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Eliminates License Fee Per-Study

Metiscan 's majority owned subsidiary Schuylkill Open MRI, Inc., which is an outpatient diagnostic imaging facility located in Pottsville, Pennsylvania providing magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) services, announced that it has upgraded its legacy electronic healthcare records ( EHR ) system to a new Web 2.0 based Health Language Seven ( HL7 ) compliant EHR and practice management system.

The new EHR system enhances practice workflow, improving operational efficiencies which management believes will increase cost savings and aid the center's staff in providing high quality patient care. The EHR system enables Schuylkill to operate as a virtually paper free and filmless practice and includes features such as patient scheduling, practice management and the electronic archiving and distribution of high-quality MRI images and patient reports. Secure access is available to radiologists and referring physicians from any location having a web-browser and a broadband connection.

Schuylkill historically licensed the use of its former EHR system. Since 2003, Schuylkill has paid a licensing fee on a per-study basis. Going forward Schuylkill has determined to purchase its own EHR system and retain FirstView EHR, Inc. (FirstView), which is also a majority owned subsidiary of Metiscan, to host and administer the system. Purchasing the new EHR system provides Schuylkill with a productivity tool that embraces today's latest secure web technologies and eliminates the need to pay a third party a license fee on a per-study basis.

Source: Metiscan , Inc.