Sevocity and SecureCare Join Forces to Ease EHR Integration and Create a Truly Paperless Office for Health Care

Released on: April 16, 2008, 10:11 am

Press Release Author: Mercom Capital Group

Industry: Healthcare

Press Release Summary: Sevocity, a San Antonio-based EHR vendor, will offer the
Austin-based SecureCare Technologies' product, Sfax, the first EFR (electronic fax
record) for health care, to its customer base of 250 physicians. The addition of
Sfax to Sevocity's services truly enables a paperless office for Sevocity's
clientele.

Press Release Body: AUSTIN, Texas - April 16, 2008 - Currently,
traditionally-licensed EHR (electronic health record) software implementation costs
a typical physician $33,000 with an additional maintenance cost of roughly $1500 a
month, explaining why only 16 percent of single physician practices have made the
switch to electronic. Two Texas-based health information technology companies,
Sevocity and SecureCare Technologies, have announced a partnership that will
essentially eliminate the initial costs and behavioral burdens of implementing an
EHR system for health care providers, allowing them to refocus efforts on
affordable, quality patient care. Not only will the level of difficulty and initial
costs associated with implementation decrease, the amount of paper used will
virtually disappear.

Through the partnership, Sevocity, a San Antonio-based EHR vendor, will offer the
Austin-based SecureCare Technologies' product, Sfax, the first EFR (electronic fax
record) for health care, to its customer base of 250 physicians. The addition of
Sfax to Sevocity's services truly enables a paperless office for Sevocity's
clientele. Typically with EHRs, users still must scan paper documents and records
incoming from outside of the office, close to 80 percent of which are transmitted
via manual faxing methods. Because most patient health documents are faxed in
already, the union of Sfax and Sevocity technologies allows for a paper-free
environment, eliminating the common occurrence of lost and misplaced medical
records.

Sevocity is immediately deploying Sfax to existing customers and offering it as a
part of the Sevocity EHR solution to future ones. Physicians and their staff on
average fax approximately 1000 pages a month, dedicating valuable amounts of time
towards paper processes rather than patient care. With the addition of Sfax,
customers no longer have to scan or process faxed documents except electronically
through Sfax, which saves them up to 95 percent of the time and up to 80 percent of
the costs over manual faxing methods.

"This partnership is a great synergy, with huge benefits accruing to both parties as
well as to the health care community," said SecureCare CEO, Dennis Nasto. "The
addition of Sfax gives Sevocity a competitive advantage over other EMR and EHR
vendors as the company now has the ability to offer customers a complete electronic
fax record with digital signature, annotation features and web-based fax storage.
On our end, Sevocity's roll-out of Sfax completely validates the SecureCare business
model of delivering Sfax through channel partners who then sell it as an integrated
or add-on module to their existing software platforms. With a total of 250 Sevocity
clients, we believe that the majority, if not all of them, will integrate Sfax into
their daily routines. This could translate to up to 250,000 fax pages converting to
digital every month."

Both Sevocity and SecureCare strive to ease the integration of electronic-based
record systems in health care, working as great complements to each other and
utilizing the Internet for secure transfer and access of medical and health records.
Sevocity is an Internet-based, easy-to-use, electronic charting system that
enables physicians to document patient encounters, allowing access to the records in
real time from anywhere with an Internet connection. Similarly, Sfax is offered in
the popular delivery model of Software-as-a-Service, allowing users to rapidly
implement it online within any health care enterprise. Both models lower upfront
investment and maintenance costs as there is no software, hardware or infrastructure
purchase. Sfax and Sevocity operate on HIPAA-ready platforms, delivering users and
patients the utmost level of security.

About Sevocity
Sevocity empowers health centers and physician practices to embrace electronic
health records (EHRs) by providing easy-to-use, Internet-based EHR and practice
management solutions. Sevocity EHR is an application service provider (ASP) product
that eliminates expensive upfront capital expenditures and ongoing maintenance
costs. For more information, visit http://www.sevocity.com or call (877) 777-2298.

About SecureCare Technologies, Inc.
SecureCare Technologies, Inc. is a publicly-held health care information technology
company with shares traded under the symbol SCUC. The company's Internet-based
SfaxT with Digital Signature is the only secure EFR (electronic fax record) that is
100 percent dedicated to the health care industry. The product is a HIPAA-ready work
flow solution that saves end-users up to 95 percent of the time and up to 80 percent
of the cost of manual faxing. It provides a complete log and audit trail for all fax
documents and completely eliminates the manual paper processing of fax documents.
Sfax is distributed to end-users through the company's network of health care
software vendors and value-added resellers. It is sold as an easily-integrated,
add-on module to existing health care applications or as a stand-alone solution.
Additional information about SecureCare can be found at: http://www.sfaxme.com.

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Web Site: http://www.sfaxme.com/

Contact Details: Public Relations contact:
Mercom Capital Group, LLC
1-512-215-4452
scuc@mercomcapital.com

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