CareTech Solutions and Yampa Valley Medical Center Announce New Information Technology Outsourcing Agreement.Yampa Valley Medical Center's continued relationship with CareTech Solutions demonstrates unwavering commitment to customer service TROY, Mich., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- CareTech Solutions, Inc., a healthcare information technology (IT) and health information management (HIM) services provider, has announced that Yampa Valley Medical Center (YVMC YVMC Yampa Valley Medical Center (Steamboat Springs, Colorado) ) of Steamboat Springs, Colo. has signed a new five year IT outsourcing agreement effective October 1, 2006. The new outsourcing contract continues CareTech Solutions' longstanding relationship with YVMC, which began in January 2002. Under the new outsourcing agreement, CareTech Solutions will continue to support and maintain YVMC's data center operations, applications and voice information systems; facilitate physician connectivity; and provide CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. services and technical resources for the development and implementation of the medical center's strategic technology plan. "CareTech Solutions has proven to be a very valuable long term partner in our pursuit of continuous quality improvement in the patient care we deliver to our community," said Karl Gills, Chief Executive Officer of YVMC. "Our health information technologies have increased significantly since we partnered with CareTech and we are positioned for even more development. We look forward to leveraging our relationship with CareTech to provide additional capabilities through information technology that will further benefit our patients, physicians and staff." "We are delighted to be able to continue the support and advancement of Yampa Valley Medical Center's information technology operations Information technology operations, or IT operations, are the superset of all processes and services that are both provisioned by an IT staff to their internal or external and used by themselves, to run themselves as a business. and help the medical center better serve its patients," said James Giordano, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CareTech Solutions. "Our successful longstanding relationship with Yampa Valley Medical Center demonstrates our commitment to designing and implementing healthcare IT solutions that exceed our clients' expectations." About Yampa Valley Medical Center An independent community medical center, Yampa Valley Medical Center is northwest Colorado's only non-tax-based non-profit hospital. A volunteer Board of Trustees provides governance. YVMC serves residents of a six-county area in northwest Colorado and southern Wyoming as well as visitors from around the world. The hospital provides 24-hour trauma care in an emergency department that is staffed by six full-time emergency medicine physicians. With more than 60 board-certified physicians on its medical staff, YVMC has 29 acute care beds, a 59-bed skilled nursing facility and a special care nursery. Outpatient services outpatient services Hospital-based services Managed care Medical and other services provided, to a nonadmitted Pt, by a hospital or other qualified facility–eg, mental health clinic, rural health clinic, mobile X-ray unit, free-standing dialysis unit Examples include a full range of diagnostic and laboratory services and a comprehensive rehabilitation and therapies at SportsMed, located in the Justin DeSorrento Sports Medicine sports medicine, branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow"; and Center at YVMC and clinics in Hayden, Oak Creek and Walden. For more information about the sophisticated diagnostic services diagnostic services, n.pl the imaging and laboratory capabilities available for determining the cause of an illness. and programs available at YVMC, visit http://www.yvmc.org/ . About CareTech Solutions, Inc. CareTech Solutions, Inc., an information technology services provider for hospitals and health systems, is committed to creating value for clients through customized, flexible solutions that contribute to improving patient care while lowering healthcare costs. From implementing emerging technologies to supporting day-to-day operations, CareTech offers clients expert services across the entire patient data lifecycle. Information Technology services - Health Information Management - Revenue Cycle services - Web Services products and services - CableCare(TM) structured cabling and wiring For more information please visit: http://www.caretechsolutions.com/ CONTACT: Jody Meehan of CareTech Solutions, +1-248-823-0909, jody.meehan@caretechsolutions.com ; Kevin Sangsland of Airfoil Public Relations, +1-248-304-1411, sangsland@airfoilpr.com , for CareTech Solutions Web site: http://www.caretechsolutions.com/ http://www.yvmc.org/ |
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