With Half of Its Workforce Operating Exclusively on Mobile Devices, HealthTronics Unifies Endpoint Management With AirWatch EMM and AirWatch Secure Content Locker
Austin, TX Jan 15, 2015 — HealthTronics, Inc., an Austin-based medical device and services company, is teaming up with the Texas Stars, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Dallas Stars, to help raise funds and awareness for prostate cancer.
As the ‘Pucks for Prostates’ sponsor, HealthTronics will make a contribution to prostate cancer research through the Texas Stars Foundation for every goal the Texas Stars score at home this hockey season.
“Creating conversations about prostate cancer is key to raising awareness among men and the women who care about them,” explained HealthTronics’ President Russell Newman. “We’re excited to team up with the Texas Stars in an effort to ensure that the disease is diagnosed in its earliest stages. Doing so gives patients the best chance of having it successfully treated.”
Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men, according to the American Cancer Society.
“This should be one of hockey’s most important fights because all of us know someone touched by this potentially deadly condition,” said Michael Delay, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the Texas Stars. “We’re proud to partner with HealthTronics to promote awareness to the large community of Texas Stars hockey fans.”
While the ‘Pucks for Prostates’ initiative has been ongoing all season, HealthTronics will partner with the Stars as the presenting sponsor of the team’s game on March 14 to bring further awareness to the cause. Fans attending the game will receive a free hockey puck courtesy of HealthTronics.
So far, the Texas Stars have scored 81 goals at home this season.
In November 2014, HealthTronics partnered with the Texas Stars for Movember, a campaign that encourages men to grow mustaches and beards to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, including prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health.
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Precyse Awarded Best in KLAS for Transcription Services for Third Consecutive Year
Company continues to achieve scores well above industry average
Wayne, PA Feb 19, 2015 — Precyse, the industry leader in Health Information Management (HIM) performance solutions, has been named Best in KLAS for Transcription Services in the recent report titled “2014 Best in KLAS: Software & Services.” Precyse achieved top rankings, receiving very high marks in all three categories; Sales and Contracting, Implementation and Training, Service and Support, and General, all with scores over 90.
“During this past year, the entire KLAS team worked diligently to gather insights regarding vendor performance and the advancement of healthcare, which ultimately make a difference in the lives of the patients.” said Adam Gale, president of KLAS Research.
Accurate clinical documentation is critical to the success of a healthcare facility. Without accurate clinical documentation it is impossible to achieve Core Measures, transition to ICD-10 or mine clinical data for actionable information. Precyse’s combination of technology, processes and services accelerates turnaround time, reduces costs, minimizes capital outlay and transforms dictation into meaningful clinical information for ultimate patient care while achieving financial goals.
“I am so proud of our Precyse colleagues who believe in our mission and work every day to make this Best in KLAS recognition possible,” said Chris Powell, CEO of Precyse. “This award is made even more special because it is based solely on our clients’ feedback. This award designation does not just happen. It takes commitment, hard work and a relentless focus on continuously improving. I am thrilled to see Precyse honored as Best in KLAS for Transcription Services this year, not to mention the year-over-year consistency of our ranking.”
In the Services Comparison Report, Precyse Transcription Services available on the KLAS website, the Chief Financial Officer of one Precyse customer stated, “Precyse has always managed to meet my personal expectations. That means they are exceeding the expectations that our HIM Director and department have for them. I like to think of myself as a more demanding person, but Precyse has been able to keep me happy.”
In the same report another Precyse customer stated, “We are very pleased with Precyse’s responsiveness. I have liked working with them, despite the fact that they have grown quite a bit since we first started with them. They don’t act as though they are too big for me to pick up the phone and very quickly get somebody from the top to talk to me and help me out. I have never had to escalate any questions thus far, but it is good to know that Precyse still has that support and service we would expect from a smaller, more down-to-earth company.”
Arab Health 2015, a great success for Penlon
Abingdon, UK Feb 18, 2015 — Arab Health is an important annual event for Penlon, as we welcome existing distributors and new customers from across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. We were in a prime location in the main exhibition hall, with an exciting new stand design that looked great and worked well. We had a continuous flow of passing traffic and visitors to the stand, generating a record number of leads for new business and potential commercial partnerships.
Customers on the Penlon standCustomers on the Penlon standProducts on display included our new range of anaesthesia and intubation equipment for MRI applications. Penlon continues to innovate in the field of medical devices for anaesthesia and our stand featured new solutions for anaesthetic agent delivery—in vaporizer design and workstation systems such as the Dual CGO option for the Prima 400 Series.
For the third consecutive year the Prima 460 Anaesthesia System was used in the Surgical Simulation Area of the ABHI’s (Association of British Healthcare Industries) stand.
