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St. Luke’s Hospital Implements TRACE to Improve Customer Service, Efficiency

Maumee, OH, February 11, 2009

St Luke’s Hospital recently contracted to purchase TRACE to document and manage routine communication across the continuum of care.

St. Luke’s goals are to reduce denied claims and paperwork by using TRACE to index and store communication that is critical to protecting hospital revenue. Instead of printing paper copies, staff will use the Tracker web application to conveniently search, sort, route and retrieve all communication records.

"We wanted to improve our customer service by capturing registration and pre-certification communication in a central repository that is conveniently accessible at all sites of service," said Dennis Wagner, director of Managed Care and Reimbursement.

By streamlining administrative processes, TRACE will help St. Luke’s ensure that patients and physician offices can get through to schedule appointments. A permanent record of these exchanges will also assist in quality assurance efforts.

The hospital will also use TRACE to organize and store fax transmissions, providing back-up for inquiries from insurance companies, physicians and patients.

St. Luke’s will initially implement TRACE in Patient Registration, Scheduling and Precertification, with a goal of adding other departments and features over time.

About St. Luke’s Hospital

St. Luke's Hospital is a 314-bed facility that has provided more than three decades of service in Maumee and more than a century of care to northwest Ohio.



About The White Stone Group

The White Stone Group builds and delivers software solutions that improve the management of healthcare communication events. More than 400 hospitals are licensed to use the company's TRACE and OptiVox products that automate administrative and clinical communications for healthcare providers. Proven results include improved revenue cycle processes, greater management capabilities and expedited patient throughput. For more information, visit TWSG.com.

Contact: Erin McCarty, 865-292-0524, erin.mccarty@twsg.com

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