AMS receives Imaging Ace Award for technical innovation in document imaging and work flow in Healthcare.FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1996--American Management Systems(AMS AMS - Andrew Message System )(NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on Ticker Symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors : AMSY AMSY American Management Systems, Inc (stock symbol) ) announced that it has received the Imaging Ace(TM) Innovation Award, sponsored by The Rheinner Group, for technical excellence in developing, integrating and installing complex customer applications using document imaging and work flow technology. The award was presented at INSPIRE '96: The Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. and Integrator Forum on Document Imaging, held recently in Florida. AMS was one of the three winning integrators and resellers demonstrating technical excellence and innovative business strategies. AMS was recognized for a large-scale implementation of RecordLink(R) and AccountLink(TM) (formerly called PatientLink), two AMS client/server-based document imaging and work flow application products for patient information management based on the FileNet Corporation's imaging platform. AMS implemented the solutions at St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract in Indianapolis, the largest hospital complex in the Daughters of Charity National Health System, East Central Region. St. Vincent encompasses five major locations (with approximately 1,000 beds) and more than 20 satellite treatment facilities in central Indiana. St. Vincent uses AMS's RecordLink and AccountLink software applications to gain quicker access to vital patient information, and speed review and completion of patient records. RecordLink manages the processing, storage and retrieval of patient medical records by physicians, nurses and other clinical and administrative staff throughout the hospital. AccountLink directs the work flow and documents associated with inpatient admission and outpatient registration, as well as billing, collections and follow-up. It simplifies the preadmission and admission processes, facilitates billing, and expedites the reconciliation of payer and patient inquiries. "Document imaging and work flow technology is the most significant advancement to date in health information management, providing greater efficiency in storage, retrieval and record processing functions," said Londa Bechert, RRA RRA Registered Record Administrator. , director of medical records at St. Vincent. The medical records staff will be celebrating one year of paperless operations in March 1996. The St. Vincent system is one of the largest document imaging and work flow implementations in healthcare, with 280 document imaging workstations and an annual volume of over 16 million pages of document images processed per year. "AMS is very pleased to have this implementation of our products recognized by The Rheinner Group as an outstanding example of systems integration," said AMS vice president Peter Gretz. "St. Vincent is a great example of what we've done for each of the 14 hospitals that are using our document imaging and work flow products - we developed a tailored solution with our software products as a foundation and integrated components from FileNet, Hewlett Packard, Kodak, Bell & Howell, Cornestone, Microsoft, Oracle and other sources to provide exactly the needed combination of functions and features." AMS offers healthcare organizations specialized services in strategic systems planning, client/server software development, hospital information systems consolidation, and clinical data integration and access, in addition to document imaging and work flow solutions. The Rheinner Group provides focused market research, analysis and consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" to professionals in the image and information management industry. These services include retainer-based relationships, document imaging training programs, educational technology guides, custom consulting projects, newsletters and conferences. The Rheinner Group is a recognized and widely-quoted source of information on the document imaging market. AMS's business is to partner with clients to achieve breakthrough performance through the intelligent use of information technology. AMS is a business and information technology consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. firm that provides a full range of services: business reengineering, change management, systems integration, and systems development and implementation. AMS, which completed its 26th consecutive year of growth, is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices in 48 cities throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. AMS's revenues for 1995 were $632 million. -0- (TM)Imaging Ace Award is a registered trademark of The Rheinner Group (TM)AccountLink is a trademark of American Management Systems American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was founded in 1970 as a technology and management consulting firm. It was founded by a group of five former United States Department of Defense officials who worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson Inc. (R)RecordLink is a registered trademark of American Management Systems Inc. CONTACT: American Management Systems Charlene Baldwin, 703/267-5035 or Ketchum Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Kathleen Kenney, 212/878-4717 |
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