Landauer-Metropolitan, Inc. Enhances Care Order Processing with Authentidate's Inscrybe Healthcare Service

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Authentidate Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: ADAT), a worldwide provider of secure Health Information Exchange, workflow management services and telehealth solutions, today announced that Landauer-Metropolitan, Inc., the largest privately held home medical equipment provider in the Northeastern United States, is implementing Authentidate's Inscrybe® Healthcare web-based service to standardize their company-wide care order processing.

"Inscrybe's ability to integrate multiple billing and practice management systems into a unified solution that reinforces best practices is important for our business to properly and effectively manage future growth," commented Louis Rocco, CEO at Landauer-Metropolitan. "We have found the web-based platform to be inherently scalable and easy to implement, allowing us to expand our business at minimal cost while supporting the current national drive toward electronic health records."

Inscrybe Healthcare facilitates information exchanges with referring physicians for all types of healthcare transactions required for the authorization of home medical equipment and supplies for patients. The web-based service automates manual workflow processes and efficiently tracks the status of those communications, reducing the time it takes to obtain completed healthcare documentation from referring physicians. The streamlined workflows improve the efficiency of clinical and administrative processes, reducing operating expenses and uncollected revenues.

"We welcome Landauer-Metropolitan to our growing family of Inscrybe customers. We expect them to experience significant improvements in their financial operations resulting from their ability to manage and reinforce business relationships with referral sources by utilizing Inscrybe to standardize their processes. Landauer's decision to implement Inscrybe provides evidence that the time is right for large scale adoption of homecare e-documents," said Paul Skinner, Vice President of Sales and Customer Support at Authentidate.

About Authentidate Holding Corp.

Authentidate Holding Corp. is a worldwide provider of secure Health Information Exchange, workflow management services and telehealth solutions.  The company's software and web-based services enable healthcare organizations and other enterprises to increase revenues, improve productivity, enhance patient care and reduce costs by eliminating paper and manual work steps from clinical, administrative and other processes and enhancing compliance with regulatory requirements. The web-based services are delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) to customers interfacing seamlessly with billing and document management systems. These feature-rich solutions incorporate rules-based electronic forms, intelligent routing, transaction management, electronic signatures, identity credentialing, content authentication, automated audit trails and remote patient monitoring capabilities. Both web and fax based communications are integrated into automated and trusted workflow solutions.  The company has offices in the United States and Germany. In the United States, Authentidate offers its patent pending content authentication technology in the form of the United States Postal Service® Electronic Postmark® (USPS EPM®).

For more information, visit the company's website at www.authentidate.com.

About Landauer-Metropolitan, Inc.

Landauer-Metropolitan, Inc. is the largest privately held respiratory services and home medical equipment company in the Northeastern United States.  The Company employs approximately nine hundred fifty healthcare professionals and staff across twenty four service locations in nine states and the District of Columbia. Our aim is to provide the highest quality home medical services and products to improve the health and well-being of our patients.

Landauer-Metropolitan currently services more than 500 health insurance benefit organizations in addition to Medicare and state Medicaid agencies.  The company is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).  

For more information about Landauer-Metropolitan, Inc., please visit the company's website at www.landmetro.com.

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