Docs move to the IT aisle at a Catholic NPO

ATLANTA: CHRISTUS Health, a not-for-profit Catholic health system, has selected McKesson's suite of documentation management solutions to manage clinical, demographic, billing and operational documents across 26 hospitals in seven states.

The solutions will integrate with CHRISTUS' existing health information system (HIS) to allow for seamless, single-platform document access for clinicians, revenue cycle staff, health information management staff, administrators and others. The McKesson offering also contains a wide range of tools that automate key business practices to help expedite collections and improve overall workflow.

"We turned to McKesson because we needed a document management solution that could fully integrate with our existing HIS for ease of clinician use," said Randy Osteen, CHRISTUS' associate chief information officer, vice president, Information Management Strategy and Applications.

"We also wanted to capture the significant operational and cost benefits that come with a single-platform approach. Finally, we were looking for built-in automation tools to streamline a wide range of business practices throughout our organization. On all three counts, McKesson proved to be the best option."

These solutions will enable the health system to automate medical records and its business office processes, and to electronically capture, store and manage patient information as well as other enterprise documentation, including purchasing, and human resources information. To further increase efficiency and reduce costs across the organization, CHRISTUS will implement McKesson's forms redesign and point of access scanning and e-signature solutions.