MILPITAS, Calif. & MECHANICSBURG, Pa., Sept. 21, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Mechanicsburg -- the largest freestanding rehabilitation facility in Central Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the state -- is the first physical medicine rehab hospital and the first HealthSouth facility to purchase Vianeta Harmony, said Vianeta Communications Chief Operating Officer Ralph Aceves.
Vianeta, a software developer headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., has pioneered the use of XML technology to create Vianeta Harmony, a unified Web-based e-HIM (Health Information Management) software platform. Hundreds of hospitals and clinics throughout North America use Vianeta Harmony -- the only native XML health IT solution on the market -- to reduce cost, improve revenue cycles, maximize efficiency, prevent errors, improve quality, ensure patient privacy and build a solid foundation for a true electronic medical record.
"Our Dictaphone dictation/transcription solution was more than eight years old and needed to be replaced," explained Kerri Handworth, HIM Director at the 103-bed hospital. "We considered a Dictaphone upgrade but decided to investigate what else was out there. After careful evaluation, it was clear Vianeta could provide a superior solution and a higher level of customer service."
"Vianeta Harmony was found to be one of the more user-friendly of all the products we investigated. We also quickly realized that Vianeta's Web-based design would help us easily begin moving all our documents online, thereby helping us more effectively prepare for a future EMR (electronic medical record) install."
"All in all, we found Vianeta Harmony to be advanced, intuitive and affordable. The system uses native XML (Extensible Markup Language) so it can communicate patient health information in a granular form with our HIS (hospital information system) quite easily without the expensive interfaces other systems require. Other vendors require expensive Word deployments and proprietary hardware. Vianeta's open architecture lets us use whatever off-the-shelf hardware we prefer. As a result, we can minimize our IT investment and support needs. More than 25 dictating physicians affiliated with the Mechanicsburg hospital will eventually use Vianeta Harmony, added Aceves. "Our product is available in a modular fashion, so you can buy it 'piece by piece.' We are pleased HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Mechanicsburg decided to invest in the advantages of our full end-to-end solution."
About HealthSouth
HealthSouth is the nation's largest healthcare services provider with nearly 1,700 facilities nationwide and abroad. Our vast network of highly skilled physicians and therapists and the latest equipment and technology guarantees that all patients have easy access to high-quality healthcare.
At HealthSouth, we're dedicated to providing expert, cost-effective care, producing excellent outcomes and getting people back to work, to play, to living.
On the Net: HealthSouth site: http://www.healthsouth.com
About Vianeta
Headquartered in northern California, Vianeta Communications provides XML-based software solutions for health information management that help healthcare organizations of any size or shape automate HIM processes. Hundreds of hospitals and clinics, 60,000 physicians and 4000 HIM staff members throughout North America use Vianeta Harmony products to effectively create, aggregate, manage, process and distribute patient health information, enabling their organizations to reduce cost, improve revenue cycles, maximize efficiency, prevent errors, improve quality, ensure patient privacy and build a solid foundation for a true electronic medical record.
Vianeta Harmony combines digital dictation, speech recognition, transcription, document scanning and distribution, and electronic integration with multiple hospital departmental systems, to unify health information into a central e-HIM platform that can be accessed securely by clinicians, transcriptionist, coders, billing analysts, patients and more.
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CONTACT: Vianeta Communications Carol Somer (408) 519-2156 (858) 204-7424 (cell) csomer@vianeta.com
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Mechanicsburg Kimberlee Daniels (717) 691-3733