ChartOne to Interface with MEDITECH Hospital Information Systems.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- ChartOne, Inc., the leading provider of on demand medical record solutions, is partnering with Summit Healthcare, an integration software company, to help facilities using MEDITECH hospital information systems migrate to a fully paperless healthcare environment. ChartOne is leveraging Summit Healthcare's HL7 Adapter A device that allows one system to connect to and work with another. An adapter is often a simple circuit that converts one set of signals to another; however, the term often refers to devices which are more accurately called "controllers. Suite to provide integration between ChartOne's eWebHealth Suite, a hosted electronic document management system, and MEDITECH's hospital information systems. "Our partnership with ChartOne represents another milestone for us," stated Ted Rossi, chief executive officer of Summit Healthcare. "Clients will benefit from ChartOne's industry-leading eWebHealth Suite as well as have the added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
For MEDITECH customer Jeff Partee, chief information officer at Ohio's Wilson Memorial Hospital, the partnership is an exciting development for his organization: "Summit Healthcare helped us very successfully convert our former hospital information system to MEDITECH in 2000, and we believe the company's involvement with ChartOne will result in a high-quality, cost-effective interface that should allow hospitals using MEDITECH systems to quickly implement ChartOne's paperless electronic chart management solutions." With the eWebHealth Suite, electronic documents such as history and physical, laboratory, radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. , operative and emergency department reports as well as transcribed documents all feed directly into ChartOne's secure medical record repository. There, they combine with scanned paper documents to form a complete legal medical record for all patients. "To access this information, our clinicians, quality management personnel and others with authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: access just need to use ChartOne's common viewer via the Web, without having to re-enter re·en·ter also re-en·ter v. re·en·tered, re·en·ter·ing, re·en·ters v.tr. 1. To enter or come in to again. 2. To record again on a list or ledger. v.intr. the hospital information system or look at paper records," Partee explained. "We are thrilled to be expanding the capabilities of the eWebHealth Suite to better serve the MEDITECH hospital customer base. Working with Summit Healthcare will create a combined solution that enables these customers to become more productive and profitable by leveraging the benefits of a completely paperless environment," said Brian Cahill, chief executive officer of ChartOne. About Summit Healthcare Services Summit Healthcare is an innovative integration software company. Since 1999 we have provided integration software and solutions that simplify and accelerate the development, deployment, and integration of healthcare applications. The Summit Healthcare product line delivers a distributed, cost-effective, easily managed platform that reliably integrates applications, automates workflow and simplifies business processes across the healthcare enterprise. The company has more than 425 customers in the healthcare market and has close partnerships with complementary technology partners, major system integrators See systems integrator. , and value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. . Summit Healthcare customers include HCA-Florida Division(s), Christus Health, Caritas Christi Health Care, Stamford Health System, Cape Cod Cape Cod, narrow peninsula of glacial origin, 399 sq mi (1,033 sq km), SE Mass., extending 65 mi (105 km) E and N into the Atlantic Ocean. It is generally flat, with sand dunes, low hills, and numerous lakes. Healthcare, South Shore Hospital, St. Joseph Health System and Covenant Health. Summit Healthcare also partners with leading vendors such as Healthware Systems, NEBO Nebo (nē`bō), in the Bible. 1 Town of Moab, near Mt. Pisgah and S of Heshbon. 2 City of Judah of postexilic times. 3 Hebrew name for Babylonian god of knowledge, literature, and agriculture. Systems, US Technology Resources, JJWILD, Medibase, Picis and PatientKeeper. For more information, contact Summit Healthcare at 508-541-6006, email sales@summit-healthcare.com or visit our web site at www.summit-healthcare.com. About ChartOne, Inc. ChartOne is the leading provider of on demand medical record solutions. ChartOne combines web-based technology with premiere professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to offer flexible and affordable deployment options for electronic chart management, remote coding and automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. release of information solutions to over 1,300 healthcare customers nationwide. The eWebHealth suite of technology solutions includes eWebCoding, eWebED, eWebView, eWebRelease, eWebCompletion, and eWebSignature. For more information about ChartOne, please visit www.chartone.com. |
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