Valdosta, GA and Austin, TX – November 7, 2008 – Azalea Health Innovations, Inc., a health care information technology and services company based in Valdosta, Georgia announced today that it has partnered with SecureCare Technologies, Inc., developer of the first 100 percent health care dedicated electronic fax solution, to provide the medical laboratory community with a fully integrated, HIPAA compliant, web-based laboratory ordering and resulting system.
This partnership will streamline the entire lab resulting process, providing a web-based portal called Azalea LabHub™, designed to deliver lab results to physicians via the web through EDI connectivity and automated faxing using Sfax. LabHub™ allows physicians to electronically submit orders to independent, and hospital based laboratories. Sfax is a bi-directional EFR (electronic fax record) that enables health care providers to send, receive, and manage faxes from any application on any computer with an Internet connections. Integrating Sfax with LabHub™ allows physicians to securely exchange patient health information (PHI) in a completely paperless environment. Baha Zeidan, CEO of Azalea Health Innovations states “Azalea LabHub™ is the future of laboratory ordering and resulting. Our partnership with SecureCare Technologies is a huge step forward for us and for the medical community as a whole.” Zeidan plans to eventually interface the system with Personal Health Records (PHR) systems such as Google Health and Microsoft Vault so patients can have more control of their personal health data.
The integration of LabHub™ with Sfax will allow physicians 24/7 access to their patient’s laboratory results. In addition, errors due to illegible hand written data will be greatly reduced. This system is HL-7 and EDI standards compliant and can be interfaced with electronic medical record (EMR) applications, reference laboratories, and many other healthcare systems. All of this will lead to a higher quality of patient health care while saving its users valuable time and money.
LabHub™ is a fully customizable, easy to navigate, web based ordering and resulting system for medical laboratories. LabHub™ will help reduce errors and increase the accuracy of orders and results therefore improving the quality of patient care. The user-friendly application gives laboratory clients the powerful tools they need to streamline Laboratory ordering and resulting thus freeing their time for patient care. Some features of LabHub™ include: Full PDF orders and results, color pathology, cytology reporting with pictomicrographs, an automated HIPAA faxing module, full access to lab specimen requirements, standing orders generation, medical necessity checking and ABN generation, and detailed audit reports.
About Azalea Health Innovations, Inc.
Azalea Health Innovations, based in Valdosta, GA focuses on the automation needs of healthcare providers by providing expert advice and superior products and services such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management Systems (PMS), Professional Billing Services, and Consulting. The flagship of Azalea Health Innovation is its fully customizable web based applications like Azalea LabHub™. Azalea Health Innovations’ dynamic suite of products and services are designed to enhance work flow and maximize profit while using state of the art technology. please contact (877) 777-7686 or visit http://www.azaleahealth.com/.
About SecureCare Technologies, Inc.
SecureCare Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: SCUC) is a publicly-held health care information technology company with shares traded under the symbol SCUC.
The company’s Internet-based Sfax™ is the only secure electronic fax management system that is 100 percent dedicated to the health care industry. The product is a HIPAA-ready, work-flow solution that saves end-users up to 95 percent of the time and up to 80 percent of the cost of manual faxing. It provides a complete log and audit trail for all fax documents and completely eliminates the manual paper processing of fax documents. Sfax is distributed to end-users through the company’s network of health care software vendors and value-added resellers.
It is sold as an easily-integrated, add-on module to existing health care applications or as a stand-alone solution. Additional information about SecureCare can be found at: http://www.sfaxme.com
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including the description of the company and its product offerings, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the historical volatility and low trading volume of our stock, the risk and uncertainties inherent in the early stages of growth companies, the company’s need to raise substantial additional capital to proceed with its business, risks associated with competitors, and other risks detailed from time to time in the company’s most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
