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Care Communications Nets 50 New and Returning Clients Thus Far in 2006

Posted on: Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 12:01 CDT

Care Communications, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in the health

information management (HIM) industry, has signed contracts with 50 new

and returning clients, raising its client base to more than 300.

"Revenues are up 24 percent through the first

six months, on top of 15 percent growth last year. All this growth has

been organic and we project to exceed these numbers in the future,"

said Patricia Thierry Sheridan, MBA, RHIA and president of Care

Communications. "HIM is an industry undergoing

significant change and set for continued rapid growth."

Among the clients recently signed by Care Communications are:

• Arlington Medical Center --

Arlington, TX

• Kaiser Permanente --

Denver, CO

• Northwestern Memorial Hospital --

Chicago, IL

• Lucile Packard Children's

Hospital at Stanford -- Palo Alto, CA

• Meridian Health System --

Red Bank, NJ

• Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospital --

Mattoon, IL

• Woodhull Hospital --

Brooklyn, NY (part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation)

"There is tremendous interest in the

implementation of the electronic health record (EHR), which greatly

improves the overall accuracy and safety for patients and helps

healthcare organizations work more efficiently. It represents the future

of healthcare administration in the U.S."

added Sheridan. "Coding Quality Improvement

Services will also continue to grow at Care Communications, with the

integration of the updated Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)

which redefines, to a certain degree, the coding policies and procedures

of the inpatient medical record."

Care Communications helps hospitals implement procedural changes in HIM

to handle IPPS updates as well as updates from other state and federal

organizations. This includes the development of processes to capture

secondary diagnoses in preparation for present on admission (POA)

indicator implementation, reviewing completeness of physician

documentation including the current process to secure additional

documentation from physicians, and assessing coding accuracy. Ensuring

coding accuracy is crucial to the claim flow process for hospitals and

an essential function for profitable healthcare organizations.

Care Communications, whose clients appreciate the company's

extensive HIM expertise and commitment to quality, will provide a wide

array of services to these healthcare organizations. Leadership

training, onsite and remote medical coding, coding quality review and

education, cancer registry services, medical data abstraction services

and full-service HIM consulting in support of such initiatives as EHR

and IPPS adoption are among the most in demand of Care Communications

services today. The transformational changes occurring in HIM require

collaborative leadership among the health information professions:

information management, information technology and medical informatics

as well as between other hospital departments including revenue cycle,

quality improvement, and HIPAA compliance.

About Care Communications

Care Communications is a nationally recognized leader in Health

Information Management (HIM) and has served the needs of leading

healthcare organizations since 1976. Care Communications'

Systems-based Leadership and Change ManagementTM

approach offers healthcare organizations the industry's

most focused, effective and comprehensive suite of HIM services. From

consulting and change leadership to outsourced coding and staffing, the

nation's most successful hospitals turn to

Care Communications for help with their most challenging HIM issues. For

more information, visit www.carecommunications.com.

Source: Business Wire

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