding on |
| respectively. Such systems assist an auditor to spot | | | | medical claims, as submitted, through a revolving line |
| errors, omissions, fraud, and abuse. Solutions span | | | | of credit. See MDWerks |
| spectrum from basic audit reporting to complete | | | | Integration: Products that expedite revenue cycle by |
| automation of the audit process by using data mining, | | | | integrating office management functions, which in the |
| natural language processing, and statistical methods | | | | past used to be performed separately. Integration |
| to produce a random sample of medical records, data | | | | eliminates data entry repetition, reduces errors and |
| scoring, and potential revenue loss estimate. | | | | costs, and streamlines revenue cycle. See press |
| - Claim Audit: A-Life, CodeRyte | | | | releases about four integration aspects outlined |
| - EFT Audit: GlobalSCAPE | | | | below. |
| - HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance: | | | | - Billing and Coding: ChartLogic |
| MedicalSuite | | | | - Billing and EMR: Affinity Billing, MediEMR, Siemens, |
| Certification and Awards: | | | | NextGen, athenahealth. |
| - Best in KLAS: KLAS is a leading source of | | | | - Billing and Compliance: Billing Precision. |
| information on Healthcare Information Technology | | | | - Billing and Imaging: IMPAC, AMICAS, Fujitsu, |
| vendor performance, with information gathered from | | | | MedLink. |
| users at more than 4,500 healthcare facilities | | | | New clients: Ingenious Med For, Lumetra, Misys, |
| nationwide. Performance data collected from 300 | | | | Per-Se, MediSys, Craneware, PaperFree, |
| Healthcare Information Technology vendors and 500 | | | | athenahealth, Picis, MicroMD, intraNexus, Visionary |
| of their products is evaluated and made available to | | | | Medical Systems, AllScripts, LUMEDX, Streamline |
| subscribers through the KLAS website as well as | | | | Health, LYNX, Sullivan Group, PHNS, Streamline Health, |
| through periodic reports and custom research. See | | | | ECDS, McKesson |
| press releases about VantageMed and athenahealth. | | | | New billing products and services: Automed, |
| - CCHIT Certification: The CCHIT Certified mark - a | | | | HealthWare, JP Morgan, Physmark-Transplant, |
| "seal of approval" for EHR products - provides the | | | | LabDAQ |
| first consensus-based, consistent benchmark for | | | | Online Supply Store: Antek HealthWare |
| ambulatory products. See LSS Data Systems and | | | | Patient Payment Ability Verification: Offers predictive |
| Misys. | | | | reporting functionality to determine a patient's ability |
| - DOQ-IT Testing: CMS, an agency of the U.S. | | | | to pay for services and verify a patient's billing |
| Department of Health and Human Services, | | | | address in real time. See Per-Se. |
| established the DOQ-IT initiative program to | | | | Payer-side automation: See Guidewire ClaimCenter, |
| encourage physicians to adopt EHRs and, in turn, | | | | XPERT Connect. |
| improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health | | | | Personal Health Record Smart Card: Patients and |
| care. In order to gain official DOQ-IT recognition, | | | | health care providers can access medical health |
| vendors must meet all 35 DOQ-IT reporting | | | | records, and send and save their most vital personal |
| requirements. See Misys | | | | medical information instantly using the Internet or |
| Deals: This category shows business development | | | | multiple devices, such as smart cards, USB keys, |
| activity based on leveraging reciprocal client | | | | mobile phones, PDA's and Tablet PC's. See Patientrak. |
| relationships and complementary product capabilities. | | | | Telemedicine: eNotes. |
| See A-Life, Affinity Billing, athenahealth, | | | | |