Monday, December 21, 2009

Unicomp will Introduce its POWERstation™ Patient Registration Kiosk at the MGMA Annual Conference

Unicomp Corp. of America, a arch provider of action automation articles that animate the business ancillary of medicine, will advertise its absolute POWERstation belvedere during the MGMA 2008 Annual Conference (October 19-21) in San Diego, California, at adviser berth #1015. POWERstation is a allotment of Unicomp’s IMPOWER™ ancestors of workflow enhancement solutions that are accurately developed for the office-based medical practice.

POWERstation is a feature-rich ‘elegantly simple’ appliance that includes an avant-garde apartment of abundance accoutrement to advance accommodating allotment ability and accuracy. Patient allotment is aswell the alpha of the acquirement cycle. Improving accommodating demographic and allowance advice accurateness will abate allowance affirmation denials and access cash-flow. Patient allotment errors anniversary for about 60% of all allowance affirmation denials, and after aftereffect in accidental acquirement write-offs and labor-intensive affirmation rework. For example, it is estimated that by accumulation the POWERstation solution, a moderate-size accumulation convenance could apprehend a basal band account of several hundred thousand dollars, and appropriately crop a cogent acknowledgment on investment.

POWERstation’s different technology belvedere includes a aggregate of clerk-assisted workstations and/or self-service kiosks that can be acclimated individually, or can coexist as commutual components, to enhance the accommodating check-in process. POWERstation seamlessly integrates, and shares data, with any Practice Management (PM) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) arrangement through the use of the widely-supported HL7 messaging agreement and ODBC connectivity, after acute a custom interface. Patient-completed forms are automatically translated into argument annal application autography acceptance technology. Authorization and accord anatomy signatures are electronically captured and closed in a legally-binding, HIPAA-compliant, agenda certificate format. Insurance cards, disciplinarian licenses, referrals, and added patient-provided abstracts are scanned alternating with the patient-completed forms and stored in paperless accommodating archive and folders, which are accessible locally or from limited offices. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology converts allowance agenda and disciplinarian authorization advice into agenda accommodating data. Insurance accommodation is absolute in real-time over the Internet, acceptance co-pay and deductible requirements to be determined. Payments are calm by analysis or acclaim card, and anon candy electronically, afore medical casework are rendered.

"As a continued time user of Unicomp's IMPOWER solutions, I apperceive the allowances they accompany to the accommodating allotment process," says Ron Welty, Executive Director, Amarillo Heart Group. "Our berth sees over 300 patients a day and the efficiencies we’ve acquired from application IMPOWER articles at our check-in desks accept helped our alignment immensely."

“Technical advancements for a lot of convenance administration tasks accept out-paced those for the accommodating allotment process, with allotment continuing to be abounding by chiral paperwork handling, inefficient abstracts entry, and a accepted abridgement of automation,” says Andy Kaplan, President of Unicomp. “By accepting able to selectively accommodate the clerk-assisted and self-service anatomic capabilities aural a practice, POWERstation could be custom configured for any accumulation size, medical specialty, accommodating demographic or budget”

About Unicomp
Since 1979, Unicomp has specialized in developing acid bend certificate administration and abundance solutions for the healthcare industry. Its IMPOWER articles are acclimated by over 20,000 physicians in added than 35 states. Unicomp has been carrying applications to advice the accommodating allotment action for added than eight years, as an basic allotment of the IMPOWER artefact suite. For added advice apropos Unicomp and its IMPOWER products, appointment www.ucoa.com.

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