Today MedeFile International Incorporated announced that it has signed a collaborative marketing agreement with Hayes Clinical Laboratory. This agreement unites MedeFile, one of the nation’s leaders in portable electronic medical records solutions with Hayes Clinical Labs, the largest independent clinical laboratory on Florida’s East Coast. The deal is advantageous to both parties and will provide reliable, cost saving, medical data for thousands of Florida residents.
Hayes Clinical Laboratories has five locations in Southern Florida and a service region that covers primarily Palm Beach, Broward, Okeechobee, St. Lucie and Martin counties, Hayes is a full service medical laboratory performing tests on all body fluids and tissue. Each year, Hayes administers more than 180,000 patient visits, most of which have been referred from its client base comprised of nearly 500 doctors and healthcare specialists.
Commenting on the deal Hayes President, Chad Fredrich, said, “We routinely see patients who are subjected to redundant clinical testing because they are under the care of physicians who are unaware of other medical providers that are also treating the patient for related or unrelated medical conditions and who have ordered similar tests. This unnecessary redundancy is costly to the patient and costly to the healthcare system. Moreover, insurance payers may refuse to approve payment for testing when patients have exceeded ‘frequency limitations’ allowable for clinical tests, resulting in our having to write off these billings as bad debt. In this case, testing redundancy is costly to our company.”
He continued, “By empowering patients with MedeFile, they gain control over effectively managing their own medical records, can carry actual clinical test results with them wherever they go, and can optimize the care they receive from their treating physicians. We are very excited about teaming with MedeFile International to begin offering this novel, cost-saving solution to the thousands of patients who rely on Hayes for clinical testing services.”
Although the financial ramifications of this agreement have not been released, MedeFile hopes to add to its steadily increasing revenues which have been improving quarter over quarter since 2005. MedeFile has an ultimate goal to educate the nation’s health care professionals about the benefits of their medical record solutions. They are both care enhancing and cost saving, and offer the patient and doctor a sense of security that they have up-to-the-second medical record information.
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