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St. Joseph’s Adopts
Electronic Health Records System
| St. Joseph’s CEO, Bob Ross, accepts a contribution from Alex Alexander of
TenEleven Group to support the Center’s scholarship program. TenEleven has joined
with St. Joseph’s as both a vendor of electronic healthcare
software, and as a corporate sponsor. |
St. Joseph’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers is
implementing an electronic health records system designed by the TenEleven
Group, Inc., a software and services company located
in Buffalo. The establishment of the system will improve St. Joseph’s
clinical and fiscal capability by integrating patient records and
direct electronic billing for services to multiple payers. TenEleven
Group’s state-of-the-art electronic health records technology
will create and maintain patient records that are customized to
specific St. Joseph’s clinical practices and standards for
more timely and accurate billing. The use of TenEleven’s
software will improve the efficiency of treatment staff and provide
more time to spend on patient care, and improve St. Joseph’s
bottom line.
The national conversion from paper health care records to digital
files is a leading objective of the Obama Administration.
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This (computerization of records) will cut waste, eliminate red
tape and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests,” the
President said shortly after his election. "But it won’t
just save billions of dollars and thousands of jobs; it will save
lives by reducing the deadly but preventable medical errors that
pervade our health-care system," he added.
According to CNN, only about 8% of the nation's 5,000 hospitals
and 17% of its 800,000 physicians currently use the kind of computerized
record-keeping systems that Obama envisions for the whole nation
and that St. Joseph’s is establishing now.
“We ‘re very pleased that St. Joseph’s has selected
TenEleven for their electronic healthcare records needs and we
look forward to working with them to help improve their business
and clinical practices.” said Dick Engl, Vice President of
sales and marketing for TenEleven Group. “TenEleven’s
electronic Clinical Record suite was designed to help healthcare
organizations maintain a technology leadership and to meet the
constantly changing compliance and regulatory needs.”
St. Joseph’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers provides
inpatient and outpatient treatment for men and women who suffer
from the disease of alcohol and drug addiction. St. Joseph’s
operates a 58-bed inpatient facility in Saranac Lake, and outpatient
clinics in Malone, Saranac Lake, Lake Placid, Ticonderoga, and
Elizabethtown, and maintains residential recovery centers in Schenectady
and Poughkeepsie. St. Joseph’s employs 140 counselors and
support staff, and generates a $7,000,000 annual budget.
TenEleven Group is a leading provider of software and services
focused on the behavioral healthcare market. In TenEleven’s
electronic Clinical Record suite (eCR), the compliance and business
rules are entered into a fully customizable rules-based engine
which ensures both regulatory and business process conformance.
TenEleven Group has developed a package that will best implement
the required range of client data to integrate into St. Joseph’s
overall technology strategy,” says Brent Hesseltine, St.
Joseph’s Director of Information Technology. They have proven
to be creative, flexible, and committed to our success.
To further strengthen the relationships between the two companies,
TenEleven Group has joined with St. Joseph’s as a corporate
sponsor by providing a financial contribution to the Center’s
scholarship program.
“
St. Joseph’s is excited about working with TenEleven Group
as a partner in pursuit of dramatically advancing our best practices
in the area of effectiveness of managing patient records, and fiscal
efficiency in maximizing revenues,” says St. Joseph’s
CEO, Bob Ross. “We want St. Joseph’s to be a leader
in terms of the quality of our business practices as well as in
terms of the services we provide to addicted individuals and their
families.”
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