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Doctations Selects Intelligent Medical Objects to Deliver Advanced EHR Platform

(Dec 12, 2008)-- Doctations and Intelligent Medical Objects announced they have partnered to offer IMO's clinical terminologies through Doctations' online medical system. Doctations EHR is a unique true Internet-enabled, multi-tenancy healthcare software as a service designed to improve collaboration among doctors and patients. IMO is the leader in clinical interface terminology. By linking common medical terminology to standardized clinical codes, IMO's Problem  improves a user's ability to find clinically relevant terms and their associated administrative codes, instantly improving any system that utilizes ICD-9-CM data.

Doctations' EMR system combines a highly secure group of online software services that are used by healthcare providers, patients, doctors and service providers collaboratively across the entire healthcare workflow to better facilitate communication between doctors and their patients. DocPatientNetwork.com connects doctors, medical transcriptionists, medical billers and others through its HIPAA-compliant system. Fitting seamlessly into existing EMR systems, no upfront software purchases are required to use Doctations and it runs on a standard Internet browser, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox. Doctations is free for patients and offers a free subscription tier for qualifying physician offices.

"Deploying IMO's medical vocabularies and technology underscores our commitment to improving the usability, accuracy, and reliability of our EHR, making it usable for multiple purposes--from patient care coordination among doctors to ensuring billing accuracy to improving the doctor-patient relationship," said Dr. Louis Cornacchia III, M.D., F.A.C.S., President and CEO of Doctations, Inc. "This information makes Doctations medical systems far more interoperable and intelligible across the entire EHR value chain addressing the needs of multiple audiences while achieving greater efficiencies in billing and even the understanding of health information by patients themselves."

DocPatientNetwork.com utilizes IMO Problem (IT)(TM), a clinical diagnosis and problem vocabulary that contains over 170,000 user-friendly terms for clinicians, coders, and patients. IMO's clinical interface terminology provides common, user-friendly terms for clinicians and patients to document diagnoses, problem lists, and medical histories. The terms map to standard terminologies and codesets, including ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-WHO, and SNOMED(R) CT for reimbursement and outcomes analysis. The Doctations application uses the IMO mappings to connect the patient clinical records to standard codes across an entire organization. IMO's terms and links to billing codes result in faster and more efficient payment processing and reimbursement and can enable the generation of clear, patient-friendly billing notes which help patients better understand their medical conditions and participate in their own care.

"Patients go to clinicians to have their problems solved. Capturing the intent of clinicians, especially for the problem list, is the basic requirement for any EHR. We feel the Doctations team understands this responsibility, and we are excited to be working with Doctations to make sure their EHR solution captures and protects the patient problem list and connects it to standard medical terminologies--not just ICD9-CM," said Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA, chief executive officer of IMO.

Doctations shares our own charter to advance health records through standardization. Records can now be used by multiple audiences, especially the care delivery team, for billing and more importantly, standards such as SNOMED CT, for supporting reliable information exchange and analysis. IMO's terminologies are developed and maintained by clinicians for clinicians by clinicians to ensure that terms are accurate and in accordance with current medical practice. Linking diagnoses to required billing codes allows clinicians to focus on caring for their patients."

Doctations is in the process of integrating the IMO Problem software and it will be available early in the first quarter of 2009.
For more information, please visit: www.doctations.com.

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