ITelagen to provide EHR, outsourced billing and IT support for Canterbury Medical Associates

ITelagen, a leading provider of Healthcare IT solutions, was selected by Christ Hospital to provide electronic health records (EHR) as part of an entire back-office solution that includes outsourced billing and unlimited IT support for their affiliate Canterbury Medical Associates.

Christ Hospital, which was founded in 1872 with the mission to provide the residents of Hudson County and the surrounding areas with the finest healthcare available, has launched Canterbury Medical Associates with the vision of leveraging EHR technology to optimize clinical workflow and outcomes and strengthen its ongoing commitment to improve patient safety, service, and quality-of-care.

ITelagen was chosen to provide a solution that leverages industry leading Allscripts EHR, Allscripts Practice Management, HIPAA secure hosting and complete IT support to fully automate clinical workflow and medical billing.

"Our choice of ITelagen will increase the efficiency of our physicians and our Canterbury Medical Associates' offices as a whole," said George Popko, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Christ Hospital. "In addition, ITelagen's centrally-hosted EHR platform and reporting is providing us greater transparency into the practice's financial and clinical performance."

"Being headquartered in Jersey City, we are thrilled to see one of Hudson County's leading hospitals realize the unique benefits of leveraging ITelagen's EHR and billing automation," said John O'Keefe, CEO of ITelagen. "As medical groups continue to adopt EHR, it will be critical that they look to results-oriented services like ITelagen's that are specifically designed to maximize quality-of-care delivered and the payment for it."