Archive for April, 2002
ClaimGear Software Takes Doctors Out of The Dark
ORLANDO, Fla.–(BW HealthWire)–Apr. 6, 2002–ClaimGear, a leading provider of Internet-based software for the healthcare industry, announced today the launch of a Web site that hosts a private label version of their practice management software ClaimGear.
For no additional charge, medical billing services can give the physicians office real-time access to all of their practice data. The access is made possible through use of a private label version of ClaimGear and the Internet. Billing services can send their doctors to the XGear private web site where they can download and install the free software on any Internet-enabled computer in their medical office and home. Once the software is installed, doctors have read-only access to the system and full access to all reporting capabilities. Optionally, doctors or their staff can be given full access to any section of the software, such as patient entry.
“Physicians whose use billing services love to hear they can have real-time access to the system,” said Douglas Kegler, founder and CEO. “No longer does the physician have to wait till the end of month for paper reports. With our system, physicians see in real-time how the billing service is managing their billing and receivables.” Billing services using the ClaimGear system have a definite advantage over billing services that can only give the doctor paper reports on a weekly or monthly basis.
The private label software and Web site were designed specifically for the ClaimGear billing service clients and have no mention of the ClaimGear names or logos. ClaimGear created the private label version due to the fact that most billing services would be concerned that their clients would switch to use ClaimGear directly. “A private label version of the software and private download web site were the perfect solution to keep us behind the curtain,” explained Douglas Kegler.
Courtney Barnette, noted, “Our billing service clients can use this site as a marketing tool for perspective clients. The doctor can download and install the private label version of ClaimGear and see how easy it is to retrieve data and run reports. It also makes the sign-up process easier once the physician understands how the system works.”
Additionally, ClaimGear announced an account resell program that allows billing services to generate additional income by selling the ClaimGear account. The billing service can transfer the account to the physician, including all data, when the contract between the billing service and the physician expires. This scenario works well when the billing service was only hired to help the practice get the physician’s accounts receivables under control.
Note: As of Apr 26, 2007 ClaimGear has changed to CollaborateMD.
ClaimGear Utilizes the Internet to Help Medical Offices Save Time and Money
ORLANDO, Fla.–(BW HealthWire)–Apr. 5, 2002–Medical offices can easily and inexpensively manage practice billing and data from any location via the Internet with application software from XGear Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Internet-based Practice Management Software for the healthcare industry.
XGear Technologies provides the healthcare industry with ClaimGear, an Internet-based Java™ application, which has the speed of a local PC application and the “use anywhere” flexibility of a Web browser application. Users install and run the ClaimGear application from any Internet-enabled PC in the medical office or home. All data that is entered in the application, such as a patient or insurance claim, is encrypted and transmitted through the Internet for safe storage and processing in the XGear Data Center. Requests for data from the user’s PC are sent to the XGear Data Center for processing and within seconds the requested data is returned to the user for viewing or modification. The XGear system utilizes proprietary data caching techniques to minimize the amount of data that is transferred across the Internet resulting in fast data transmissions.
“We wanted to create an application that would use the Internet as a link between our clients and us, but we didn’t want our application limited by the constraints and slow page loading of a Web browser,” said Douglas Kegler, founder and CEO of XGear Technologies. “The end-result was a fast application that resides on the user’s local PC and uses the Internet to link them with our data center. Because the transmissions over the Internet are fast, it appears to our users as if the data is stored on their local hard drive.”
Single and multi-location medical offices benefit by using ClaimGear because no expensive hardware or software is required. Medical offices only need a simple, Internet-enable PC in each office in order to access and share all of their data located in our data center. Previously, multi-location offices had to spend thousands of dollars on special software and hardware in order to share data. Courtney Barnette, Director of Operations, also stated “There is no cost for users to install ClaimGear on additional computers. Plus, doctors can install the software at home and create and print reports whenever they want.”
“Our clients can concentrate on running their office instead of worrying about data backup, claim submission, and printing and mailing patient statements,” said Douglas Kegler. “We handle all of their important, but tedious and time consuming tasks.”
About XGear Technologies
Headquartered in Orlando, FL, XGear Technologies provides the healthcare industry with an Internet-based Medical Billing and Practice Management Software program, ClaimGear, which has the speed of a local PC application and the “use anywhere” flexibility of a Web browser application. Through the Internet and its Java-based system, which utilizes Sun Microsystems Inc.’s (Nasdaq:SUNW) Java technology, ClaimGear is giving physician offices and billing services the opportunity to become more efficient and flexible. For more information, visit: http://www.claimgear.com.
Note to Editors: ClaimGear is a trademark of XGear Technology in the United States. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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Note: As of Apr 26, 2007 ClaimGear has changed to CollaborateMD.