Vendor Watch

Procura Partners with SecureCare to Offer Physician Portal with eSignature and
SecureFAX Management System.
Towson, MD - Procura LLC announced this week that it will partner with SecureCare Technologies to provide the new Procura Physician Portal, which will offer eSignature and the Procura SecureFAX Management System.

SecureCare (OTC BB:SCUC.OB) is a publicly-held healthcare information technology company based in Austin, Texas. The Company's Internet-based SecureCare Fax Management System is an electronic fax management system that is dedicated to the healthcare industry.

As a Procura product, SecureFAX Management System is expected to save end-user time over manual faxing. The product replaces manual faxing with an automated, HIPAA-compliant system. It provides log and audit trails for fax documents.

The Procura Physician Portal decreases 485, OASIS and PPS turn-around time. Integrated within Procura's software, it will allow agencies to exchange electronic documents with physicians. Participating physicians are provided a digital certificate that allows them to electronically sign and securely return documents.
www.goprocura.com

HealthWyse Implementation at Florida's Senior Home Care.
HealthWyse LLC, of Wilmington, Massachusetts and Senior Home Care, of Clearwater, Florida are working on implementation and rollout of the HealthWyse integrated clinical and financial software system at the provider's 22 Florida branches. Senior Home Care is the largest freestanding, Medicare-certified home care agency in the state. The HealthWyse hosted application will tie together all the agency's branch operations.

Don Powers, VP of Clinical Affairs and project lead for this implementation, explained that Senior Home Care had evaluated point-of-care systems since 2003. “We selected the HealthWyse system due to its hosted IT architecture, PDA-based point-of-care and intuitive software design. Our business plan calls for continued expansion of our operations, and we needed a software platform that would allow us to centralize branch functions and grow fast."

During the past six months, the joint SHC and HealthWyse project team has implemented the system in 7 branches and expects to complete the rollout to all 22 branches by mid 2008.
www.healthwyse.com

OCS Grows Fast in Pacific Northwest.
Seattle, Washington - October 1, 2007 — Outcome Concept Systems, Inc., of Seattle, has been named to Deloitte and Touche's "Technology Fast 50" program for the Pacific Northwest, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth during the five years from 2002 through 2006. To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2002 and $5,000,000 in 2006, be headquartered in North America, and be a company that owns proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues.

OCS president Amanda Twiss has also announced this week that the company will team with Simione Consultants to bring financial reports and analysis products to home care providers. Home Health Financial Monitor™ will be introduced next week at the NAHC Annual Meeting in Denver.
www.ocsys.com

CareCentric Offers Choices to Customers.
Atlanta – September 13, 2007 — CareCentric® Inc., the Home Medical Equipment and home care software and outsource services vendor, has decided to offer its customers a choice of document management partners. The Atlanta-based company signed four partner agreements with Cabinet NG, FileBound, MedFORCE and RemitDATA. As a part of the agreements, CareCentric has facilitated data exchange to each software application.

Ralph Capasso, vice president of sales, marketing and business services, explained, "We would rather our customers decide which company does the best job for them than dictate who they have to do business with."
www.carecentric.com