Interbit Data Introduces NetDelivery Virtualized Report Delivery Solution

NetDelivery enables virtual delivery of reports from healthcare information systems to clinicians’ fax machines and email, allowing hospitals to save on hardware and energy costs

Natick, MA – May 2, 2012 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people with information for more efficient healthcare, today announced that NetDelivery, its report delivery software, now supports server virtualization. With NetDelivery’s virtualized report delivery servers, healthcare facilities do not have to implement or maintain physical server or modem hardware. As a result, customers save on hardware and energy costs as well as gain report delivery convenience.

“Virtualization is important to our organization because anything that we can virtualize is easier to manage, allows us to keep our cooling and power costs down, and decreases space consumption,” said Andrew Van Campen, Director of IT, Phelps Memorial Health Center. “By virtualizing our faxing service with NetDelivery, we not only achieved these goals, but we got away from using a dedicated piece of hardware for faxing, which is important to us.”

NetDelivery’s virtualized solution allows healthcare facilities to securely distribute reports from their healthcare information system (HCIS) to multiple recipients and locations via fax, encrypted print stream, encrypted file or email. NetDelivery’s virtualized solution is integrated with the HCIS’s faxing functions, and allows organizations to define (by recipient/user and location) whether to send the data as a fax, a file, an email, or directly to a printer.

“Reducing costs and simplifying management are critical for hospitals dealing with increasing patient loads. Virtualization of information distribution achieves both goals,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “The NetDelivery virtualized solution cuts hospitals’ overall operating expenses by optimizing utilization of servers, reducing hardware and software costs, and maintaining a smaller data center footprint, yet delivering efficient, flexible and high-volume report delivery.”

Virtualized server solutions such as the NetDelivery virtualized report delivery solution are quickly becoming the standard platform of choice, as they are a cost-effective alternative to traditional server implementations, providing the lowest total cost of ownership. For hospitals to deliver patient reports to clinicians across and outside their facility, the NetDelivery virtualized solution is a simplified deployment that provides centralized management of resources. The NetDelivery virtualized solution also complies with HIPAA and Meaningful Use requirements for securing and transmitting patient information.

For more information on Interbit Data’s virtualized NetDelivery solution, go to http://interbitdata.com/save-costs-and-simplify-management-with-a-completely-virtualized-netdelivery-solution/.

About Interbit Data
Founded in 1997 and, since 2009, named each year to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 customers worldwide. For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on May 2nd, 2012 in Company | Permalink | Comments »

Interbit Data Expands Sales and Customer Support Teams For Its Healthcare Information Technology Solutions

Sales, business development and technical support experts join leading provider of solutions that expand the usefulness of healthcare information systems for delivering quality and timely patient care

Natick, MA – Feb. 7, 2012 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people with information for more efficient healthcare, today announced it has expanded its sales and support teams with the hiring of an additional sales representative and a customer technical support professional.

Jennifer Lemarier brings experience as a healthcare information systems (HCIS) specialist to her new role as Interbit Data’s account manager for Canada, working with both new and existing customer accounts. Jennifer spent 13 years with leading HCIS provider MEDITECH, where she was a senior marketing consultant to the Canadian market. Jennifer also worked with Santa Rosa Consulting, a national provider of information technology and management consulting services to the healthcare industry, and served as a business development executive for Beacon Partners, Inc., a healthcare consulting services provider.

Joining Interbit Data as customer support specialist is Reiko Foster. Reiko comes from IntraLearn Software Corporation, where she provided customer technical support and training for nine years. Reiko has extensive experience in software sales support, implementation, and customer support and training.

“We welcome Jennifer and Reiko and the experience and new energy they bring to our sales and support teams,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “They offer strengths in multiple areas, such as healthcare consulting, customer account management and computer technology. New and existing customers will benefit from their expertise, which will be integral to enhancing our customer service and driving sales of our products for optimizing efficiency and ensuring business continuity in healthcare organizations.”

