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SwedishAmerican Health System to Implement Vendormate Vendor Credentialing and Integrated Badges
Atlanta, GA June 13, 2007 – SwedishAmerican Health System selects Vendormate to deliver its robust vendor credentialing and compliance monitoring solution to help manage vendor data and facility access.
Rich Walsh, President, SwedishAmerican Hospital and COO for SwedishAmerican Health System, recognized a need for a more standardized and consistent method of collecting and verifying vendor information as well as better controlling vendor access to their facilities. “We wanted to know more about who we are doing business with, who is in our building and whether all vendors are doing the necessary things to keep SwedishAmerican compliant.”
With Vendor ONSITE, Vendormate’s integrated badge solution, all SwedishAmerican vendors will sign-in electronically and receive badges that display important information for anyone to simply view to verify legitimacy. Since the badge is fully integrated with the vendor credentialing and monitoring solution, it displays sign-in information like name, date, and appointment location as well as the vendor status against SwedishAmerican’s custom criteria.
By capturing over 150 fields of business and representative vendor data, verifying documentation, screening against watch lists, continuously monitoring status, and delivering integrated access badges, Vendormate offers a full solution that allowed SwedishAmerican to select one vendor credentialing partner.
About SwedishAmerican
SwedishAmerican is a not-for-profit, locally governed healthcare system headquartered in Rockford, Illinois. The Health System serves 12 counties in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin through a network of more than 20 primary care and multi-specialty clinics and is recognized as a quality leader in such specialties as cardiology, behavioral health, orthopedics, cancer surgery and women's health. As an institution, SwedishAmerican Health System has been honored numerous times over the past decade for accomplishments in quality improvement, including national recognition as a Top 100 Hospital, winner of the Lincoln Award for Excellence and winner of the USA Today National Quality Cup.
About Vendormate, Inc.
Vendormate protects the health of your supply chain with a unique vendor credentialing and compliance monitoring solution. Using proprietary software for vendor registration, screening, rating and cataloging, the program assures compliance with both internal policies and government mandates, including HIPAA and Stark Law. Registered vendors are evaluated against your custom criteria and continuously monitored for non-compliance. Also the integrated badges feature controls access to your facilities. For information call 1-877-483-6368, go to www.vendormate.com or visit our blog at vendorcompliance.wordpress.com.
Vendormate VISION and Vendor ONSITE are registered trademarks of Vendormate, Inc.