Plano, TX Mar 25, 2014 – GAFFEY Healthcare, a leading provider of next generation, cloud-based revenue cycle management software & business office outsourcing services, has announced the release of its latest product, a document management and file organization system called Document Genie.
Document Genie is a powerful cloud-based file management system that is used to associate files with claims. Designed to help healthcare organizations manage their documents, it transforms the piles of EOB’s, revenue cycle paperwork, contracts and other documents into digital file catalogues that can be accessed from anywhere. Document Genie seamlessly integrates with GAFFEY Healthcare’s workflow automation & business intelligence platform, AlphaCollector, to provide the ability to tag or associate any document with a field in AlphaCollector – enhancing education, scripting and document reference. The system accepts all scanned documents and is fully encrypted to remain HIPAA compliant.
“The GAFFEY Healthcare team is extremely excited at the release of Document Genie. The efficient management of documents, files and images is a critical component of almost any healthcare process today,” said GAFFEY Healthcare CEO, Derek Morkel. “Document Genie adds significant capabilities to our next generation cloud based RCM platform – especially in terms of automation, efficiency and, equally as important, safety. A safe and secure document management workflow platform is a critical component of an efficient process.”
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Health Information Professionals Week Focuses on “Transforming Healthcare with Information” During 25th Annual Celebration
HIP Week Set for March 16‒22, 2014
Wayne, PA and Alpharetta, GA Mar 20, 2014 — Precyse, a leader in health information management (HIM) Performance Management and Technology, joins the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in honoring and celebrating health information professionals during the 25th annual Health Information Professionals (HIP) Week, March 16‒22, 2014. This year’s theme is “Transforming Healthcare with Information.”
“The work health information management (HIM) professionals do to ensure the integrity of health information is imperative to clinical and administrative decision making. Access to accurate information helps all of us make important decisions and leads to a healthy society,” said AHIMA CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon, MBA, RHIA, CAE, FACHE, FAHIMA. “AHIMA’s Health Information Professionals Week spotlights the important role HIM professionals play in our healthcare system.”
HIP Week 2014 will coincide with AHIMA’s Hill Day, an event where AHIMA members visit Capitol Hill and share the importance of advancing HIM. Information governance, privacy and security, and fraud and abuse concerns continue to be key issues for HIM professionals, and AHIMA is ready to provide guidance to the healthcare industry and government leaders seeking counsel.
Precyse is proud to continue its support in this effort and in the progression of healthcare information services and technology as a Diamond Corporate Partner with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), whose main mission is to advance the HIM profession through educational programs, research, and funding for grants and scholarships for the next generation of Health Information Management (HIM) leaders.
“Our participation in Health Information Professionals Week, underscores our commitment to ensuring a healthy organization to promote a healthy population,” said Pamela Goans, SVP and Chief Client Officer, Precyse. “Today more than ever, the role of technology in healthcare information is vital. By working together, Precyse’s people, processes and technology create solutions that drive healthcare actions that help providers capture, organize and better utilize their structured and unstructured data, improve financial performance, maintain regulatory compliance and ultimately deliver better patient care.”
“AHIMA’s vision is a world in which healthcare decisions are informed by instant access to intelligence,” said Thomas Gordon. “In this vision, data is a critical asset. This year’s theme, ‘Transforming Healthcare with Information,’ describes the future we want to see and reminds us that HIM professionals’ work is supporting quality of care and population health today.”
As the focus in healthcare shifts from the ability to collect data to using information effectively, healthcare organizations will continue to depend on HIM professionals as leaders in this area. With their expertise in management of information, as well as data integrity and analytics, health information professionals are well positioned to move the healthcare industry into a transformed future.
Classic Industries Establishes Third-Party Logistics Center in Juarez, Mexico
Latrobe, PA Mar 19, 2014 — Classic Industries, a full-service contract manufacturer of injection-molded components used in medical devices and regulated healthcare products, has opened a third-party logistics facility in Ciudad Juarez, MX, across the Rio Grande from its El Paso, TX plant. The company constructed the 125,000 square-foot facility to meet a Fortune 100 customer’s requirements for assembly, inventory management, kitting and packaging services.
