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MedcomSoft has joined the electronic medical record (EMR) coalition that was recently formed by the Medical Society of Virginia (MSV) this spring to assist in the education and awareness campaign for the state’s physicians to assist in the proliferation of their understanding and use of EMR’s over the next few years. The Medical Society’s Executive Vice President, Rufus Phillips stated in a letter to the coalition of EMR companies that MSV's role in promoting health information technology in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The MSV saw a gap in service and technology for the smaller physician practices across the state of Virginia. One of the principle goals of the EMR coalition to serve as an educator in establishing common ground in developing guidelines on EMR systems functionality around ARRA’s Meaningful Use mandates from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Rich Lobb, Medcomsoft’s Director of Operations stated, “I see this as an opportunity to link the federal mandates of meaningful use to practical use to the EMR for physicians.” The MSV is holding a fall Healthcare Information Technology Conference where MedcomSoft and other companies will participate. It is the Societies goal to market the conference within Virginia and bordering states to gain as much participation from physicians as possible. There will be special attention focused on the EMR, it’s benefits for physicians and educating physicians on expectations that will be in the form of presentations by MedcomSoft and others during the conference.
MedcomSoft’s keystone product, Record®, is focused around the ambulatory clinical settings covering every aspect of practice management with one of the most comprehensive and mature electronic medical records on the market today. MedcomSoft Record® was developed by physicians for physicians and has been in use in practices and clinics for over 8 years. For additional information call 800-699-5533 or go to the company’s web site at www.medcomsoft.com.
04.22.2010
MedcomSoft has joined the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA). The Association is a trade association of Electronic Health Record (EHR) companies, addressing national efforts to create interoperable EHRs in hospital and ambulatory care settings. The EHR Association operates on the premise that the rapid, widespread adoption of EHRs will help improve the quality of patient care as well as the productivity and sustainability of the healthcare system. MedcomSoft’s keystone product, Record®, is focused around the ambulatory clinical settings covering every aspect of practice management with one of the most comprehensive electronic medical records on the market today. MedcomSoft Record was developed by physicians for physicians and has been in use in practices and clinics for over 8 years. For additional information, call 800-699-5533 or go to the company’s web site at www.medcomsoft.com.
02.02.2010
On the one year anniversary of PBFOnline acquiring MedcomSoft electronic medical record software from the former MedcomSoft Inc., based out of Toronto Canada, PBFOnline has decided to merge under the single name of MedcomSoft®. The re-born company holds international trademarks on its cornerstone product, MedcomSoft Record™ UE, an interoperable electronic medical record and practice management software. The product is currently deployed in hundreds of physician practices and networks across the United States and Canada.
Shawn Long, CEO, states the reason for the name change was simple, "We wanted to better align ourselves with the market we represent." This alignment includes MedcomSoft Record™ EMR software along with practice management consulting and medical billing services. Further alignment occurs through partnership with viLogics, Inc., a sister corporation, which provides healthcare data center and virtual infrastructure design, planning, deployment and optimization. The current data virtualization technology is used within MedcomSoft's hosted EMR product that ensures real-time business continuity to the client.
02.02.2010
MedcomSoft has expanded its' sales and operations division by adding two key executives to their management team. Ms. Deborah Szczypinski comes to MedcomSoft as the Director of Sales with 13 years of healthcare IT consulting experience. Ms. Szczypinski's breadth of experience in system selection, system planning, deployment and implementation of community based practice management and EMR systems will assist MedcomSoft in our growth and expansion goals said Mr. Shawn Long, company CEO.
Mr. Rich Lobb comes to MedcomSoft as director of Operations with over 26 years of healthcare administrative and financial billing and reimbursement experience. Mr. Lobb's breadth of experience includes project planning, systems implementation, healthcare billing and reimbursement, operations management and consulting.
Both Ms. Szczypinski and Mr. Lobb are active members with the Western PA Chapter of HFMA and HIMSS. Ms. Szczypinski is also a member of the American Medical Association.
01.25.2010
MedcomSoft, developer of MedcomSoft Record™ UE, an ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management system for physicians will be demonstrating their application solution at this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference at Booth #906 in Atlanta, Georgia in March. MedcomSoft CEO Mr. Shawn Long indicates that MedcomSoft Record™ UE is a fully interoperable EMR, allowing for sharing of patient information between hospital systems, lab processing centers and diagnostic imaging services. The product also supports e-prescription and a variety of other tools including scheduling, billing, workflow, coding and compliance checking, health maintenance alerts, and business intelligence in one integrated system. Mr. Long indicated that there are hundreds of physicians currently utilizing the MedcomSoft EMR solution to improve practice operations and clinical quality as well as capturing financial incentives available to physicians and helping overall office productivity.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has set a timeline and established payment incentives for implementation and meaningful use of an EMR solution for physicians and hospitals. For those providers who do not have an EMR solution implemented by 2015, Medicare will begin reducing their payments for services.
Mr. Long indicates that MedcomSoft Record™ UE meets federal meaningful use requirements that exist today and the unit cost of entry and ongoing use of MedcomSoft is low compared to other EMR products on the market. The new application is completely hosted which eliminates the need for significant upfront investment in computer hardware and servers which is often the main reason that providers cite as a barrier to implementation of an EMR. MedcomSoft Record™ UE also supports interfaces with clinical equipment that provides output by making it a part of a patient's medical record.
"The company is growing rapidly but strives to keep the cost of sales and overhead low." In January alone we have added additional employees and expect to add between 20 and 30 more this year to support our growth" states Mr. Long. The Company also offers complete medical billing and practice management services.
