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Maxim Healthcare Services Chooses HealthMEDX Vision

Greg Goodale — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:19:33 GMT

OZARK, Missouri, June 22, 2010 – The HealthMEDX Vision solution has been selected as the software solution for Maxim Healthcare Services, providers of home health, medical staffing, and wellness services. Maxim has signed with HealthMEDX to automate and manage the care provided by the hundreds of Maxim offices across the nation.

Maxim saw a need for a comprehensive solution that could create a single record for all client information. After a thorough evaluation of available solutions, the HealthMEDX Vision solution was chosen to create the single, electronic record needed within the organization.

“We are an ever expanding organization with over 300 offices and thousands of clients across the United States.”, stated Jeremy Smith, Vice President of Finance HomeCare, of Maxim Healthcare. “We needed to find a solution that could centralize our clients’ records and standardize processes across our offices. The HealthMEDX Vision solution allows us to not only realize the goal of a centralized record, but we also see the flexibility within the solution to grow with us as we continue to expand our client base.”

Maxim will be utilizing process functionality within HealthMEDX Vision. The proven policies and procedures Maxim utilizes on a daily basis will be automated within the solution. Maxim staff will be automatically stepped through each step in the key processes involved in providing care.

“When we first reviewed the needs of Maxim and what HealthMEDX Vision offered, we were eager to begin our partnership.” stated Aaron Brandwein, Vice President Sales and Marketing, HealthMEDX. “We have always designed our solution with the flexibility to meet the needs of both single office agencies and multi-site, multi-setting organizations like Maxim. The partnership we have established is ideal for the HealthMEDX Vision solution. The challenge more and more organizations are facing with centralizing a single record for client data is exactly what we are addressing in this partnership.”

Maxim is scheduled to begin implementation of the HealthMEDX Vision solution in late spring.

Latest Version of HealthMEDX Vision Addresses CCHIT, MDS 3.0, and Mobile Clinicians

Greg Goodale — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:16:00 GMT

OZARK, Missouri, June 11, 2010 – HealthMEDX announced today the upcoming general availability of the latest version of HealthMEDX Vision. Version 6.0 is designed to address expected certification standards from CCHIT, the upcoming MDS 3.0 assessment, and specific needs of the home care mobile clinician.

Current industry direction and regulatory changes are planned for the fall of 2010. HealthMEDX has invested dedicated teams of product analysts and developers who have spent the last year addressing the needs of the industry in the latest release of the product. With CCHIT certification for long-term and home care EHR in the works, HealthMEDX Vision 6.0 is positioned to be one of the first solutions to sit for CCHIT certification over the summer of 2010.

“We have stayed very well informed on what our solution needs to become certified by co-chairing the CCHIT work group working on long-term and post acute care EHR certification”, stated HealthMEDX CTO, Dan Cobb. “Certification of the HealthMEDX Vision EHR means a lot to our clients. Certification is one of the key requirements necessary for organizations to qualify for any available funds from the government. With the push for EHR adoption, it is only expected that funds will continue to become available. We simply want to get ahead of the curve to ensure our clients have what they need from us to meet the qualifications.”

Outside of the standards outlined by CCHIT for EHR certification, HealthMEDX Vision 6.0 will also provide clients the ability to submit and manage the new MDS 3.0 assessment from CMS. Clients will be utilizing various tools built into HealthMEDX Vision 6.0 to ensure the transition to MDS 3.0 is smooth. The latest version of the software navigates users through the new assessment with color coding matching that of the new assessment as well as specific skip logic and question formatting to help move through the assessment quickly. MDS assessment and monitoring widgets are also available in the solution to help keep users informed of the status of all MDS 3.0 assessments.

The latest version of HealthMEDX Vision had key design elements placed around addressing the growing needs of mobile clinicians at the point of care. HealthMEDX Vision 6.0 provides a new portion of the solution called Mobile View designed specifically for these clinicians.

