St. Luke’s University Health Network Turns to SCI Solutions to Connect with their Community Physicians
SCI SolutionsMaggie Williams Dryden, 404-971-0792
announced today a partnership with , a leading provider of cloud-based community connectivity and rules-based scheduling services, to connect their hospitals to the referring physicians within their community and improve patient satisfaction through access management innovations. Through this partnership, SCI’s solutions will be implemented for St. Luke’s employed physician network of nearly 380 providers in six hospital facilities in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
“St. Luke’s has always been very committed to providing our community with innovative solutions in healthcare,” said Chad Brisendine, Chief Information Officer of St. Luke’s University Health Network. “By reaching out to connect our community physicians with electronic ordering and rules-based scheduling, we will increase not only patient satisfaction, but referring physician satisfaction as well.”
The services offered to St. Luke’s employed and affiliated physicians through the partnership include:
“SCI Solutions is known for connecting hospital systems with their communities to simultaneously improve physician and patient satisfaction and increase hospital revenues,” said Joel French, managing partner and CEO of SCI Solutions. “Our rules-based Clinical Integration Engine™ offers an end-to-end solution for community physicians - starting with the order and ending with the result, making it easier for them to do business with hospitals that offer this solution.”
Additional information about SCI’s results reporting and clinical mobility capabilities can be found at .
St. Luke's University Health Network is a non-profit, regional, fully integrated Network of hospitals, physicians and other related organizations providing care primarily in Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Carbon, Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery and Berks counties in Pennsylvania and Warren County in New Jersey. The Network provides services at more than 150 sites. St. Luke's University Health Network is comprised of six hospital sites. Learn more about the .
SCI is transforming healthcare, in the CLOUD, with a rules-based, workflow enabled, community solution that orchestrates patient care across hospital service areas based on condition, episode and population health. SCI aligns reimbursement with clinical appropriateness and compliance through efficient and secure exchange of clinical and financial information between patients, physicians and healthcare facilities regardless of originating or destination systems. SCI increases referrals, drives physician adoption, and reduces in-and-out-of-network revenue leakage. SCI lowers readmission rates, reducing health plan denials and underpayments through workflow enriched revenue management. SCI has added 84 facilities and over 22,000 physicians to our community connectivity network in 2012.
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