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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ & OVERLAND PARK, KS, Feb 28, 2023 — AS Software, a leading provider of ultrasound reporting and image management solutions, today announced that Scott Coons and Thomas Schneck have been appointed to the company’s board of directors, following AEA Growth‘s investment in the company. Coons and Schneck bring more than 50 combined years of software leadership experience to the company.

Coons previously co-founded Perceptive Software in 1995, which provides enterprise content management software solutions. Coons led the company from its inception through its rapid growth and ultimate sale to Lexmark International, where he later became President of Lexmark Enterprise Software. Coons’ extensive background in strategic leadership includes the successful expansion of enterprise content and business process management solutions into the clinical and corporate healthcare space. He was a key influencer in the early transitions from traditional to automated workflows for thousands of hospital information systems across the U.S. and has in-depth knowledge of strategic planning and operations for systems integrations, installations, and technology.

“I am a strong proponent of automation that makes problem-solving easier for clinicians,” said Coons. “AS Software provides customized solutions for women’s health, general ultrasound, and vascular clinicians and empowers them with all the information they need to provide the best patient care possible.”

Schneck joined DocuWare, which provides cloud document management solutions and workflow automation software, as a founding partner in 1990. Schneck scaled DocuWare to become a global market leader with a presence in 60+ countries. Schneck has deep leadership experience in building and scaling document management software and was instrumental in making previously niche paperless solutions accessible to organizations in mainstream healthcare markets. His comprehensive understanding of go-to-market strategies and ability to create a global footprint with differentiated technology aligns with AS Software’s long-term vision to innovate and expand globally.

“AS Software has a strong product solely focused on improving the efficient workflow and reporting for maternal-fetal medicine specialists (MFMs), sonographers and other clinicians. There’s a robust global market for the solutions AS Software offers”, says Schneck. “By executing on AS Software’s strategy, the company can bring value to hospitals of all sizes and become the standard for structured reporting.”

AS Software CEO David Lintz recently spoke of the value Coons and Schneck bring to AS Software. “Both Mr. Coons’ and Mr. Schneck’s hands-on approach and emphasis on strategic operations and product value will help us naturally grow while we focus on delivering the right tool for clinicians,” said Lintz. “Both have successfully built and deployed cloud solutions and their leadership experience and backgrounds are an invaluable addition to the board.”

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About AS Software

Founded in 1991 and based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with offices in Overland Park, KS, AS Software offers a suite of structured ultrasound reporting and image management solutions tailored for Women’s Health, Radiology, and Vascular specialties. AS Software’s integrated and vendor-neutral technology allows practices and hospitals of all sizes to capture, review, and retain comprehensive patient ultrasound data seamlessly and efficiently. AS Software is deployed in over 35% of U.S. hospitals and leveraged by over 8,000 clinical users. For more information, visit as-software.com.

About AEA Growth

AEA Growth provides technology-enabled, healthcare and software companies with flexible capital and operational resources to accelerate growth. AEA Growth is part of AEA Investors LP, which was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. as a private investment vehicle for a select group of industrial family offices with substantial assets. AEA has an extraordinary global network built over many years which includes leading industrial families, business executives and leaders. Today, AEA’s approximately 110 investment professionals operate globally with offices in New York, Stamford, San Francisco, London, Munich, and Shanghai. The firm manages funds that have approximately $18 billion of invested and committed capital, including the leveraged buyouts of middle market companies and small business companies, growth capital, and mezzanine and senior debt investments. For more information, visit aeagrowth.com.

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Effective healthcare revenue cycle management is reliant on accurate, timely data passed through multiple systems.

But due to the complex and fragmented nature of today’s typical healthcare technology ecosystem, that burden often falls onto the clinicians that should be empowered to focus more on patient care, creating a gap between ultrasounds and revenue.

Why is there such a large gap between ultrasound services and revenue?

Many hospital systems and imaging departments don’t have the necessary tools for clinicians to meet the level of documentation needed for revenue-building charge capture that closes the gap between ultrasounds and revenue.

If an ultrasound reporting system doesn’t automatically drop ultrasound Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to an Electronic Health Record (EHR) without extra, manual steps by the clinicians who are performing and reviewing these additional ultrasound services, that revenue is missed.

For many health systems, this lack of efficient billing connectivity can lead to substantial lost billings from missed ultrasound charges and insurance claim rejections in less than a year.

Even in the case of straightforward scheduled ultrasounds, most reporting systems aren’t designed with the necessary integrations that simplify and automate workflows to prevent lost charges and minimize errors, and still require manual inputs in multiple systems.

How are ultrasound billing inefficiencies affecting clinicians and leading to burnout?

Without billing-integrated reporting systems that allow for clinical flexibility and automated coding, sonographers can’t accurately capture charges for add-on ultrasound services without falling behind on patient volume, and physicians can’t keep up with the time they need to spend documenting in multiple disparate systems.

The need for easier, less time-consuming clinical documentation processes can be easily shown through today’s continually increasing levels of burnout:

“We are losing the equivalent of seven graduating classes of physicians yearly to burnout and, as they leave the profession, they point their finger at the time now required for them to document their work and how it has led to the loss of quality time spent with patients and families.”
Philip Kroth, MD, director of Biomedical Informatics Research at UNM in EHR Intelligence.

