By Edward Husar
Quincy Herald-Whig
The Adams County Ambulance Board has decided to hire a Texas company to implement a “paperless” patient account management system.
Under a contract approved Tuesday, Intermedix Technologies Inc. of Houston will provide the Adams County Ambulance Service with the computers and software needed to collect and manage data electronically for every ambulance call.
Paramedics and EMTs will use tablet computers with handwriting-recognition software to gather data related to patient care and ambulance runs. The information will then be sent by a wireless telephone connection to Intermedix, which will handle billing, collection, mandated reporting, statistical analysis and other bookkeeping functions. ...
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