Alpha Systems Announces EMR Back-Up Manager for Comprehensive, Legal Medical Record Backup

Business Wire, Feb 13, 2006

HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. -- Alpha Systems, an established provider of EMR services, electronic document management (EDM) and imaging, today announced its new backup service, called EMR Back-Up Manager, providing hospitals with the capture and storage of electronic medical records that meet stringent legal and risk management requirements.

Whether it's for litigation, malpractice, business continuity or risk management issues, Alpha Systems now works with hospitals and risk management professionals one-on-one to determine their specific legal requirements and which parts of the record set to back up for future use. For example, to attain a more complete legal EMR record, a hospital may change its backup strategy from saving just the last few days of progress notes to all progress notes, or switch from saving summary lab results to now storing cumulative lab results.

"When a hospital receives a release of information from a plaintiff, they want to pull up a patient record that is complete and fulfills all the legal requirements quickly and efficiently," said Brett Griffith, president and COO of Alpha Systems. "Once the legal EMR backup requirements are determined, hospitals can access Web-based legal EMR records that are clean, organized and complete."

About Alpha Systems

Founded in 1975, Alpha Systems is an established provider of EMR services, having earned a solid reputation in electronic document management (EDM) and imaging.

With headquarters in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., Alpha Systems builds upon its EDM reputation and now provides a complete range of HIM solutions including document management and imaging, document storage and destruction, disaster recovery, file management and release of information (ROI) software and services. Please visit us at www.alphaemr.com.