About Interbit Data
Founded in 1997 and, since 2009, named each year to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 customers worldwide. For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on February 13th, 2012 in Company, News | Permalink | Comments »

Interbit Data Introduces MOXport for Exporting Data to Windows During MEDITECH 6.0 Upgrade

MOXport Allows Users to Export Data From MEDITECH Magic’s MOX to Windows Directory At Their Convenience, Freeing Them to Focus on Their 6.0 Implementation

Natick, MA – Nov. 9, 2011 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people with information for more efficient healthcare, today introduced MOXport, a utility software product for exporting data from MEDITECH Magic MOX to Microsoft Windows Directory. MOXport assists healthcare facilities that are in the process of transitioning away from MOX as they convert their MEDITECH Healthcare Information System (HCIS) from Magic to 6.0, enabling them to bring patient records and other vital data into the new system quickly and easily. Users can export the data at their convenience, either during the 6.0 implementation or after.

“Customers reported to us how much time they were consuming with moving data and cleaning up MOX during and after their 6.0 conversion,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “Their feedback spawned the idea for MOXport, a valuable software tool that’s flexible and cost-effective. Now, customers can save time with transferring data from MOX to Windows. The transfer process is also simplified, as MOXport allows users to move the data in stages and when it best fits with their 6.0 implementation schedule.”

MEDITECH Magic MOX was discontinued with the MEDITECH system’s upgrade to Client/Server and 6.0. With MOXport, users can go back to MOX whenever they need or want to over time to complete the removal and transfer of their data to Windows. MOXport is Windows-compatible.

About Interbit Data
Founded in 1997 and, since 2009, named each year to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 customers worldwide. For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on November 9th, 2011 in Company, MEDITECH, News | Permalink | Comments »

Interbit Data and Biscom Partner to Integrate Fax Capabilities, Facilitating Healthcare Data Access and Transfer from MEDITECH

Leading Providers of Report Distribution and Communications Platforms Join to Extend their Offerings to Customers

Natick, MA – Sept. 29, 2011 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people and information for more efficient healthcare, and Biscom, a leading provider of enterprise fax software, today announced a technology partnership. Integrating NetDelivery and NetFax, Interbit Data’s information distribution software products, with Biscom’s Enterprise Fax solution, the companies are providing their healthcare customers with broadened capabilities for automated data and report distribution from the MEDITECH healthcare information system (HCIS) to physicians’ groups and other clinicians across their facilities.

With Interbit Data’s NetDelivery and NetFax, Biscom’s Enterprise Fax users will be able to quickly and easily receive and send patient and medical information from the MEDITECH HCIS. By integrating Biscom’s fax technology, Interbit Data provides its customers with the ability to send outgoing faxes from automated workflows and intelligently route incoming faxes using information extracted from the fax images. Faxing can now be done on a virtual server with no need for fax modems cards.

“This is a synergistic relationship for both companies, as each of our products complements the other,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “By integrating our technologies, we can provide healthcare customers with a more extensive and powerful solution for obtaining and delivering critical patient data via numerous formats, including email, encrypted file and printing, as well as faxing.”

“Our partnership with Interbit Data provides us with a solid collaboration when our customers need to connect to MEDITECH,” said Michael J. Gayowski VP and General Manager of Biscom. “Because NetDelivery integrates well with MEDITECH faxing routines, we can enable secure faxing of documents from the HCIS.”

About Biscom
Founded in 1986, Biscom pioneered the fax server and host computer integration marketplaces. Biscom has provided many of the world’s largest companies with enterprise communications solutions, most notably its award-winning FAXCOM enterprise fax management solutions. Through acquisitions and the development of new technologies, Biscom has evolved into a provider of multiple product lines, including secure document delivery, file conversion and image viewing and enhanced messaging solutions. Biscom is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

About Interbit Data
Founded in 1997 and, since 2009, named each year to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide. For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on September 29th, 2011 in Company, MEDITECH, News, Report Distribution | Permalink | Comments »

Interbit Data Aligns with MMR Global in Strategic Partnership Supporting Meaningful Use of Patient Electronic Records

Healthcare IT Providers Will Offer a Joint Solution Delivering Patient Information from Healthcare Information Systems to Personal Health Records

Natick, MA – Sept. 15, 2011 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people with information for more efficient healthcare, today announced a partnership with MMR Global, Inc., a leading provider of Personal Health Records (PHRs) and electronic document management systems for healthcare professionals and consumers. The companies will integrate Interbit Data’s NetDelivery and Document Manager products with MMR’s MMRPatientView and MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record to offer a solution that broadens and eases access to patient health information, meeting requirements for Meaningful Use.

