SCI Solutions, National Park Medical Center Team to Provide Web-based Scheduling Solution to Physicians to Streamline Patient Access
Los Gatos, Calif. and Hot Springs, Ark. – June 21, 2004 – SCI Solutions, the leading application service provider (ASP) for enterprise-class access management solutions, today announced it has entered into a contract with National Park Medical Center (NPMC), a leading Triad Hospital Inc., healthcare facility. SCI Solutions will provide its revolutionary appointment/registration solutions to the NPMC network of physicians to improve communication among hospital departments and enable real time scheduling of patient appointments.
Additionally, NPMC will be the first in the state of Arkansas to provide a web-based physician portal. The SCI Solutions Provider Portal will streamline National Park Medical Center's operation and enable its networked physicians to schedule visits at its facility via the Internet, significantly improving efficiency while reducing patient processing time.
"We have discussed the need to improve scheduling processes with many members of our medical staff, identifying complications and time-consuming components of current hospital registration systems," says Jerry Mabry, CEO. "Now, NPMC will be automating this process, freeing our medical staff to redirect attention to providing quality patient care. The scisolutions.com application will provide quicker access to the availability of schedules and a strong dose of convenience by streamlining the online appointment scheduling and the registration processing of our physicians and their patients."
In lieu of making time consuming calls to the scheduling office to coordinate care, physicians are empowered to request or book appointments into the hospital online, via the Internet, at their convenience. The process also enables the provider to print patient itineraries and preparatory instructions directly from their office, to insure that the patient is prepared for treatment the day of arrival, all of which can be made available to the patient prior to leaving the physician's office.
"We are excited about the convenience the SCI registration system will provide our patients, our physicians and their office staff," says Mabry. "The Provider Portal will be a tremendous asset in alleviating the traffic in our own ancillary departments, as well as providing physicians and their staff more time to focus on delivering quality care, instead of the logistics required to coordinate it."
"The prospect of incorporating our innovative Provider Portal into the existing infrastructure at National Park Medical Center is very exciting to SCI Solutions," said John Holton, CEO. "We are pleased with the opportunity to provide our unique Access Management approach to help facilitate and expedite the delivery of care at National Park Medical Center."
SCI Solutions uses the Internet to provide its ASP business model to deliver real time registration and scheduling services to hospitals, clinics, providers, and consumers. The technology also enables providers to schedule patient appointments, check their insurance eligibility, verify referrals and procedure authorizations, as well as determine medical necessity-- all online.
About SCI Solutions
SCI Solutions offers a Web-native Access Management solution that optimizes the scheduling of healthcare resources, promotes pre-encounter and access assurance activities in the revenue cycle, streamlines real-time information directly from physicians and consumers, and sends electronic appointment reminders to reduce missed appointments—efficiencies that result in long-term savings, increased revenue and improved customer satisfaction.
Headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., scisolutions.com has 50 employees and an additional office in Tucson, Ariz. as well as sales offices nationwide. For more information on SCI Solutions and the scisolutions.com application, please contact us 1.866.i.schedu or visit us on the web at www.scisolutions.com.
About National Park Medical Center
In 1954 the Ouachita Memorial Hospital was founded to meet the medical needs of Garland County and surrounding communities. National Park Medical Center replaced the old Ouachita Memorial Hospital and built a new main facility in 1985. National Park Medical Center is part of Triad Hospitals, Inc. Today, National Park Medical Center has grown into a 166-bed acute care facility and provides service to a five-county area, including Garland, Hot Springs, Montgomery, Pike and Clark counties. National Park Medical Center continues its commitment of excellence in providing quality health care to its community and surrounding service area, while believing that at NPMC, Caring Comes First.
National Park Medical Center is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and is licensed by the state of Arkansas and approved for the acceptance of Medicare Patients.
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