Pre Billing Consultants, Inc. (PBC) has provided billing, coding, credentialing and collection services to healthcare providers along the East Coast, from hospital emergency departments to urgent care centers, for over 15 years. Full story »
Bremer County, IA, faced a problem not unique to modest-sized municipalities: after making a significant investment in a document management system to manage its land records, users had a hard time letting go of the paper. Full story »
Formed in 1998, CapitalCare Medical Group is a physician-owned medical practice with 27 medical offices across four counties in upstate New York, with central business offices located in Albany. Full story »
The Level Four Group of companies consists of Level Four Group, a business consulting firm; Level Four Advisory Services, an SEC registered investment advisory firm; Level Four Insurance Services, a master general insurance agency; and Level Four Tax and Advisors, an accounting firm. Full story »
Executive Money Managers, Inc. (EMM) is a referral-only, boutique investment advisor firm based in Marietta, GA. By 2005, the growth of its business intersected with the growth of its information management challenges. Full story »
The Virginia Port Authority hired Angela Ellis as its SharePoint Administrator in 2007, but it wasn’t long before her boss, Deputy Executive Director of Administration and CFO Rodney Oliver, enlisted her to start looking into enterprise content management (ECM) solutions.
“Rodney recognized that although SharePoint could do many great things for our organization, DoD 5015.2-certified records management wasn’t one of them,” says Ellis, who today is a senior web analyst for the Port Authority. Full story »
When making the case for upgrading Shakopee, MN, to Laserfiche Avante, Carrie Duckett, the city’s Information Technology Coordinator, did her due diligence. “To date, there hasn’t been one Minnesota city that’s purchased Laserfiche and left for one of its main competitors. But in 2010 alone, six of the state’s cities and counties migrated onto Laserfiche from a competitive system.” Full story »
With 265,000 residents, Durham County is home to the famed Research Triangle Park, one of the most prominent high-tech R&D centers in the world. As such, the county’s IT Department has quite the legacy to live up to.
“Technical innovation and efficiency are important to our citizens,” says Steve Barden, Systems Development Supervisor for Durham County, “and they’re a top priority for the IT Department as well.” Full story »
South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) is one of the largest and highest-performing national healthcare organizations in the United Kingdom. Providing services for people with mental health problems and learning disabilities, SEPT serves a population of 1.5 million across three counties, with over 3,500 employees and an operating a budget of more than $300 million. Full story »
Brent Burns and Stephen Huxley founded Asset Dedication, LLC in 2002 with an innovative notion: that the liability-driven investment portfolios common in the institutional world could be engineered for individuals according to their specific income needs, akin to a personalized pension fund. In 2009, advancements in processor technology, coupled with the support of BondDesk Group, LLC, gave the Mill Valley, CA-based firm the opportunity to transition from consultants into a full-service sub-advisor offering individualized portfolio management to RIAs.
Key to this transition, Burns believed, was leveraging business technology to minimize both the operational and risk management costs of working directly with advisors. “As a growing company, technology was the way to get more done with a smaller headcount,” he says.
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Internal Medicine Center, LLC (IMC), a multi-specialty practice with 20 providers, is the largest independent clinic in Mobile, AL. Established in 1946, it’s also the oldest, compiling over 60 years of patient records.
With so many specialties—and specialists—IMC’s Board of Directors wanted to use electronic medical records (EMR) software to improve operational processes, encouraged by the promise of ARRA stimulus money to help fund it. But IMC’s Practice Administrator, Christine L. Holliman, CMPE, took a more pragmatic view of the situation.
“All vendors talk about the efficiencies of an EMR and the increase in the levels of coding that can be achieved from full implementation,” she says. “As my physicians are many different ages, the idea of transitioning to a full-blown EMR was daunting, to say the least.” Full story »
For Spire Investment Partners, LLC, a combination broker/dealer, registered investment advisor, and insurance agency based in McLean, VA, managing several billion dollars in assets and answering to multiple regulatory agencies—including FINRA, the SEC and state insurance regulators—brings with it the need for especially agile enterprise content management (ECM). Full story »
With its motto, “One Team, One Mission,” it’s clear that unity is important to the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD). However, without consistent access to the PD’s law enforcement records and administrative files, officers and employees had a difficult time staying on the same page.
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