Holy Name Hospital Selects HealthMatics Emergency Department Information System from Allscripts
Auto Paging and Remote Access Features Connect Caregivers Inside and Outside the Hospital to Critical Information
CHICAGO, Ill. and TEANECK, N.J., (April 12, 2007) –
Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced that Holy Name Hospital has selected the HealthMatics(R) ED Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to automate operations and improve access to patient information for its more than 42,000 annual Emergency Department visits.
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Holy Name is a comprehensive 361-bed acute care medical center that has been rated among the nation’s top five percent of hospitals for three years straight by HealthGrades. It is the first hospital in the nation to receive three JD Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital Awards, for inpatient, outpatient and emergency service excellence. HealthMatics ED (http://www.allscripts.com/edis) will streamline processes for the hospital’s entire Emergency Department, including patient tracking and triage, nurse and physician charting, reporting and disposition.
“Allscripts will support Holy Name’s long-term goal of enhancing patient safety and satisfaction,” said Richard Schwab, M.D., FACEP, Medical Director of Holy Name’s Emergency Department, where physicians had been using a cumbersome dictation system to document patient visits. “HealthMatics ED provides the best of both worlds with very fine documentation, excellent patient tracking, and most important of all, excellent support from a company with many live implementations.”
To enhance patient safety, HealthMatics ED connects caregivers inside and outside the hospital to critical information. Holy Name will take advantage of the solution’s auto paging functionality, which automatically alerts caregivers to significant clinical events such as returned abnormal lab results. Other system features include remote chart access for community caregivers and hospital staff, so they can securely access an ED patient’s chart via the hospital’s Web HIS physician portal. Physicians outside the hospital can then see what medications and treatments their patients received in the Emergency Department.
Holy Name selected Allscripts after evaluating EDIS vendors for more than four years. The hospital chose HealthMatics not only for its industry-leading connectivity but for its comprehensive functionality, ease of customization, and proven success at the nation’s leading hospitals, where the Allscripts solution handles millions of Emergency Department visits each year.
“We scrutinized our selection and Allscripts became our top choice because it not only has more successful implementations than any other company but HealthMatics ED is so easy to customize,” said Donna Stringer, Clinical Coordinator of Holy Name’s Emergency Department, which is in the midst of a $25 million expansion. “Our doctors spent years customizing our old patient discharge system to fit their workflow, and HealthMatics was the only EDIS we found that would very easily transfer those processes and let us further customize the system on our own.”
Holy Name will connect HealthMatics ED with its existing inpatient health information system, enabling full interoperability of all clinical and financial information across the hospital.
“The Emergency Department is mission critical and caregivers inside and outside the ED need instant access to the right information to provide safe, efficient care,” said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “We’re proud that Holy Name Hospital has chosen Allscripts to provide patients the best possible care.”
About Holy Name Hospital
Founded in 1925 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, Holy Name Hospital is a comprehensive 361-bed acute care medical center that serves more than 26,000 inpatients, 42,000 Emergency Department patients and 18,000 outpatient clinic and ambulatory surgery patients annually, with more than 400 board- certified physicians on the medical staff. Holy Name Hospital is affiliated with the New York-Presbyterian Health System and is an academic affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The hospital is the first in the nation to receive three JD Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital Awards for Inpatient, Outpatient and Emergency Service Excellence. Visit Holy Name Hospital on the Web at www.holyname.org.
About Allscripts
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company’s business groups provide unique solutions that inform, connect and transform healthcare. The Clinical Solutions Group’s award-winning software applications include electronic health record, practice management, e-prescribing, document imaging, emergency department and care management solutions. Additionally, Allscripts provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients through its Physicians Interactive(TM) Group and medication fulfillment services through its Medication Services Group. To learn more, visit Allscripts on the Web at www.allscripts.com.
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts’ actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts, see the Company’s 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
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