News Release
Adams County Hospital Installs CodoniXnotes for the ED
West Union, Ohio - August 30, 2006 - Adams County Hospital (ACH), a regional hospital in southern Ohio with a 14,000 visit emergency department, recently installed the CodoniXnotes Emergency Department Charting and Coding system. This award winning software has improved documentation quality and reduced costs for dictation and transcription. ACH has also seen increased billings and improved service for their patients.
CodoniXnotes mirrors the way ED clinicians practice medicine. Nurses and physicians record patient data from admission through discharge using a series of mouse clicks. The result is a fully coded, CMS compliant narrative patient chart produced in real time that is complete and ready to be submitted for billing. CodoniXnotes eliminates the need for hand-written charts, or dictation and transcription.
CodoniXnotes is a browser based application that can be used internally over a hospital network or over the Internet using a secure HIPAA compliant CodoniX server. ACH chose the internal hospital based system that uses servers running Windows 2003 and MS SQL Server database. ACH licenses the CodoniXnotes application for an affordable monthly fee that includes both licensing and 7 x 24 support. The capital cost for the internal server hardware was less than $5000 and clinician and administrative training were completed in a week’s time.
Michelle Klosterman, the Emergency Department Manager of ACH said “Most of the systems we looked at were more complicated to use and outside of our budget. CodoniXnotes is very user friendly and easily fit our budget limitations.”
Ms. Klosterman added that CodoniXnotes “has improved the overall quality of the of our record and we have received many compliments from other departments and agencies regarding the look and content of our medical records.”
With CodoniXnotes, the hospital now has immediate access to patient records for review and consultation and their billing department receives the charts in real time. In addition, ACH now has access to standard and customized management reports that help them run a more efficient E.D. These reports include LOS, waiting times, shift reports, diagnoses and dispositions, a JCAHO daily log and E and M levels. Ms. Klosterman said that she found the reports to “be excellent in assisting me develop my in-house performance improvement statistics as well as providing information for outside agencies.”
ACH joins a growing list of hospitals using the CodoniX system from CodoniX or its partner McKesson. More than 3 million patient visits have been documented by CodoniX and every facility has seen improved productivity and streamlined operations as well as enhanced revenues. A typical return on investment (R.O.I.) for hospitals that install a CodoniX system is less than six months.
About CodoniX, Inc.
Headquartered just outside of Washington D.C. in Potomac, MD, CodoniX, Inc. (www.codonix.com) is a privately-held company with a proprietary technology that can be accessed on a local area network or via the Internet to accurately build and code a computerized physician’s note without using complex menus and rigid templates. These notes reduce errors, dramatically increase collections and cut the administrative costs associated with dictation, transcription, coding and copying. Other medical specialty documentation applications currently available or under development include urgent care, family practice, obstetrics/gynecology, pain management, orthopedics, cardiology, and urology.
CodoniX, Inc.
Steve Speights
PO Box 59050
Potomac, MD 20859
(888) 242-4888
e-mail: Stephens@codonix.com
web: www.codonix.com