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HealthPort (formed from the merger of Companion Technologies and SDS) is a privately held organization that has been delivering comprehensive information technology solutions to the health care industry for its clinical, financial, operational, and managed care needs. For over 35 years the company has consistently supplied practice management, electronic medical record, document conversion and storage, electronic document management, healthcare consulting, revenue cycle/claims management, and medical release-of-information solutions.

The corporation has over 2,800 employees in offices that support thousands system installations nationwide. HealthPort has the stability needed to survive in today’s competitive market. Key product and service acquisitions have allowed the corporation to secure the strong market presence necessary to be an industry leader.

HealthPort is a major player and a leading supplier of hardware, software, systems, and services. Before becoming HealthPort in June 2007, Companion Technologies was an official subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina. In 1997, they acquired MegaWest Systems, the author and developer of HealthPort Practice Management system (HealthPort PM) (formerly called MegaWest Medical Management Suite), in 1997.

HealthPort PM’s software features various modules, including account receivables (AR), insurance claims processing, patient registration, reporting (standard and customized), and systems security. The AR billing features a patient master, transaction posting, and additional features allowing users to maximize reimbursement. The patient registration screen maximizes ease-of-use by combining all patient demographics, financials, and insurance information into one screen.

HealthPort PM clients can develop ad-hoc reports and analyze data using system or industry standard reporting tools. Because HealthPort PM is built using a multi-dimensional database, the software offers a plethora of ways for clients to report on any data element in the system including customized data. In addition, a specialty application module for community health centers (CHCs) is available. This specialty application for CHCs tracks and organizes statistical data needed to complete UDS and other report requirements for FQHCs.

HealthPort is a nationwide provider of practice management and electronic medical record software. They focus heavily in the community health center market and are the choice of over 150 health centers nationwide representing over 750 center sites. As a leading national company, HealthPort continues to be one of the major innovators for the community health center market.

HealthPort PM customers have great things to say about the product. “It’s a money saver because it reduces our staff time and the need to have additional staff to manage our business,” relates Chuck Clark, Information Systems Director of Coastal Family Health Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. “As a community health center, there are certain requirements that we are held accountable to. HealthPort PM allows us to comply very easily. It’s really a couple pushes of a button to get some rather extensive, mandated reporting out of the system,” says Amy Carr, I.S. Manager of Family First Healthcare in York, PA. She continues, “My job has improved by using HealthPort PM through the assistance it gives me in preparing my mandated reports. It saves me hours of work.”

For more information about HealthPort, please visit their website at www.healthport.com.