MILPITAS, Calif., and NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 20, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Bert Fish Medical Center, a leading provider of healthcare in the Daytona Beach, Florida area has selected the Vianeta Harmony Health Information Management Platform. Vianeta Harmony offers advanced capabilities such as Speech Recognition Desktop (SRD) and Speech Recognition Enterprise Server (SRES) throughout its organization. Both products provide enhanced accuracy, decrease Discharge Not Final Billed (DNFB) turnaround time, and improve access to the patient data that Bert Fish medical providers need to deliver first class patient care. Vianeta's Web-based XML platform achieves all of this with rapid installation, unaltered physician behavior and easy integration with existing hospital applications.
Bert Fish Medical Center, a 116-bed, acute care medical center opened in 1954, has developed innovative programs providing a comprehensive community of services from a successful Kidney Transplant Program to a state-of-the-art diagnostic and interventional imaging concentration. Bert Fish's focus on family, treatment and service generated their expansion in outpatient services to the W. Schildecker wing with one convenient facility housing Same Day Surgery and Oncology. With programs and services not usually seen in a hospital of this size, Bert Fish looked for a speech recognition solution that would meet their unique requirements and blend with their current HIM systems.
Vernon Bear, Manager of Health Information at Bert Fish, stated, "We wanted HIM technology to make physicians' lives easier, and complete tasks more simply. Many of our physicians and providers want a flexible solution enabling either on site or off site processing of medical charting and dictation. We also want to increase the productivity of our transcriptionists while decreasing our dependence on outsourcing transcription.
"Vianeta's SRD and SRES gives our medical staff the foundation for easily communicating patient and medical data across the organization for all of our patients, either on site or off site, whether they seek their medical care in our kidney transplant unit, our clinical trials or in our various medical and surgical departments."
Vianeta's CEO, Ralph Aceves explains, "Vianeta SRD and SRES supports both real-time and transcription-assisted workflows allowing physicians more alternatives. SRD and SRES provide physicians with voice-activated templates, pre-formatted documents producing non-demanding navigation along with accession numbers linking documents and allowing easy access later. The benefits are seen in a faster turnaround time and significant cost savings."
Bear added, "As Vianeta provided more alternatives for our physicians and clinicians, their speech recognized dictations is expected to reduce DNFB providing more available cash flow." Vianeta reduces DNFB while still concentrating on improving patient care through exceptional accuracy.
"In the end, Vianeta supplies the best value and superior technology."
About Bert Fish Medical Center
Bert Fish is a 116-bed, acute care medical center that offers innovative programs and services that include a successful Kidney Transplant Program, and state-of-the art diagnostic and interventional imaging services, as well as an Oncology Center. The medical facility also provides a linear accelerator for radiation treatments. At Bert Fish Medical Center, you're taken care of by "family," a family of caring health care professionals who are dedicated to their community hospital. For more information about Bert Fish, http://bertfish.com/
Bert Fish Corporate Contact: Cathy Vaughn, 386 424 6428.
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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, transcriptionists, coders, and billing analysts which will decrease turnaround time and significantly reduce the costs. For product information, visit Vianeta at www.vianeta.com or call 866 VIA NETA.