Ingenious Med Experiences Impressive Growth in First Quarter 2009

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Mon Jun 1, 2009 2:08pm EDT

Numerous New Accounts Sign On; Existing Accounts Expand

ATLANTA, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenious Med, the leaders in inpatient
practice management, announces impressive growth in the first quarter of 2009.
The combination of a variety of new clients in addition to customer add-ons
continues to drive Ingenious Med's success in leading the inpatient market. 

Ingenious Med originated as a company dedicated to hospitalist revenue-cycle,
but has developed into a leader in general practice management functionality
within the inpatient market as a whole.  IM continues to dominate the
hospitalist market while also rapidly expanding its presence in the inpatient
sector by adding specialty groups, national health systems, academic
organizations and national management companies. IM Practice Manager has
proven to work with most inpatient specialties as well as retain its
reputation as an enterprise-wide software solution. 

In the first quarter of 2009, Ingenious Med added a wide variety of clients
including:

Southern Illinois Hospitalist Group in Belleville, Illinois
Virtua Health in Marlton, New Jersey
Overlake Medical Clinics, LLC in Bellevue, Washington
Gwinnett Pulmonary Group in Lawrenceville, Georgia
Upstate Lung & Critical Care Specialists in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Zenith Hospitalists in Las Vegas, Nevada

In addition to a substantial increase in new client sales, the first quarter
has also resulted in significant growth from existing clients including
numerous additional sites for TSG Resources and Hospitalist Services Medical
Group, as well as TeamHealth. 

"Building on our strong revenue performance in 2008, we are extremely pleased
with our overall growth the first quarter of 2009 alone," states Hart
Williford, Ingenious Med's CEO. "We continue to dominate the inpatient
practice management market with nearly 100% physician product adoption and 97%
client retention rates.  All of this is due to an excellence in ergonomics,
ease of use & enterprise-level client support. We are committed to customer
service and providing services that go beyond the normal expectations of a
software company. We are aggressively growing our support and development
teams in order to achieve our vision of dominating the inpatient market. With
all that we are doing, the opportunities are endless for even more aggressive
customer expansion."

About Southern Illinois Hospitalist Group 
The Southern Illinois Hospitalist Group provides inpatient care at Memorial
Hospital in Belleville, IL, and the group cares primarily for patients who are
admitted via the Emergency Department, and  do not have a primary care
physician on staff. In addition, local physician outpatient practices have
developed an alliance with Southern Illinois Hospitalist Group in order to
improve the level of inpatient care provided for the outpatient physicians'
established patients. The group's hospitalist physicians also care for
patients at the Memorial Convalescent Center, a 108 bed skilled nursing and
rehabilitation center.

About Virtua Health 
Virtua Health is a multi-hospital healthcare system headquartered in Marlton,
NJ. Its mission is to deliver a world class patient experience through its
programs of excellence in women's health, children's health, cancer/oncology,
cardiovascular health, neurosciences, orthopedics, surgery and wellness. 
Virtua employs 7,900 clinical and administrative personnel and has 1,800
physicians as medical staff members. Virtua has distinguished itself as one of
the first Six Sigma organizations in health care, as an early adopter of
clinical and digital technologies, and for its innovative partnerships with
nationally renowned organizations.

About Overlake Medical Clinics, LLC
Overlake Medical Center, located in Bellevue, WA, is a 337-bed medical center
distinguished for its cardiac, surgical, cancer and women's services. The
hospital treats more than 56,000 emergency patients, 243,000 outpatients and
17,000 inpatients each year, while welcoming more than 4,000 babies into the
world. The Overlake team includes approximately 2,300 employees, 875
physicians and over 500 volunteers.

About Ingenious Med, Inc.
Founded in 1999 by a group of practicing inpatient physicians, Ingenious Med
is an industry-leading inpatient practice management solution to thousands of
users in more than 500 facilities across the United States.

Ingenious Med's all-inclusive product, IM Practice Manager(TM), is an
Internet-based application enabling inpatient physicians to capture charges,
optimize documentation, enhance coding and compliance, improve quality of
care, increase revenue and communicate digitally. In addition, the program
aggregates management data separately from the hospital information system, so
individual physician and total department performance can be accurately
evaluated. Nationwide, Ingenious Med is the leader in inpatient practice
management solutions, supporting all inpatient specialties and practices. For
more detailed information on Ingenious Med, visit www.ingeniousmed.com or call
404.815.0862. 



SOURCE  Ingenious Med, Inc

Laura Murray of Ingenious Med, Inc., +1-678-336-1716,
laura.murray@ingeniousmed.com
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