North Shore University Hospital Joins Expanding eDischarge-R- Network; Addition Solidifies CuraSpan's Market-Leading Position in New York Metro Area.Business/Technology Editors & Health/Medical Writers NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 CuraSpan, Inc., a leading provider of connectivity and network management across the post-acute-care continuum, today announced that North Shore University Hospital (NSUH NSUH North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, NY) ) will use the eDischarge(R) platform to place patients in post-acute care. eDischarge is the Internet-based discharge planning solution that connects hospitals, post-acute-care providers, payors, and transportation companies across one common platform, thereby eliminating redundant case management tasks, including phone calls and faxes. In addition, the platform supports compliance with the final HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, guidelines and is a recognized best practice for expediting patient throughput. "We chose the eDischarge platform to help us manage our discharge process and prepare ourselves for the upcoming HIPAA deadline," said Dennis Dowling, president of NSUH. "For example, each month we transmit over 25,000 pages of information relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc more than 850 patient placements, to our provider partners in the community. With eDischarge, we can now avoid the fax machine and manage the access to that information in the most secure and effective way possible." "Adding a world-class institution like NSUH to our active eDischarge hospital base is exciting not only for us," added Tom Ferry, 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 CuraSpan, "but also for our large network of post-acute-care members, as we continue to expand our presence in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of market." About North Shore University Hospital North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset is one of the cornerstones of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, the nation's third-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system. North Shore-LIJ provides care for people at all stages of illness throughout Long Island, Queens and Staten Island Staten Island (1990 pop. 378,977), 59 sq mi (160 sq km), SE N.Y., in New York Bay, SW of Manhattan, forming Richmond co. of New York state and the borough of Staten Island of New York City. . The health system includes 18 hospitals, four long-term care facilities long-term care facility n. See skilled nursing facility. , three trauma centers, seven home health agencies and dozens of out-patient centers. North Shore-LIJ facilities house more than 5,670 beds, and are staffed by over 7,000 physicians, 7,000 nurses and a total workforce of more than 32,000 -- the largest on Long Island and the seventh largest in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . About CuraSpan CuraSpan, Inc. is an Application Service Provider (ASP) offering technology that is fast becoming the industry standard for connectivity and information exchange between hospitals, post-acute-care providers, payors, and transportation companies. The company's patent-pending flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. eDischarge was designed by a team of clinical and technology experts to modernize and expedite patient assessment, care planning, and discharge in acute and post-acute-care settings. To meet the rapidly evolving information management needs of the healthcare community, CuraSpan continues to develop applications that capitalize on the immediacy that the Internet provides. CuraSpan is based in Newton, Massachusetts. |
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