CPSI Hospitals Attest to Meaningful Use Stage 2
June 2, 2014
MOBILE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPSI), a leading provider
of health information systems and services, is pleased to announce that
two hospitals utilizing CPSI’s EHR system have successfully attested to
Stage 2 of Meaningful Use. Harrisburg Medical Center (Harrisburg, IL)
and Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital (Sweetwater, TX) are among the
first hospitals nationally to have attested to meeting the Stage 2
objectives for Meaningful Use of a certified electronic health record
(EHR). Encouraging the implementation and utilization of a certified EHR
is the goal of the government’s incentive program for hospitals and
providers implemented under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA). Separated into three stages of increasingly stringent
objectives, the program offers eligible hospitals and professionals
financial incentives for implementing an EHR that allows them to meet
the objectives. In order to qualify, hospitals must first submit an
attestation to being users of an EHR system certified to support the
Stage 2 objectives and then provide reporting that confirms their
utilization of the EHR system is within the parameters required during
the EHR reporting period.
The hospitals point to their partnership with CPSI as being a key
component of their efforts in advancing the use of EHRs in their
facilities.
“Harrisburg Medical Center has always been technologically advanced.
We’ve been working towards this before Meaningful Use started,”
explained Rodney Smith, CEO of Harrisburg Medical Center. “We
implemented electronic charting in nursing as early as 2001 and were
recognized by Modern Healthcare in the last year as being ‘Most
Wired.’ Our goal is to have everyone in our community in the CPSI
System, so all the information is there for doctors when needed. Serving
our community and advancing healthcare for our community drives all of
our decisions.”
Richard Pyle, CIO of Harrisburg Medical Center, continued, “Being a
small hospital, we’ve had to do it piece by piece, but we were prepared
for Meaningful Use. Still, it took every department in our hospital to
attest to Stage 2. We worked closely with CPSI throughout the process.
They helped out greatly when we had questions.”
“We attested on April 15, 2014, and are glad to be among the first to
attest to Meaningful Use Stage 2,” said Vicky Rasberry, RN for the
hospital. “These objectives were more challenging, but everyone at
Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital worked together, especially our medical
and clinical staff. CPSI’s support and resources were invaluable to our
success in achieving this milestone.”
“We are very pleased that Harrisburg Medical Center and Rolling Plains
Memorial Hospital are among the first hospitals to successfully attest
to meeting the Stage 2 objectives and certainly want to offer them our
congratulations on this achievement,” said Boyd Douglas, President and
Chief Executive Officer of CPSI. “There’s no doubt the incentive program
has been very beneficial to our customers and the communities they
serve. We have been the acknowledged leader in Meaningful Use
attestations for rural and community hospitals since the start of
Stage 1 and fully expect to maintain that leadership through Stage 2
and, looking forward, Stage 3 as well. Our clients know they can rely on
us in meeting the challenges of Meaningful Use and, in a broader sense,
to be their trusted partner in delivering the highest quality of care
possible to their communities.”
About Computer Programs and Systems, Inc.
CPSI
is a leading provider of electronic health records systems for more than
650 community, rural and critical access hospitals and their 12,000
providers. Founded in 1979, the Company is dedicated to meeting the
ever-changing needs of health IT, while optimizing the quality of care
for communities in 46 states and the District of Columbia. CPSI provides
a complete information and patient care system from business office to
bedside combined with comprehensive implementation, training and ongoing
support from our staff of more than 1,400 healthcare and business
professionals. CPSI’s wholly owned subsidiary, TruBridge,
LLC, focuses exclusively on providing business office, consulting and
managed IT services to rural and community healthcare organizations,
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preceding statement, forward-looking statements include all statements
other than those made solely with respect to historical fact, including
statements with respect to CPSI’s expectations for maintaining a
leadership position in Stage 2 and Stage 3 Meaningful Use attestations
by hospitals customers. Numerous risks, uncertainties and other factors
may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in
any forward-looking statements. Such factors may include: overall
business and economic conditions affecting the healthcare industry;
government regulation of the healthcare and health insurance industries;
government regulation of our products and customers, including changes
in healthcare policy affecting Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates
and qualifying technological standards; the potential effects of the
federal healthcare reform legislation enacted in 2010, and implementing
regulations, on the businesses of our hospital customers; the funding
uncertainties associated with and potential expenditures required by the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in connection with the
adoption of electronic health records; saturation of our target market
and hospital consolidations; changes in customer purchasing priorities,
capital expenditures and demand for information technology systems;
competition with companies that have greater financial, technical and
marketing resources than we have; failure to develop new technology and
products in response to market demands; fluctuations in quarterly
financial performance due to, among other factors, timing of customer
installations; failure of our products to function properly resulting in
claims for medical losses; changes in accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States; breaches of security and viruses in our
systems resulting in customer claims against us and harm to our
reputation; potential intellectual property claims against us; 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; interruptions in our power supply and/or telecommunications
capabilities and other risk factors described from time to time in our
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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.
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc.
Boyd Douglas, 251-639-8100
President
and Chief Executive Officer
Source: Computer Programs and Systems, Inc.