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OPTO News Hamilton General Streamlines Hospital Operations and Improves Patient Safety with Optio's Electronic Health Record (EHR) Solution
ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optio® Healthcare
today announced that Hamilton General Hospital, a 34-bed facility in
Hamilton, Texas, has selected Optio’s
subscription-based electronic health record (EHR) and forms automation
solution suites to streamline operations throughout the hospital and
improve patient safety, while proactively building a legal EHR solution
that will evolve as government requirements are defined.
According to Michele Cathey, Chief Financial Officer, Hamilton General
Hospital, the main reason for adopting Optio’s
multi-level EHR solution was the ability to access patient information
at various touch-points throughout the facility.
“Optio’s technology
is the hub of our hospital’s wheel. Everything
circles around it throughout our facility and information is shared. The
success of Optio’s solutions will be
intertwined with our own success in the months and years to come,”
said Cathey.
Patient safety was another important factor that swayed Hamilton General
to choose Optio over alternate solutions. “We
are implementing our pharmacy application at the same time we are
implementing Optio’s MedEx®
suite – both solutions will work together,”
explained Cathey. “Once we’ve
generated the patient wristband at registration, we can ensure that
patients receive the correct medication by scanning the wristband and
then scanning the prescribed medications. Patient safety will be
significantly improved,” she added. “We’ll
know immediately if we have a discrepancy.”
Hamilton General’s CFO cited uncertainty
surrounding future legal health record requirements as a secondary
reason for selecting Optio’s
subscription-based EHR model.
“The federal government wants a legal EHR and
we know it needs to be done, but no one has defined exactly what it’s
going to be. For us to go out and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
to put a system in place… who is to say that
this system is going to evolve and migrate into what the government
requires in a few years?” said Cathey. “A
cost-effective subscription-based system made more sense. We knew that
we could count on Optio to continually update their technology to meet
legal requirements,” she explained. “And
with Optio’s integrated solutions, we can
gradually add new components to improve document-driven processes as our
hospital continues to grow.”
“Optio is one of the first technology
providers to deliver a legal EHR that meets the industry’s
current federal requirements,” said Mike
McGuire, Optio’s senior vice president and
general manager of healthcare sales and service. “This
partnership underscores Optio’s commitment to
providing small hospitals with state-of-the-art solutions that not only
improve document-intensive processes, but ensure that safety and legal
compliance requirements are met, both now and into the future.”
About Optio Software, Inc.
Optio Software (OTCBB:OPTO) with 25 years of experience and more than
5,000 clients, worldwide, provides software solutions dedicated to
helping customers achieve unprecedented speed, accuracy, functionality
and quality in their inbound and outbound document processes, while
extending the value of their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and
Hospital Information Systems (HIS) applications. More than 5,000
organizations rely on Optio Software for innovative business process
improvement solutions that allow them to reduce transactional activities
and focus on core responsibilities. Headquartered in Alpharetta Ga.,
Optio Software maintains European, Middle Eastern and African
headquarters in Paris, France and sales offices in the United States,
Germany and the United Kingdom. For more information about Optio
Software or to contact a local Optio sales consultant, reach us at
770.576.3500 or visit our website at www.optio.com.
About Optio Healthcare Solutions:
More than 700 healthcare organizations use Optio’s
affordable Electronic Health Record (EHR), forms automation, clinical
document management and advanced labeling solutions to capture, format,
scan, view, sign, and archive patient information. Optio’s
technology delivers real-time access to patient information throughout
the continuum of care, while improving patient safety and ensuring
compliance with industry requirements. For more information about Optio’s
leading-edge healthcare solutions, visit www.optiohealthcare.com.