By securing the right technology that removes the burden of billing from clinicians, healthcare organizations can recover missed ultrasound revenue while alleviating clinician burnout — effectively closing the gap between ultrasounds and revenue.

AS Software’s Ultrasound Reporting & Image Management platform implements a detailed financial transaction (DFT) integration with your existing Electronic Health Records (EHR) to enable seamless billing communication.

To learn how data automation can increase reimbursements and help you to capture more revenue, schedule a demo to evaluate your ultrasound reporting system needs.

When I purchased my first personal computer, the only way to obtain software was to drive to a big box store and pick it up, like a bag of chips. But unlike a bag of chips, the package wasn’t immediately useful. Instead, you had to make sure it would run on your machine first and then install it — sometimes, the install wouldn’t work.

This painful method of distributing software via physical media was frustrating for software producers and users.

As internet connections improved, new avenues of software distribution became available.

Soon we could download and update the software. Before long, the software was handling this for us. Software companies also began offering solutions that didn’t need to be installed, only accessed.

“Cloud” or Software as a Service (SaaS) applications offer significant advantages for consumers. These consumer benefits are amplified in enterprise software, which costs more and requires more expertise and infrastructure to run.

Three major benefits of cloud healthcare technology

1. Safer data and secure browser delivery

Delivery of the application via a browser, which is nearly universally available by default on all computers, means nothing must be installed to begin getting value from the software. It reduces the need for powerful local machines and prevents any potential loss of data.

2. Lower costs and reduced system complexity

Before cloud technology, enterprises had no choice but to build out large data centers and find, hire, and retain experts for costly servers, networking, databases, and security. Teams were asked to run and manage many critical business systems without being experts in those systems.

Cloud-based solutions offload this complexity and enable enterprises to focus on utilizing their solution. Each cloud solution adopted reduces the number of systems that overloaded IT teams need to support.

3. Quicker delivery and rapid feature updates

Cloud providers can react to customer feedback at a pace no solution delivered in another fashion can match. All great companies listen to their customers and incorporate their feedback, but every software producer is constrained by the pace their customer base can receive updates.

For example, if it takes a customer a month to roll out a minor update, and two to six months for a major update, how many updates can a software producer realistically expect a customer to take in a year? One? One every other year? If each customer needs to engage their IT team, spin up a project, get resources assigned, and execute the upgrade, those might even be conservative estimates.

Ultimately, the fundamental promise of cloud products is to enable customers to toggle on and configure new features as they become available, allowing customers and software companies to engage in a much tighter feedback loop.

Given that cloud solutions can reduce implementation time and complexity while enabling a tighter product feedback loop, it is no wonder why there has been a strong movement to adopt cloud technologies across all industries.

In healthcare specifically, the benefits of cloud technology will continue to help increase efficiency and quality of care while lowering IT burdens as more organizations migrate to cloud technologies.

To learn more about the benefits of cloud healthcare technology solutions for your organization, schedule a demo.

Intermountain Health is a not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals and 385 clinics delivering best-in-quality care. Dr. T. Flint Porter is the Director of Intermountain Health’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division. As Intermountain Health looked to unify their MFM operations under the direction of Dr. Porter, they uncovered that many challenges were caused by outdated technology. A more connected ultrasound reporting system was needed to serve the needs of a growing, modern MFM division.

Challenge

System Crashes put Patient Data at Risk and Cost the Team Time and Effort

Frequent reporting crashes caused by an outdated ultrasound reporting system were creating challenges at Intermountain Health, including missed billings and workflow interruptions.

The ultrasound reporting application that was included with their machine hardware was unreliable. Some offices even had to begin keeping paper copies of reports and images, costing them too much time and threatening the accuracy of data.

The team needed a trusted solution that would adapt to their workflow and create consistency.

Solution

Automated Workflows Streamline Billing and Ultrasound Reporting

With the implementation of AS Software ultrasound reporting and image management, Intermountain Health was able to create automated, seamless workflows.

By customizing macros, AS Software was able to meet the unique needs and ever-changing guidelines of their MFM division. Billing processes were streamlined with automated coding directly from AS into the Oracle Cerner EHR, eliminating the need for manual data entry.

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“I can’t emphasize what a big deal the billing is to me. It makes me more efficient. I have a better lifestyle because I’m not charting until 7 p.m. AS is more efficient, the images are included. Before, we had the reporting system and the PACS system separate.”
Dr. T. Flint Porter
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division
Intermountain Health

Additionally, recommendations were standardized within AS, ensuring consistency in patient care and preventing confusion among referring providers.

Result

Time Savings and Quality Control

Without the need to toggle between separate systems and complete manual tasks, the Intermountain Health sonographers and physicians can focus on patient care and ensure they are capturing and extracting accurate data.

Now the MFM division has greater peace-of-mind knowing the AS Software system remains up-to-date, stable, and aligned with evolving best practices in the MFM field.

