Rhode Island?s Largest Medical Practice Chooses LighthouseMD RCM

LighthouseMD announced that Rhode Island’s largest medical practice, University Medicine Foundation,Inc (UMF), has chosen LighthouseMD’s CareTracker solution. The non-profit organization has incorporated the revenue cycle management and practice management solution throughout its 19 physician practice sites, serving more than 60,000 patients in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts.

“We are proud to be working with such a prestigious organization,” said Stephen Tortolani, president, LighthouseMD. “UMF’s physicians conduct groundbreaking research, provide education and clinical care on a daily basis, and we are pleased that CareTracker’s advanced functionality will benefit UMF by managing and enhancing all aspects of its clinical, administrative and billing workflow, as well as documenting these vital research projects.”

Integration, customization and training of CareTracker into the UMF organization began in January 2007, and the web-based system is now fully available to UMF’s 140 physicians and 15 nurse practitioners. Key to UMF’s selection of CareTracker was the solution’s ability to manage e-prescribing, conduct automated notification of patient appointments, and electronically interface with Lifespan Laboratories to access patient lab results and x-rays. The CareTracker system will also enable physicians to perform functions such as automated order processing, recording of patient visits into a digital file, capturing and storing clinical images, and streamlining the billing and collections process.

“We view the relationship with LighthouseMD as a true partnership, where we are working together to enhance the ways in which our physicians manage patient care,” said Peter J. Ceriani, chief executive officer of University Medicine Foundation. “The ability to use one system to track revenue, patient data and manage the various practices will help us realize true economies of scale. And, because all UMF physicians hold Brown Medical School faculty appointments, this integration of CareTracker will afford medical students the benefit of using the latest medical practice technologies to manage their research projects and clinical trials.”

The largest non-hospital clinical, medical research and teaching enterprise in the state of Rhode Island, UMF is affiliated with The Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Women and Infant’s Hospital and Providence Veteran’s Administration Hospital as well as Brown Medical School.