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Achieve Healthcare Technologies.


Achieve Healthcare Technologies is the largest privately held provider of information systems products and services to the long-term care long-term care (LTC),
n the provision of medical, social, and personal care services on a recurring or continuing basis to persons with chronic physical or mental disorders.
 industry. We serve customers across the U.S., and have consistently led the industry in introducing new, innovative products. Our long-term care information solutions span the technological bridge from client-server to web-enabled solutions to provide large and small, single or multi-facilities with the services they need to run successful organizations.

Achieve is an affiliate of the Health Quest Group. The Health Quest Group was founded in 1970. Up through 1993, Health Quest built and operated more than 22 long-term care facilities long-term care facility
n.
See skilled nursing facility.
, including 3 sub acute units, 425 assisted living as·sist·ed living
n.
A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially older people with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication.
 units and 275 retirement apartments. Health Quest also developed a 22,000 bed institutional pharmacy, a contract rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy.  therapy company and a home infusion therapy home infusion therapy The IV administration of therapeutics–analgesics, antibiotics, chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition–outside of a formal healthcare environment. See Hyperalimentation, Patient-controlled analgesics, TPN.  business.

The 2002 merger between Achieve and Patient Technologies Incorporated provided Achieve with an innovative product, Achieve Matrix, around which to build the future of the company.

"The long-term care industry has long relied on antiquated information systems technology with nothing distinguishing one system from another. There function was to accomplish little more than meeting regulatory requirements. Today, our industry faces critical new business problems--increased lawsuits, skilled labor shot[ages, crippling reimbursement issues--making quality of care difficult to maintain. IT providers now need to deliver solutions that address these major business issues with services that allow organizations to successfully meet the challenges. I am proud to be part of a company that has led the effort to raise the bar and is delivering the first system that will truly make a difference."

Achieve Matrix is a totally new, one-of-a-kind solution for long-term care information systems. It's the first automated and fully-integrated IT solution specifically designed to put the odds of success back in your favor and the control of your business back in your hands. Matrix was designed for the long-term care industry by long-term care experts and is the only system that leverages standard protocols and automates workflow processes to help ensure accurate documentation and clear communications Clear Communications was a telecommunications company based in New Zealand. Until merging into Telstra's operations in 2001, it was the biggest rival to Telecom New Zealand.  across your entire long-term care continuum--tools that provide improved quality of care, reduced litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
 risk, increased operating margins, faster and simpler surveys and increased labor retention and productivity. Achieve Matrix is truly care like never before.

Today, Achieve Healthcare Technologies stands ready to bring to the long-term care industry the kind of cost effective, innovative, quality products that, while novel within long-term care, are demanded in most other vertical markets.

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Publication:Contemporary Long Term Care
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2003
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