The solution is designed to address mobile clinicians’ needs at all points in time. Time spent on their assigned case load before, during, and after a home visit are all managed from the Mobile View solution. Clinicians can be trained on the solution within 2 hours which results in more time with patients. The solution is also positioned to be well within the reach of any organization’s budget. At just a little over one dollar per day, each mobile clinician can be provided the software and a netbook device to provide care. The Mobile View solution has also removed the need for mobile clinicians to worry about connection to the internet. When a connection is available, the solution synchronizes automatically. When disconnected, the user can still operate and provide care to their case load in the software.

HealthMEDX Vision 6.0 will be released on June 18^th. The product is currently also scheduled to go through the CCHIT certification process during the later part of this summer.

HealthMEDX Receives Award of Excellence for 5th Year

Greg Goodale — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:52:58 GMT

OZARK, Missouri, February 5, 2009 – For the fifth year in a row, HealthMEDX has received the Edward Koscic and Associates Award of Excellence. Rated against other long-term care software vendors, HealthMEDX scored in the 90^th percentile or greater in all categories considered for the award.

“With over three decades in the long-term care industry, our annual Award of Excellence takes a number of critical factors into consideration for the award”, stated Ed Koscic, Principal of Edward Koscic and Associates, LLC. “When rating all LTHC vendors, HealthMEDX ranked highest among all other like providers.”

Focusing HealthMEDX for the past 10 years on maximizing productivity and efficiency, improving quality of care, managing risk, and supporting client business growth played a critical role in receiving the award. The HealthMEDX management team was ranked highly for the character shown throughout 2009. When reviewing various vendors in the areas of customer satisfaction and innovative technology, HealthMEDX once again excelled.

“We focus on our four key areas in everything we do not because we want to win awards but because we want to help improve care provided in our industry”, stated Charlie Daniels, President of HealthMEDX. “When we receive awards like this not only once but for five consecutive years, it only helps reinforce our decisions to focus on these important items for our clients.”

HealthMEDX Announces Vision Solution

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:40:00 GMT

OZARK, Missouri, July 1, 2009 – HealthMEDX announced the release of HealthMEDX Vision, the newest version of their solution for long term care, home health, and rehab organizations. The solution moves organizations closer to the goal of a true Electronic Health Record through the use of push technology that brings the data and tools each user needs within one click.

The new HealthMEDX Vision solution is designed to help move extended care organizations into the shared industry vision of a true Electronic Health Record for all Americans by 2014. Through the combination of an intuitive home screen, chart views that simulate the paper chart, and a trend view for outcome trending; the HealthMEDX Vision solution provides an easy to use tool that decreases training time, increases user adoption and ultimately EHR adoption.

“We are very excited about what the HealthMEDX Vision solution will provide our industry,” stated Charlie Daniels, President of HealthMEDX. “We know when it comes to the adoption of a solution in healthcare, the one area that dictates the success of any solution is in the area of Electronic Health Records. With the Vision solution, the transition to electronic records is simple. Users don’t have to be applications experts to operate in Vision. The system helps organizations apply their policies and procedures through HealthMEDX Vision’s unique use of Common Processes; they simply have to know their area of expertise.”

One of the new tools that will be presented to users in the HealthMEDX Vision solution is a unique Trend View of the chart. Within HealthMEDX Vision, users have the ability to review multiple data elements from a patient on one screen to compare measurements quickly for outcome trending. Users can monitor how a patient has reacted to specific medications or monitor data for disease management with the click of a button.

The HealthMEDX Vision solution will continue to be available in both the Software as a Service (SaaS) and client hosted versions that HealthMEDX clients have utilized over the past decade.

Jewish Home Lifecare Chooses HealthMEDX

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:41:00 GMT

OZARK, MO June 14, 2009 - Jewish Home Lifecare, which serves more than 10,000 individuals annually via skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers in Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester, plus Community Services, has chosen HealthMEDX as their information system. The Nursing Homes, Adult Day Care and Senior Housing will utilize HealthMEDX’s customer relationship management, census, clinical EHR, and financial applications.

Jewish Home Lifecare has grown over the past decade and with its growth has developed the need for an enterprise solution to meet the needs of its diverse programs and care settings. HealthMEDX was identified as the ideal vendor to provide Jewish Home Lifecare with a master patient index (a single record) for all resident/patient information regardless of the setting.

