LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T*
today announced that the Arkansas Department of Health has deployed
TotalMobile from AT&T to design a mobile flu clinic solution to
help the agency more efficiently transmit flu vaccination records
across the state. The Department plans to extend the use of the
application to other year-round immunization and health inspection
programs during the course of 2011.
As an important part of its mission to protect and improve the
health and well-being of its citizens, the Arkansas Department of
Health operates mobile flu vaccination clinics during the fall and
winter in different venues across the state, with the objective of
maximizing availability and population reach.
Using the mobile flu clinic solution powered by TotalMobile™, the
Arkansas Department of Health is able to more accurately capture
key patient information digitally at many mobile flu clinics and
submit reimbursement claims to insurance providers, Medicaid and
Medicare, in near real-time over the AT&T wireless
network. The mobile enterprise application has minimized errors
and significantly reduced paperwork. Since implementing the
solution, the Arkansas Department of Health has administered more
than 250,000 doses of flu vaccine during the current season.
Current plans are to extend the use of the solution to its
year-round immunization programs and to deploy TotalMobile from
AT&T applications for use by health inspectors across the
state.
Previously, the clinics recorded patients’ personal, medical,
and insurance information on paper for submission to data
processing. Months later, this information was then returned to the
Arkansas Department of Health to file reimbursement claims to
insurance providers. A time-consuming and paper-intensive pro
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