SLAICO Takes the Medicare Supplement Application Online - Eliminating All Paperwork Offline.

LEAGUE CITY, Texas, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 1948, Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company has been dedicated to the insurance needs of seniors, with an unyielding commitment to quality service, both for the client and the insurance Agent. This has never been more evident t...

ASP Launches STERRAD(R) Sterility Guide - Eliminating Paperwork and Ensuring Compliance

New Online Tool Informs Customers Which Instruments Can be Sterilized in STERRAD(R) Systems with a Few Clicks of a Mouse IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), division of Ethicon Inc., is pleased to unveil a new global initiative that will sup...

Pennsylvania Department of Aging Seeks Consumer Input on New Health Care Option

...are option would combine Medicare and Medicaid services in order to create a single source for consumers to work with both agencies, helping to reduce paperwork and minimize delays. "The Integrated Care Initiative is designed to make it easier for older adults to get medical and long-term living service...

Compirion and Anderson Surgery Center Reduce OR Inefficiencies and Improve Finances

... some things Compirion did that were minute but very significant. They added shelves to a cabinet that helped get calls organized. They helped get all paperwork organized ahead of time, which improved workflow. A simple solution of placing a sticker with a patient's name on it had the effect of increasing staf...

Independence Blue Cross Harnesses Technology to Connect the Dots on Patient Care

...mation about its members for physicians' use. The service also extends IBC's existing online services for physicians, such as tools to automate office paperwork and twice-yearly SMART((R) )Registry reports. Like a sports team, physician practices like to see how they measure up against their peers, or competit...

Fastrack Automates Workflow For Homecare Providers

...are Systems, "A provider should never allow another order to fall through the cracks. What could be worse than losing a client simply because the paperwork was misplaced and the order never shipped? One time too many and now maybe you have lost a valuable referral source. The Fastrack Automated Workflow...

Medfusion Acquires Medem's iHealth Services

...portant tasks like appointment requests, prescription renewals, filling out paperwork … even conducting "e-visits." The days of being handed a clipboard with paperwork to fill out in the doctor's office - 30 minutes before a patient visit - ar...

LWP Claims Solutions Announces Partnership With DataCare Corporation

...oped Ahshay to provide workers' compensation workflow and document processing. The DataCare solution streamlines costly, repetitive and time-consuming paperwork and manual processes, and enables authorized users to create, file, access, store and update records from any Internet-connected computer with a broad...

meridianEMR Completes Surescripts(R) Certification

...d electronically by the year 2010. "Electronic prescribing makes everyone's lives a lot easier and significantly reduces all the unnecessary paperwork and back-and-forth that typically goes on between doctors and patients when it comes to the prescription and renewal process," said H. S. Jackson, M.D...

TeamPraxis Finishes Strong First Year of National Sales

...ionally been outweighed by the burden of manual participation, which imposes extra demands on a physician's and staff's scarce time through additional paperwork and numerous government forms. The solution is CQS, which facilitates participation by drawing upon data that a physician documents in her EHR, servi...

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Pressure BioSciences, Inc. Announces $850,000 NIH SBIR Phase II Award for the Development of a New PCT-dependent System for Improved Biomarker Discovery, Diagnostics, and Drug Discovery

...and tissues using the Company's patented pressure cycling technology ("PCT"). The Grant is for a total of $850,000, to be billed over two years. Final paperwork is expected to be completed within the next several weeks; work on the project is expected to begin shortly thereafter. Dr. Feng Tao of PBI is the Pri...

Carrington Subsidiary DelSite Initiates Critical Toxicology Studies of Its Nasal Powder Bird Flu Vaccine

...ob under a very tight schedule to produce the test materials and complete all logistic tasks for the study initiation. We anticipate the filing of IND paperwork before the end of 2007." The development of GelVac(TM) nasal powder bird flu vaccine is partially funded by two grants from NIAID (National Institute...

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BloodTrack SafeTx

Description:...tively identify the patient from sample collection to transfusion. SafeTx checks that the correct blood is transfused and reduces the need for bedside paperwork and associated transcription errors. In addition, SafeTx Manager provides you with a printed audit trail....
Company:Olympus America Medical

MediCopia

Description:...andheld technology reduces costs, improves workflow, and eliminates preventable medical errors. By collecting data electronically, you eliminate the paperwork normally involved while increasing the accuracy of the collected information in a more timely manner. Medical records can be updated more efficiently ...
Company:Lattice, Inc.

PCE-210 PC-Based Exercise Stress System

Description:...m. And with its ability to connect with leading EMR systems, the family of Welch Allyn PCE Exercise ECG systems will let you spend less time with your paperwork and more time with your patients....
Company:Welch Allyn Medical Products

PCE-110 PC-Based Exercise Stress System

Description:...m. And with its ability to connect with leading EMR systems, the family of Welch Allyn PCE Exercise ECG systems will let you spend less time with your paperwork and more time with your patients....
Company:Welch Allyn Medical Products

Aegis Checkpoint Temperature Reporting and Alarm System

Features:... a specified number of hours, regardless of start time. Eliminate manual temperature logs, chart recorders and data loggers Automatic reports reduce paperwork Accurate records reduce risk and liability Totally wireless Frequency Hopping 900 MHz technology Absolutely no interference with other wire...
Company:Aegis Scientific, Inc.

