Medical Informatics Engineering Releases Web Interface for WebMD/Medical Manager
BUSINESS WIRE - November 06, 2000 08:30
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Nov 6, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE), Inc. announces a new web-based portal for The Medical Manager (Nasdaq:HLTH).
MIE's WWW portal for Medical Manager, named W3M2, enables physicians to access patient demographics, scheduling, procedure history, lab results, and imaging coupled with their Medical Manager systems using only a web browser. The most recent developed module allows physicians and their office staff to post charges, schedule patients, and receive payments all through the web portal.
"MIE is developing W3M2 for billing services and MSOs to turn their existing Medical Manager systems into portals for physicians," stated Douglas Horner, president of MIE. "We have developed many of the features physician offices require to operate from a clinical and administrative perspective." While WebMD has been struggling to build their portal, W3M2 has been in operation on MIE's medical network for over a year. MIE's Northern Indiana community network has more than the majority of physicians in the territories it serves.
Since the W3M2 portal requires nothing more than a browser on the client side, it makes deployment and maintenance fast and simple. Furthermore, training physicians and office staff is easy because the simplified point-and-click browser technology is intuitive. Enhancements such as touch screens and handwriting recognition make it is possible to setup an inexpensive network kiosk that permits physicians to be fully functional with W3M2 "without ever touching" a keyboard or mouse!
W3M2 includes Link Manager technology to construct hyperlinks that automate data entry to external systems. The Link Manager creates hyperlinks to pharmacies, labs, dictation systems, imaging systems, and/or any web-based information system. Currently developed modules include Display Patient, Scheduling, Clinical Dictation/Notes Manager, Administrative Imaging, Clinical Imaging (DICOM lib), and Charge/Payment Management. Since the original release of W3M2, MIE has developed relationships with VARs across the country to install and support W3M2. The W3M2 portal will be licensed either as a one-time purchase, or on a monthly plan. The base system cost per physician is expected to be a monthly rate of $32.
MIE has a test portal running at www.w3m2.com to allow interested parties to see first hand how easy the software is to use. Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (http://www.mieweb.com/) develops web- based applications for the healthcare industry. In Addition, MIE develops locally operated on-line healthcare communities.
CONTACT: Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc., Fort Wayne Douglas R. Horner, 219/459-6270 ext. 400 Fax: 219/459-6271 |