“As customers have asked us increasingly to manage the components we manufacture for them, third-party logistics has become a growing segment of our business,” says Robert P. Subasic, Jr., Classic Industries’ CEO. “By complementing our superior design and manufacturing capabilities with efficient systems for organizing components and moving them to their destinations, we are adding value to customers’ businesses while creating new revenue streams for our company.”
To maximize the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of its operations, Classic Industries employs state-of-the-art equipment to assemble and package medical components. Its packaging services include sterile packaging (form, fill and seal), sterile pouching, bar code labeling and bulk packaging. In addition to inventory management, kitting, packaging and transportation, the company’s logistics capabilities include crossdocking, and customs management and compliance services.
ZirMed Partners with Precyse for Physician Office ICD-10 Education
Premier health information connectivity and management solutions company offers providers comprehensive ICD-10 training
Wayne, PA and Alpharetta, GA Mar 13, 2014 — Zirmed®, a leading health information connectivity and management solutions company, has partnered with Precyse/HealthStream to offer its clients a powerful and unique ICD-10 education program for the physician office/ambulatory market. Precyse and HealthStream have teamed together to offer a unique and comprehensive ICD-10 education solution that is delivered exclusively through HealthStream’s workforce development platform. ZirMed’s more than 195,000 providers at over 25,000 locations will be offered access to the following revolutionary benefits and features of the Precyse University Physician Office ICD-10 Education Solution:
• A single solution for all ICD-10 education needs within a practice or clinic;
• Diversified education providing each impacted population with the specific tools and training needed to be successful in ICD-10;
• Myriad of advanced courseware, applications and tools to make education more practical, accessible and relevant to physicians’ concerns, needs and time constraints; and
• Exclusive access to Precyse University’s expansive, one-of-a-kind ICD-10 education program.
“With the ICD-10 transition just months away, we’ve heard that many providers are still concerned about being prepared to make the switch,” said Betty Gomez, director of regulatory strategy, ZirMed. “Through our partnership with Precyse/HealthStream, our clients will receive a comprehensive solution for successful migration to ICD-10 in their coding and clinical care workflows while realizing the benefits of sustained reimbursement levels, improved outcome indicators and fewer claims denials.”
Precyse and HealthStream have partnered to offer a one-stop solution for all of the ICD-10 education needs within physician practices, clinics, and other ambulatory settings. With Precyse’s innovative ICD-10 education programs and HealthStream’s market leading platform for workforce development, healthcare providers have made the ICD-10 solution from Precyse and HealthStream the healthcare industry’s top choice.
“The Precyse University ICD-10 Physician Office Solution is built to fully prepare physicians and all members of their offices and/or clinics for the new world of ICD-10,” explains Thomas Ormondroyd, vice president and general manager of Precyse Learning Solutions. “Although ICD-10 seems daunting and burdensome, it actually offers tremendous opportunity to optimize reimbursement, minimize denials and appeals and improve clinical care through more valuable and detailed data. Our solution is designed to ease the change to ICD-10 and have physicians and their staffs ready for its arrival.”
Unlike its competitors, the Precyse University solution is fully built and tested with more than 200 courses, applications and tools specifically for physicians’ needs. In addition, most courses are mobile-ready for use on a computer, iPad® or mobile device to make education available anywhere and at any time. Innovative tools and resources such as video games, labs, simulators and animations are available as well.
Intralign, HSS Partner for Training
This article appears in the online journal Orthopedics This Week.
Mar 7, 2014
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed.
Intralign, a specialty healthcare services provider, has announced it will partner with one of the world’s most respected orthopedic care providers, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), to develop a first-of-its-kind training curriculum for surgical first assistants (SFAs)—a clinical specialty comprised of surgeons, medical doctors, physician’s assistants and registered nurse first assists, that is in high demand to help provide better patient care. The educational program, operating as Intralign Academy, will teach the latest technologies and methodologies in orthopedic care, as well as best practices for increasing operational efficiency in the surgical suite.
