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Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation Selects Park City Solutions for Referral & Authorization Management

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 December 2005, 12:00 CST

Park City Solutions, Inc. a leading provider of eHealth solutions, and Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation (SIHF) today announced plans to implement Park City Solutions' emPOWERnet(TM) Referrals and Authorizations eHealth product.

Southern Illinois Healthcare will implement the Referrals & Authorizations solution, a feature of the highly customizable emPOWERnet(TM) Provider Portal. This product will provide their physicians/clinicians the web-based ability to create electronic referrals and authorizations; delegate the electronic form creation to physicians or other staff members with and without signature privileges; reduce errors associated with hand-written forms; maintain accurate records on the number of approved, performed, scheduled and remaining visits/services within SIHF, and provide a real-time enterprise mechanism to notify their treatment centers of the patient's latest demographic and insurance information.

The Park City Solutions applications will allow SIHF users to generate referrals electronically and monitor those referrals throughout the healthcare delivery network until completion. The comprehensive reporting tool will enable the Foundation to identify patients being referred outside of the SIHF network, while identifying resource needs in certain geographic areas or by specialty.

Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation's decision to implement Park City Solutions' Referrals & Authorizations product was in conjunction with their long-standing commitment to the community they serve; not only to provide much needed healthcare services, but to provide these services in the most efficient and cost effective ways. Illa Ellington, director of information technology at Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital and Touchette Regional Hospital, subsidiaries of SIHF states, "Our integrated healthcare delivery system of two hospitals and over 20 federally qualified health centers has been looking for a product to primarily streamline the referral process, provide data to assist in strategic decision making regarding physician recruitment, and compliment MEDITECH, our newly acquired hospital based information technology system. Park City Solutions' emPOWERnet software seems to be that product."

About Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation:

Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation (SIHF) is an award-winning healthcare system committed to providing access to quality healthcare for every family. SIHF has created an effective means of providing comprehensive primary care services and necessary supportive services for underserved families throughout the southwestern Illinois region. SIHF strives to improve the overall health of the communities they serve as part of a network of health supportive services at their 18 medical centers and 2 hospitals; Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital, and Touchette Regional Hospital. For more information, please visit www.sihf.org.

About Park City Solutions:

Park City Solutions has been a leading provider of health care information technology software solutions since 1999. The company's emPOWERnet(TM) suite of eHealth products includes Referrals & Authorizations, Secure Messaging, Physician/Clinical Portal, Patient-Personal Health Record Portal, Employee Portal, Community Portal and Dx Portal-Lab Order Entry eHealth solutions, as well as standard or customized Web-based applications. For more information, please visit the Park City Solutions' Web site at www.parkcitysolutions.com.

Source: Business Wire

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