A-Life Medical and MedHost, Inc. Announce Strategic Marketing Agreement.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000 Partnership Offers Emergency Healthcare Facilities a Comprehensive Tracking, Documentation, and Coding Solution A-Life Medical, Inc., the leader in advanced natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as (NLP (Natural Language Processing) The capability of understanding human language. If the language is spoken, voice recognition plays an important role in converting the sounds to individual words. Then, natural language processing figures out what the words mean. ) technology for the medical industry, today announced a strategic marketing agreement with MedHost, Inc., a healthcare industry leader in patient management technology. The agreement enables the companies to provide emergency healthcare facilities with a comprehensive integrated system for tracking, documentation, and coding of patient and clinical activity. A-Life's LogiCoder(TM) is an innovative, automated service for Emergency Medicine coding that integrates seamlessly within an organization. It fully automates the vast majority of transcribed charts, generating ICD-9, CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To , and Evaluation & Management codes using A-Life's NLP technology. This system will be integrated with MedHost's EDMS (Electronic Document Management System or Enterprise Document Management System ) See document management. EDMS - Electronic Document Management System (TM) Tracking and EDMS(TM) Charting systems, which provide breakthrough technology to improve patient management and staff communications in hospital emergency departments, increase the accuracy of clinical documentation, and enhance operational efficiencies. Together, the systems will provide streamlined charting and coding capabilities. "We are pleased to be partnering with MedHost to implement this comprehensive solution for emergency healthcare providers," said Richard Wesson, Ph.D., chief executive officer of A-Life Medical, Inc. "MedHost has developed industry-defining technology to accurately and completely capture documentation in the emergency department, which will result in our LogiCoder more effectively coding for compliance and reimbursement. With the financial pressures faced by most providers, this is an essential combination." "MedHost has become a leader by delivering very intuitive and easy-to-use technology. This relationship with A-Life now takes us to the next level in providing customers with highly valuable solutions in the emergency department," said Stephen Miley, M.D., chief executive officer of MedHost, Inc. "We can now provide our customers with an unmatched resource for all aspects of the encounter - from real-time tracking of the patient through the department, to capturing the clinical documentation, to automatically coding for appropriate reimbursement. It's a powerful story." About MedHost, Inc. MedHost was founded in 1996 to deploy visual and easy-to-use process management technology into the healthcare industry, an industry known for its cumbersome processes and costly inefficiencies. With the release of EDMS Tracking in 1999, MedHost launched breakthrough technology to improve patient management and staff communications in hospital emergency departments. Since then, MedHost technology has been adopted by leading institutions throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . With the introduction of EDMS Charting, MedHost continues this tradition of cutting-edge innovation in patient care. MedHost, Inc. is headquartered in Bradenton, Florida Bradenton is a city in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's 2006 population at 53,986.[3] Bradenton is the largest Principal City of the Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 with offices in Toledo, Ohio
The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. . For more information about MedHost and its products, call 888-218-4678 or visit MedHost at www.medhost.com. About A-Life Medical, Inc. A-Life Medical Inc. is the leader in advanced natural language processing (NLP) technology for the medical industry. This technology emulates human understanding of language. Through its expertise in NLP technology, A-Life has successfully taught a computer to "read" narrative text associated with physicians' charts and to automatically assign complex medical codes used for billing and data collection. A-Life's current focus is on coding in the emergency medicine and radiology specialties, with plans to expand to other areas of medicine, including inpatient services inpatient service Managed care A service provided to a hospitalized Pt. Cf Outpatient service. . Founded in 1996, A-Life Medical is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . For more information on A-Life and its products, call 858-268-9999 or visit A-Life at www.alifemedical.com. All company, product, and service names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or service marks of other companies. |
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