“Surgical first assistants help surgeons focus on the highest-value care activities, which can ultimately increase surgical throughput. Despite their pivotal role in the OR, there are few continuing education opportunities for SFAs today in which the curriculum goes beyond clinical techniques to also train on best operational practices to address the changing realities of healthcare,” said Rick Ferreira, president and CEO of Intralign. “By leveraging real-world insights from the most sought-after experts in orthopedic care, we can enrich Intralign’s educational offering and provide the strongest possible competencies for SFAs in orthopedic and total joint replacement training. These skills will further enhance Intralign SFAs’ ability to deliver high-quality, consistent and professional assistance that allows a surgeon to do more with fewer resources.”
Intralign’s Intra-Operative Support service makes highly trained SFAs available to the hospital to function as a “surgeon extender,” a specially trained healthcare worker who performs tasks that might otherwise be performed by a surgeon. The advanced support SFAs provide help optimize the surgeon’s efficiency throughout the case, which reduces procedure time and enhances patient throughput.
As part of the current program, Intralign Academy offers clinical training in a variety of surgical specialties in addition to orthopedics, including surgical robotics. Professionals enrolled in Intralign Academy are educated on OR behavior, communication and optimal methods for creating OR efficiencies, in addition to clinical best practices, which equip them with the broadest perspectives to assist any surgeon in any environment.
Rick Ferreira told OTW, “Our curriculum development team will work with Hospital for Special Surgery leadership to identify new and evolving orthopedic surgery best practices to enhance the training that is already available for surgical first assistants through Intralign Academy,” said Ferreira. “This intelligence sharing will be an ongoing process to keep the training program grounded on the latest orthopedic care methodologies and surgical efficiency standards.”
Asked about how quality/success will be measured, Ferreira commented, “Success of our training program will ultimately be measured by increasing the number of healthcare facilities and providers that embrace the valuable role highly skilled surgeon extenders play in increasing surgical efficiency and bridging the pending surgeon shortage gap.”
Louis Shapiro, president and CEO of Hospital for Special Surgery, told OTW, “From a provider’s perspective, we believe the Intralign Academy will help elevate the level of clinical and operational support delivered to surgical teams to set new standards for surgical efficiency.”
Intralign, Hospital for Special Surgery Partner to Develop Training Program for Surgical First Assistants
This article appears in the online review Beckersspine.com.
Feb 28, 2014
by Anuja Vaidya
Intralign, a specialty healthcare services provider, announced it will partner with the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York to develop a training curriculum for Surgical First Assistants — a clinical specialty comprised of surgeons, medical doctors, physician assistants and registered nurse first assists.
The first-of-its kind educational program, known as Intralign Academy, will provide information regarding the latest technologies and methodologies in orthopedic care as well as best practices for increasing operational efficiency in the surgical suite.
“Surgical first assistants help surgeons focus on the highest value care activities, which can ultimately increase surgical throughput. Despite their pivotal role in the OP, there are few continuing education opportunities for SFAs today in which the curriculum goes beyond clinical techniques to also train on best operational practices to address the changing realities of healthcare,” said Rick Ferreira, president and CEO of Intralign.
Precyse / HealthStream’s ICD-10 Education Solution Reaches Approximately 1.2 Million Learners
Wayne, PA and Alpharetta, GA Feb 26, 2014 — Precyse University, the most innovative and complete on-site, online and mobile healthcare education solution that is designed to prepare coders, physicians, nurses, case managers, administrative staff and all others impacted by the transition to ICD-10, is gaining increasing dominance in healthcare organizations nationwide. Precyse and HealthStream have teamed together to offer a unique and comprehensive ICD-10 Education Solution that is delivered exclusively through HealthStream’s workforce development platform. The Precyse/HealthStream solution for ICD-10 education is now used by approximately 1.2 million learners in healthcare organizations. Precyse was recognized in the recent KLAS report, “ICD-10 Consulting: Roadmap to a Successful Transition,” as the only firm in this report to receive 100% positive comments from their clients about their ICD-10 services. Precyse clients praise the Precyse University training program as ‘mature, comprehensive, and flexible.’ ”
“Precyse has helped us identify the different levels and types of education needed for our entire staff including our clinicians and doctors, helping us to understand the full breath of impact and to plan accordingly,” said Marie Thomas, RHIT, CCS, CPC-H, CCDS, Revenue and Documentation Integrity, I-10 Lead Trainer Duke University Health System. “Our staff needed ICD-10 education that was easily accessible.”
