Kforce Inc., LanVision Enter Agreement for Medical Coding Solutions

Kforce Inc. and LanVision Systems, Inc. have entered into an agreement wherein LanVision will provide document imaging and medical coding workflow solutions to Kforces Health Information Management, allowing Kforce to provide comprehensive remote medical coding services, including automated workflow and abstracting.

Kforce Inc., LanVision Enter Agreement for Medical Coding Solutions

TAMPA, FL (PRWEB) August 4, 2003 -- Kforce Inc. (NASDAQ: KFRC), a full service professional staffing firm, and LanVision Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: LANV), a leading supplier of medical record workflow technologies, have entered into an agreement wherein LanVision will provide document imaging and medical coding workflow solutions to Kforces Health Information Management (HIM).

This partnership creates expanded opportunities and new value for our clients," says Sam Nagel, Kforce group vice president, Health Information Management. Working with LanVision, we can now offer our healthcare clients not only an onsite coding solution, but a fully integrated remote coding solution, including abstracting and automated workflow solutions. Its an excellent demonstration of Kforces commitment to providing the highest-quality personnel and technologically sophisticated services."

Adds LanVision President and CEO J. Brian Patsy: LanVision is extremely pleased to be partnering with Kforce. By implementing our state-of-the-art codingANYware technology, Kforce can now offer its HIM clients access to a fully automated remote coding process, which reduces overhead and speeds the revenue cycle."

Under the agreement, Kforce will utilize LanVisions codingANYware application as part of its medical coding services. Accessible by the coder over the Internet, codingANYware offers a high degree of workflow automation and integration with all the tools required to process electronic patient records through to the point of invoice generation, including coding, abstracting and online chart viewing.

The technologys workflow automation is a key feature, eliminating the need to manually route patient charts. Further, by enabling Kforces remote coders to also handle abstracting, which is required to finalize a chart and generate a bill, the coding and billing cycle can be completed much more quickly.

LanVisions codingANYware technology is the perfect addition to expand Kforces services, allowing us to offer a comprehensive suite of services that can be scaled to fit each clients unique needs," concludes Nagel.

About LanVision Systems, Inc.
Cincinnati-based LanVision Systems, Inc. is a leading supplier of Medical Record Workflow technologies and an Application Service Provider (ASP) that provides hospitals, physicians, patients and payers simultaneous access to patient data from virtually any location using the Internet.

The company sells its product suite either directly or through remarketing partners, such as IDX Information Systems Corporation and Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation. LanVisions Medical Record Workflow applications are complementary to existing clinical and financial systems, and ensure that authenticated end users can electronically access all the various forms of healthcare information.

LanVision also provides its ASPeNSM, ASP-based application-hosting services to several integrated delivery networks. For more information on LanVision and its products, please visit the LanVision website at www.lanvision.com.

About Kforce Healthcare
Kforce Healthcare provides contract and direct hire staffing services for Health Information Management (HIM) departments. Consultant services include onsite and/or offsite delivery of coding specialists, APC and DRG Audits, HIM directors, transcriptionists, certified tumor registrars, trauma registrars as well as other outsourced personnel. In addition, Kforces QA Management Team screens and audits each consultant to ensure accuracy and quality.

About Kforce Inc.
Based in Tampa, Fla., Kforce (NASDAQ: KFRC) is a full-service, professional staffing firm providing flexible and permanent staffing solutions for organizations in the skill areas of information technology, finance & accounting, pharmaceutical, healthcare and scientific. Backed by nearly 1,000 staffing specialists, Kforce (www.kforce.com) operates 97 offices in more than 40 markets in North America.

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