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SAN RAMON, Calif. and ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Medsphere Systems Corporation and Keane, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership designed to provide hospitals and other healthcare enterprises with integrated best-of-suite clinical and financial software. The alliance leverages Medsphere's OpenVista(R) electronic health record (EHR) platform, the leading commercial implementation of the VistA EHR developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Keane's EZ-Access Patcom(R), the leading revenue cycle management solution for hospital environments.

The partnership grew out of joint deployment efforts at hospitals operated by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and at Century City Doctor's Hospital (CCDH) in Los Angeles, both of which required integration and concurrent installation of Medsphere and Keane technologies. The integration at West Virginia DHHR was completed successfully and is live at three sites: 150-bed and 90-bed acute care psychiatric facilities, and a 119-bed acute and long term-care facility. The CCDH integration and implementation is in progress with an expected Go-Live in mid-December.

Building on these projects, the companies have now formed a relationship designed to equip care delivery organizations with a combined best-of-suite clinical and financial product offering backed by a unified implementation methodology. This strategy simplifies technology procurements for hospitals and other facilities, helps ensure successful deployments, and provides accountability.

"Hospitals and other healthcare enterprises are frequently unable to reach consensus over new clinical and financial management technologies because they are unable to get a best-in-suite solution in a single product suite and they are reluctant to deal with different vendors to get th
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