Notable Emergency Room Entry among Several Key Client Milestones;
Demonstrates Continued Leadership in Using CPOE to Improve Patient
Safety and Outcomes
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 2009--
Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, continues
to strengthen its position as a leader in computerized physician order
entry (CPOE) with the announcement today that long-standing client
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System (Sarasota Memorial), located in
Sarasota, FL, recently entered its 50 millionth order into its
electronic health record (EHR) system. The notable physician order was
entered by emergency medicine specialist Bill Colgate, MD.
“There is perhaps no other initiative we have taken more seriously or
invested more time and resources in than our electronic medical system
and the safety features it lends to patient care,” said Denis Baker,
Sarasota Memorial’s Chief Information Officer. “To remain a leader in
this rapidly evolving technological world is a testament to our medical
staff’s extraordinary commitment and dedication to patient safety and
the most advanced medical care.”
Sarasota Memorial – recognized repeatedly as one of America’s Best
Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, and one of America’s
Safest Large Hospitals by Forbes – is one of only 4.1 percent of
U.S. hospitals at Stage 4 of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption ModelSM,
which is designed to assess the penetration of clinical information
technology use within U.S. healthcare organizations. Overall nearly half
(49 percent) of American hospitals have yet to reach Stage 3 on the EMR
Adoption Model. The 806-bed community hospital on Florida’s Gulf Coast
has been using Eclipsys’ health information technology to redesign its
workflow processes and improve care quality and efficiency since 1998.
Since that time, the hospital has developed a fully integrated system,
redesigning its workflow systems and replacing virtually all of its
paper documentation with electronic processes.
Physicians, nurses and other care providers now place 99.9 percent of
the hospital’s patient care orders and care notes electronically,
reducing the risks associated with illegible handwritten orders and
providing physicians with rapid access to their patient’s medical
history, test results and other information needed for clinical
decision-making. The electronic medical record (EMR) also offers allergy
and medication safety alerts and lets physicians instantly review and
manage their patients’ care at any time from any place they have
internet access – from their homes, their offices, even their cars.
The results have been well received: Improved turnaround times for
X-rays, lab work and other tests, as well as fewer delays between order
submission and administration of medications. Physicians and nurses no
longer waste time searching the chart for paper lab slips or reports or
clarifying illegible orders, and in many cases, electronic order sets
have standardized “best practices” for nurses and doctors.
“We have the highest regard for Sarasota’s leadership in their use of
HIT to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care,” said
Jay Deady, Eclipsys’ executive vice president of Client Solutions.
“Given the low level of technology adoption among U.S. hospitals today,
this order entry milestone demonstrates the distinguished leadership
within the Eclipsys client base. It also showcases our clients’
satisfaction with superior solutions that offer highly complex clinical
decision support capabilities and workflows that can be easily tailored
to how physicians practice medicine.”
Nationwide, scores of Eclipsys client hospitals and health systems are
achieving high CPOE adoption and outcomes. A few examples include:
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St. Clair Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA) has successfully used Eclipsys’
CPOE solution to standardize anticoagulant therapies to prevent
patient blood clotting. St. Clair’s CPOE heparin infusion protocols,
for example, have resulted in a 43 percent reduction in heparin
infusion-related occurrences in inpatient units and an overall
hospital reduction of 24 percent.
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Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center (Bronx, NY), the largest voluntary,
not-for-profit healthcare system in south and central Bronx, recently
activated Eclipsys’ ambulatory EHR, Sunrise Ambulatory Care™ in a
40-doctor multispecialty clinic in less than six months. The
activation builds upon the successful use of Eclipsys’ CPOE solution
at its 579-bed hospital. Because of the integration between the two
solutions, most of the orders set templates required for the
ambulatory EHR were already in place.
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Children’s Hospital & Medical Center (Omaha, NE) has achieved a
voluntary adoption rate of CPOE of 79 percent. Prescribing and
transcription mediation errors reaching the patient fell from
0.89/1000 orders to 0.51/1000 orders for orders entered via CPOE.
Transcription errors were eliminated when CPOE was used.
