Spheris has been selected as an "awarded vendor" by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of academic health centers, to supply clinical documentation technology and services to its members.
 
"From working with several large academic health systems, we know their clinical documentation needs vary greatly from one institution to the next," said Alan Whorton, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Spheris. "These needs start with a desire to control costs while enhancing patient care, but often that's where the similarity between institutions ends."

Spheris has extensive experience providing university medical centers with a customized, seamless solution that integrates their acute-care facilities with outpatient clinics and other functions. Spheris is able to provide a stand-alone technology solution for in-house transcription services, or to blend its technology offering with an outsourced workforce with the capacity to handle any volume of dictation.

"Spheris is uniquely positioned to fulfill the entire range of solutions that UHC members desire," said Whorton. "We are very pleased to be able to work with UHC to rapidly deploy our clinical documentation solutions at every opportunity to bring value to UHC members."

"We are pleased to offer UHC members, as a result of our competitive bid process, a contract with Spheris for medical transcription technology and services," said Cindy White, UHC's vice president of operations.