Cardiology Software for Practice Management

Features:... Reduces errors, paperwork and overhead costs Improves insurance and patient billing Helps you meet HIPAA requirements Makes appointment scheduling a breeze Enables you to ...
Company:Lytec

Aplio

Features:...user familiarity. All-wheel drive chassis with a central steering and braking system for easy maneuverability. A large storage drawer, paperwork tray and gel holders help keep accessories handy and well organized. ...
Company:Toshiba Medical Systems

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Allscripts Integrates Electronic Health Records with Innovative Patient Kiosk

...ant and it saves our practice time and money." Allscripts Patient Kiosk solves a common patient complaint -- the seemingly endless stream of paperwork they must fill out every time they register for an appointment. Allscripts Patient Kiosk eliminates this frustration while helping physician pract...

Better beer: College team creating anticancer brew

...ideas." Regardless of how the BiOWLogists fare with BioBeer, they are already looking ahead to next year. Team members recently filed the necessary paperwork to create the Rice Synthetic Biology Club. Ouyang said the official recognition will help ensure Rice's annual presence at iGEM, even after the curren...

Why your boss is white, middle-class and a show-off

...s office, who typically dominates proceedings Managers do not spend as much of their time as people think sitting reading quietly, or attending to paperwork in front of a computer. They are out there manoeuvring and positioning at meetings, one-on-one encounters and coffee cliques. Managers rarely tak...

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Governors Growth Council hopes to go light on paperwork and heavy on ideas

MADISON -- Retired health insurance executive Tom Hefty has seen blue-ribbon government panels come and go over the years. In fact, Hefty sometimes displays a thick file of reports spanning 20 years of commissions, councils and advisory boards as a reminder that writing thoughtful research papers i...

Elimination of phone tax tempered by paperwork

Madison, Wis. - It's not often that a tax is eliminated at any level of government, but before businesses and consumers start popping champagne corks over the recent elimination of the federal excise tax on long-distance phone service, they should know that getting some of their money back will r...

Managing Conflict of Interest Disclosures Simplified for Healthcare Organizations

...ns today have a burdensome and risky manual process for tracking COI disclosures," says Ben Diamond, President of HCCS. "This leads to large stacks of paperwork where disclosures can be lost and management review is virtually non-existent. COI-SMART facilitates the review process through automation. The Unive...

New Online Imaging Suite Boosts Healthcare Imaging Efficiency, Productivity, and Revenues

...first product that brings together reference, education, and communication into a user-friendly, online format that will not only reduce the amount of paperwork in a department but also enhance productivity and quality for radiologic technologists, managers and administrators in any imaging environment. ...

Gowlings Adopts RFID and Unifies Practice Management

...onomy. FileTrail is the leader in UHF RFID for records handling and tracking. FileTrail's RFID technology brings additional time-savings to managing paperwork including passive tracking, securing exits, and locating critical files using the FileDetector™. FileTrail's clients span over forty industries...

Risky Business: New Survey Suggests Many Americans Live Dangerously, Even When They Say They Aren't 'Risk Takers'

...rately or highly risky (i.e., having a moderate to high likelihood of a negative consequence) including not wearing a seat belt (85 percent), throwing paperwork with personal information in the trash (85 percent), and talking on a cell phone while driving (84 percent). While the vast majority of respondents ac...

Serving Those Who Serve Our Country: Medical Device Company Answers the Call of a U.S. Combat Hospital in Iraq

...tem with sterile disposable probes, since their depleted supply left them with only non-sterile probes. The amount of time needed for purchase-order paperwork by the hospital would delay the Doppler System's delivery to Iraq -- a scenario VTI did not want to happen. So VTI stepped into action and shipped a n...

Chippewa Valley Draws Defense Dollars

... earliest Oct. 1, when the new federal fiscal year begins, Powell-Bullock said. However, even that timeframe is optimistic, given the amount of agency paperwork involved in disbursing the money. Were as far along as possibly could be, and as far along as we should be, Powell-Bullock said. ------------...

Management Perspectives: Outsource HR

...l and adoption assistance. Whats more, as a small company, Orion carries a growing burden as the amount of federal and state laws and regulations, paperwork and taxpayer compliance issues continues to climb. Since 1980, the number of laws that apply to employers has doubled. The alphabet soup of federal la...

Minority and inner-city entrepreneurs face challenges

...location. In addition, Nettles said there are plans to create a one-stop shopping, centralized certification plan, which would reduce the governmental paperwork required for business ownership. The Initiative for Competitive Milwaukee is also working to support this particular group of businesspeople. Ac...

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Processing

...her, as a manufacturing procedure, such as processing milk into cheese. Processing can also refer to administrative procedure such as processing paperwork to grant a mortgage loan. Processing is an open source project initiated by Casey Reas and Benjamin Fry, both formerly of the Aesthetics and Comp...