Eclipsys’ CPO solution, Sunrise Acute Care™, contains the input of
thousands of physicians for evidence-based order sets and frequently
used protocols to achieve unmatched, continuous evolution in its
clinical decision support and order entry application. The intuitive,
easy-to-adopt solution supports fully automating even the most complex
order sets and medication ordering, including the exacting protocols,
long-range medication schedules and complicated treatment plans
commonplace in oncology and pediatric care environments.
According to the KLAS CPOE Digest 2009: Meaningful Use and Physician
Adoption report, 25 percent of the total number of doctors doing CPOE on
a commercial system use Eclipsys. The company also continues to have the
highest physician satisfaction from clients who use its system, and on
average, highly customizable ordering capabilities allow a physician to
order faster than any other CPOE solution on the market.
About Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
Founded in 1925, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is the
second-largest acute care public health system in Florida, with about
4,000 staff, 750 physicians and about 500,000 ER, inpatient and
outpatient visits a year. With an 806-bed acute care hospital and
comprehensive network of outpatient services – pain care,
rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging and laboratory, home health and a
nursing home among its many services – Sarasota Memorial offers the
region’s greatest breadth and depth of care. It is the only hospital in
Southwest Florida that has ranked repeatedly among U.S. News & World
Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals,” the only one recognized among
“America’s Safest Large Hospitals” by Forbes and the only one
awarded Magnet Nursing Services Recognition – the nation’s highest honor
for excellence in nursing. For more information see www.smh.com.
About the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption ModelSM
HIMSS Analytics, the authoritative source on EMR Adoption trends,
devised the EMR Adoption Model to track EMR progress at hospitals and
health systems. The EMRAM scores hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics
Database on their progress in completing the 8 stages to creating a
fully paperless patient record environment. For more information see www.himssanalytics.org.
About the KLAS CPOE Digest 2009
The KLAS CPOE Digest 2009 compiled data from healthcare executives,
managers and clinicians. The study provided detailed information on
several criteria including current CPOE usage at healthcare
organizations, product capabilities and vendor performance.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the
performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS' mission is to improve delivery,
by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of its
healthcare provider partners, consultants, investors, and vendors.
Working together with executives from over 4500 hospitals and over 2500
clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends, and statistics, which
provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS
measures performance of software, professional services, and medical
equipment vendors. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com
, email marketing@KLASresearch.com
, or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative.
About Eclipsys
Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced integrated clinical, revenue
cycle and performance management software, clinical content and
professional services that help healthcare organizations improve
clinical, financial and operational outcomes. For more information, see www.eclipsys.com
or email info@eclipsys.com.
Statements in this news release concerning the timing of implementation
and features and benefits provided by Eclipsys software, ARRA
qualification, evidence-based content and implementation services are
forward-looking statements and actual results may differ from those
projected due to a variety of risks and uncertainties. Implementation
and customization of Eclipsys software is complex and time-consuming.
Results depend upon a variety of factors and can vary by client. Each
client’s circumstances are unique and may include unforeseen issues that
make it more difficult than anticipated to implement or derive benefit
from Eclipsys software or services. The success and timeliness of the
company’s services will depend at least in part upon client involvement,
which can be difficult to control. Eclipsys is required to meet
specified performance standards, and the contract can be terminated or
its scope reduced under certain circumstances. ARRA qualification
requires compliance with standards that are still evolving, and
satisfaction of those standards may be delayed. More information about
company risks is available in recent Form 10-Q and 10-K filings made by
Eclipsys from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Special attention is directed to the portions of those documents
entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Eclipsys Corporation and
The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks of Eclipsys Corporation.
Sunrise Ambulatory Care and Sunrise Acute Care are trademarks of
Eclipsys Corporation. Other product and company names in this news
release are or may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
Source: Eclipsys Corporation
Eclipsys Corporation
Robin Wrinn, 404-847-5219
Director,
Public Relations (media)
robin.wrinn@eclipsys.com
or
Jason
Cigarran, 404-847-5965
Vice President, Investor Relations
jason.cigarran@eclipsys.com
or
Sarasota
Memorial Health Care System:
Kim Savage, 941-917-6271
Media
Relations
kim-savage@smh.com