This year’s show attracted 87,450 visitors from over 150 countries. Nearly 3750 companies exhibited so we were pleased to be included in the official day-one highlights video posted by the Arab Health team on YouTube (click here to see the clip, look for Penlon around 30 seconds into the video).
“Arab Health 2015 looks to be our most successful show in recent years. The number of enquiries taken this year exceeded the previous years’ totals after only three days. Thank you to everybody involved for their hard work, without whom the show would not have been as successful.”
Peter Worrallo (Sales and Marketing Director)
Arab Health took place January 26th – 29th, 2015 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Arab Health 2015
Arab Health 2015, a great success for Penlon
Abingdon, UK Feb 18, 2015 — Arab Health is an important annual event for Penlon, as we welcome existing distributors and new customers from across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. We were in a prime location in the main exhibition hall, with an exciting new stand design that looked great and worked well. We had a continuous flow of passing traffic and visitors to the stand, generating a record number of leads for new business and potential commercial partnerships.
Customers on the Penlon standCustomers on the Penlon standProducts on display included our new range of anaesthesia and intubation equipment for MRI applications. Penlon continues to innovate in the field of medical devices for anaesthesia and our stand featured new solutions for anaesthetic agent delivery—in vaporizer design and workstation systems such as the Dual CGO option for the Prima 400 Series.
For the third consecutive year the Prima 460 Anaesthesia System was used in the Surgical Simulation Area of the ABHI’s (Association of British Healthcare Industries) stand.
This year’s show attracted 87,450 visitors from over 150 countries. Nearly 3750 companies exhibited so we were pleased to be included in the official day-one highlights video posted by the Arab Health team on YouTube (click here to see the clip, look for Penlon around 30 seconds into the video).
“Arab Health 2015 looks to be our most successful show in recent years. The number of enquiries taken this year exceeded the previous years’ totals after only three days. Thank you to everybody involved for their hard work, without whom the show would not have been as successful.”
– Peter Worrallo (Sales and Marketing Director)
Arab Health took place January 26th – 29th, 2015 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Announcing the Next Generation of Healthcare Education: Precyse University DNA
Solution enables healthcare organizations to pinpoint performance gaps for coding, documentation and other revenue cycle functions
WAYNE, PAL Feb 16, 2015 — Precyse Learning Solutions, creator of Precyse University, the most innovative, widely adopted on-site, online and mobile ICD-10 education solution with more than 1.6 million learners and HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading workforce development company for healthcare organizations, announced today the launch of Precyse University DNA,™ the next generation of healthcare performance optimization and education. Revenue-cycle leaders in healthcare organizations who are charged with ensuring proficiency in their coding and clinical documentation workforce, including transition to ICD 10 coding system, can now achieve their goals more effectively and cost-efficiently with this innovative, new approach.
Optimized reimbursement through improved coding accuracy, clinical documentation and other revenue cycle functions is an important goal for healthcare organizations—and Precyse University DNA can make a significant difference. Precyse University DNA offers hundreds of targeted mobile-ready courses, webinars, simulation labs, assessments, preemployment tests, and an online community for Precyse University DNA learners to communicate with peers.
Precyse University DNA customer, Thea Campbell, MBA, RHIA, Director of Health Information at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center commented, “Our industry can no longer rely on audits and performance analysis from months before; we must start analyzing our teams and capabilities on an ongoing basis, and proactively mitigate any deficiencies and risks before they become larger problems.”
Precyse University DNA is the first product that includes a Control Center™ application from HealthStream. The Control Center provides revenue-cycle management the ability to analyze a detailed profile of workforce coding and documentation knowledge and skills, and compare them to national benchmarks. The Control Center gives management the tools to better identify risks, target areas for improvement, and to execute a more effective, data-driven initiative.
“We are excited to bring cutting edge coding education to the healthcare industry,” said Tom Ormondroyd, Vice President and General Manager, Precyse Learning Solutions.
“Precyse University DNA is a comprehensive, all-in-one revenue cycle performance optimization and education solution. Using a revolutionary approach, it provides revenue cycle leaders with powerful capabilities to identify weaknesses and opportunities to optimize documentation, coding, and processes to allow organizations to proactively resolve them before they hit the bottom line.”
Quantum Health CEO Kara Trott Named Healthcare Executive of the Year by Columbus CEO
Quantum Health honored with ‘Trailblazer’ Award
Columbus, OH Feb 6, 2015 – Quantum Health Chief Executive Officer Kara Trott was named today as the 2015 Healthcare Executive of the Year by Columbus CEO, an award that recognizes one individual within the community for their positive impact on a healthcare organization and those it serves through sustained, outstanding leadership efforts.
Quantum Health as an organization was also awarded the Healthcare Trailblazer award, an award recognizing an organization, company or individual for innovative or entrepreneurial healthcare initiatives that improve the practice of medicine or delivery of care to patients.
