MedAptus
MedAptus was founded in January 1999 by two physicians. Lance Baldo, MD. - an Orthopaedic Surgeon Co-Founded Medaptus with Malcolm M. Lloyd MD. with a view to integrating Information Technology with Clinical Medicine. They both currently remain on the board of Key Executives For MedAptus, Inc [1].
History
The MedAptus System was initially piloted as a "PDA based Physician Coding Tool" [2] that was portable for providers. This professional Charge capture system currently claims to be the only one of its kind available for hospital outpatient clinic coding and billing [2]. According to MedAptus Inc. the system is being used by a variety of "prestigious healthcare organizations" who have facilitated enhancement to MedAptus workflow engineering [4].
Solution description
MedAptus has expanded from the early days to include 5 solution products namely:
- 1) Pro - Professional Charge Capture is a flexible scalable tool that is marketed as being able to be integrated with scheduling, registration and
EMR systems in a variety of clinical settings thus facilitating timely billing reconciliation [3]. - 2) Provider Enrollment [11]
- 3) Tech - Technical Charge Capture - has three options for facilitating integration into outpatient clinical workstations [12]
- 4) Infusion - Infusion Services Charge Capture [13]
- 5) ICD10 - ICD-10 Overview to help physicians transition to the use of ICD10 [14]
Customers
Customers using MedAptus and the year of inception are as follows :
- 2001 - Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA [5]
- 2002 - University Physician Associates of New Jersey, Newark, NJ (UPA) [6]
- 2004 - The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX [7] & [8]
- 2008 - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI [9]
- 2010 - Community Hospitalists Cleveland, OH [10]
References
- Bloomberg Business Week. Healthcare Technology Company Overview of MedAptus, Inc. Retrieved from [1]
- http://www.medaptus.com/aboutus
- Solutions:Pro [2]
- MedAptus Charge Capture Customers[3]
- http://www.medaptus.com/customers/successstories/lahey
- http://www.medaptus.com/customers/successstories/upa
- http://www.medaptus.com/customers/successstories/mdanderson
- http://electronichealthreporter.com/charge-capture-software-medaptus-md-anderson-cancer-center/
- http://www.medaptus.com/customers/successstories/medicalcollegewi
- http://www.medaptus.com/customers/successstories/communityhospitalists
- Solutions:Provider enrollment [4]
- Solutions:Tech [5]
- Solutions:Infusion [6]
- Solutions:ICD10 [7]
--GraceOkoroji (talk) 23:35, 19 January 2015 (PST)