SHERBORN, Mass. – February 11, 2008 – Boston Software SystemsTM, the leader in workflow automation technology to the healthcare market, today announced that Product Manager Thom Blackwell and Saint Clare’s Health System Vice President of Information Technology and CIO Rich Temple will be presenting “Automating a Path to Savings” at the 2008 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. The session will be held Monday, February 25, at the HIMSS Product Pavilion, Managing the Business of Healthcare, Booth 8181 in the Exhibition Hall.
Keeping up with patient information, regulations and backoffice tasks is a daunting responsibility for hospitals as they face mounting pressures to cut costs, speed up payments/collections and reduce denials. To streamline operations and improve efficiency, St. Clare’s has found scripting technology to be the most effective tactic.
Blackwell and Temple will discuss how to save time and money by efficiently and accurately automating time-consuming, manual processes by using Boston WorkStationTM workflow automation and integration technology. Specifically, Temple will detail how his staff has used Boston WorkStation to automate patient pre-registration with data from their scheduling system, maintain patient records, registration information, human resources documentation and reimbursement forms.
“Everywhere I look I see an opportunity to improve process with automation,” Temple said. “I cringe at the thought of what it would be like to do so manually. Scripting technology is not only faster than a human being, but it can work 24/7. It doesn’t take lunch breaks and it doesn’t sleep.”
Prior to joining Saint Clare’s Health System more than three years ago, Temple served for eight years as a project manager at Health Management Systems, designing and implementing revenue enhancement systems for hospitals and municipal health departments, and later for nine years as an executive director of systems and technology solutions at McKesson Provider Technologies.
Presentation: “Automating a Path to Savings”
Who: Thom Blackwell, product manager, Boston Software Systems
Rich Temple, vice president of IT and CIO, Saint Clare’s Health System
When: Monday, February 25, 2008, 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET
Where: HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition; Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla.; HIMSS Product Pavilion, Managing the Business of Healthcare, Booth 8181 in the Exhibition Hall
About Boston WorkStation™
Boston WorkStation is a workflow automation and integration technology that provides an environment for on-demand process innovation and development. Boston WorkStation allows healthcare organizations to dynamically respond to changing business and compliance requirements by automating common tasks throughout the organization including revenue cycle projects, interactions with Web sites, integrating new applications, systems and devices, and electronically monitoring and managing user activity.
About Boston Software Systems
Boston Software Systems is the leading standard for workflow automation and system integration software, enabling healthcare organizations to streamline complex business processes and improve productivity. Hundreds of healthcare organizations worldwide respond to regulatory and business initiatives by using Boston WorkStation technology to automate and improve processes throughout their facilities. UNISON accelerates the development of critical dictionary and table synchronization in specific hospital information system environments. Customers include more than 50 HCA hospitals, Mayo hospitals, Stanford Medical Center, CHRISTUS Health, Lutheran Health Network and Tenet Healthcare. Boston Software Systems partners with leading application and system vendors such as McKesson, Siemens, Misys, Orion International and Emdeon. For more information, please visit the company’s Web site at www.bostonworkstation.com or call 866.653.5105.
For more information:
Boston Software Systems
Margaret Mayer
978-525-4831
margaretm@bossoft.com
Schwartz Communications
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781-684-0770
bossoft@schwartz-pr.com
