GE Healthcare, a provider of transformational medical technologies and services, stated at the 2010 annual meeting of the Medical Group Management Association that it will be demonstrating its Centricity Advance, a Software as a Service (SaaS (News – Alert)) solution designed to manage revenue, records in simple style.
According to the company, Centricity Advance is a proven, fully integrated EMR, Practice Management, and Patient Self-Service Portal solution that addresses the challenges facing today’s small practices and primary care physicians. The objective behind developing this solution is to help healthcare professionals make their practice more efficient so that they can spend time where it matters most—with their patients and at home. The solution can streamline business operations by removing the inefficiencies that so many practices encounter in the typical revenue cycle management process.
Because the solution is available as SaaS, it costs less than a traditional client-server software deployment, and can be maintained, easily upgraded, and fully supported with virtually no cost or additional effort.
Some of the benefits that clinics can obtain from Centricity Advance are: they can enhance patient scheduling by seeing co-pays, running eligibility checks up-front, and tracking no-shows; reduce inefficiencies and improve payment cycles; reduce overhead; monitor, sort and fix problems; assess actual performance of the practice; and more.
“Centricity Advance has made a night and day difference in how we run our practice,” explained Kurt Kastendieck, who uses the solution at Unity Medical Clinic, an independent family practice in Santa Fe, N.M, in a press release. “It’s really allowed us to be able to practice medicine in a way we want to.”
GE Healthcare claimed that it developed the solution with the customer in mind. For more than forty years, the organization listened to its customers and the market to help shape its portfolio and enhance patient care. It is thrilled to have delivered this latest collaborative innovation into a marketplace that’s in serious need of smart, simple, comprehensive and affordable solutions.
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