GE Healthcare and PatientKeeper Expand Partnership
PatientKeeper Becomes Preferred Electronic Charge Capture Vendor for Centricity Business Customers
Boston, Mass., – August 14, 2007 – PatientKeeper®, Inc., the industry’s leading physician information system provider, and GE Healthcare announced today that the companies are expanding their partnership. The two companies first announced a partnership in February of 2005 to offer electronic charge capture to Centricity® Physician Office customers, representing thousands of physician offices. Under the terms of the expansion, PatientKeeper Charge Capture™ will now be the preferred third party electronic charge capture solution for GE Healthcare’s Centricity Business product. Centricity Business is a comprehensive information technology solution for large physician organizations, hospitals and integrated delivery networks. “GE Healthcare and PatientKeeper have demonstrated a tremendously productive partnership over the last two years, and we are excited to build on that success,” said Jim Corrigan, general manager, GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions. “Standardizing on PatientKeeper helps ensure a common technology platform and user experience across our product lines.” “Our patented and award-winning electronic charge capture software has created financial advantage for many customers by automating the billing process,” said Paul W. Brient, president and chief executive officer of PatientKeeper. “We already have numerous joint customers with GE Healthcare. Today’s partnership expansion further validates the utility of our software and extends PatientKeeper’s market reach.” "GE Healthcare and PatientKeeper are both innovators of healthcare information technology that also understand the business of healthcare," said Corrigan. "This partnership ensures physicians have access to the best IT and healthcare organizations have the tools to manage their financial performance.” PatientKeeper is designed to support a physician throughout the entire day, across all settings of care. PatientKeeper’s applications allow physicians to access their patients’ electronic records, write prescriptions, enter charges for services, document patient encounters, and securely send messages to other caregivers – all in a single, integrated environment. PatientKeeper supports any tablet or PC running a Web browser as well as mobile devices such as Smartphones and PDAs. Centricity Business offers robust financial and administrative capabilities to improve revenue cycle management. System interoperability means clinical and billing information is shared seamlessly across the enterprise. Higher patient satisfaction and improved revenue cycle management result from greater efficiency and data integrity from the back office to the front desk. GE Centricity Business is a healthcare revenue cycle management solution that drives organizational performance by combining proven capabilities with next-generation technology features and best practices to advance business success. To learn more about PatientKeeper and Centricity Business, visit PatientKeeper and GE Healthcare at the GE Healthcare User Summit in Boston on August 27-30.About PatientKeeper
PatientKeeper®, Inc. is the leading supplier of physician information systems that bring clinical and financial data from multiple, disparate systems together to support the way physicians really work through their entire day. At any time, anywhere, physicians can access their patients' electronic records, write prescriptions, enter charges, dictate notes, document encounters, place orders, or send secure messages to other caregivers – all in a single integrated environment. For more information, visit www.patientkeeper.com.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at: www.gehealthcare.com.
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