STRM Streamline Health Solutions Inc

CINCINNATI, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRM) a leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced that Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT has purchased a license to implement Streamline Health's accessANYware™ document workflow solutions integrated with GE Healthcare's Centricity® Enterprise, an enterprise electronic medical record (EMR) system. Through this integrated solution, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center looks to increase productivity, improve processes, and enhance the flow of information across the healthcare enterprise, helping to enable a higher quality of patient care.  

Streamline Health's enterprise workflow solutions ensure easy access to all forms of patient information. The accessANYware solution provides enterprise access to a patient's document-based medical and financial records to better coordinate patient care. By streamlining this process, healthcare organizations gain operational efficiencies that result in a positive impact on the bottom line.

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, a provider of sophisticated and contemporary medicine, is the third largest hospital in Connecticut and the largest Catholic hospital in New England. Streamline Health will help Saint Francis gain efficiencies by providing convenient electronic access, including secure web-based access, to all forms of patient information from any location. The implementation and integration of these solutions will alleviate friction points associated with document-centric business processes and therefore improve the flow of information. Streamline Health's enterprise solutions will equip healthcare professionals at Saint Francis with convenient access to the complete medical record, through its integration with GE Centricity Enterprise. Saint Francis plans to deploy Streamline Health's enterprise software license in their clinical, patient financial services and administrative areas, while installing the solution at their local data center facility.

"At Saint Francis we are always looking for ways to improve hospital operations with advanced technology to achieve the best possible patient experience with the highest quality of care," said Kathy DeMatteo, VP/Chief Information Officer at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. "The benefit for our physicians to sign on to the system from any location and electronically view and process patient documents in context with the patient data within GE Centricity Enterprise will provide our clinicians enhanced clinical quality, safety and higher continuum of care."

"We are pleased to add Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center to our growing list of healthcare organizations in the Northeastern region of the U.S.," said J. Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. "The seamless integration of workflows between Streamline Health and GE Healthcare solutions will offer Saint Francis a flexible, automated process that will increase productivity and reduce costs to enhance patient care across the enterprise."

About Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has been an anchor institution in North Central Connecticut since its founding in 1897 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambery. Licensed for 617 beds and 65 bassinets, it is one of the largest hospitals in Connecticut and the largest Catholic hospital in New England. Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center is a multidisciplinary, leading-edge teaching hospital. Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center established Saint Francis Care, an integrated healthcare delivery system, nationally recognized, not-for profit and charitable healthcare organization. Recently, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has been recognized as "Most Improved" on Health Care's Most Wired 2010 Survey, conducted by Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine. In addition, the Stroke Center at Saint Francis has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers. For additional information about Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, visit their website at http://www.stfranciscare.org/.

About Streamline Health

Streamline Health is a leading supplier of document workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners and healthcare organizations to improve operational efficiencies through business process optimization. The Company provides integrated tools and technologies for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR) and business process integration.

Streamline Health's solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location, including secure web-based access. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net.

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