To explore how ultrasound reporting automation can drive revenue and streamline your clinical process, schedule a demo.

January is National Birth Defects Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness for birth defects and their impact on the health and well-being of families, individuals, and parents.

Nearly 120,000 babies are affected by birth defects each year, which can occur during any stage of pregnancy. Birth defects are also a leading cause of infant mortality in the U.S., accounting for 1 in 5 infant deaths, and in the U.S. each year, the total hospital costs of children with birth defects exceed $2.6 billion. (CDC.gov)

Screening and diagnostic ultrasounds are an important part of prenatal care, helping to provide diagnosis that allows families to make decisions and plan for the future.

Download and view an infographic on ultrasounds and National Birth Defects Awareness Month and view more resources below.

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Resources for National Birth Defects Awareness Month

Data and Statistics on Birth Defects

Educational and Other Resources for Sharing

Birth Defects and Infant Disorders Resources

Awareness of Birth Defects Across the Lifespan

Learn more at www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects

Thank you for joining us!

We enjoyed catching up with everyone at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Annual Pregnancy meeting. It was a great opportunity to meet with leaders in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and learn from their groundbreaking research in pregnancy science. We got to participate in scientific sessions, workshops, oral and poster abstract presentations, networking opportunities, and more.

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2023 Attendees

David Lintz: CEO Connect with David
Ari Sandman: Founder Connect with Ari
Nasrin Benion: Director, Clinical Ultrasound Solutions Connect with Nasrin
Mark Scott: VP of Sales Connect with Mark
Taylor Brammer: Senior Account Executive Connect with Taylor

Event Information and Dates

Moscone West Convention Center

Exhibit Hall Hours

AS Software Booth Number: 727

Wednesday, February 8th, 12:00-6:00 pm

Thursday, February 9th, 10:30-6:00 pm

Friday, February 10th, 10:00 am-5:00 pm

CEO David Lintz was interviewed by Leslie Collins on the growth of AS Software and his vision for the future. “The market opportunity that we see, that the investors see and that the board sees ahead of us is tremendous,” he said. “We’re taking that running start but also breathing new life into (the company) and new leadership to go on and continue the evolution and transformation.”

You can more read in the article “Former RFP360 CEO joins AS Software and sees big growth for Overland Park” in the Kansas City Business Journal.

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AS Software Announces Expanded Leadership Team and Launch of Cloud Product Following Investment from AEA Growth

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ & OVERLAND PARK, KS, Nov 15, 2022 — AS Software, a leading provider of ultrasound reporting and image management solutions, today announced the expansion of its leadership team, the launch of its cloud offering, and new branding. This follows AEA Growth’s recent investment in AS Software to support the Company’s accelerated growth and product investments, as more health systems are turning to AS Software for its specialized ultrasound reporting and image management solutions to enhance clinician workflow, productivity, and coordination.

The announcement follows several exciting developments for the Company this year, including recruiting David Lintz as Chief Executive Officer and launching a cloud-hosted, web-accessible subscription product. David brings over 25 years of enterprise software and healthcare industry leadership experience to AS Software. In addition to David Lintz, other recent key management hires include CTO Richard Garbi, VP of Finance Brian Gillespie, VP of Marketing Stephanie Gunter, and VP of Client Services Aaron Wimer.

AS Software’s augmented team will focus on product innovation to support its clinician and hospital partners, which today include many leading hospitals that utilize AS Software for women’s health, radiology, and vascular use cases.

“I am thrilled to join AS Software, as it is the premier ultrasound reporting and image management solution in the industry. Today, we launched new branding to reflect the significant growth and innovation that is taking place across the organization,” said CEO David Lintz. “It marks a new chapter in which we are investing in every aspect of our business to provide even more solutions and support for our clients.”

AEA Growth’s investment supports all of these growth initiatives. “We are delighted to partner with AS Software,” said Ravi Sarin, Co-Head and Partner of AEA Growth. “With their market-leading workflow automation and cloud capabilities, we see tremendous opportunity for AS Software to accelerate growth.”

Founder and Chairman Ari Sandman spoke about the recent growth at AS Software: “Over the last three decades, AS has been developing market-leading products and delivering unparalleled customer support. I am excited about the expansion of our leadership team and investment from AEA Growth to continue innovating in our industry.”

“Ultrasound usage is growing across the globe as an effective and efficient diagnostic tool in a multitude of areas across healthcare,” added CEO David Lintz. “We have an opportunity to serve this growing market with scalable solutions for organizations of all sizes.”

Visit the new website at as-software.com to see the new branding and learn more about AS Software.

About AS Software

Founded in 1991 and based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with offices in Overland Park, KS, AS Software offers a suite of structured ultrasound reporting and image management solutions tailored for women’s health, radiology, and vascular specialties. AS Software’s integrated and vendor-neutral technology allows practices and hospitals of all sizes to capture, review, and retain comprehensive patient ultrasound data seamlessly and efficiently. AS Software is deployed in over 35% of U.S. hospitals and leveraged by over 8,000 clinical users. For more information, visit as-software.com.

About AEA Growth

AS Software Media Contact:

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sgunter@as-software.com

417.772.2612