Replacing MegaWest Medical Management Suite, Companion PM is a fully integrated practice management system designed to help physician practices improve productivity, efficiency and levels of care. Its features include A/R billing and reporting, collections, a patient master, claims processing and appointment scheduling, and it encrypts source code and data streams to ensure HIPAA compliance. The system offers optional modules for orthopedic practices, health centers, anesthesiology, allergy management, advanced collections, patient care tracking, document and image management, and electronic remittance of claims. Companion PM’s scalability and modular design allow it to be tailored to a practice’s exact needs. As part of its flexible system architecture, it also uses tools that are SQL-, HL7-and ODBC-compliant. Its operating system and platform independence enable practices to use their existing hardware. Companion Technologies Corp., Columbia, S.C.