Precyse and HealthStream also offer a powerful and unique ICD-10 education program for the physician office/ambulatory market, the Precyse University Physician Office ICD-10 Education Solution. This program is specifically designed with the needs of physicians in mind and provides a one-stop solution for all the ICD-10 education needs of physician practices, clinics and other ambulatory settings.
“Although ICD-10 seems daunting and burdensome, it actually offers tremendous opportunity to optimize reimbursement, minimize denials and appeals and improve clinical care through more valuable and detailed data,” explained Thomas Ormondroyd, Vice President and General Manager of Precyse Learning Solutions. “Our solution is designed to ease the change to ICD-10 and have healthcare organizations ready for its arrival.”
Precyse/Jvion ICD-10 Assured Program Puts Healthcare Organizations on Path to Success Beyond ICD-10 Transition
Companies to jointly host ICD-10 Pre-Conference Symposium at HIMSS 2014
Wayne, PA and Alpharetta, GA Feb 25, 2014 — Precysee, a leader in Health Information Management (HIM) Performance Management and Technology, and Jvion, a healthcare technology company that delivers software solutions designed to protect provider revenues from mandated reforms and compliance activities, have partnered together to offer the Precyse/Jvion ICD-10 Assured solution. This program brings together the best in data analytics, services and workflow technology to help healthcare organizations proactively diagnose risk areas, mitigate pitfalls, and capitalize on improvement opportunities on their path to ICD-10 and beyond.
Jvion, with its proven big-data analytic technology, pinpoints areas of vulnerability, and Precyse, with 14 years of experience in helping organizations of all sizes improve performance and reduce risk, will aid clients in resolving those vulnerabilities. After delivering actionable data that pinpoints risk, Precyse then builds a tailored HIM Performance Management solution that applies the right combination of people, process and technology to address these problem areas head on and ensure success and sustainability in ICD-10 and beyond.
“The intelligence provided by Jvion will be an essential element in meeting the needs of Precyse clients seeking data to efficiently focus resources in areas presenting the greatest financial and clinical risk,” said Denise Johnson, vice president, Integrated Services for Precyse. “It is only through the combination of superior analytics and comprehensive services that results can be ICD-10 Assured.”
A Pre-Conference Symposium, led by Jvion and sponsored by Precyse will be held at the HIMSS 2014 Annual Conference & Exhibition February 23-27, 2014, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. (Precyse will be at Booth #3613, and Jvion will be at Booth #4193). The symposium, titled “ICD-10: Stop Being Polite and Start Getting Real About ICD-10,” will be held on Sunday, February 23, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. During this daylong program, attendees will learn how to address some of the biggest ICD-10 challenges including: implementing a successful ICD-10 program in an outpatient/ambulatory setting; how to increase retention and the effectiveness of documentation and training; how to support organizations that are behind in their ICD-10 conversion; how to optimize remaining ICD-10 budgets; what to do about post 10/14 reimbursement monitoring; and how providers can avoid ICD-10’s long-term impacts to fraud, waste, and abuse.
Intralign and Hospital for Special Surgery Collaborate on Advanced Training Program for Surgical First Assistants
Coursework is the first-of-its-kind to focus on both clinical and operational efficiency in orthopedic surgery
Phoenix, AZ Feb 24, 2014 – Intralign, a specialty healthcare services provider, today announced it will partner with one of the world’s most respected orthopedic care providers, Hospital for Special Surgery, to develop a first-of-its-kind training curriculum for Surgical First Assistants (SFAs) – a clinical specialty comprised of surgeons, medical doctors, physician’s assistants and registered nurse first assists, that is in high demand to help provide better patient care. The educational program, operating as Intralign Academy, will teach the latest technologies and methodologies in orthopedic care, as well as best practices for increasing operational efficiency in the surgical suite.