The companies’ joint solution utilizes NetDelivery with Document Manager to pull patient reports from a hospital’s healthcare information system (HCIS), assemble them into a single, encrypted electronic file, and then deliver the file to the MMR Personal Health Record (PHR). The PHR is a secure online service that enables patients to maintain all their medical records in one central location and access them via Internet anytime and anywhere. The patient can designate third parties such as family members to also have access to their records.

This one-of-a-kind solution also presents a potential revenue opportunity for hospitals and other healthcare facilities, as it can be upgraded to a paid subscription service delivering information to the patient and any designated third parties.

“This partnership allows us to augment our portfolio of products that are certified as electronic health records modules for establishing Meaningful Use and provide our customers with the opportunity to offer Personal Health Records to their patients and possibly create a revenue stream,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “One of the requirements outlined by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for establishing Meaningful Use is to provide patients and others with electronic medical records information on request. NetDelivery and Document Manager enable that quickly, easily and securely.”

“Through our partnership with Interbit Data, we create a solution that facilitates the process of assembling patient information from multiple sources and delivers it securely to our patient portal,” stated Robert H. Lorsch, chairman, president and chief executive officer of MMR Global. “Hospitals will be able to improve the availability of information to their patient community and patients will obtain greater knowledge and control over their healthcare.”

About MMRGlobal, Inc.
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. (“MMR”), provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records (“PHRs”) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups.

The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user’s account. To learn more about MMR Global, Inc. and its products, visit www.mmrglobal.com.

About Interbit Data
Founded in 1997 and named to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies for three consecutive years since 2009, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s report distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide. For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on September 15th, 2011 in Company, Customers, Heathcare Reform, News | Permalink | Comments »

For Third Consecutive Year, Interbit Data Achieves Ranking on the Inc. 5000 – Inc. Magazine’s Annual Exclusive List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Healthcare IT Solutions Provider Ranks No. 3752 With Three-Year Sales Growth of Over 40%

Natick, MA – August 31, 2011 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people and information for more efficient healthcare, today announced it has been named to Inc. Magazine’s exclusive list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the United States for the third year in a row. The company ranked No. 3752 as a result of achieving over 40% growth from 2007 to 2010.This growth places Interbit Data at No. 337 in the health industry ranking. As an Inc. 5000 honoree, Interbit Data shares a prestigious pedigree with such notable alumni as Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Jamba Juice, Timberland, Clif Bar, Patagonia, Oracle, Zipcar and scores of other powerhouses.

“Attaining continued growth in this economy three years in a row is more than an achievement — it verifies the need for our solutions, which help hospitals save time and costs with distributing and ensuring accessibility of critical patient information,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “Our products play a vital role in improving the delivery of patient care by getting patient records to the clinicians and others who need them in an efficient manner.”

Since 1997, Interbit Data has sold its secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions to over 650 hospitals and healthcare facilities in the U.S. and Canada. Many of the company’s products are certified as electronic health records (EHR) modules that would be part of an overall EHR system implementation for establishing “Meaningful Use” of patient medical records.

Interbit Data offers three types of solutions that contribute to increased productivity, reduced costs, and, ultimately, better and more consistent patient care:

• Report distribution – automates the secure transfer of patient information over the Internet in multiple formats (print, fax, email or file), easily integrating it into physician practices’ electronic medical records (EMRs) and personal health records.
• Business continuance – ensures up-to-date patient data is readily available in the event of a network or system outage.
• Workforce scheduling and employee retention – enables optimized workforce scheduling and delivers it in a way that enhances employee job satisfaction and loyalty as well as improves the effectiveness of nurses and other clinical staff to meet patient needs. This solution helps address the shortage of nurses, a growing problem in healthcare which affects patient care and safety

In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2011 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 94 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created 350,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $366 billion, up 14 percent from last year.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000/welcome.

“Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500/5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” says Inc. magazine Editor Jane Berentson.

Methodology
The 2011 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007. Additionally, they had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2010. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2007 is $100,000; the minimum for 2010 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000/welcome.

About Inc. Magazine
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 710,106, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit Inc. online at www.inc.com.

About Interbit Data
For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions healthcare IT products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on September 6th, 2011 in Company | Permalink | Comments »

Interbit Data & MMRGlobal to Offer Personal Health Records in Advance of Meaningful Use Requirement

One of a Kind Program Also Creates Revenue Stream for Providers

Natick, MA and Los Angeles, CA – May 31, 2011 – Interbit Data, Inc. (www.interbitdata.com), creator of secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency for healthcare operations, and MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (www.mmrglobal.com), the leading provider of Personal Health Records (PHRs) and electronic document management systems for consumers and healthcare professionals, announced today that they have formed a partnership to provide electronic personal healthcare records to a wider patient base.

The two companies will introduce their product offering at the 2011 International MUSE Conference in Nashville, Tenn. this week – utilizing Interbit Data’s NetDelivery application to deliver patient information into MMR’s MMRPatientView (www.mmrpatientvideos.com) and MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record (www.mmrvideos.com). The PHR is a secure online service that enables patients to maintain all their medical records in one central location and access them anytime from anywhere over the Internet. Through the partnership, Interbit Data will begin augmenting its healthcare information systems (HIS) solutions portfolio by giving its customers the opportunity to offer PHRs to their patients.

The solution may help hospitals and other health services providers achieve compliance with federal Meaningful Use standards as they evolve over the next several years. In addition, a portion of the MyMedicalRecords subscription fee is returned to the healthcare organization that enrolls the patient. Healthcare organizations now have the opportunity to meet a phase of federal compliance in advance of any mandate, and offer a valuable service to their patients while creating a revenue stream for their organization.

Robert H. Lorsch, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of MMRGlobal, stated that “Interbit Data provides service to more than 600 hospitals, which will provide MMRGlobal a major opportunity to touch millions of patients through the point of care. We believe that this is just the first step in a long-term relationship between our two companies.”

Arthur Young, President of Interbit Data agreed, saying that “We are looking forward to helping hospitals further enhance their communications with their patient base and assisting them in achieving the goals of Meaningful Use.”

The partnership between MMRGlobal and Interbit Data will allow more patients to gain greater control over their health and well-being and better prepare their families for an emergency while providing a revenue opportunity for providers.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 and 2010 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency.  The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs.  Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage.  Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 customers worldwide.  For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit www.interbitdata.com.

About MMRGlobal, Inc.

MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. (“MMR”), provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records (“PHRs”) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user’s account. The Company’s professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians’ offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. MMR is also an integrated service provider on Google Health. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId™/Specifid™ vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. To learn more about MMR Global, Inc. and its products, visit www.mmrglobal.com.

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Posted on July 21st, 2011 in Company, News | Permalink | Comments »

Interbit Data Provides Healthcare Customers with Optimized Workforce Scheduling and Employee Retention Solution

With Schedulist, Interbit Data Adds Workforce Scheduling Efficiency That Improves Nurses’ Job Satisfaction and the Effectiveness of Clinical Staff to Meet Patient Needs

Natick, MA – July 13, 2011 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people and information for more efficient healthcare, is adding automated workforce scheduling and employee retention resources to it solutions offerings. Helping to address the shortage of nurses, a growing problem in healthcare which affects patient care and safety, Interbit Data is partnering with Schedulist to offer a web-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that enables optimized staff scheduling and delivers it in a way that enhances employee job satisfaction and loyalty as well as improves the effectiveness of nurses and other clinical staff to meet patient needs.

With Schedulist, healthcare facilities not only optimize their staffing, but also give staff the unique ability to manage their professional lives. Managers can create schedules that place only qualified and available people in shifts and ensure staff levels are appropriate and consistent, saving time and avoiding scheduling mistakes. Staff can be given a number of options to influence their own schedule and those schedule preferences are incorporated in the system intelligently.

