MedSpeed Receives HFMA Peer Review Designation
Healthcare Transportation Company completes rigorous review,
earns designation.
Elmhurst, IL, October 20, 2011 -The Healthcare
Financial Management Association (HFMA) recently reviewed MedSpeed,
an ISO-certified technology-enhanced healthcare transportation
solutions provider, using the Peer Review Process. After undergoing
the rigorous review MedSpeed's Healthcare Transportation Solutions
has been granted the "Peer Reviewed by HFMA®" designation.
Since its inception, MedSpeed has specialized in using
technology and analytics to develop better ways to execute
efficient transportation to meet the demands unique to the
healthcare industry, while improving quality, decreasing costs and creating a
strategic advantage for its customers. MedSpeed's ultimate goal is
to help organizations reduce risk and achieve maximum business
value. This is accomplished by transforming locally-optimized
healthcare transportation into a globally-optimized, leverageble
logistical framework.
Partnering with MedSpeed allows healthcare organizations to
realize strategic gains without investing time and resources to
build or upkeep internal functions. Removing the burden of
day-to-day execution and management of transportation from
management and staff allows healthcare organizations to focus
efforts on improving the patient experience and
providing quality care.
"HFMA is a highly respected organization that provides valuable
resources for healthcare finance executives and their organizations
to achieve sound fiscal health and provide high quality care," said
Bonni L. Kaplan, Vice President of Marketing for MedSpeed.
"Obtaining "Peer Reviewed by HFMA®" status was a rigorous process
that is in direct alignment with our mission to improve the quality
and efficiency of healthcare through strategic
transportation partnerships. We are proud to have been
recognized by HFMA as providing a service of strategic value to
their members and look forward to a longstanding relationship."
HFMA's Peer Review process is designed to provide healthcare
financial managers with an objective third party evaluation of
products and services used in the healthcare finance workplace. The
rigorous, eleven-step process consists of a peer review panel
consisting of current customers, prospects who have not made a
purchase, and expert HFMA Peer Review board members. Peer Review
status approval of the product or service and its performance
claims are based on effectiveness, quality and usability, price,
value, and customer and technical support.
"HFMA's Peer Review process provides our membership with the
assurance that those who have earned the designation have met a
rigorous screening process," says HFMA President and CEO Richard L.
Clarke, DHA, FHFMA. "The Peer Reviewed designation helps members
and others identify and evaluate products and services that their
organization may need. It can also create brand awareness and
recognition in the healthcare finance marketplace for Peer Reviewed
products and services."
About HFMA
The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) provides the
resources healthcare organizations need to achieve sound fiscal
health in order to provide excellent patient care. With more than
37,000 members, HFMA is the nation's leading membership
organization of healthcare finance executives and leaders. HFMA
helps its members achieve results by providing education, analysis,
and guidance, and creating practical tools and solutions that
optimize financial management. The organization is a respected and
innovative thought leader on top trends and challenges facing the
healthcare finance industry. From addressing capital access to
improved patient care to technology advancement, HFMA is an
indispensable resource on healthcare finance issues. http://www.hfma.org
About MedSpeed
Every patient interaction, from a routine clinic visit to an urgent
blood transfusion, relies in some way on the same-day pickup and
delivery of a specimen, pharmaceutical, radiology film, blood
product, medical record or supply. MedSpeed is an ISO-certified,
technology-enhanced healthcare transportation solutions provider
that helps organizations reduce risk and achieve maximum business
value. For more than ten years, healthcare organizations have
worked with MedSpeed to transform their transportation into a
globally-optimized, leverageable logistical framework - ripe to
produce quality service results and an enhanced economic value
proposition. Governed under the principles of Lean Six Sigma,
MedSpeed's superior approach to transportation design and execution
consistently delivers operational quality, economic value and
strategic advantage.