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DocSite Offers HRSA Grantees Comprehensive, Affordable, Web-Based Solution
RALEIGH, N.C.-(Business Wire)-February 13, 2008 - DocSite(R), a leading provider of Web-based patient registries and point-of-care decision support to the healthcare market, today announced the availability of a comprehensive, affordable software solution that fully meets the goals and objectives of the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement (SHCPQI) Grant Program. This program, which is building on a successful 15-grantee first cycle, will distribute over $4.5 million across 60 new grantees, each eligible for up to $75,000 over a two-year period to support their quality improvement efforts. Notably, all 15 grantees participating in the initial cycle independently selected DocSite as their software provider after investigating a variety of alternatives.
The SHCPQI program helps rural providers implement quality improvement strategies while improving patient care and chronic disease outcomes. It encourages activities such as using patient registries, tracking and reporting of nationally accepted health indicators, and assessing the need for quality improvement performance measures for the future. In so doing, the program creates an institutional framework that links rural communities and public resources, with the ultimate goal of developing long-term solutions to rural health problems.
Over the past year, DocSite has gained rare insights into the challenges rural critical access hospitals face in developing online community health networks. This expertise, and the associated software enhancements it inspired, uniquely positions DocSite software as the solution of choice within this healthcare niche.
DocSite offers HRSA SHCPQI grantees a special package of services wherein the grantee serves as the community healthcare information hub, enhancing chronic disease care and coordination across the spectrum of healthcare services patients require. For the first time, critical access hospitals will have access to relevant clinical information gathered by physicians treating chronic disease patients in private practice relying on the same guideline-driven, point-of-care decision support and population management tools used in the hospital. Physicians and staff can then work together to establish common standards of care across the community for a wide variety of medical conditions.
DocSite CEO and founder John Haughton, MD, MS, said, "DocSite is well suited to advance the HRSA SHCPQI initiative, and I am proud that the grant specifically identifies DocSite as a company to approach for assistance. In particular, DocSite Registry(TM) incorporates the latest clinical guidelines from organizations such as the National Committee for Quality Assurance, AQA Alliance and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and brings them to the point-of-care where they can have the most influence. The affordability and immediate clinical value of DocSite solutions make them a low-risk means to achieve patient-centered connectivity in rural healthcare communities."
Community Hospital of Anaconda in Anaconda, Montana, one of the 15 initial grantees, recently decided to expand their use of DocSite in 2008. William M. Reiter, MD, FACP, helped spearhead the hospital's effort and said, "We enjoyed great success during our first year using DocSite solutions and look forward to using the firm's registries and electronic prescribing services together. Incorporating DocSite software into our clinical workflow and internal IT systems went smoothly, and DocSite has been receptive to our ideas for new features that will help us achieve our goal of delivering the highest-quality healthcare in rural America."
Pricing and Availability
The DocSite HRSA SHCPQI grantee package consists of
— Two-year DocSite enterprise site license for the critical access hospital ambulatory clinic (This license includes access for up to ten providers for use BOTH in the hospital AND in their private practice.)
— One system interface with an HL7-compliant data source (such as a practice management system) with two years of maintenance
— One interface to an internal lab system or Quest (Quest interface included at no charge) with two years of maintenance
— Two days of on-site consulting (training, process analysis, redesign, etc.), including travel
— Web education and training materials
— Security and backup
— Telephone and e-mail support
The two-year package is priced at $29,300 ($14,650/year). DocSite offers an $8,000 discount if the DocSite Registry is deployed without interfaces. Post-grant maintenance fees recognize the need to maintain uninterrupted levels of service once grant funding ends. Thus, the total annual maintenance fee for each rural health clinic in year three will be $1,200/year plus interface maintenance fees for grantees with four or fewer providers and $2,700 for those with up to ten providers.
DocSite's HRSA SHCPQI grantee package is available immediately. For more information about DocSite and its solutions, please contact Alex Burgess, Vice President, Marketing, at 919-256-9511 or ABurgess@docsite.com.
About DocSite, LLC
DocSite (www.docsite.com) is a clinical integration, connectivity and point-of-care technology company offering a portfolio of modular, upgradeable, Web-based tools that immediately improve the quality of care and save clinicians time. DocSite solutions give practitioners affordable, easy-to-use tools tied to evidence-based guidelines that reduce practice variation, enhance communication and support patient self-care initiatives. Thousands of physicians across the nation have already embraced DocSite products as the solution of choice for over 3 million patients. DocSite is endorsed by the Texas Medical Association and has been highlighted as a leader in chronic disease management systems/registries by the Physicians' Foundation for Health Systems Excellence. The firm works in partnership with independent practice associations, groups, health plans, hospitals and individual physicians to offer point-of-care, outcomes tracking, population warehouse and informed decision-making tools.
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