MediConnect Global today joins thousands of people from many different groups and organizations volunteering their time and services in support of the people and clean up of the Gulf hurricane disaster areas by donating digitized back up copies of archived medical records to those who may have lost their paper medical records due to the storms.

MediConnect has retrieved or received requests to retrieve thousands of medical records from organizations in the areas most affected by Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Gustav, and Tropical Storm Fay. MediConnect will donate digitized copies of medical records to individuals, physicians, hospitals, law firms, insurance carriers or independent agents located in the designated disaster areas who submit a request accompanied by a HIPAA-compliant patient authorization. Those who need their records can go to www.mediconnect.net to begin the process of getting any records that may be in MediConnect’s archive.

MediConnect’s donations join many relief efforts from people, churches, and other organizations providing help in the devastated areas.

MediConnect has an extensive archive of digitized medical records—records that were previously retrieved. If people or healthcare organizations within the disaster areas need to replace any medical records, MediConnect will donate free of charge any that it contains in its archives.

Simply go to the MedConnect Web site and click on the Hurricane Ike link. Fill out and submit a simple form and a MediConnect representative will contact you to coordinate any archived records the company may have.

If you a regular user of MediConnect’s RapidRetrieve, you’ll be very happy to know the company has recently updated the interface and added new features to make it easier than ever to use the system to quickly order, retrieve and manage your medical records.

Next time you login one of the first things you’ll notice is a picture and contact information of your assigned account manager. This should make it easier for you to reach your AM and adds a personal touch so you know better who you are working with. You will also notice navigation is more intuitive as you place your orders.

In addition, new features have been added including:

• Excessive Fee Batch Approval/Denial–This feature allows you to set an approved provider fee limit associated with your pay-as-you-go payment options. If the provider fee of a medical record will be over the approved set fee, your approval will be needed. When this occurs a window opens allowing a user to approve or deny fees in batches simply by clicking convenient check boxes.
• Mouse-over notes–Whenever you place your mouse over the Request ID number within RapidRetrieve, you’ll automatically see the last three notes on the request. This is beneficial for the Excessive Fee feature and enhances the ability to quickly review “need more information” notes without opening additional windows.
• Inter-Office Notes–You can now write inter-office notes directly in RapidRetrieve. This allows you to write notes to others in your office to coordinate activity, or as a reminder to yourself.
• Electronic Invoicing–You can now choose to receive electronic invoices in RapidRetrieve. The electronic invoices are easy to read and understand, summarize all outstanding invoices for efficient invoice tracking, can be downloaded in either PDA or CSV format, and are automatically encrypted and decrypted for secure delivery. (A small fee will now be charged for paper invoices.)
• Pay-as-you-go–RapidRetrieve now provides a convenient pay-as-you-go payment option making it faster for you to access ordered records. You can choose either auto-pay, which automatically bills a cred card on file, or manual pay, which bills a credit card when records are ready to download.

For the second year in a row, MediConnect Global was recognized in Inc. Magazine’s annual fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/company-profile.html?id=200806790 MediConnect was number 72 in Inc.’s Top 100 Business Services Companies.

The company is pleased to once again be recognized by Inc. as one of the fastest growing private companies in the country. The company contributes its on-going growth to increased services to its key markets, its professional staff, and its intry into other markets such as the consumer market. www.mediconnect.net