"With more than 1.5 million patient visits each year at Scott & White, we anticipate achieving measurable efficiencies in patient care and reimbursement coding, as well as reductions in transcription costs," added McCombs. "It also puts Scott & White at the forefront of the national movement toward interoperable EMRs, as put forth by President Bush."
Siemens and NextGen Healthcare announced a strategic partnership in February 2005, uniting Siemens expertise in enterprise healthcare IT solutions and advanced medical imaging technologies for the acute and specialty environments with NextGen Healthcare's industry leadership in ambulatory EMR and practice management software. Today, several providers are live on combined Siemens/NextGen offerings, including enterprise practice management (NextGen EPM) integrated with Siemens RIS/PACS, which provides a complete solution for managing imaging workflow from scheduling, registration and interpretation to billing.
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As part of Scott & White's drive to provide a comprehensive and holistic EMR to its patient community, Dennis L. Myers, M.D., director of Medical Informatics, Scott & White, will present the "5 Easy Pieces - A Guide to an Ambulatory Practice Management System" at the Outpatient 100 Conference, Sept. 17-19, 2006 in Las Colinas, Texas. Siemens is a sponsor of the conference, which provides a forum for hospital and health system leaders to share best practices for growing and managing the outpatient components of large health services organizations.
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII), develops and markets computer-based practice management and electronic medical records systems for medical group practices. For more information about NextGen, please visit www.nextgen.com and www.qsii.com.
Established on December 29, 1897, by Dr. Arthur C. Scott and Dr. Raleigh White Jr., Scott & White is one of the largest multi-specialty group practices in the U.S. Scott & White's mission is to provide personalized, comprehensive, high-quality health care enhanced by medical education and research. The health system encompasses a main clinic in Temple, 15 regional clinics and an award-winning teaching hospital affiliated with The Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine. The 928 providers at Scott & White see patients from Texas, the Southwest, across the U.S. and many foreign countries.
Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Erlangen, Germany, is one of the largest suppliers to the healthcare industry in the world. The company is known for bringing together innovative medical technologies, healthcare information systems, management consulting, and support services, to help customers achieve tangible, sustainable, clinical and financial outcomes. Employing approximately 33,000 people worldwide and operating in more than 120 countries, Siemens Medical Solutions reported sales of 7.6 billion EUR, orders of 8.6 billion EUR and group profit of 976 million EUR for fiscal 2005. More information can be obtained by visiting www.usa.siemens.com/medical-pressroom.
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