Nextgen Healthcare Information Systems

With more than thousand employees, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems is part of a public company. The company aims to improve the future of healthcare by providing connectivity solutions, practice management systems, integrated electronic health record, ambulatory practices and billing services for hospitals. Some of the leading IT companies like Citrix Systems, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Cardiac Science, HP, Intel, IBM, Isabel Healthcare, Microsoft, Motion Computing, Perot Systems Healthcare and MyFax are partners of NextGen. Among the other partners are RemoteScan Corporation, Primetime Medical Software, Silverback Technologies, Inc, Siemens Medical Solutions, Welch Allyn, Inc, SureScripts, White Plume Technologies and Tellurian Networks.

Together, these partners aim to change the face of healthcare information for the better. NextGen does not aim to be just a software vendor. They try to know about the needs and vision of the customer and then offer the suitable technology and management solutions. Their products act as building blocks in providing an integrated solution for the customer's practice. The products are such that they can be custom made to suit the needs and workflow of both physicians and support staff.

The interoperability that NextGen products offer helps a physician to improve patient safety through exchange of patient data with others in the medical community like other physicians, labs and hospitals. Since the solutions are designed by physicians and for the physicians, they provide specialty-specific templates, tools and workflow automation to streamline the management of both practice and patient. Specialties that are covered include Audiology, Behavioural Health, Cardiovascular, Community Health Center, Correctional Health, Dermatology, Family Practice / Primary Care, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Multi-specialty, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nutrition, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Physical Therapy, Pulmonology, Rheumatology and Urology.

Among the products of NextGen are Electronic Health Records or EHR, Enterprise Practice Management (EPM), Community Health Solutions (CHS), NextMD Patient Portal and Practice Solutions. EHR has the ability to take electronic medical records to the next level with interoperability. EPM provides user-friendly technology to manage appointments, billing and other administrative processes. Together they increase the productivity of an organization. CHS is central data repository and routing hub that helps the users to exchange patient data in a secure manner. NextMD is an advanced patient-provider portal promoting an interactive care system between the patient and the physician. Practice Solutions manage the revenue cycle so that the customer can keep focusing on patients and yet not lose revenue.

NextGen services help in both administrative resources and technical assistance. They simplify the work environment so that the focus can be on the core business of treating patients. Among these services are Revenue Cycle Management, Hosting, NextGen EDI Services, Custom Services and NextGuard Data Protection. EDI handles various administrative tasks like data entry. Consulting Services provide additional help to run the system properly. Data Protection offers data archiving and disaster recovery solutions to protect clinical and financial data.

The company's team of experts includes a physician resource group, trainers, account managers, support staff and specialty directors. Thousands of clinical users of NextGen go on to prove how the company's support and product updates help the customers to achieve lasting improvements in proper healthcare delivery, business and operations.

• Matt Thompson
• 07/05/2009, 4:59 PM
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