MedAptus’ Customer Presence in Massachusetts Continues to Expand Markedly
Boston - January 09, 2007 - MedAptus® today announced that its Physician Workstation solution will be deployed at Hawthorn Medical Associates, based in Dartmouth, Mass. Adopted by leading healthcare organizations and progressive physicians across Massachusetts and nationwide, the MedAptus solution drives accurate and compliant professional charge capture at the point-of-care, driving significant revenue enhancement.
In addition to being the largest multi-specialty group practice in the greater New Bedford area, Hawthorn Medical is also an affiliate of Partners Community Healthcare, Inc. and Partners HealthCare system. As such, Hawthorn is aligned with such widely regarded institutions as Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, also a MedAptus customer.
Hawthorn Medical, which recently broadened its clinical service offerings as well as its office space, sought an Electronic Charge Capture offering in an effort to reduce operational overhead and related administrative inefficiencies.
Also contributing to the practice’s decision to purchase Physician Workstation is the ease in which MedAptus can be seamlessly integrated with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) technologies. Hawthorn Medical will take full advantage of this interoperability by having clinicians enter their charges in MedAptus from the proprietary Partners HealthCare Longitudinal Medical Record (LMR) system. When reviewing and/or updating clinical data via LMR, rapid access to the appropriate patient in MedAptus will occur via the click of a single button, enabling the sharing of patient charge data between the two applications.
“This practice has a 35-year track record of patient care excellence. It has always been our mission to provide a higher level of treatment supported by state-of-the-art technologies, which is why we chose MedAptus,” said Hawthorn Medical Associates President, James Tracey, MD. “It is critical that as a growing medical group, we continuously evaluate our operations to make sure they are maximally efficient. We fully expect that the adoption of MedAptus will yield an improved billing workflow as well as measurable revenue increases.”
With the addition of Hawthorn Medical to the MedAptus customer-base, the number of physician users in Massachusetts alone is over 1,000.
“Hawthorn Medical is a technologically savvy physician practice with a distinguished reputation. We believe that the group will – much like our other multi-specialty customers – enjoy a number of financial, operational and clinical benefits as a result of implementing our Charge Capture and leveraging our unique ability to integrate with electronic records,” said Carlos Escobar, vice president of sales and marketing at MedAptus. “We are quite proud to add another highly respected Partners affiliate to the MedAptus clientele.”
About MedAptus Corporation
MedAptus believes that in order for point-of-care technologies to make sense, they must be easy to use, deliver demonstrable returns and also leverage an organization’s current information technology investments. MedAptus’ Revenue Cycle Management suite of products includes both Professional and Technical Charge Capture; the company also offers complementary clinical applications such as Dictation, Clinical Content, Electronic Prescribing, and Clinical Results. Enterprises that have deployed MedAptus solutions have realized millions of dollars in increased revenue, improved organizational productivity, and enjoyed enthusiastic physician adoption. For more information visit www.MedAptus.com or call 617.523.1221.