Avon Urgent Care moves its records to the cloud with iSALUS Healthcare

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iSALUS Healthcare^™, a privately held electronic medical and health records (EMR-EHR) solution provider, today announces Avon Urgent Care's switch to its OfficeEMR solution in an effort to meet increased demands for the center's expanding service offerings. 

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Locally owned and operated, Avon Urgent Care has built upon their foundation in Urgent Care to include Family Care, Occupational Medicine, X-Ray, Lab Tests and a Cosmedic Lazer MedSpa as an all-encompassing, convenient healthcare center meeting the needs of their community. Like many independent healthcare organizations that are striving for growth in this dynamic market, Avon Urgent Care is taking the necessary strides to offering a convenient healthcare center including committing to the effort to digitally embrace patient care and communication.

"As our health care service lines have expanded, so have our needs from an EMR software," said Kim Schultz, manager of Avon Urgent Care. "As a result, we sought out a robust EMR solution that would accommodate our changing business needs, while providing an affordable, web-based solution in the cloud that we could implement with ease. Being a local business, it was also a natural fit for us to work with a local provider so we selected iSALUS Healthcare."

Avon Urgent Care's has found that OfficeEMR's web-based solution is poised to meet these expanding EMR and Practice Management needs as it offers improved managing, hardware, data backup and storage costs, all in a HIPAA-compliant format.

"We truly value the opportunity to support the expanded service offerings at Avon Urgent Care. As a local EMR provider, we greatly appreciate their trust in iSALUS to seamlessly transition their EMR system with minimal interruption to their expanding business," said Michael Hall, chief executive officer and founder of iSALUS Healthcare.

About Avon Urgent Care
Located in Avon, Indiana, the Avon Urgent Care is an independently owned and operated center offering high quality medical care for minor emergencies and outpatient medical needs for the entire family. The center has been open for nearly six years and its staff is available to render quality medical care promptly, caringly and professionally, in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere. Services offered include cuts, fractures, burns, acute illness, acute and chronic medical problems, physical exams, wellness and drug screening, x-rays and lab tests. For more information, visit http://www.avonurgentcare.net/.

About iSALUS Healthcare
Founded in 2000, Indianapolis-based iSALUS Healthcare is a privately held electronic medical and health records (EMR-EHR) and Practice Management solution provider. The company's web-based EMR program – called OfficeEMR – is one of a few market solutions that is fully unified with a state-of-the-art Practice Management, online Patient Web Portal and secured Chart Sharing capabilities. The innovative, web-based software, available through any internet connection and functional on most mobile devices including the iPhone^™ and iPad^™, provides time-saving and money-enhancing solutions to small, medium and large-sized physician practices, health care offices, medical clinics and ambulatory hospital settings.

Based on its functionality, interoperability and SAS 70 Type II security, OfficeEMR meets the Meaningful Use criteria to receive federal funding from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). In 2006 and 2008, the company participated in two certifying cycles with the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT Certified^®) and is currently 2011-2012 Drummond Certified^™ ONC-ATCB as a complete EHR ambulatory provider. 

Along with its comprehensive network of Value-Added Resellers (VARs), iSALUS services more than 45 distinct medical specialties in 48 states and processes nearly a half billion dollars in medical claims each year. iSALUS and its OfficeEMR has been selected by the Indiana Health Information Technology Extension Center (I-HITEC) as a preferred provider to the Indiana's Regional Extension Center (PurdueREC) and Arizona's federally recognized Regional Extension Center (AzREC), is endorsed by the Indianapolis Medical Society and the Georgia State Medical Association, and is ANSI 5010 compliant. For more information about iSALUS Healthcare, OfficeEMR and its affordable monthly fee, please visit www.isalushealthcare.com or call 888.280.6678.

Contact:
Jessica Owens, MBA
Marketing Manager
iSALUS Healthcare
Phone: 317.275.3972
[email protected]

SOURCE iSALUS Healthcare