Texas Hospital Association Endorses Case Management Technology Provider ECIN for Automated Discharge Planning
The Texas Hospital Assocation has endorsed ECIN as a preferred vendor of case management technology.
Chicago, IL, November 30, 2005 --(PR.com)-- HealthShare/THA, a subsidiary of the Texas Hospital Association, has endorsed Case Management technology provider ECIN for hospitals seeking to automate discharge planning in order to increase patient throughput and reduce capacity constraints.
Chicago-based ECIN, or Extended Care Information Network, provides a suite of case management software and consulting services that help hospitals decrease costs and increase revenue by enhancing patient flow and automating the utilization review process.
ECIN’s flagship product is discharge planning tool ExtendedCare Professional™ -- powerful work-flow automation software and support that assists healthcare organizations to decrease patient length-of-stay, enhance throughput, while improving patient and family satisfaction. ExtendedCare Professional connects hospitals with a database of more than 85,000 extended-care providers including nursing homes and other senior-living facilities, home healthcare agencies, DME companies, transportation providers and community-based post-acute services. Automating and streamlining the discharge and patient referral workflow compresses the processing time frame from days to often under an hour, allowing clinical staff more time for patient care instead of phoning and faxing.
“The fundamental challenge for hospital administrators is to remain economically viable while providing the highest possible level of quality care,” said ECIN CEO Jeff Surges. “With more patients entering their health systems every hour, healthcare leaders in Texas are facing the difficult challenge of strategically increasing capacity. Many have initiated multi-million dollar, multi-year construction projects, while others agree with the American Hospital Association, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the General Accounting Office that the primary driver of hospital over-crowding is patient flow bottlenecks. ECIN is tremendously proud to step forward with the Texas Hospital Association to help state healthcare leaders improve throughput and capture revenue at the highest possible rate.”
Vicki Pascassio, President/CEO of HealthShare/THA commented “We are delighted to add ECIN to our portfolio of high-quality endorsed companies that assist hospital administration with their most critical management issues. Our hospital membership tells us that solving capacity and throughput challenges are key objectives of the executive suite, and we are pleased to be able to offer a solution for our hospitals.”
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Chicago-based ECIN, or Extended Care Information Network, provides a suite of case management software and consulting services that help hospitals decrease costs and increase revenue by enhancing patient flow and automating the utilization review process.
ECIN’s flagship product is discharge planning tool ExtendedCare Professional™ -- powerful work-flow automation software and support that assists healthcare organizations to decrease patient length-of-stay, enhance throughput, while improving patient and family satisfaction. ExtendedCare Professional connects hospitals with a database of more than 85,000 extended-care providers including nursing homes and other senior-living facilities, home healthcare agencies, DME companies, transportation providers and community-based post-acute services. Automating and streamlining the discharge and patient referral workflow compresses the processing time frame from days to often under an hour, allowing clinical staff more time for patient care instead of phoning and faxing.
“The fundamental challenge for hospital administrators is to remain economically viable while providing the highest possible level of quality care,” said ECIN CEO Jeff Surges. “With more patients entering their health systems every hour, healthcare leaders in Texas are facing the difficult challenge of strategically increasing capacity. Many have initiated multi-million dollar, multi-year construction projects, while others agree with the American Hospital Association, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the General Accounting Office that the primary driver of hospital over-crowding is patient flow bottlenecks. ECIN is tremendously proud to step forward with the Texas Hospital Association to help state healthcare leaders improve throughput and capture revenue at the highest possible rate.”
Vicki Pascassio, President/CEO of HealthShare/THA commented “We are delighted to add ECIN to our portfolio of high-quality endorsed companies that assist hospital administration with their most critical management issues. Our hospital membership tells us that solving capacity and throughput challenges are key objectives of the executive suite, and we are pleased to be able to offer a solution for our hospitals.”
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Extended Care Information Network
Charlie Jolie
773-632-1665
www.extendedcare.com
Charlie Jolie
773-632-1665
www.extendedcare.com
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