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Initiate Systems Expands Healthcare Market Presence, Targets Independent Physicians Associations.


First IPA IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet  Customer Selects Initiate EMPI Software to Create Complete Patient Views

CHICAGO -- Initiate Systems, Inc., the recognized standard in enterprise master person index (EMPI) software for the healthcare industry, today announced it has further expanded its presence in the healthcare market by providing independent physicians associations (IPAs) with a more cost-effective model for purchasing the same sophisticated technology that is already used extensively by leading healthcare providers. Initiate Identity Hub[TM] software will help IPAs create a complete and accurate patient view in order to advance patient safety and enable operational efficiencies within their associations. The first IPA to select Initiate software is the 120-member Douglas County Douglas County is the name of twelve counties in the United States:
  • Douglas County, Colorado (Located in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area)
  • Douglas County, Georgia (Located in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area)
  • Douglas County, Illinois
  • Douglas County, Kansas
 Individual Practice Association (DCIPA), based in Roseburg, Oregon Roseburg is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon.GR6 It is the county seat of Douglas County. The population was 20,017 at the 2000 census. The 2006 estimate is 21,050 residents. .

"Initiate Systems has long recognized the role IPAs play in the healthcare industry, and our new model ensures that this audience has access to advanced technology in order to provide the highest quality patient care," said Scott Harper, senior vice president and general manager of Initiate's healthcare practice. "Initiate's EMPI software provides a critical first step to helping IPAs meet the responsibility of creating a single, accurate patient view to further advance the quality of the healthcare they provide."

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 a study by the Centers for Disease Control, in 2005, more than 75 percent of U.S. physicians did not work with electronic health records or the EMPI foundation technology that is needed for them. Illustrating the need for EMPI software in the IPA market, DCIPA will use Initiate software to help implement an electronic health record system that enables all physicians in the county to have electronic access to a single chart for each patient. Initiate software will enable DCIPA to integrate 60 databases across the association's 15 servers to create a complete, accurate patient view.

"We needed a way to provide the most accurate, up-to-date patient information to all of our users across all agencies. Initiate software was clearly the best choice," said Ronald R. Preston, 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 DCIPA. "Plus, Initiate was able to immediately address all of our issues based on their experience with other healthcare organizations."

For more information on Initiate Systems or Initiate Identity Hub[TM] software, please visit www.initiatesystems.com.

About Initiate Systems in Healthcare

Initiate Systems provides software and services for healthcare organizations that want to deliver a comprehensive view of each patient in real time to all points of service. Initiate Identity Hub[TM] software is the most accurate, scalable and rapidly implemented EMPI solution available for healthcare providers, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), independent physicians associations and regional health information organizations (RHIOs), that want to improve patient identification and customer satisfaction, protect data privacy and security, enable interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other.  and provide a critical foundation for EHR (Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND  implementations. More than 50 healthcare organizations have deployed Initiate Identity Hub[TM] software and more than 600 have relied on Initiate for patient data remediation services.

About Initiate Systems

Initiate Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of software for companies and government agencies that want to create the most complete, real-time views of people, households and organizations from data dispersed dis·perse  
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 across multiple application systems and databases. Initiate Identity Hub[TM] software is more accurate, scalable, rapidly deployed and widely used than any other customer data integration and enterprise master person index solution. Many organizations in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, government, healthcare, hospitality and retail sectors are using Initiate software to deliver the right data at the right time to all critical touch points. Initiate Systems' proven experience makes it uniquely qualified to enable strategic initiatives that allow organizations to increase revenue and efficiency and reduce operating costs operating costs nplgastos mpl operacionales  and risks. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., a Canadian office in Toronto, an EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets.  office in London and a Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region.  office in Sydney.
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