Dawn Fitzgerald
dafitzge@wiley.com
Wiley
(201) 748-6358
Jennifer Morgano
jmorgano@vantagemed.com
VantageMed Corporation
(510) 536-6012
Liesel Loesch
investor@vantagemed.com
VantageMed Corporation
(916) 638-4744, ext. 213
Wiley and VantageMed Announce Strategic Partnership
Hoboken, NJ, February 24, 2004 — Margaret Alexander, Vice President and Publisher for Psychology at John Wiley and Sons, Inc., announced today a partnership with VantageMed Corporation, a leading provider of healthcare information systems, to jointly develop a software interface that will allow Wiley’s TheraScribe 4.0 and VantageMed’s Therapist Helper to work together as a seamless practice management solution for mental health providers. TheraScribe 4.0, the leading clinical software package, and Therapist Helper, the leading billing solution, are indispensable tools for individual and group practices in mental health.
“By combining TheraScribe 4.0's complete clinical record management and treatment planning capabilities with Therapist Helper's billing software solution, our customers will be able to seamlessly integrate their electronic billing and clinical management solutions, further reducing paperwork and saving valuable time in the process," said Ms. Alexander.
According to Richard M. Brooks, Chief Executive Officer for VantageMed Corp, "This represents a great partnership for our company and our customers. By integrating these two highly successful and widely used programs, we feel that we are giving both Therapist Helper and TheraScribe users access to the ideal end to end solution for their practices.”
About VantageMed
VantageMed is a provider of healthcare information systems and services distributed to over 12,000 customer sites through a national network of regional offices. Our suite of software products and services automates administrative, financial, clinical and management functions for physicians and other healthcare providers as well as provider organizations. The VantageMed Therapist Helper family of products is the recognized leader in practice management software for behavioral health professionals nationwide, and is used by over 20,000 professionals. For more information about Therapist Helper, please call 1-800-343-5737, or visit www.helper.com.
About TheraScribe 4.0® (ISBN:0-471-43317-9)
TheraScribe 4.0® is an innovative, Windows-based software program that allows mental health professionals to create individualized treatment plans with the “click of a mouse.” It includes thousands of treatment planning statements organized by main presenting problems, behavioral symptom definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, DSM diagnoses and therapeutic interventions.
Already used in thousands of behavioral health care practices and treatment facilities, the latest version of TheraScribe 4.0® offers treatment planning CD modules tailored for twenty different client populations and treatment settings—covering everything from Addictions, Adult, and Family Therapy to Crisis Counseling, Personality Disorders, and Severe and Persistent Mental Illness.
Available in a solo/small group edition as well as a network version, TheraScribe 4.0® can suit both small and large practices or mental health facilities alike. Professionals using TheraScribe will immediately see the benefits of this unique treatment planning and clinical record management system which will save the user hundreds of hours of time spent on paperwork, while improving the quality of care for clients. To place an order for TheraScribe 4.0® software, call 1-866-888-5158.
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