Published Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 13:07 (Your-Story.org)

Doctations’ unique blend of electronic medical records and practice management software enables PCB to offer the most comprehensive practice management solution available

GARDEN CITY, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Doctations, Inc., an innovative leader in applying Internet technology to improve healthcare, and Professional Claims Bureau, Inc. (PCB), a healthcare revenue cycle optimization company, have signed a partnership agreement that allows PCB to utilize Doctations suite of software, including its iBillWell medical billing system, to deliver a best in class, full-service electronic medical records and practice management solution to physicians and hospitals of all sizes.

Doctations offers an innovative, cloud-based platform for Internet Healthcare which allows patients and doctors to share internet space for the purpose of improving healthcare quality and efficiency. Doctations enables physicians to manage all facets of their practices online, from efficiently handling the business and scheduling aspects of a medical practice to automating electronic medical record keeping. The Doctations system directly couples patient workflow management and a novel, easy to use and rapid EHR documentation system with integrated voice recognition and transcription management directly to its automated, claim-lifecycle-based medical billing and RCM system, iBillWell. Doctations reduces back office overhead, increases time healthcare professionals can devote to patient care, and improves outcomes by more directly involving patients in the care process.

PCB is a one-stop shop for end-to-end revenue cycle solutions, providing a wide variety of services from early stage day-one billing and patient statement mailings all the way through secondary and tertiary collections. Leveraging their decades of experience with revenue recovery, PCB will integrate their established best practices with the Doctations system in client offices to create a customized practice management solution for clients.

“There is great synergy between Doctations and PCB, because Doctations end-to-end, integrated clinical and business functionality provides PCB all the tools required to offer their clients the most complete revenue cycle and practice management solution available,” observed Jerry Kolosky, COO of Doctations. “With our software, especially the iBillWell system, PCB can now handle any source of revenue, from patient payments, insurance or any other third party source, more effectively to help healthcare providers maximize efficiency and optimize revenue.”

“In addition to the most advanced front-end patient management system ever created, the Doctations system’s back-end functionality for third-party billing, follow-up and collections is unsurpassed,” commented Leigh Marcus, Executive Vice President, at Professional Claims Bureau, Inc. “We are specialists in the intricacies of both third-party and self-pay billing and collections. With the combination of our expertise and the Doctations software, we are now positioned to set a new standard for outsource revenue cycle management solutions for physician practices, clinics and hospitals.”

About the Doctations Solution

Doctations provides Internet-based technology as a service to physicians, other healthcare providers and patients – and forms the basis for connecting practices, providers and patients in one Internet space while simultaneously maintaining the privacy of each practice and patient.

The Doctations solution gives physicians easy, online, on-demand access to patient medical records, medical information databases and shared patient databases, and empowers patients with the ability to share a single, complete set of information, or medical record, with their doctors, and collaborate interactively with their healthcare team. By implementing the medical practice management and digital documentation solutions as web-native tools, Doctations provides doctors and patients with advanced, secure, HIPAA compliant, comprehensive solutions that are substantially less expensive than any other options currently available.

The iBillWell component of the Doctations suite is a comprehensive web-based medical billing system designed from the ground-up to modernize the practice of billing and to reduce the overhead of billing operations. In addition to bill processing, it features online services such as claim scrubbing and automated phone reminders to improve office patient flow and billing operations.

About Professional Claims Bureau, Inc.

Founded in 1964, Professional Claims Bureau, Inc. (www.pcbinc.org) services Physicians and Hospitals with a unique blend of revenue recovery solutions. Providing outsourcing solutions for both third-party and self-pay initiatives, PCB acts as an extension of the client business office. PCB is also a licensed bad debt collection agency. Our focus is 100% healthcare and our approach to both outsourcing and collection solutions are entirely unique, based on vertical integration through a partnership with a cutting-edge software development company that enables us to offer an end-to-end revenue cycle solution. PCB aims to set the benchmark for excellence in the healthcare revenue outsourcing arena.

About Doctations

Doctations Inc. has created an innovative, internet-based means of transacting healthcare. Doctors simply login to www.doctations.com to register, and for about the price of a cell phone subscription, they are given all of the tools needed to run an efficient, state-of-the-art medical practice. The goal is to leverage the Internet to make healthcare more accessible to patients and to substantially improve the processes of healthcare such as generating medical documentation, medical billing and denial management. Doctations brings physicians the benefit of the first true internet EMR and PMS without the burden or expense of difficult-to-use software. Our technology is updated monthly to accommodate new users and new ideas from our member physicians, other healthcare providers and patients.

For more information, please visit www.doctations.com or call 1-877-Doc-Patient.

Hi,

My name is Sebastian Hilbert and I am one of the doctors involved in the GNUmed project.

1) GNUmed currently comes without billing for the US. That is going to change. Contact http://www.palmedtech.com for details. They are offering support and most likely will offer billing support for GNUmed.

2) GNUmed is *not* new and unproven. GNUmed is unknown in the US but is operational in offices in Germany. After all we are doctors and care about stability a lot more then a few other vendors I know of.

3) 90K invenstment and 30K support fees ? Those are dream figures in Germany. Our health system requires highly complicates EMR and billing modules which have multiple certifications and the cost 3K once and 2K per year for support.

4) A support industry will form quickly once GNUmed has billing. Virtually every local IT shop can do it. I agree that physical support is needed. We recommend that GNUmed and billing are seen as different entities. Support for billing module will have to be offered by local entities. That is the business model. We are doctors. We write GNUmed because while more feature rich applications exist in Germany none of them support doctor’s workflows the way they should.

5) The US government effort will be fun to watch as you already have quite capable software like VA Vista. I still fear that lobbyists will persuade government to go for established high priced vendors with questionable track records.

6) GNUmed and GNUcash could work together. However billing for healthcare providers is not what is typically done by GNUcash. Special modules need to be developed (and currently are under development).

7) Always stay up to date. Version 0.3.9 in this article is outdated. Linux distributions update GNUmed every 6 months. However we are releasing bug fixes more often. We are at 0.5.1 now.
See http://wiki.gnumed.de for the latest software and documentation.

8) GNUmed 0.6 series will feature a very nice drug prescrition and documentation plugin. It is developed around the needs of general practioners and will offer interfaces to drug databases.

9) We welcome anyone (coding skills or not) to participate in the GNUmed project. Find more info on http://wiki.gnumed.de

Sebastian Hilbert