“These awards truly belong to the entire Quantum Health team—a group of people who make a daily difference in our members’ lives and have been transforming the healthcare journey for over fifteen years,” said Trott. “It’s great to see Quantum Health in the company of so many other accomplished honorees who are making a true impact in the healthcare community regionally and nationally.”
Founded by Trott after two years of intensive consumer research, Quantum Health was the first to define and use consumer behavior process mapping in healthcare. The company built a best-in-class model for care coordination and navigation based on how people experience their healthcare journey, what they need and how best to connect with them. As part of a company’s healthcare benefits plan, Quantum Health offers a single point-of- contact connecting employees to a multidisciplinary team that uses Real-Time InterceptTM to proactively address their needs and concerns throughout their healthcare journey.
GAFFEY Healthcare Webinar – Does Your Business Office Run with the Efficiency of a Swiss Watch?
Plano, TX and Pleasanton, CA Feb 5, 2015– When it comes to improving your facility’s cash flow, having the right tools and processes in place is paramount. Many healthcare organizations, both large and small, suffer from having inefficient billing and collections systems as a part of their revenue cycle infrastructure, and as a result, leave millions of dollars in patient revenue on the table.
To help resolve this issue, we developed two leading web-based collections management and claim statusing applications – AlphaCollector & AutoStatus.
AlphaCollector’s cloud-based virtual business office platform simplifies collections workflow and provides unprecedented reporting capabilities while AutoStatus interfaces with payers & Medicare to status electronic claims automatically, eliminating the process of retrieving and updating claims manually. When combined, business offices can eliminate non-value added touches by automatically statusing claims and putting them into a workflow for collections.
Features and benefits of AlphaCollector & AutoStatus:
• Maintain a single point of control over all your AR streams from one system
• Integrate with any patient accounting practice management system
• Increase collector productivity up to 75% and save an average of 15% on the cost per collector
• Reduce management oversight time by up to 80%
• Cloud-based architecture requires no hardware or licensing fees
• Analyze AR on any data points and for multiple facilities
• Assign accounts by collector(s) to create work groups
• Review hundreds of account notes in one snapshot
• Leverage aggregated data for vastly improved oversight and decision making
• Integration of AutoStatus with AlphaCollector improves collections by automating tasks and queuing claims into workflow technology
Quantum Health names Clanton Lynch Vice President of Sales, Southwest Region
Columbus, OH Jan 21, 2015 – Quantum Health, Inc. today announced that it appointed Clanton Lynch to the role of vice president of sales for the southwest region. Lynch, who brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and health tech sales to Quantum Health, will lead all sales efforts and new revenue pursuits in the southwestern United States.
“Clanton’s experience in healthcare and health tech sales is a great win for Quantum Health,” said James Stark, executive vice president of sales, Quantum Health. “He has a deep knowledge of the region and is well-positioned to introduce our solutions to a broader audience in the southwest. Clanton’s focus will be new revenue growth, consultative selling and interfacing with employee benefit consultants and employers’ health benefit decision-makers.”
“Over 20 years ago, when we were developing Disease and Total Population Management solutions, we thought we had solved the confusing and fragmented healthcare journey for the patient. In hindsight, hundreds of new niche healthcare companies were born into the industry forcing increased ‘uncoordinated patient care,’ driving up wasteful spending with additional layers of delivery fragmentation,” said Lynch. “I believe Quantum’s member-centric model will revolutionize patients into healthier, happier consumers of healthcare for self-funded employers in the southwest. All while significantly driving down historical claims cost. I am proud to be a part of this movement and outstanding organization.”
Prior to joining Quantum Health, Lynch served as vice president and general manager of Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc., where he was responsible for the healthcare portfolio, managing P&L, and new business development. Lynch also served in executive vice president roles at both Burgess, LLC., and Cognizant Technology Solutions, managing business development growth. Prior to Cognizant, Lynch was vice president of the payer market for OptumHealth. Lynch also worked for 12 years at Matria Healthcare where he held the role of senior vice president, and was responsible for all national health plan sales.
Lynch earned his B.B.A. in Business Administration and Management Operations from Stephen F. Austin State University, serves as a board member for HTA and resides with his family in Texas.
HealthTronics Deploys AirWatch Platform for Enterprise Mobility and Content Management
With Half of Its Workforce Operating Exclusively on Mobile Devices, HealthTronics Unifies Endpoint Management With AirWatch EMM and AirWatch Secure Content Locker
Austin, TX Jan 15, 2015 — AirWatch® by VMware®, the leading enterprise mobility management (EMM) provider, announced today that HealthTronics, Inc., a top provider of integrated urological and interventional radiology products and services, has selected AirWatch for enterprise mobility and content management. The deployment of industry-leading AirWatch EMM and AirWatch Secure Content Locker® file sync and share enables HealthTronics to manage its mobile workforce from the simple, unified AirWatch platform.
