The concept of a stand-alone surgical center is a relatively new one. The SurgiCenter of Baltimore—the first freestanding multi-specialty surgical center in the country owned exclusively by physicians—was conceived in 1989 by a group of physicians intent on providing a better surgical experience for their patients. The SurgiCenter of Baltimore later took on Lifebridge Health and HealthMark Partners, Inc., as partners. Full story »

St. Luke’s Cataract and Laser Institute is one of the busiest, most respected and most successful eye surgery centers in the world. Its founder and director, Dr. James P. Gills, MD, is internationally renowned as a pioneer in small incision surgery, which is now the predominant method of cataract removal. Dr. Gills and St. Luke’s are also well known for using technology to make their procedures both better and more affordable.
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, better known as HIPAA, goes into effect this April. That prospect is leaving many-but not all-in the health care industry scurrying to make the deadline.

Dr. Thomas M. Keane, a board certified oral surgeon and head of Keane Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery P.A. in Edina, MN, is already HIPAA compliant-with an assist from Laserfiche.
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At Franklin Medical Center, the task of complying with the record keeping portion of HIPAA is notable for how easy it was to accomplish.

“We added Audit Trail to our Laserfiche system,” reports the hospital’s plant operations manager, Dwaine Boothe. “We’d planned to add this module to ensure HIPAA compliance when we chose Laserfiche.
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If Janice Goodyear has anything to say about it, Laserfiche will soon be essential software at medical practices in the Chicago area. Ms. Goodyear is the office manager at Dougal, McClellan and Sullivan Eye Associates in Northwest Chicago. She has been using Laserfiche and likes it so much that she tries to convince every medical practice office manager she meets to install Laserfiche in their clinic.
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