Contact:
Rick Foster
Misys Healthcare Systems
(919) 329-1558
rick.foster@misyshealthcare.com
St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center
Turns to
Misys Healthcare Systems for Homecare Technology Needs
RALEIGH, N.C., (June, 2004) -- Misys
Healthcare Systems -- a market leader in healthcare IT
-- today announced that St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center
(SVCMC), one of the New York metropolitan area’s
most comprehensive healthcare systems, has chosen Misys
Homecareä to manage virtually all aspects of its
homecare operations, including clinical and financial
functions. Through Misys Homecare, SVCMC will be able
to automate billing, scheduling, and other operations,
effectively improving patient care and efficiencies across
the company’s homecare division.
The division, known as SVCMC Home Health, provides skilled
nursing and rehabilitative services to thousands of patients
across the state of New York. Field nurses dispersed throughout
the state make over 700,000 visits annually in all five
boroughs of New York City and across Nassau and Suffolk.
The amount of work done typically requires reams of paperwork,
careful scheduling, quick access to patient data, and
more – something that SVCMC determined could not
be done in a traditional manner. After an extensive search,
during which representatives screened several leading
vendors, the organization chose Misys Healthcare Systems
due to its reputation and Misys Homecare’s capabilities.
Used by companies throughout the world, Misys Homecare
allows organizations like SVCMC to manage clinical, financial,
and administrative functions. With Misys Homecare, field
users can effectively upload and download data at the
point of care, ensuring fast and continuous access to
patient information and enhanced patient care. Paperwork
can be electronically signed and transferred back to the
home office, allowing the agency to more easily process
critical information. Patient billing can be handled more
efficiently, and patient data managed and recorded more
accurately.
"SVCMC is one of the top home health and hospice
organizations in the northeast, and we’re thrilled
to be in partnership with them,” Keith Sturges,
chief executive officer, Misys Healthcare Systems, said.
“SVCMC is a large organization, with a large patient
base, which requires an immense amount of work to maintain,
both from management and staff. Misys Homecare is a powerful
technology that will enable everyone in the organization
to deliver the best possible patient care while improving
the company’s bottom line.”
Misys Homecare is a fully integrated clinical and business
system that improves the clinical quality of care, financial
performance, and operational control for large, integrated
homecare organizations and small homecare companies. Business,
clinical and scheduling functionality for multiple lines
of business --home health, hospice, and private duty --
are combined seamlessly into one software package.
About Misys Healthcare Systems
Misys Healthcare Systems, a division of Misys plc, is
among the top five healthcare IT companies in the United
States. The company designs, develops, and supports a
comprehensive suite of information products and currently
serves more than 85,000 physicians, 1,200 hospitals, 600
home care providers and hundreds of commercial laboratories,
clinics, managed services and other related organizations.
For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com.
About Misys plc
Misys plc, the global software products and solutions
company, serves customers in the international banking
and securities, US healthcare, and UK retail financial
services sectors. The group partners with its customers
to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries.
For the year ended May 31, 2002, Misys reported revenues
in excess of $1.5 billion. Misys employs more than 6,500
people internationally. For more information, visit www.misys.com.
