Healthcare Informatics 100 Company Profiles

“PSA is a key long-term investment for us because physicians will need access to critical information, including genomic data from pathologists,” says Patrick Hampson, MED3OOO Chairman and CEO. “We believe that our 360° approach to optimizing technology and operations will enhance outcomes for physician practices as well as the patients they serve. MED3OOO services include RCM, EHR and PM technology, data warehouse capture, and data delivery at the point of care. Physicians who embrace our full spectrum of services have the diagnostic information to enhance prevention, wellness, disease management, and population health management. This comprehensive approach will deliver the most cost-effective care.”

The company's joint venture with Tenet Healthcare Corp., headquartered in Dallas, announced in May 2009, reflects MED3OOO's commitment to become a premier strategic operations partner to physicians, hospitals, municipalities, and employers. With a network reaching physicians at 51 hospitals across 12 states, Tenet is focused on providing their employed and affiliated physicians with access to a broad array of services, each focused on helping them compete successfully in the evolving healthcare industry.

“Our core management and technology services are not just commodities to sell. The strategy we developed years ago continues to provide each client with a plan to succeed and improve outcomes,” Hampson adds. “By combining MED3OOO's advantage of offering one of the few browser-based EHR and Personal Health Records, with President Obama's focus on electronic health, we are poised for growth opportunities in the U.S. and abroad.”

Across the United States, people are demanding greater access, lower cost, and better outcomes with respect to healthcare services. This type of system-wide improvement can only be accomplished through the simultaneous and symbiotic deployment of technological and operational enhancements in ways that reflect real-world issues. MED3OOO, a user as well as a vendor of healthcare and reporting technology, is well-positioned to offer this “full circle” approach to healthcare improvement.

Keane's latest offering “optimizes” healthcare IT

The Healthcare Solutions Division of Boston-based Keane, Inc. is enhancing its quiet reputation for delivering versatile healthcare IT solutions with deep features, for both hospitals and post-acute care facilities.

Ranking at #26 on the Healthcare Informatics Top 100, the company's recent big splash centered on its latest product, Keane Optimum launched in April at the HIMSS conference in Chicago.

“Keane Optimum is a full hospital information system: From scheduling and patient access, to revenue cycle management, to health information and clinical applications, like nursing documentation and physician orders, including lab and pharmacy,” explains Ed Meehan, vice president of sales and marketing for Keane's Healthcare Solutions Division. “It's a culmination of the long history we've had in healthcare IT-the best of our financial experience and our clinical experience, all under one umbrella.”

In June, Capital Health, Trenton, N.J., completed its installation of Keane Optimum in its two hospitals, taking advantage of Keane's Optimum iMed clinical components to enable physicians to access patient information at the bedside via Web devices or the 150 mobile carts used in the hospitals.

“You have to be able to be flexible enough to address your clients’ unique needs,” he says. “Some of our clients only want to run only our revenue cycle management piece or clinical modules. Other hospitals are looking for as much functionality as they can get from one vendor. You also have to be willing to do a quick installation to get a client up and running, and then go back later and turn on additional capabilities of the product.”

With 34 years under its belt, Keane's Healthcare Solutions Division has been around long enough to attest to what it takes to compete in the rapidly changing markets of healthcare IT.

“We've been in the Healthcare Informatics Top 100 for the past 16 years,” Meehan observes. “But we've always focused more on the products and our clients than on marketing, and so we view ourselves as a well kept secret.”

SCC: Preparing Labs for the Genetic Future

After 30 years on the front edge of laboratory information system automation, SCC Soft Computer (SCC), Clearwater, Fla., has plenty to celebrate. Rising 10 places to #38 on this year's Healthcare Informatics Top 100, SCC's 2008 reported revenue exceeded its 2007 revenue by more than $13 million, and the company expects double-digit growth for next few years.

“We are an anomaly in a world of corporate conglomerates, mergers, and acquisitions because we're a privately-held company with the same core management team, still going strong after three decades of progressive growth,” says Gilbert Hakim, SCC's founder and CEO.