CSW acquires software of Ireland’s H2HCare
- 4 July 2007
CSW Group Ltd have acquired the software assets of H2HCare, an Irish health IT company, specialising in healthcare – providing web-based billing, contracting and financial management capabilities to support effective patient care for public and private healthcare organisations.
H2HCare products will be incorporated into CSW’s Case Notes product suite, extending it from an Electronic Health Record for cross-agency shared care into a complete service management system for scheduling care delivery and meeting the extended contract quality challenges in the new Commissioning environment.
The new software will be released this autumn in Case Notes v5.2 as the Case Notes Financials, Patient Administration and Enterprise Booking modules. CSW is in discussion with former customers of H2HCare in Ireland on upgrades to the new Case Notes versions of the product.
Eamonn Furniss, former chief executive, H2HCare said: “I am delighted to see our software incorporated into CSW’s Case Notes. CSW and H2HCare have worked as partners in the past and have very complementary product offerings for Private and Public healthcare. The combined product offering will be unique in offering a fully integrated enterprise solution for both clinical and administrative users, and will ultimately improve the patient experience.”
Case Notes Enterprise Booking allows GPs access to day wards so that they can refer and book patients in directly – automating the patient booking and scheduling process throughout the hospital and other health or social care settings.
Case Notes Financials is an integrated suite of web-based components which support each stage of the revenue lifecycle from patient access through to billing and claims processing.
John Chelsom, managing director of CSW Group added: “The new added features and functionality make Case Notes one of the most comprehensive web-based electronic health records systems on the market.”
Case Notes’ EHR ensures optimal resource utilisation, improving outpatient effectiveness and efficiency, meeting patient needs and measuring care outcomes. Utilising the new features and functionality in Case Notes v5.2, users will be able to capture timely and appropriate health information, and maximise its potential as powerful commissioning information.
Organisations will have a better understanding of demand and capacity across agencies, regardless of location and will be able to identify trends and determine how this should influence commissioning decisions.
Deborah Hagger, Clinical Director at CSW said: “The new qualitative checks to be managed by the SHA’s are the main additional layer in the new commissioning framework. Outcomes of care must be measured to ensure the service used has not only been cost effective but clinically effect too. Our new Case Notes suite of modules can now set the standard for achieving this.”
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