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Don Rizzo, 770 594-2690, Ext. 106
dirzzo@ingeniousmed.com
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TeamHealth and Ingenious Med Partner to
Improve Inpatient Practice Performance and Data Management
KNOXVILLE, TN and ATLANTA, GA – March 30, 2007 – TeamHealth, the nation's largest provider of clinical outsourcing services, and Ingenious Med, the leading provider of inpatient practice management software, today announced a unique partnership between the two companies. Ingenious Med will provide its software and services to TeamHealth to consolidate and capture charges and performance data across select hospital medicine programs throughout TeamHealth's network of more than 400 hospitalists. This partnership will enable TeamHealth’s management and individual practices to have secure, real-time access to key business intelligence as well as physician and practice performance data. The software also will provide TeamHealth hospitalists with additional rounding, charge capture, communication and cross-cover applications to further enhance patient care and safety.
"TeamHealth chose to partner with Ingenious Med because the company was founded by hospitalists, and they understand the hospital medicine industry and the inpatient practice setting,” says Stacy Goldsholl, M.D., president, TeamHealth Hospital Medicine. “We have sites that have been using IM Practice Manager for almost a year, and the positive results have convinced us that Ingenious Med will make a significant contribution to our existing pool of resources that contribute to the continuing growth and success of our hospitalists and partner hospitals."
Ingenious Med’s flagship software program, IM Practice Manager ™, is an ASP application. It uses the internet to enable physicians and administrators to enter and access patient, rounding and practice information using a variety of platforms including desktop, tablet PC, and handheld PDA technology. With the largest aggregation of hospitalist performance data in the industry, IM continuously evaluates best practice metrics as benchmarks for client practice performance. With customizable business intelligence reporting capabilities, Ingenious Med provides real-time, actionable data, critical to managing multi-site enterprises.
“TeamHealth is one of the largest hospitalist and inpatient management organizations in the country, and our exclusive focus on the needs of inpatient practitioners makes this partnership an ideal fit," says Dr. Steven Liu, founder and CEO of Ingenious Med. "Through this partnership, we can provide TeamHealth hospitalists and client hospitals with the tools to continue to optimize revenue while further enhancing their already excellent clinical quality and hospitalist performance.”
About TeamHealth
TeamHealth is the nation's largest provider of hospital-based clinical outsourcing and administrative services. Founded in 1979, TeamHealth is affiliated with 5,600 physicians and other healthcare professionals who care for more than 1,000 patients every hour in 45 states. Although primarily known for its emergency medicine staffing and management services, TeamHealth was one of the first entrants in the hospital medicine market and has grown into one of the largest hospital medicine organizations in the country, with over 550 hospitalist physicians and mid-level providers nationwide. TeamHealth also provides comprehensive programs to hospitals in the areas of intensivist medicine, radiology and teleradiology, pediatrics, and medical call center services. For more information, visit www.teamhealth.com or call 800.818.1498.
About Ingenious Med
Ingenious Med was founded in 1999 by a group of practicing hospitalist leaders in Atlanta, GA, and IM has a customer base comprising thousands of active licenses in over 350 facilities across the US. Ingenious Med is the only provider in the nation exclusively devoted to inpatient practice management solutions. The company's largest market is hospitalists, however, other specialty groups are increasingly choosing Ingenious Med as their practice management solution. For more information on Ingenious Med, call (404) 815-0862.
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