Biscom Joins Government and Health Care Leaders at the National Health Information Technology Conference to Advance the Goals of Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs, and Improving Quality
Chelmsford, MA – April 29, 2010 –Biscom (www.biscom.com), a technology leader in secure health care communications, will join federal, state, and private sector leaders this morning at “Health Information Technology: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs, & Improving Quality/A National Conference,” a two-day event hosted by Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick, to exchange ideas that will help drive down the costs of health care through advances in technology.
S.K. Ho, Biscom’s founder and chairman, will sit on a pre-conference panel , comprised of a dozen CEOs from leading Massachusetts Health Information Technology (HIT) companies, entitled, “CEO Summit: The Business End – Controlling Health Care Costs and Spurring Economic Growth,” moderated by Governor Patrick. Biscom will also present its HIT products, technologies and vision at Booth #42 at the conference, opening today at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA, and running through April 30.
“Biscom’s work uniting innovative technology with the health care industry goes back nearly a quarter century,” said S.K. Ho, the company’s founder and chairman. “Looking ahead, we believe that new technologies, like our DiNet™, Biscom Delivery Server, FAXCOM enterprise, and hosted fax solutions will help health care organizations deliver information securely using the Internet to achieve successful EHR implementations that meet meaningful use objectives, resulting in reduced health care costs as well as improved treatment quality and patient outcomes.”
Biscom’s participation in the HIT conference reflects its years of experience providing information exchange solutions to thousands of providers and payers worldwide, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston Medical Center, Emerson Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Maine Medical Center, St. Francis Medical Center, CVS Caremark, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Delta Dental of Rhode Island. With its proven solutions for electronic delivery and fulfillment of pharmacy orders, medical billing, clinical trial reports, claims, clinical scheduling, and medical records communications, Biscom will be a leader in this field for the foreseeable future.
At the HIT Conference, Biscom will present several health information technology solutions, including:
- DiNet™ (http://dinet.biscom.com) – secure point-to-point exchange of high-definition medical images that includes not only the images and charts but also the associated patient and provider metadata – enabling real time collaboration among physicians to improve patient outcomes.
- Biscom Delivery Server (BDS) – (http://www.biscomdeliveryserver.com/customers/healthcare.html) an enterprise Secure File Transfer (SFT) solution that enables users to send large files that contain PHI securely, while maintaining a complete transaction and audit trail.
- FAXCOM – (http://www.biscom.com/products_solutions/faxcom_healthcare.htm) reduces paperwork by integrating fax with EMR systems, such as Centricity® Electronic Medical Record from GE Healthcare, as well as automated rules-based fax processing workflows for hospital procedure scheduling and billing.
About Biscom
Founded in 1986, Biscom pioneered the fax server and host computer integration marketplaces. Biscom has provided many of the world’s largest companies with enterprise communications solutions, most notably its award-winning FAXCOM enterprise fax management solutions. Through acquisitions and the development of new technologies, Biscom has evolved into a provider of multiple product lines, including secure document delivery, file conversion and image viewing and enhanced messaging solutions. Biscom is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
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