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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19, 2004
SSIMED PROVIDES TIME
MANAGEMENT HELP
FOR BUSY DOCS
Windsor, Conn.,
- April 19, 2004 - Physicians are
under a serious time crunch like never before.
Thanks to managed care, savvy patients, new
government regulations, hospital rounds and
the overall day-to-day stresses of running
a successful practice, doctors can use all
the time management support they can get. SSIMED
provides that extra assistance with the launch
of SSIMED 2Go. This PDA (personal digital assistant)
application runs on most Pocket PC or Pocket
PC Phone Editions, allowing physicians to easily
and accurately record their hospital or office
encounters with just the tap of a stylus.
SSIMED 2Go literally allows the physician to
cut ties to his/her office and work from anywhere
- at least administratively. All that's needed
is an Internet connection. Stopping at the office
to drop off hospital rounds data becomes a thing
of the past. Besides the extra freedom the unit
provides, it also ensures accuracy.
Currently, most doctors face a logistical quagmire
filling out lengthy forms commonly known as "superbills." Superbills
list what procedures were performed during a
visit. Oftentimes, a busy physician waits and
fills out multiple super bills at once and then
has someone on staff enter the information into
a computer billing system, resulting in mistakes
and incorrect diagnosis coding. This in turn,
can lead to insurance reimbursement delays or
denials, resulting in a refusal of payment.
"Industry reports suggest that "at least 30
percent of health care claims for payment are
rejected annually," states Dan McMahon , President
of SSIMED Corporation. "This is a significant
amount of lost revenue for a small practice.
Even more startling is that of those rejected
claims, over half are rarely resubmitted for
payment again."
The introduction of SSIMED 2Go looks to change
all of that while improving and possibly even
lengthening patient face time. After all, a doctor
who isn't rushing may actually spend more than
the current industry average of seven minutes
with each patient. That's good news for patients
who often feel rushed or intimidated to ask questions.
SSIMED 2Go works on a PDA, a small mobile hand-held
device that provides computing and information
storage and retrieval capabilities. Diagnostic
and procedural information can be entered at
the time of the visit in mere seconds so that
it is both accurate and more efficient than originally
writing all of the information out long hand.
A physician can sync remotely or at the office
for immediate transfer into their practice management
application. There's no need to re-type or to
fill out a superbill. The efficiencies are instantaneous
and so is the accuracy.
SSIMED has made the device available to physicians
and so far, those that have tried it love the
ease and efficiency. "Because of the high volume
of patients I see on my rounds, coding issues
were commonplace. SSIMED 2Go has helped me reduce
mistakes, while actually improving my reimbursements," says
Stamford-based physician, Dr. Philip R. Corvo. "SSIMED
2Go allows me to spen d l ess time filling out
paperwork, and more time with my patients."
SSIMED Corporation, located in Windsor, Conn.,
provides state-of-the-art practice management
software and medical billing services to private,
group, and hospital-based physician practices.
For more information on SSIMED’s product
portfolio or for additional information on the
company, log on to www.ssimed.com.
Contact:
Jack Perugini, SSIMED
(860) 925-6340
jperugini@ssimed.com
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