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Medicity
Sets Records in 2007
Continuing
the Pace in 2008
Medicity
Names California Doctor As CMO
Medicity
Draws Attention at HIMSS
 Medicity
Sets Records in 2007
In
2007, Medicity reached new clinical transaction
volume records-processing in excess of 10 million
clinical transactions across its customer implementations
in the last quarter alone, bringing the annual
total to well over 30 million. The number of operational
interfaces into its technology platform also increased
throughout the year to more than 1,485, representing
the major vendors of clinical, physician, and
hospital systems.
More
than 97,000 physicians nationwide used Medicity
applications during 2007. Physicians benefit from
Medicity’s have-it-your-way strategy which
gives them options for receiving and viewing information
depending on their preferences-EMR, mobile device,
internet, fax, printer, or telephone.
Medicity’s
growth evidences the burgeoning demand for interoperable
clinical solutions in Healthcare. “The increase
indicates industry consensus around the legitimacy
of the space in which Medicity innovates and takes
a leadership role. Our unique position as a profitable,
debt-free company in this space gives us an edge,
" explains Brent Dover, Executive Vice President
of Sales and Marketing.
In
the midst of explosive growth, Medicity has redoubled
its efforts to ensure that its customers are well
served. Recent activities include:
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Upgrading
customer support technologies and processes.
Medicity opened a state-of-the-art Network
Operations Center that gives the support team
new tools for monitoring the status of customer
implementations and interfaces. As always,
support is available 24/7/365.
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Adding
to existing product and building new tools.
Medicity continues to enhance its proven infrastructure
to evolve its software products with the changing
industry. Medicity plans two major releases
per year in both user applications and infrastructure
products.
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Building
upgrade pathways for clients to adopt Medicity’s
most up-to-date technologies.
Medicity has been planning pathways for all
its clients-including acquired Park City Solutions
clients-to take advantage of the new ProAccess
PCS product set. Despite the rigors of changing
enterprise software, the company has made
the way easy and affordable.
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Continuing
the Pace in 2008
Momentum
continues to build at Medicity in the first quarter
of 2008, extending the growth and pace of the last
several years. Already this year, the company has
been named vendor of choice at nine health systems
and is in various stages of contract negotiations
with them.
The
Client Services team has complted implementation of
Medicity's interoperability platform at Englewood
Hospital in New Jersey and has begun implementation
at Western Maryland Health System. In addition, the
services team announced the successful completion
of disaster recovery testing at the Delaware Health
Information Network, which prompted kudos from the
DHIN Board chairman and the other DHIN participants.
In
another development, Hospital Sisters Health System
(HSHS) announced it has engaged Medicity to configure
a comprehensive, electronic-health-record system for
12 hospitals in Wisconsin and Illinois. Medicity will
deploy its ProAccessTM clinical application suite
and the MediTrustTM interoperability platform to help
HSHS improve the quality, timeliness, and availability
of healthcare by improving the speed of information
shared within its service communities.
"We
selected Medicity because its solution provides us
with more than a 'hospital portal," explained
Mark Reifstock, President of the Clinical Information
Network, an HSHS subsidiary responsible for coordinating
the initiative. Medicity couples innovative clinical
applications with a focus on infrastructure that enables
clinical information-sharing across hospitals or within
a community. This dual emphasis, together with options
for exchanging data with physicians, makes Medicity
the right partner for this important HSHS project."
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Medicity
Names California Doctor As CMO
Medicity
recently named Gifford Boyce-Smith, MD, as Senior
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. Giff’s
extensive experience with payers in the California
market-along with his years of private medical practice
and hospital responsibilities-bolster Medicity’s
management team and make him highly qualified for
his crucial role supporting CalRHIO and other health
information exchanges. Dr. Boyce-Smith’s expertise
in quality management, healthcare technology, medical
management operations, cost of healthcare (COHC) trend
analysis, and physician/hospital performance measurement
(cost and quality transparency) bring Medicity clients
a unique perspective of the business requirements
underlying long-term HIE viability.
Most
recently, Giff spent nine years as Senior Medical
Director, Quality Management for Blue Shield of California.
He also served as VP and General Manager of Cigna
Healthcare of Northern California. His executive responsibilities
have included statewide responsibility for quality
management, managed care operations, financial planning
and forecasting of earnings, sales and national account
management, and directing medical informatics using
both quality and efficiency tools for profiling medical-group
and individual-physician performance.
Giff
received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, Texas, and completed his residency in internal
medicine at Montefiore Hospital/Medical Center in
New York City.
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Medicity
Draws Attention at HIMSS
Medicity
sailed into its ninth annual HIMSS conference on the
momentum of a record-breaking year for transactions,
implementations, user adoption, and hiring. Favorable
reviews and frenetic meeting activity in Orlando bode
well for success in 2008. The four-day show was the
most productive in the company’s history in
terms of both scheduled meetings and new prospects.
"Medicity
saw more traffic at this year's HIMSS than ever before,
" said Brent Dover, Executive Vice President
of Sales and Marketing. "The increase is largely
due to success with our current clients and to the
intrest the company has generated in our markets.
We'd like to thank everyone who came by the booth
and made HIMSS such a stellar event."
Medicity
received recognition for its bold and innovative booth
design from Mr. HIStalk in his regular blog commentary
on the conference. He named Medicity's booth "best
overall for being innovative and well designed without
being gaudy.”
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