Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation Signs on to Use Passport OneSource; Internet-based Service Designed to Reduce Administrative Costs.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BW HealthWire)--March 9, 2000 Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation has signed an agreement with Passport Health Communications Inc. to use Passport's Internet-based service at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Medical Center and Baptist Memorial Hospital-East, Baptist's largest facilities. The Internet-based product, Passport OneSource(TM), offers physicians and hospitals secure access to health care administrative information, such as patient eligibility, claims status, provider panels and real-time referrals. Passport OneSource(TM) makes this information available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is designed to reduce hospitals' administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. . Baptist's Information Systems research and development group and representatives from the Business Office, Admissions, Case Management and Operational Integration areas have been working closely with representatives at Passport for more than a year to evaluate the potential cost savings and process improvement opportunities from using Passport OneSource(TM). "We expect the use of Passport OneSource(TM) will significantly reduce the administrative hassle of verifying insurance data during patient registration," said James Huffman, chief financial officer for Baptist's Metro Operations. "We think this technology will simplify the financial follow-up in the business office areas after the patient's discharge. In addition, we expect using the service to improve the workflow of our case management and emergency departments." Baptist evaluated several competing products and services and determined that Passport OneSource(TM) offered the most comprehensive health care data available. "From a technical perspective, we like that Passport OneSource(TM) is a Web-based product, a technology we have found to be much easier to implement and support," said Terry Hale, manager of Research and Development at Baptist. "We found Passport to be a company that is willing to listen to the needs of Baptist and to allow us to provide input into current and future development of Passport OneSource(TM)." Currently, nearly 10,000 physicians and 50 hospitals use Passport OneSource(TM) to access administrative insurance information. "The team at Passport is very excited to have Baptist as a client," said Jeff Drake drake 1. male duck. 2. loliumtemulentum. , vice president of sales of Passport. "We value our customers' input because it has a direct impact on the products and services we provide. We look forward to helping them reduce the cost and frustration they have experienced in the past." About Passport Health Communications Founded in Tennessee in 1996, Passport Health Communications, Inc. (www.passporthealth.com) is an application service provider (ASP) that has harnessed the power of the Internet to offer time and cost savings to healthcare providers and hospitals. Through Passport OneSource(TM), (www.passportonesource.com) clients can access data from six of the country's top 10 health insurers and 32 state Medicaid databases via the Internet. This time-critical information is used to confirm patient eligibility, level of benefits, claims status, provider panels and referrals. Passport has existing partnerships with DR2DR.com, Elixis Corporation, MedEweb.com, National Physicians Datasource, and HealthStream just to name a few. Last year, the company unveiled HealthLeaders (www.healthleaders.com) a free online health leadership community for healthcare executives and administrators. In 1999, Passport was presented with the Microsoft, Microsoft Healthcare Users Group award for best product in the Managed Care/Payer-Administrative/Financial Systems category. About Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. One of the largest not-for-profit health systems in 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. , Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. was created in 1981 to provide an integrated health care integrated health care, n healthcare services combining the best of conventional and complementary health care. delivery system offering a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South. This network of health care consists of 17 hospitals plus a planned women's hospital Women's Hospital of Greensboro (part of Moses Cone Health System) As the state's first free-standing hospital dedicated to women, the Women's Hospital of Greensboro is a 134-bed hospital is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art, compassionate and personalized care to women in East Memphis; more than 2,500 affiliated physicians; home, hospice hospice, program of humane and supportive care for the terminally ill and their families; the term also applies to a professional facility that provides care to dying patients who can no longer be cared for at home. and psychiatric psy·chi·at·ric adj. Of or relating to psychiatry. psychiatric adjective Pertaining to psychiatry, mental disorders care throughout the tri-state area There are a number of places in the United States known as tri-state areas where three states or holdings meet at one point (a tripoint), or in proximity to each other. The two most well-known are for the New York and Chicago metropolitan areas. ; 53 minor medical centers and clinics; a chain of surgery, rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by the Baptist College of Health Sciences Baptist College of Health Sciences is a private, coeducational, specialized college in Memphis, Tennessee. It offers baccalaureate degrees in the following fields:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the American Hospital Association American Hospital Association (AHA), n.pr a nonprofit national organization of individuals, institutions, and organizations engaged in direct patient care. The association works to promote the improvement of health care services. . |
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