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ksmith@preturn.comCare Communications Nets 50 New and Returning Clients Thus Far in 2006
Healthcare information management consulting and staffing company
benefits from surging demand and expects continued growtChicago, September 27, 2006 – 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 complianceAbout Care Communications, Inc.
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.– # # # –