As a newly-independent company following a successful spinoff, HealthTronics chose AirWatch to deliver a single vendor platform solution for more than 650 devices and 500 employees. With about half of its workforce operating exclusively on smartphones and tablets, content collaboration was also a key component in selecting AirWatch. After evaluating multiple providers, HealthTronics chose AirWatch EMM and then implemented AirWatch Secure Content Locker as it met its stringent enablement requirements. The solution from AirWatch provides IT a seamless experience across device types for EMM, content collaboration and file sync and share.
“We selected AirWatch EMM and Secure Content Locker to leverage a unified platform that lowered costs and increased ROI,” said Evan Bowers, CIO, HealthTronics. “The platform provides a deep level of granularity on user security controls and in-depth reporting capabilities. Secure Content Locker delivers true content control and document tracking for IT and mobile user collaboration and annotation tools for our end users. AirWatch gives us the information about implementation and usage detail we need in the regulated healthcare industry.”
AirWatch enables HealthTronics to benefit from sizable economies of scale, including an integrated administration platform, reduced IT overhead, reduced procurement and implementation issues and reduced total cost of ownership. Secure Content Locker helps with the company’s content management needs, including secure content viewing, document management, editing and annotating on mobile, content tracking, analytics and secure sandbox email attachments.
“Operating within a heavily regulated vertical, HealthTronics found itself in need of quickly standing up both EMM and MCM platforms,” said Tony Rizzo, entrepreneur in residence, Blue Hill Research. “Having already selected AirWatch by VMware for EMM, we were impressed with HealthTronics ability to quickly deploy AirWatch Secure Content Locker – solving two problems with one well-integrated ecosystem.”
“AirWatch by VMware enables healthcare organizations like HealthTronics to drive mobile innovation and revolutionize the industry with access to real-time medical information, customize consultations and maintain patient-clinician communication while adhering to HIPAA regulations,” said John Marshall, senior vice president and general manager, AirWatch by VMware. “We’ve dedicated significant resources to create the broadest platform and depth of expertise that empowers healthcare organizations to address challenges in the industry, from remote home health organizations to the largest healthcare systems in the world.”
To learn more about AirWatch in healthcare visit http://www.air-watch.com/industries/healthcare. For more information on AirWatch Secure Content Locker, visit http://www.air-watch.com/solutions/mobile-content-management.
Vascular Quality Initiative® now includes 300 Centers on M2S PATHWAYS platform
SVS PSO’s Vascular Quality Initiative® now includes 300 Centers on M2S PATHWAYS platform
Chicago, IL and West Lebanon, NH Oct 27, 2014 – The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI®), governed by the Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization (SVS PSO), and designed to improve the quality of vascular healthcare, has reached a milestone with 300 participating centers. The VQI is a collaborative between the Society for Vascular Surgery® Patient Safety Organization (SVS PSO), the American Venous Forum (AVF), and the Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM) and M2S, Inc.
Through regional and national benchmarking, the SVS PSO uses data for quality improvement, collected through the M2S PATHWAYS platform, to assist physicians and data managers to better understand clinical outcomes and follow up at a unique level of detail. Participating physicians have captured over 175,000 cases across 11 different vascular procedures. The VQI is now in 45 states, includes over 2300 physicians and represents almost 21% of all centers that provide vascular interventions in the United States.
Dr. Larry Kraiss, Chair of SVS PSO Governing Council for VQI, comments, “This is a remarkable milestone for the VQI which started in 2011. The rapid enrollment in VQI by the vascular community is gratifying because it confirms an existing broad and deep commitment to quality outcomes that we always knew to be present among our colleagues. Even more exciting are the prospects for quality initiatives that are only possible because we are organized around a common data platform that allows us to develop and monitor very concrete action plans that will provide useful information for evidence-based patient management on a daily basis. “
The regional quality groups of the VQI are fundamental for driving quality initiatives at the local level that reduce length of stay, readmissions, and complications. In addition to improving quality within hospitals, the VQI supports vascular research and works with device companies to support post-market device surveillance projects.
Greg Lange, President and CEO of M2S, adds “The VQI continues to increase its value to providers, hospitals and industry through expanded reporting and analytics, improved support for hospital quality improvement initiatives and innovative partnerships with the FDA and
Industry. Surpassing 300 centers is a major milestone which reflects the strong commitment to quality improvement and cost containment within the vascular community.”
In the latest developments, the SVS PSO and M2S are pioneering the use of VQI data for post- approval surveillance in vascular surgery in place of the traditional recruitment of sites by medical device companies. This approach allows for faster and less expensive recruitment of sites, and is strongly encouraged by the FDA.
The newest registry, focusing on the treatment of Varicose Veins, will be released in December 2014. For more information on the Vascular Quality Initiative, please go to www.vascularqualityinitiative.org