Leaders from Hospital for Special Surgery will provide insight and support to enhance Intralign’s existing Academy programs. Intralign Academy is the nation’s first professional academy to train SFAs in both operational and clinical excellence with an emphasis on credentialing, clinical training, operating room management and continuing education.
“Surgical first assistants help surgeons focus on the highest-value care activities, which can ultimately increase surgical throughput. Despite their pivotal role in the OR, there are few continuing education opportunities for SFAs today in which the curriculum goes beyond clinical techniques to also train on best operational practices to address the changing realities of healthcare,” said Rick Ferreira, president and CEO of Intralign. “By leveraging real-world insights from the most sought-after experts in orthopedic care, we can enrich Intralign’s educational offering and provide the strongest possible competencies for SFAs in orthopedic and total joint replacement training. These skills will further enhance Intralign SFAs’ ability to deliver high-quality, consistent and professional assistance that allows a surgeon to do more with fewer resources.”
Intralign’s Intra-Operative Support service makes highly trained SFAs available to the hospital to function as a “surgeon extender,” a specially trained healthcare worker who performs tasks that might otherwise be performed by a surgeon. The advanced support SFAs provide help optimize the surgeon’s efficiency throughout the case, which reduces procedure time and enhances patient throughput.
“We believe that in order to provide the best possible orthopedic care for every patient, knowledge of evolving techniques and methodologies should be shared,” said Louis Shapiro, president and CEO, Hospital for Special Surgery. “Through our partnership with Intralign, we can help develop a training program that will be the gold standard for surgical first assistant education for years to come.”
As part of the current program, Intralign Academy offers clinical training in a variety of surgical specialties in addition to orthopedics, including surgical robotics. Professionals enrolled in Intralign Academy are educated on OR behavior, communication and optimal methods for creating OR efficiencies, in addition to clinical best practices, which equip them with the broadest perspectives to assist any surgeon in any environment.
OsoBio appoints Dr. Paul Stoker Director of Laboratories
Dr. Stoker brings to new role nearly 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical quality control
Albuquerque, NM Feb 21, 2014 – OsoBio has appointed Paul W. Stoker, Ph.D., director of its chemistry and microbiology laboratories.
As part of the company’s quality control department, the laboratories are responsible for testing the in-process and finished products – as well as raw materials and components – involved in OsoBio’s cGMP sterile manufacturing operations. The labs also are charged with environmental monitoring and analytical method development.
“While continuous quality compliance is key to OsoBio’s business success, it’s even more important to the patients who rely upon the medications we manufacture – and we try to never lose sight of that fact,” said Milton Boyer, president of OsoBio. “Paul will lead a team of scientists who are knowledgeable, capable and highly committed to integrity – delivering excellence to both our clients and the patients we collectively serve.”
Stoker fills a position vacated when Kathleen Larese, OsoBio’s previous director of laboratories, became the company’s director of technical operations.
Stoker brings to OsoBio nearly 20 years of professional experience managing pharmaceutical laboratories responsible for quality control. Most recently, he served as director of the quality control laboratory at Dendreon, a company that researches, develops, commercializes and manufactures cancer therapeutics. Prior to that, he directed quality control and analytical laboratories for Nektar Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
Stoker earned his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Nebraska. He also holds from Brigham Young University a master’s degree in zoology with an emphasis in toxicology and statistics, as well as a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.
OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing, LLC, is a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) that specializes in delivering injectable sterile liquid, suspension and lyophilized biologic and pharmaceutical products to the pharmaceutical industry. The company offers significant knowledge and experience in late-phase clinical products and successfully taking them to commercialization.
In the history of our Albuquerque, N.M., facility, OsoBio has manufactured more than 250 distinct commercial presentations in every major therapeutic category. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has granted OsoBio registrations for Schedule II-V controlled substances.