“Workforce scheduling has become a dominant issue for healthcare facilities for many reasons, the most important being the need to have the appropriate number of nurses on hand and have schedules that meet their requests,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data.  “Without the ability to effectively manage staff resources and their scheduling needs, healthcare organizations can incur excess overtime costs, increased turnover among nursing staff, and ultimately, a decrease in the quality of patient care.”

“Healthcare workers rate the flexibility of their schedule and receiving their schedule preference the highest of all their job satisfaction criteria,” said Christopher Laibe, president of Schedulist.  “As a result, Schedulist was designed specifically to leverage the power of scheduling to impact employee job satisfaction, loyalty and retention.”

Schedulist offers numerous, customizable features to ease the task of scheduling for both managers and staff, such as:

• Individual Profiles – to track each employee’s specific skills so the right person is placed in the right job.
• Personalized Schedules – to create schedules in the way that works best: either manually, with assistance from the system or fully automated, and with widgets selected and arranged as desired.
• Employee Feedback – to enable employees to designate when they want to work but allow managers to set parameters.
• Real-Time Decision Support – to provide instant feedback on the effect of scheduling choices on key metrics.
• Managing Assets – to ensure that people are scheduled with the right equipment.
• Optimized Schedules – to notify managers when there are too many or too few staff.

About Schedulist
Based in New Orleans, LA, Schedulist helps healthcare facilities minimize the crippling turnover in their nursing staff.  With robust enterprise scheduling at its core, Schedulist empowers facilities to optimize their staffing while giving the staff unparalleled ability to manage their professional lives. Using its patent-pending technology, Schedulist ensures that hospitals achieve the highest levels of efficiency and job satisfaction.  For more information about Schedulist and its workforce scheduling software and employee retention resources, visit www.schedulist.com.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 and 2010 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency.  The company’s report distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs.  Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage.  Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH^® customers worldwide.  For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on July 20th, 2011 in News, Workforce Scheduling | Permalink | Comments »

Saratoga Hospital Finds Unlimited Uses for NetDelivery Report Distribution Solution

NetDelivery Proves Its Information Sharing Capabilities Can Be Extended to Multiple, Diverse Departments and Applied in All Types of Report Distribution

Natick, MA – May 25, 2011 – Exploring the potential of Interbit Data’s report distribution software, NetDelivery, Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, NY, has discovered numerous applications, enabling the speed of automated information sharing across its organization and satisfying the diverse report requirements of multiple departments.

“We weren’t taking full advantage of NetDelivery and what it can do beyond standard information sharing and delivery,” stated Art Baran, Application Analyst, Saratoga Hospital. “Once we explored the product more deeply, we saw its potential. We have gone from using NetDelivery for delivering reports and lab results to applying it for multiple uses across multiple departments.”

Saratoga Hospital initially installed NetDelivery to automate the task of faxing reports and enable them to send several patient reports to multiple recipients at the same time, saving time and making the report distribution process more efficient. By maximizing the software’s extensive capabilities, numerous areas of the hospital are enjoying added convenience and reducing paper usage as well, thereby lowering costs and increasing productivity.

Saratoga Hospital’s emergency department uses NetDelivery for numerous purposes, such as generating ambulance arrived-by reports, delivering nursing performance evaluations, and gathering information to address customer complaints. Reports can be sent directly to a printer, if necessary, or created as a PDF that is stored on a secure server and can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Specific reports or documents can be found by just using a keyword search, which brings up and sends the report in seconds.

The Saratoga Hospital emergency department found NetDelivery’s versatility also extended to sending alerts. When an order for an EKG for an emergency patient comes through MEDITECH, NetDelivery sends a text message to the technicians telling them where the patient is located, allowing them to avoid the step of going to someone for the order.

Other Saratoga Hospital departments that are finding uses for NetDelivery beyond the typical report distribution include the pharmacy, which runs reports on what medications are being administered in the hospital; the admitting department, which uses NetDelivery to edit or cancel accounts and as an audit tool for tracking staff activity; and the diagnostic center, which uses NetDelivery to keep track of appointments and generate a report on cancelled appointments.

