eGistics Digital Medical Practice solution for hospitals and healthcare providers

Oct 12 2009

eGistics, Inc. today announced the availability of a hosted solution that helps physician groups, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers to electronically manage administrative documents such as those for patient registration, A/R management (appeal letters, EOP’s (Explanation of Payment)), contracts, human resources, and credentialing.

Built on the eGistics hosted document management platform, the eGistics Digital Medical Practice (DMP) solution enables physician practices to digitize much of their office paperwork, streamline administrative operations, and reduce the costs associated with managing and distributing physical documents. By placing all administrative documents online, practice staff does not waste time trying to locate documents or correspondence, in turn, reducing the time to resolve denied or underpaid claims. In addition, the solution facilitates regulatory compliance by electronically managing credentialing documents. And it ensures disaster recovery and business continuity by storing information online and making it accessible via the Web.

"Physically managing administrative documents across a medical practice is inefficient, and typically results in reduced staff productivity, lost documents, and high document storage expenses," said Amer Khan, senior vice president of product management at eGistics. "With the eGistics Digital Medical Practice solution, practice staff can quickly capture documents at the point of care, or when the documents are received, making them immediately available to authorized users electronically from any PC."

Leveraging Scan-to-Web technology and eGistics' repository management platform, practice staff can easily upload documents to eGistics DMP. Digitizing streamlines document retrieval, reduces physical document storage requirements, and eliminates the opportunity for lost or stolen documents. It also enables practices to standardize processes across multiple offices. With eGistics DMP solution, practice groups can also set document-specific expiration dates, such as when contracts need to be renewed.

In addition, because eGistics DMP solution is built on the company's hosted document management platform, it requires no capital investment and offers a variable expense, "pay-as-you-go" pricing model.

"Despite all the hype about personal health records and other initiatives to electronify document management in the healthcare space, the industry still faces a daunting combination of paper-based processes, fragmented systems and processes, and little optimization across organizations," said eGistics Executive Vice President of Sales and Corporate Development R. Edwin Pearce. "eGistics is delivering solutions such as DMP to bridge information silos and optimize the management, storage and delivery of information that healthcare organizations need across the enterprise."

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