Sandata Signs Contract with Multi-State Home Care Agency

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandata Technologies, LLC, a leading national provider of information technology solutions to the home care industry, announces that Epic Health Services^{with locations based in Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Delaware has signed a contract for an enterprise-wide implementation of Sandata's Santrax® Agency Management solution. Santrax Agency Management is Sandata's next generation home care agency management solution that helps agencies manage all of their key operational processes.}

Epic Health Services has partnered with Sandata to implement solutions that help create operational efficiencies, support fiscal management and ensure the delivery of quality care for all their patients across their enterprise. Looking to improve efficiencies and reduce costs associated with manually intensive and inefficient processes, Sandata's solutions offer the scalability and competitive advantage to meet Epic Health Services' business model.

Epic Health Services^{will utilize Sandata's suite of home health technologies across their multi-state and multi-payor environment. SantraxAgency Management is a powerful, comprehensive solution that improves the efficiency of an agency by providing end-to-end functionality for clinical, financial and operational processes for all business lines, including Medicaid, Medicare, Private and Commercial pay.}

John Garbarino, Epic Health Services' President and Chief Executive Officer, states "We are excited about launching Santrax Agency Management as the cornerstone of our operations.  It will enable us to transform the way we do business and help us to improve care delivery and clinical outcomes for our patients. This tool is key to supporting the operational management of our enterprise and will help us to establish efficiency and consistency across our multiple locations."

According to Tom Underwood, Sandata's Chief Executive Officer, "With this new contract, we have further demonstrated the value that Sandata brings to large, nationally-based home care agencies to improve our clients' operational and financial models across their enterprise. More importantly, Epic will now be in a better position to ensure the five rights of care: the right member, at the right location, at the right time, with the right caregiver, receives the right plan of care."

About Sandata Technologies, LLC

Sandata provides a complete package of information technology solutions, which includes scheduling, time and attendance, billing, payroll, compliance and clinical applications, for the home care industry.  Sandata's suite of products includes Santrax^® Electronic Visit Verification™, the market leading time and attendance product, Santrax^® Agency Management, an innovative data collection and remote chart access tool giving field workers the ability to collect both clinical and non-clinical information at the point-of care, Santrax^® Point of Care, and Santrax^® Payor Management, a web-based software solution with features including: voice biometrics to perform speaker verification, and a jurisdictional view dashboard solution for states and other payors, municipalities and the home care agency market.

Sandata's solutions enable home care agencies, whether Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial or Private Duty, government or managed care payors as well as any organization with a remote workforce to realize administrative cost savings, streamlined operational procedures, and significantly reduced paperwork burdens.  Sandata has over 2,200 customers in all 50 states using its products in more than 500,000 homes and processes over 100 million telephone calls annually.  

For additional information about Sandata, please visit: www.sandata.com.

About Epic Health Services

Epic Health Services is a leading provider of private duty nursing services for medically fragile children and medically dependent adults, as well as pediatric therapy services. The mission of Epic Health Services is: Providing medically fragile children and others in need with the highest quality home health care consistently delivered with compassion and extraordinary client service. Epic currently has branches in Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Delaware with 38 individual offices throughout these states.

For additional information about Epic Health Services, please visit: www.epichealthservices.com

SOURCE Sandata Technologies, LLC