South Jersey Healthcare Selects MobileMD for Health Information Exchange Service

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Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:30am EDT

-- Agreement establishes health system as a leader of health information
technology in Southern New Jersey; MobileMD`s Health Information Exchange
communicates with both EMR and non-EMR enabled physician practices --


VINELAND, N.J.--(Business Wire)--
South Jersey Healthcare ("SJH") has signed an agreement with MobileMD to
implement MobileMD`s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Enterprise Access
(EA) technologies and services. South Jersey Healthcare will use MobileMD`s
turnkey technology and services to establish Health Information Technology (HIT)
connectivity and interoperability between their various facilities and their
physician community. 

With MobileMD, SJH will electronically and securely connect with their health
care community in order to send and receive all types of patient health
information (PHI), e.g. labs, transcribed reports, orders, and other patient
record documentation. Additionally, SJH will provide their business associates
the ability to order services to be delivered in their outpatient settings. 

For those physician practices that have not yet implemented Electronic Medical
Record (EMR) technology, MobileMD`s Enterprise Access will provide a fully
web-enabled, highly secure, feature-rich "EMR-light" designed to facilitate the
communication of and access to critical PHI, regardless of location or system of
PHI origination. For those physician practices currently using an EMR product,
PHI will be fully integrated into the disparate EMRs utilized across the
physician community. 

"The ability to provide secure, electronic interoperability with our physician
community and share critical patient health information in real time will not
only reduce costs, but, more importantly, will improve the physician-patient
relationship and patient outcomes. In short, our partnership with MobileMD will
help improve patient care," said Thomas Pacek, CIO of South Jersey Healthcare. 

"In addition," said Mr. Pacek, "MobileMD`s Enterprise Access product serves a
critical need for our affiliated physician community - particularly those that
have yet to implement an EMR. With MobileMD`s Enterprise Access, affiliated
physicians will have the ability to receive results and reports generated within
the walls of our various facilities and will be able to securely transmit PHI,
such as medical records and orders, to the health system thereby improving the
coordination of patient care." 

About South Jersey

South Jersey Healthcare is a 262-bed facility built on 62.5 acres at the
intersection of Routes 55 and 552 in Cumberland County, New Jersey. The
integrated medical campus is uniquely designed to complement and enhance the
delivery of responsive, efficient care. South Jersey offers emergency and
outpatient services from several locations throughout Southern New Jersey and is
also affiliated with Fox Chase Cancer Center. For more information, visit
http://www.sjhs.com. 

About MobileMD

The MobileMD services offering utilizes a secure, scalable and flexible
infrastructure to provide technologies and applications designed to integrate
patient health information with disparate physician practice EMR systems as well
as application software designed to provide access, communications, and
interoperability capabilities, bringing the healthcare community together in
support of enhanced patient care. As a fully managed services internet-based
SaaS offering, MobileMD provides health systems with an innovative, effective
way to connect their community - without derailing other strategic initiatives.
MobileMD currently provides connectivity to thousands of physicians and over 70
hospitals nationwide. For more information please visit http://www.MobileMD.com.






South Jersey Health System contact
Thomas J. Pacek
South Jersey Healthcare
856-575-4713
PacekT@SJHS.com
or
MobileMD Contact
John Skinner
MobileMD
908-768-5626
jskinner@mobileMD.com



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