American HealthTech and COMS Partner to Improve the Quality of Care
in Skilled Nursing Facilities
JACKSON, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2018--
American HealthTech (AHT), a wholly owned subsidiary of CPSI (NASDAQ:
CPSI) and a leading provider of electronic health records (EHR) for the
post-acute and senior living markets, and COMS Interactive, the market
leader in clinical content and disease management solutions, are pleased
to announce our interoperable solution, available in three unique
packages. COMS brings over 20 years of evidence-based best practices
from over 50 million nursing assessments to the AHT system.
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“As partners for nearly five years, COMS and AHT have committed to help
long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) providers deliver better care and
achieve improved outcomes – and this is just another example of
following through on our commitment,” said Jim Riemenschneider,
co-founder of COMS Interactive. “We really wanted to empower nurses with
the ability to manage higher acuity and more complex residents, and the
best way to do that was to deliver interoperable COMS content
through the American HealthTech system.”
AHT recognizes the importance of managing care post-discharge from the
hospital and the need for skilled nursing to manage chronic diseases.
“The AHT and COMS partnership is not only bringing disease management to
the AHT system in a fully integrated way, but it is also giving
providers an evidence-based, disease-specific process to manage
increasingly complex care and truly affect outcomes,” said Teresa Chase,
president of American HealthTech. “We’ve listened to our customers. They
asked us to deliver a mechanism to manage clinical care that was easy to
use, but also included budget friendly options.”
AHT understands organizations have different needs, therefore, we now
offer the interoperable COMS solution in three affordable packages:
- Admission Package: Offers COMS assessments during the first 72
hours of admission process, which helps support strong baselines and
the new Requirements of Participation. This package is subscription
free for the first 12 months.
- Nursing Package: Offers COMS deep clinical data, assessments,
and insights that are related to the individual resident. This rich
clinical data enables customers to provide evidence-based,
disease-specific care with a person-centered approach.
- Comprehensive Package: Includes all the Nursing package
features, but also closes the loop on clinical care with critical care
review, reporting and analytics to drill down and understand care team
competency and trends in care.
About CPSI
CPSI is a leading provider of healthcare solutions and services for
community hospitals plus other healthcare systems and post-acute care
facilities. Founded in 1979, CPSI is the parent of four companies –
Evident, LLC, TruBridge, LLC, Healthland Inc. and American HealthTech,
Inc. Our combined companies are focused on helping improve the health of
the communities we serve, connecting communities for a better patient
care experience, and improving the financial operations of our
customers. Evident provides comprehensive EHR solutions and services for
community hospitals and their affiliated clinics. TruBridge focuses on
providing business, consulting and managed IT services along with its
complete RCM solution for all care settings. Healthland provides
integrated technology solutions and services to small rural and critical
access hospitals. American HealthTech is one of the nation’s largest
providers of financial and clinical technology solutions and services
for post-acute care facilities. For more information, visit www.cpsi.com.
About American HealthTech
Headquartered in Jackson, MS, and with offices in Denver, CO, American
HealthTech (AHT) is a premier provider of integrated solutions to the
skilled nursing industry to help organizations achieve data-driven
clinical and financial improvements. Its solutions delivered to clients
include software, professional services and interoperability
connections. AHT is part of the CPSI family of healthcare IT solutions.
For more information, visit www.healthtech.net.
About COMS Interactive
COMS Interactive is advancing Post-Acute Care through quality
improvement. COMS is focused on providing the platform for standard,
evidence-based clinical care content. Built with over 20 years of
research, COMS has 58 disease-specific, evidence-based Care Guides and
assessments that guide and empower nurses. COMS ensures everyone
involved – from doctors and nurses to corporate management and insurers
– have complete visibility. Changing the overall face of quality, one
resident at a time. For more information, visit www.comsinteractive.com.
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of future performance. Certain risks, uncertainties and other factors
may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in
the forward-looking statements. Such factors may include: overall
business and economic conditions affecting the healthcare industry,
including the potential effects of the federal healthcare reform
legislation enacted in 2010, and implementing regulations, on the
businesses of our hospital customers; government regulation of our
products and services and the healthcare and health insurance
industries, including changes in healthcare policy affecting Medicare
and Medicaid reimbursement rates and qualifying technological standards;
changes in customer purchasing priorities, capital expenditures and
demand for information technology systems; saturation of our target
market and hospital consolidations; general economic conditions,
including changes in the financial and credit markets that may affect
the availability and cost of credit to us or our customers; our
substantial indebtedness, and our ability to incur additional
indebtedness in the future; our potential inability to generate
sufficient cash in order to meet our debt service obligations;
restrictions on our current and future operations because of the terms
of our senior secured credit facilities; market risks related to
interest rate changes; our ability to successfully integrate the
businesses of Healthland, American HealthTech and Rycan with our
business and the inherent risks associated with any potential future
acquisitions; our ability to remediate a material weakness in our
internal control over financial reporting; competition with companies
that have greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we
have; failure to develop new or enhance current technology and products
in response to market demands; failure of our products to function
properly resulting in claims for losses; breaches of security and
viruses in our systems resulting in customer claims against us and harm
to our reputation; failure to maintain customer satisfaction through new
product releases or enhancements free of undetected errors or problems;
interruptions in our power supply and/or telecommunications
capabilities, including those caused by natural disaster; our ability to
attract and retain qualified customer service and support personnel;
failure to properly manage growth in new markets we may enter;
misappropriation of our intellectual property rights and potential
intellectual property claims and litigation against us; changes in
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States;
fluctuations in quarterly financial performance due to, among other
factors, timing of customer installations; and other risk factors
described from time to time in our public releases and reports filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited
to, our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. We also caution
investors that the forward-looking information described herein
represents our outlook only as of this date, and we undertake no
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect
events or developments after the date of this press release.
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American HealthTech
Tracey Schroeder, 612-787-3125
Chief
Marketing Officer
Tracey.schroeder@cpsi.com
or
COMS
Interactive
Jessica Merges-Jett, 849-340-9123
Director of
Marketing
jjett@comsinteractive.com
