Netsmart Technologies Signs Contracts With Behavioral Health, Public Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Organizations
02 Febrero 2007 - 11:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
Software from Netsmart Selected to Facilitate Enterprise Clinical
and Operational Processes GREAT RIVER, N.Y., Feb. 2
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:NTST), a leading provider of enterprise-wide software and
services for health and human services organizations, today
announced that it has signed seven agreements totaling
approximately $4 million with behavioral and public healthcare and
substance abuse provider organizations in several states. All of
these contracts are scheduled to be performed over one year with
only one exception which is a multi-year agreement. "We are pleased
to be selected by these organizations as the trusted technology
partner for their mission-critical clinical and operational
processes," said James Gargiulo, Netsmart executive vice president,
Clients and Solutions. "We look forward to helping them meet their
goal of providing high quality care to their patients and clients."
Princeton House Behavioral Health, a division of Princeton,
N.J.-based Princeton Health Care System, will use Netsmart's CCHIT
Certified(SM) Avatar 2006 software Avatar suite, which is designed
to provide clinical assessments, progress notes, treatment planning
and reporting, and electronic medication management. In addition,
Avatar is designed to facilitate practice management processes for
Princeton House, including system management, client tracking,
scheduling, billing and reporting. Netsmart will provide HL7
integration from Avatar to Princeton House's admissions, laboratory
and order entry systems. Avatar is the first behavioral health and
substance abuse software to receive CCHIT certification. The Ohio
Department of Mental Health will use Avatar Clinician Workstation
(CWS), which is designed to provide assessments, progress notes and
treatment planning. The department will also use Avatar's RADplus
tool, which is designed for security management, modeling and
report integration. Ontrack, Inc., a mental health and substance
abuse treatment provider in Medford, Ore., will utilize practice
management and clinical capabilities through the Avatar ASP hosting
service. Ontrack will also use the Avatar RADplus tool. Bayonne
Medical Center of Bayonne, N.J. will use Avatar software for core
system management, client tracking, scheduling and reporting. In
addition, Avatar's clinical capabilities are designed to support
progress notes, treatment planning and reporting. Netsmart will
provide HL7 integration from Avatar to the Hospital's admissions
and billing systems. The Lower Eastside Service Center of New York,
N.Y. will utilize the Avatar software suite for practice and
addiction services management. The center is expected to use Avatar
for system management, client scheduling and tracking, reporting
and medication dispensing. The El Paso County, Colo., Department of
Health and Environment will utilize Netsmart's Insight public
health software. The county will use Insight to manage a wide range
of processes, including patient scheduling, electronic medical
record management, case management, immunization and laboratory
record tracking, health screening record management, and
billing/remittance. In a five-year agreement, Swanson Center of
Michigan City, Ind., a provider of adult and youth mental health
services, is expected to utilize Avatar's clinical and practice
management capabilities through Netsmart's application service
provider (ASP) hosting service. Avatar ASP is designed for
organizations who want to minimize upfront cost and onsite software
upgrades. Swanson Center will also utilize Netsmart's InfoScriber
e-prescribing software, and Quantum financial software from Geneva
Software, a Netsmart partner, for Avatar-integrated accounts
payable, general ledger, fixed asset management and fixed
assets/depreciation management. For information about Netsmart
Technology's full range of solutions for health and human services
organizations, visit http://www.ntst.com/ or call 1-800-421-7503.
About Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Netsmart Technologies, Inc.,
based in Great River, N.Y., is an established, leading supplier of
enterprise-wide software solutions for health and human services
providers, with more than 1,300 clients, including more than 30
systems with state agencies. Netsmart's clients include health and
human services organizations, public health agencies, mental health
and substance abuse clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and managed
care organizations. Netsmart's products are full-featured
information systems that operate on a variety of operating systems,
hardware platforms, and mobile devices, and offer unlimited
scalability. Statement on Behalf of Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
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forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they
are made, and the company does not undertake any obligation to
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Netsmart's website does not constitute a part of this release.
*Avatar 2006 Version 02 is a CCHIT Certified(SM) product for CCHIT
Ambulatory EHR 2006. CCHIT is a Recognized Certification Body in
the United States for certifying health information technology
products -- an independent, not-profit organization that sets the
benchmark for electronic health records. The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded CCHIT a three-year contract
in September 2005 to develop and evaluate certification criteria
and an inspection process for ambulatory (office and clinic) EHRs,
inpatient (hospital) EHRs and the networks through which they
interoperate. DATASOURCE: Netsmart Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Dave
Kishler of Netsmart Technologies, +1-614-932-6723, Web site:
http://www.ntst.com/
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