Saratoga Hospital’s physicians’ practices have a two-fold use for NetDelivery. When they need to have lab reports sent over the virtual private network (VPN) to their electronic medical records (EMRs), NetDelivery generates a requisition for the report, which is received by MEDITECH, and then sends the report with the requisition number.

Saratoga Hospital continues to discover uses for NetDelivery that it plans to implement in the future, such as nebulizer alerts to notify clinicians when a patient has stopped breathing and exchanging reports with its ProVation electronic health record (EHR) system.

By using NetDelivery, Saratoga Hospital has saved numerous steps for its clinicians, as they do not have to manually deliver or obtain reports to/from other offices or departments. The hospital also saves paper and money by creating more PDF files of reports instead of printing them. Time is further saved through the batch printing, specifically in the emergency and billing departments.

About Saratoga Hospital

Saratoga Hospital is the Saratoga region’s leading healthcare provider. The only acute-care facility in Saratoga County, the hospital has a medical staff of over 450 physicians and other credentialed providers, offering care in a broad range of medical specialties. In keeping with its emphasis on quality, Saratoga Hospital was the first in the Capital Region to earn Magnet Designation for nursing excellence. The hospital achieved re-designation in 2010.

Hospital facilities include: Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga Care Nursing Home, Wilton Medical Arts, Malta Medical Arts, Saratoga Surgery Center, Mollie Wilmot Radiation Oncology Center, Saratoga Family Physicians, The Saratoga Center for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Saratoga Hospital Pain Management Center, Saratoga Family Health, Schuylerville Family Health and Galway Family Health.

For more information, go to www.saratogahospital.org.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 and 2010 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide. For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

Posted on May 27th, 2011 in News | Permalink | Comments »

As Healthcare Industry Moves More Broadly to Electronic Records, Interbit Data’s NetSafe Offers Data Protection During System Downtimes

With NetSafe, Hospitals and Doctors’ Offices Can Be Assured That the Most Up-To-Date Patient Information is Available When and Where It’s Needed, Despite Network or System Status

Natick, MA – May 12, 2011 – For healthcare providers implementing electronic health records (EHRs) to meet American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) requirements for “Meaningful Use” of patient data, there’s a solution that ensures uninterrupted data access in the event of a system failure or downtime.  With NetSafe, Interbit Data’s downtime protection and business continuity solution, hospitals and other healthcare providers can automatically capture the latest patient information generated from their healthcare information system (HCIS) and preserve it anywhere on the network.

A one-minute video on the downtime protection and business continuance benefits of NetSafe is available at: http://interbitdata.com/business-continuance/netsafe/

“As healthcare organizations increasingly adopt electronic health records, there is the concern that patient care can be placed at risk if there is a service disruption or the system is unavailable,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. ”In these circumstances, clinicians are unable to access important patient information such as the latest medication records. Thus, they typically need to employ a manual system such as printed reports, which is tedious, time-consuming and potentially unsafe if the information most recently printed is not the most up-to-date.”

With NetSafe, the latest patient information is always available for look-up, review and/or printing directly from the local PC where the reports are automatically stored.  Healthcare organizations can end the frequent printing of electronic medication administration records (eMARs), master patient indexes, blood bank transfusion logs and other critical reports and documents, reducing paper waste and the use of printer supplies. Enabling 24/7 access to patient information regardless of network or system status guarantees clinicians get the information they need when and where they need it, ensures consistent workflow, maintains productivity and, most importantly, ensures consistent delivery of patient care.

NetSafe also responds to HIPAA’s Security Rule (2005), which mandates that healthcare organizations have a contingency plan for emergencies affecting access to electronic information. They are responsible for backing up their data and having disaster recovery procedures in place in the event that access to patient records is not available.

NetSafe and Interbit Data’s other products for downtime protection and business continuance, information distribution and workforce scheduling and management are being readied for certification as products for achieving Meaningful Use.

More information on NetSafe can be obtained at http://interbitdata.com/business-continuance/netsafe/.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 and 2010 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency.  The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs.  Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage.  Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 customers worldwide.  For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

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