Century City Doctors Hospital and Medversant Join to Create Advanced Model for Medical Staff Management and Healthcare Human Resources.

LOS ANGELES -- Century City Doctors Hospital, Los Angeles' newest acute care hospital with over 440 physicians, has joined Medversant Technologies, LLC in setting the standard for advanced Web based management of healthcare practitioner credentialing and human resources data for its medical staff and employees. Century City Doctors Hospital will now have its practitioner and employee databases residing in one central location: Medversant's OneSource[TM] solution.

"By utilizing Medversant's OneSource shared platform, Century City Doctors Hospital is creating the medical staff office and human resources department of the 21st century," explains Morgan Brown, CPMSM, CPHQ, Medical Staff Director for Century City Doctors Hospital. "We wanted to create a 'living lab' where medical staff management and human resources professionals can observe a completely paperless environment and significantly streamline credentialing and human resources processes. Medversant empowers us to make that dream a reality."

Each year the healthcare industry incurs billions of dollars in avoidable costs in the credentialing of healthcare practitioners and hospital personnel. According to Matthew Haddad, CEO of Medversant, "By centralizing and automating credentialing and related human resources processes, redundant data repositories are eliminated, resulting in costs savings, better information and better patient care."

Haddad says, "Hospitals typically apply different standards to credentialing physicians versus employees of the hospital. As a result, two different systems are used, with employees handled by the human resources department while the physicians are addressed by the medical staff services department. By credentialing physicians who are in private practice - along with processing their employees using the Encompass technology - Medversant will save Century City Doctors Hospital a substantial amount of time and money."

OneSource uses Medversant's Encompass[TM] Web-based technology platform to completely automate all the processes involved in today's medical staff and human resources operating environment. This comprehensive management solution performs continuous monitoring of practitioner and employee credentials in real time, in accordance with new standards mandated by the Joint Commission.

"Essentially, the platform creates for Century City Doctors Hospital a virtual medical staff office and human resources department where all the systems are in one convenient electronic location, lowering the costs of credentialing and decreasing their risk," says Haddad. "OneSource also relieves burdensome, repetitive tasks so that personnel can focus on the business of maintaining patient safety and providing services to their practitioners."

Vital information relating to each practitioner and employee is housed in one central location that can be accessed 24/7/365 and utilized throughout the organization, from admitting to the surgical suites to the pharmacy and beyond.

In addition to receiving a single source solution for continuous monitoring and automated, real-time practitioner and employee credentials verification, Century City Doctors Hospital is expected to benefit significantly from Medversant's ASP Encompass technology.

"Encompass allows the hospital to acquire practitioner and employee credentials, and then continuously verify them electronically against databases including state license boards, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)," notes Haddad. "Furthermore, instruction and training sessions will be offered in a 'living lab environment' on-site at Century City Doctors Hospital."

Hospitals and healthcare organizations are invited to participate in hands-on, real time medical staff management and human resources living lab sessions to learn more about the benefits of the OneSource system.

About Medversant

Medversant Technologies LLC is the leading provider of Web based healthcare practitioner management applications. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA., Medversant can be reached at [phone] or www.medversant.com.

About Century City Doctors Hospital

Since opening in 2005, 122-bed Century City Doctors Hospital is Los Angeles' newest acute care hospital with over 440 physicians. A fully digital campus, CCDH provides Westside communities of Los Angeles with superior medical care, leading-edge technology and five-star personalized service. Salus Surgical Group of Beverly Hills purchased the hospital with more than 170 physician investors, investing almost $100 million in refurbishment and equipment. CCDH is one of the nation's largest physician-owned and operated hospitals. Century City Doctors Hospital's Medical Staff Services Department can be reached at 310-557-7052 or http://www.ccdoctorshospital.com/site/.