“As a health system, we manage multiple locations, programs and care settings in the New York City metropolitan area stated Thomas J. Gilmartin, Chief Administrative Officer of Jewish Home Lifecare. “Given the complexity of our operating environment and our requirements for a system, we feel that HealthMEDX is the one vendor that can provide our System with an integrated enterprise solution”.

The HealthMEDX system will manage over 5,000 resident admissions per year for the Jewish Home Lifecare system. The full HealthMEDX suite will be installed to provide all the various benefits from the solution. The HealthMEDX system will also be integrating with Jewish Home Lifecare’s physician practice management solution to help provide a true, comprehensive EHR record for each resident/patient.

“Integration is a key component for any information system in today’s healthcare market” stated Charlie Daniels, President HealthMEDX. “We support various clients like Jewish Home Lifecare across the United States. Healthcare providers understand that interoperability is key to success in our current healthcare information climate. We have regulatory agencies like CCHIT forming to establish standards and investment from our government for interoperable records. It only makes sense that providers are looking for a solution like HealthMEDX that looks to the future and is able to grow with industry demands.”

HealthMEDX Drives Customer-Centric Transformation With iRise Visualization

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:42:00 GMT

EL SEGUNDO, CA – April, 2009 – iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced that HealthMEDX, the number one U.S.-based software provider for long-term care, home health, and rehab organizations, has adopted iRise visualization as a crucial component of an organization-wide initiative to improve product quality and accelerate delivery of its Web-based healthcare software solutions suite. Business analysts at HealthMEDX are now using high definition visualizations created with iRise during the design and analysis phase of projects as the standard for defining enhancements to existing products and new software offerings.

“iRise is a critical part of our strategy to improve product quality and gain competitive advantage in an industry that is undergoing incredible transformation,” said Jim Atteberry, CEO of HealthMEDX. “The single biggest issue with delivering software is communications. The greatest leverage that iRise enables is improving communications at the front-end of the process, which will help us eliminate rework and speed delivery.”

HealthMEDX enables healthcare providers to utilize a single solution for all customer relationship management, census, clinical electronic health record (EHR), and financial information. Over 3,300 extended care facilities nationwide have standardized on the HealthMEDX solution.

Through the adoption of iRise visualization solutions, business analysts at HealthMEDX can now quickly build fully functional application models using the enterprise grade iRise visualization platform. Business stakeholders and product owners can interact with and fully experience proposed enhancements and new software before any coding, eliminating costly rework and ensuring high quality products are delivered. iRise visualizations are also being tested directly with clinicians and administrators at HealthMEDX customer sites, giving the company invaluable feedback on usability and adoption potential.

“We saw an immediate positive change with iRise,” Mr. Atteberry continued. “We have to get the user interface right the first time and we had to get there quicker. iRise empowers us with speed and agility that ultimately means we can focus on delivering innovation faster to our customers.”

“Visualization is now a standard for companies that want to deliver higher quality software while also optimizing time to market,” said Mitch Bishop, CMO of iRise. “Like many companies, HealthMEDX recognized the status quo is no longer acceptable in today’s business climate. Visualization is now an enabler for driving innovation to market faster, while at the same time lowering cost of delivery.”

Leading California LTC Provider Chooses HealthMEDX

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:42:00 GMT

OZARK, Missouri, April 2, 2009 – HealthMEDX has been selected as the software solution for one of California’s largest extended care providers, Country Villa Health Services. The CareMEDX solution from HealthMEDX was chosen to support Country Villa’s multiple Skilled Nursing Facilities across California.

“With over 50 member facilities in the Country Villa organization, we required a product with the flexibility to address the specific needs of our organization and the complex care delivery models we support. We found CareMEDX best met the needs we had outlined for each of these specific requirements.” stated Michael Torgan, Executive Vice President Country Villa.

“We are pleased to have Country Villa as part of the growing HealthMEDX client base.” stated Charlie Daniels, President of HealthMEDX. Daniels continued, “We are looking forward to providing Country Villa enhancements to quality of care and increased efficiency like we’ve provided time and time again with similar facilities.”

With both web based and client hosted software options made available to Country Villa, the organization chose to host the HealthMEDX solution themselves for all of facilities within the organization.