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SCI Solutions Enhances Patient Scheduling Platform with Capabilities to Support Large-Scale, Multi-Location OperationsSEATTLE, June 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SCI Solutions, the health industry's leading patient access and care coordination technology firm, today announced the addition of powerful new capabilities to its rules-based, enterprise healthcare scheduling solution, Schedule Maximizer®. This much-anticipated upgrade delivers significant value aligned with two major care coordination themes – market-based scheduling services for large multi-location healthcare organizations and enhanced worklist management that supports the security needs of complex scheduling environments. SCI's Schedule Maximizer enables health systems to differentiate themselves in the eyes of patients and referring providers by standardizing and simplifying all web and telephonic communications – consumer self-scheduling, centralized call center management, one phone number and call to complete – with a unified brand and workflow across all access points. Using Schedule Maximizer, multi-state health systems with operational and geographic complexities have the ability to precisely schedule across multiple time zones, use geolocation to book patients at the facility nearest to them, guide schedulers and providers to the right insurance options and protect patient privacy even when no common EHR or HIT infrastructure exists among different provider locations. The healthcare industry has seen a steady rise of consolidations since 2009, with M&A activity actually doubling between 2011 and 2015, but many health systems have struggled to reap the economic benefits of such a strategy. "Unprecedented provider consolidation has resulted in more health systems operating vast networks of hospitals, imaging centers and outpatient clinics across multiple states and diverse points of service," said Joel French, CEO of SCI Solutions. "After acquiring hospitals and physician practice, surprisingly few have been able to demonstrate the economic value of their increased scale. In sharp contrast, SCI's technologies have enabled our clients to realize measurable unit cost reduction and outpatient revenue gains from their new scale by standardizing and centralizing all patient intake workflows and presenting a consistent brand across complex operations." Schedule Maximizer's new functionalities include:
"Instant self-scheduling and prompt insurance pre-authorizations deliver long sought-after convenience for patients while eliminating unexpected financial surprises for them," said French. "This means patients receive clinically appropriate, in-network care from the right provider with the right equipment at their preferred location while large health systems smartly leverage their consolidated capacity and reduce labor costs necessary to intake more patients." SCI Solutions clients are already utilizing this powerful new version. For more information about the newest updates to Schedule Maximizer, please visit the SCI Solutions website here: http://www.scisolutions.com/healthcare-it-solutions/schedule-maximizer About SCI Solutions
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