SoftMed Systems, Inc. offers healthcare information systems (HIM) for clinicians and healthcare facilities. It provides solutions related to disclosure management, secure access to patient information, managing transcription costs, solving coder shortages, and quality and resource management. The company offers document creation and distribution solutions, which enable clinicians to create, edit, and electronically sign patient documents; patient information management solutions; clinical data management solutions that allow clients to integrate and perform data management with shortened revenue cycles, and access to patient care and financial data; and electronic medical record solutions, which enable parallel and online access to and processing of patient information for all SoftMed applications and users. SoftMed Systems also provides professional and consulting services, including interim leadership, HIM department operational analyses, health system integration, annual systems assessments, outsourced implementations, and transformational application implementations, as well as transcription consulting services. It has strategic alliance with 3M Canada Company. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Silver Spring, Maryland. As of December 15, 2006, SoftMed Systems, Inc. is a subsidiary of 3M Health Information Systems, Inc.