MedLearn/A-Life Press Release
MedLearn and A-Life Medical Announce Strategic Partnership
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- September 17, 2007 -- Medical Learning, Inc. (MedLearn) and A-Life Medical today announced an agreement under which MedLearn's medical coding and billing expertise will be integrated into A-Life Medical's patented LifeCode® technology.
Since its founding in 1991, MedLearn has become one of the nation's preeminent authorities on medical coding, compliance and reimbursement. The company, headquartered in St. Paul, MN, offers a broad range of products and services, including publications, consulting services, customized learning and assessments, seminars and online testing and learning. MedLearn is staffed by some of the healthcare industry's most experienced consulting experts, many of whom possess 20 or more years on the frontlines of healthcare, both in the clinical and business office setting.
Based in San Diego, CA, A-Life Medical developed LifeCode technology as the foundation for its software products and services. A-Life Medical offers computerized ICD-9 and CPT® coding and the industry's first Windows®-based billing system that integrates document management, coding, billing, collections, denial management and auditing. LifeCode is the healthcare industry's only technology which combines patented Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology and artificial intelligence, helping increase the productivity of coding and billing processes as well as compliance with regulatory requirements.
Under terms of the agreement, MedLearn and A-Life Medical will consolidate their key strengths - MedLearn's expertise and A-Life Medical's LifeCode technology - into a tightly integrated set of products and services, including consulting, certification programs, education programs, publications, computerized coding and billing audits.
"We believe this collaboration is unlike any other relationship in the healthcare industry today," says MedLearn founder and President Mike Rogge. "Two companies, both leaders in their respective fields, give providers an unprecedented advantage in achieving their revenue and compliance objectives. We are excited that the deep knowledge and experience of MedLearn consulting experts can be deployed in such an innovative way."
Adds Tom Bang, President and CEO of A-Life Medical: "Our customers
have consistently recognized the advanced capabilities of A-Life Medical
technology, including our LifeCode engine. Leveraging A-Life Medical's brand
of LifeCode technology and MedLearn's medical coding knowledge into an expanded
portfolio of products and services enables our customers to be the most
efficient, compliant, competitive organizations in the market today."
About Medical Learning, Inc.
Since its founding in 1991, MedLearn (www.medlearn.com) has become one of
the nation's most respected authorities on medical coding, compliance and
reimbursement. MedLearn clients can choose from a variety of resources,
including publications, consulting services, customized learning and assessments,
seminars and online testing and learning. Content for each of these resources
comes directly from MedLearn experts, professionals who have years, often
decades, of real-world experience in the clinical and business office settings.
For more information visit MedLearn's website at www.medlearn.com.
About A-Life Medical, Inc.
A-Life Medical is the leading provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
technology based solutions for the healthcare industry. A-Life Medical's
products extract meaning from unstructured free text and automate tedious,
complicated and labor intensive tasks. A-Life Medical's mission is to provide
world-class solutions to streamline and computerize the code to collection
process and to fundamentally advance the way the healthcare industry gathers,
applies and reports on patient information. A-Life Medical is a private
company headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information about
A-Life Medical and its products visit A-Life Medical's website at www.alifemedical.com.