St. Luke’s University Health Network Turns to SCI Solutions to Connect with their Community Physicians

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Luke’s University Health Network announced today a partnership with SCI Solutions, a leading provider of cloud-based community connectivity and rules-based scheduling services, to connect their hospitals to the referring physicians within their community and improve patient satisfaction through access management innovations. Through this partnership, SCI’s solutions will be implemented for St. Luke’s employed physician network of nearly 380 providers in six hospital facilities in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

“Our rules-based Clinical Integration Engine™ offers an end-to-end solution for community physicians - starting with the order and ending with the result, making it easier for them to do business with hospitals that offer this solution.”

“St. Luke’s has always been very committed to providing our community with innovative solutions in healthcare,” said Chad Brisendine, Chief Information Officer of St. Luke’s University Health Network. “By reaching out to connect our community physicians with electronic ordering and rules-based scheduling, we will increase not only patient satisfaction, but referring physician satisfaction as well.”

The services offered to St. Luke’s employed and affiliated physicians through the partnership include:

Order Facilitator®, SCI’s electronic order solution, will integrate with SLHN’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR), streamlining order submission to the health system, maximizing the conversion of orders into appointments and minimizing network leakage.
Schedule Maximizer®, the industry leading rules-based scheduling tool, will enable multi-hospital call center deployment as well as the unique capability for patients and referring physician offices to self-schedule their appointments via the Web.

“SCI Solutions is known for connecting hospital systems with their communities to simultaneously improve physician and patient satisfaction and increase hospital revenues,” said Joel French, managing partner and CEO of SCI Solutions. “Our rules-based Clinical Integration Engine™ offers an end-to-end solution for community physicians - starting with the order and ending with the result, making it easier for them to do business with hospitals that offer this solution.”

Additional information about SCI’s results reporting and clinical mobility capabilities can be found at www.scisolutions.com.

About St. Luke’s University Health Network

St. Luke's University Health Network is a non-profit, regional, fully integrated Network of hospitals, physicians and other related organizations providing care primarily in Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Carbon, Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery and Berks counties in Pennsylvania and Warren County in New Jersey. The Network provides services at more than 150 sites. St. Luke's University Health Network is comprised of six hospital sites. Learn more about the Mission, Vision, Values and Strategic Focus at St. Luke’s.

About SCI Solutions

SCI is transforming healthcare, in the CLOUD, with a rules-based, workflow enabled, community solution that orchestrates patient care across hospital service areas based on condition, episode and population health. SCI aligns reimbursement with clinical appropriateness and compliance through efficient and secure exchange of clinical and financial information between patients, physicians and healthcare facilities regardless of originating or destination systems. SCI increases referrals, drives physician adoption, and reduces in-and-out-of-network revenue leakage. SCI lowers readmission rates, reducing health plan denials and underpayments through workflow enriched revenue management. SCI has added 84 facilities and over 22,000 physicians to our community connectivity network in 2012.

For more information about SCI Solutions visit www.scisolutions.com.