Braintree, Mass., February 23, 2010 — Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, today announced a new partnership with The Valley Hospital, a 450-bed, full-service facility in New Jersey running the MEDITECH platform.
For many years, The Valley Hospital has been using a low-cost scripting tool, however, the more integrated its systems became, the more crucial it was to have a product that could streamline workflow, improve processes and ensure reliability with its MEDITECH system. After an extensive evaluation and search process, The Valley Hospital will be implementing the Summit Scripting Toolkit. The Summit Scripting Toolkit can be leveraged across the hospital enterprise to assist The Valley Hospital with eliminating time consuming and manual tasks that plague many departments.
Initially, the Summit Scripting Toolkit will be leveraged in the business office to assist with manual billing and administrative tasks such as updates to the B/AR charge master dictionary. Additionally, there are plans to utilize scripting to assist with pharmacy drug dictionary maintenance as it relates to pricing and NDC code management. The hospital also plans to eliminate the manual processes in place for staff nightly routines which will free up FTE’s and allow them to be reallocated to other priority projects.
“The Valley Hospital is extremely pleased with its choice to partner with Summit Healthcare for our automation needs,” said Michael Laidlaw, IT Analyst, The Valley Hospital. “The Summit Scripting Toolkit will provide the scalability we need to meet the many automation requirements we are faced with on a daily basis. I look forward to expanding the scripting product across the hospital and freeing up our staff workload now spent on manual tasks. And the professional services staff and educational opportunities that Summit provides are an added bonus.”
Summit Healthcare offers the Summit Apex product suite, which provides the MEDITCH industry with a comprehensive toolset for integration and automation needs. The Summit Scripting Toolkit delivers enhanced power, reliability and experience for all versions of MEDITECH, including 6.0. With powerful scripting capabilities that do more than simply eliminate manual data entry and processes; providing advanced system integration functionality where standard HL7 interface feeds are unavailable.
About Summit Apex
The Summit Apex integrated product suite provides the MEDITECH industry with a comprehensive toolset for integration and automation needs and has quickly become the standard for streamlining MEDITECH 6.0 migration efforts. From interface management to data migration and dictionary maintenance efforts, the Summit Apex suite includes:
- Summit Express Connect — a robust interface engine used for both hospital and physician office EMR integration with 3rd party vendor systems.
- Summit Scripting Toolkit — a full-featured workflow and task automation tool that also provides the means to extract and parse data, and is often used when conventional (HL7) methods to deliver data are not available.
- Summit InSync — the market leading solution for dictionary maintenance accomplished through a powerful extraction, analysis and update process that ensures dictionaries are synchronized from test to live and across multiple facilities or platforms.
- Summit Downtime Reporting System — ensures continuous access to critical patient data for clinicians at all times, to ensure quality of care and operational continuity in the event of MEDITECH or network downtime.
For our healthcare clients that do not have the resources to develop and manage interfaces internally, Summit Healthcare offers Integration Outsourcing Services as part of a complete integration package.
About Summit Healthcare
Summit Healthcare is the choice of hospitals and providers who want to take full control of their MEDITECH healthcare systems integration and information management requirements. Since 1999, we have worked to provide the industry with the most flexible integration technology with complimentary tailored services and solutions. Summit Healthcare continues to grow and has over 1,000 customers in the healthcare market, including close partnerships with complementary technology partners, major system integrators, and value-added resellers. For more information, visit http://www.summit-healthcare.com or call 781-519-4840.