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Oregon State University student health services selects eClinicalWorks
- EMR, PM, and Patient Portal for a student population of 19,000.
Unified Solution Enables 19,000 Students to Access Medical
Information, Schedule Appointments and View Lab Results Via the Internet.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – October 31, 2005 – eClinicalWorks, the leading provider
of integrated end-to-end electronic medical records (EMR) and practice
management systems for multi-location, multi-specialty medical practices,
today announced Oregon State University (OSU) has selected the
eClinicalWorks unified software solution for Electronic Medical Records (EMR),
Practice Management (PM) and Web-based Patient Portal for the University’s
Student Health Services (SHS). OSU provides comprehensive outpatient health
services for more than 19,000 students at two separate clinical sites. The
eClinicalWorks platform will provide the university with a cost-effective,
customized system for maintaining and accessing student medical information,
while increasing the ease of communication between students and staff at SHS.
“Oregon State University is very excited to be the first university Student
Health Services to deploy the eClinicalWorks software,” notes Dr. James
Koski, OSU, Student Health Services. “OSU spent three years vigilantly
researching different EMR systems and selected eClinicalWorks because it is
an affordable, unified end-to-end solution that truly meets our individual
needs and the requirements necessary to service a large student population
with extended connectivity for our students.”
eClinicalWorks’ award-winning EMR solution allows healthcare providers to
manage the patient flow, allow immediate access to patient records in-house
or remotely, electronically communicate with the referring physicians and
securely send consult notes and clinical data. Users can immediately access
and review complete patient histories, past visits, current medications,
allergies, labs and charts. Integrated with EMR is eClinicalWorks Practice
Management, designed to instantly streamline the medical billing process.
With eClinicalWorks OSU will experience improved practice efficiency and
team productivity, enhanced quality of patient care, increased patient
satisfaction, minimized risk of medical errors and maximized practice
profitability. Staff members at OSU are particularly excited about the new
eClinicalWorks Patient Portal. This Web-based connection enables
students/patients to communicate with doctors easily, safely and securely
over the Internet. Each OSU student will be issued a secure password which
will allow the student to complete required health history and immunization
forms online, schedule appointments, review lab results and billing
statements, and receive health maintenance reminders from their physician.
“OSU is clearly dedicated to providing the best healthcare for its students,
and their adoption of technologies to improve communication is a crucial
component,” said Girish Kumar, founder and vice president of
sales/marketing, eClinicalWorks. “We at eClinicalWorks are proud to support
OSU’s initiative, and look forward to adding value to OSU’s Student Health
Services by facilitating remote and immediate access to patient information,
allowing physicians to spend more time on delivering quality care and less
time managing paperwork.”
Improving Care While Reducing Costs: eClinicalWorks at OSU
OSU is benefiting from the complete integrated suite of eClinicalWorks EMR,
PM and Patient Portal. eClinicalWorks EMR instantly streamlines patient
scheduling and saves practices time and money. Offices are connected via
interoffice messaging. Patient arrival alerts are sent to nurse and
physician desktops. The system manages patient flow and provides flexible
and powerful data entry tools to allow a physician, nurse or other member of
the practice to enter patient information using predefined phrases. For
transcription, the system learns the users’ vocabulary and develops a high
quality clinical content data bank.
eClinicalWorks PM eliminates the roadblocks inherent in healthcare billing
processes. PM software acts like a billing assistant, helping to reduce
accounts receivables and expedite collection revenue, resulting in maximized
profitability. eClinicalWorks PM includes online payor communication, claims
submission and tracking, payment posting, Medicare submission integration,
collection and statement letter generation and more.
About Oregon State University Student Health Services
OSU is located in Corvallis, Oregon, a community of 53,000 people situated
in the Willamette Valley between Portland and Eugene. The OSU Student Health
Services (SHS) provides comprehensive outpatient health services for a
student population of 15,900 undergraduate and 3,400 graduate students,
including nearly 1,000 international students. SHS, with thirteen providers
and another sixty support staff has 50,000 unique patient encounters per
year. SHS provides clinical services, nursing services, sports medicine,
travel medicine, occupational health, women’s health, laboratory and
radiology, health promotion, nutrition, physical therapy, and pharmacy
services. OSU is one of only two American universities to hold the Land
Grant, Sea Grant, Sun Grant, and Space Grant designation and is a Carnegie
Doctoral/Research-Extensive university.
About eClinicalWorks
Founded in 1997, eClinicalWorks is a leading provider of
unified ambulatory clinical information systems. The company's EMR
(Electronic Medical Record) and PM (Practice Management) solutions, ideal
for multi-specialty and multi-location practice networks, are designed to
streamline a practice's front-, mid- and back-office operations to ensure
superior patient care. eClinicalWorks has an established U.S. customer base
of over 3,000 medical providers, covering 50 specialties across all 50
states. eClinicalWorks has been awarded top industry honors including Best
in KLAS' Ambulatory EMR (1-5) in 2004, the top Practice Management solution
and Medical Records Document Imaging/Management System by TEPR 2004, the top
EMR solution by TEPR 2003 and the 5-STAR rated EMR solution by ACGroup in
2002, 2003 and 2004. Based in Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks boasts a
talented, energetic and highly educated staff of over 170 people. More
information on eClinicalWorks can be found at
http://www.eclinicalworks.com or
by calling (866) 888-MY-CW.
Contact:
Dimple Dedhia, eClinicalWorks (508) 836-2700
marketing@eclinicalworks.com
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