Press Release - July 17, 2007 - CNN Money
Olympia Medical Services Selects Compuware Covisint to Deliver a Collaborative Healthcare Environment
Covisint Provides Independent Physician Association With High Value, Low Risk Means to Access Applications and Collaborate With Member Physicians
DETROIT, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation today announced that Olympia Medical Services has purchased a Physician Collaboration Center from Compuware Covisint. The collaborative solution provides a high value, low risk and low maintenance method for physicians to securely collaborate and access a full suite of physician practice applications and patient information in a Web 2.0 environment.
Olympia Medical Services is an independent physician association of doctors practicing in Southeast Michigan. With Covisint, it now has enhanced the capacity of its member physicians to share ideas and information between Olympia's administrative staff, physicians, practice managers and their staffs. Leveraging the integrated features within the physician collaboration center -- such as secure file exchange and messaging -- enables Olympia and its members to securely exchange essential documents and files with other members of its community.
"Serving our growing stakeholders well is vital to our mission and purpose, and this is best achieved with the kind of advanced technology Covisint provides," said Randy Bickle, DO, JD, CPE and President of Olympia Medical Services. "Covisint enables access and collaboration anywhere, anytime with an outstanding record of success. Just as important, we were up and running almost immediately."
With Covisint's hosted solution, Olympia will be able to collaborate with all of its members regardless of their technical sophistication, size or infrastructure. Even though the majority of healthcare information is still paper-based, Covisint provides a way to electronically manage and track all major forms of data and communications, including those that are paper-based. Olympia will leverage the Covisint solution for its billing, administration management, lab order and results management, as well as for referrals.
"Physicians realize that this kind of innovative technology can improve their practice efficiency and quality of care," said Bob Paul, President and COO of Compuware Covisint. "Covisint delivers on that need, providing an enhanced web-based environment for sharing important healthcare information. We have a remarkable track record of saving time and money while being unobtrusive to a physician's daily responsibilities. Our goal is to do everything possible to assist physicians in information retrieval and distribution, thereby facilitating the improvement of care delivery."
Covisint connects more than 15,000 healthcare users representing more than 500 healthcare organizations with its hosted healthcare solution. Covisint enables the secure access to and the improved visibility of health information. Leading healthcare organizations and communities across the healthcare continuum leverage Covisint technology to exchange information and support real-time collaboration, including the automation and streamlining of basic clinical and administrative processed that are generally paper-based transactions today.
Olympia Medical Services
Olympia Medical Services is a physician organization of 600 independent doctors. The organization's goals are to negotiate and facilitate physician participation in health care plans and provide services that promote quality and efficiency in the practice and business of health care.
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com.
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