Health Information Management Edition

The fastest, most cost-effective way for Hospitals to initiate the death certificate process.

So much medical record-keeping is done via computer, but until now, death certificates have been stuck in the past. eCedent finally brings the process into the 21^st century!

With eCedent, you'll reduce your workload – and create death certificates with:

• Secure online data
• Efficient automatic updating
• Instant electronic signatures

eCedent is the fastest, most cost-effective way for health information management professionals at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to manage the death certificate process. Through eCedent's secure online network, you can quickly, easily initiate and track death certificates – and eCedent will instantly notify physicians that a signature is needed.

Once you've created a death certificate, simply select the physician and funeral home associated with the case. eCedent will automatically notify them via email, fax, or text message that the certificate is ready for completion. See how it works.

With eCedent, the average health information management department saves a minimum of 20 hours per week of valuable work time (based on an average of 40 deaths per month).

Overview

What does eCedent offer you the power to do?

• Initiate death certificates quickly and easily via eCedent's secure online network
• Enjoy the speed and ease of an intuitive, browser-based user interface
• Prevent errors through pre-populated drop-down fields for data entry, which include a learning function for new entries
• Get instant form updates anytime, anywhere - without software installation
• Print all forms for your records from any computer with an Internet connection and printer
• Eliminate repeated calls to physicians or funeral homes
• Sort through less paperwork, and end the use of hand-written data
• Focus your time on other duties while eCedent electronically notifies physicians and funeral homes when death certificates need to be completed
• Easily "beat" the state deadline for death certificate completion
• Utilize the convenience of digital storage for completed certificates

How it Works

Here's how eCedent streamlines death certificate management

1. A natural death occurs in a hospital or skilled nursing facility
2. A health information management professional initiates the death certificate online, using our secure service
3. eCedent automatically notifies the decedent's physician and funeral home for you via email, fax, or text message
4. The physician logs onto eCedent, fills out the information, and applies a password-protected electronic signature
5. eCedent automatically notifies the funeral home that the death certificate has been signed
6. The funeral home fills in the remaining information, and can print the completed death certificate anytime

For more information or a personal demonstration, contact an eCedent sales representative.