Catholic Health Initiatives Selects PatientKeeper as a Key Component of its Physician Alignment Strategy
Agreement Reinforces Health System's Commitment to Patient Safety & Quality Care
Denver, Co. and Boston, Mass. - December 11, 2007 - Catholic Health Initiatives® (CHI), one of the largest health systems in the United States, today announced it has selected PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of integrated physician information systems, to support its ongoing physician affinity and medication safety initiatives. Under the agreement, CHI hospitals will leverage the PatientKeeper physician information system to streamline physician access to patient information by consolidating information from disparate health information systems (HIS). CHI hospitals will be able to leverage their existing HIS investments while providing physicians a significantly improved interface and real time access to patient information wherever they are. The first hospital within the Catholic Health Initiatives health system to go live with PatientKeeper applications will be Saint Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland. "After a long evaluation process and extensive due diligence with a number of vendors, we selected PatientKeeper for our physician portal standard. Its unique integration capabilities and broad suite of clinical applications best complement our existing MEDITECH and Cerner HIS," said Rick Turner, MD, chief medical information officer of Catholic Health Initiatives. "PatientKeeper provides physicians and other clinicians with valuable information management solutions while allowing CHI hospitals the opportunity to optimize the accessibility, usability and availability of their existing clinical systems." The PatientKeeper physician information system includes a suite of products designed specifically to improve the physician's daily work process. CHI has elected to initially roll out PatientKeeper Portal™, PatientKeeper Mobile Clinical Results™, PatientKeeper eSignature™ and PatientKeeper Downtime™ to better support each physician's own unique workflow. PatientKeeper's integrated software ensures that physicians have a simplified single sign-on to all patient data across multiple systems, alleviating the common physician complaint of having too many passwords. "We anticipate this technology will greatly increase physician adoption of existing hospital information technologies, and improve our alignment with physicians, both community based and employed," noted Dr. Turner. The PatientKeeper Physician Portal and Mobile Clinical Results deliver access to the full set of clinical information from any computer or Smartphone. This puts the full set of patient data including medication history, MAR, lab results, notes, PACS images, EKGs, vitals and I/Os at a physician's fingertips anytime, anywhere. Additional workflow tools like PatientKeeper eSignature offer physicians working at CHI hospitals the freedom to complete administrative tasks like signing charts and the ability to communicate with health information management departments about missing documentation from any location. PatientKeeper Downtime ensures clinicians have uninterrupted access to patient information. "The breadth and depth of PatientKeeper's offerings will enable CHI to support a number of important system initiatives," Dr. Turner added, "With PatientKeeper Downtime, CHI gains the confidence of knowing that its clinicians will always have access to clinical information even during information system downtimes, which is especially important as we advance our organization-wide electronic medication administration program. PatientKeeper also provides an extensible clinical framework upon which we can add new functionality when needed, such as physician charge capture and ambulatory order entry." "PatientKeeper is working with customers like CHI to apply our expertise in systems integration to pioneer a new class of physician-centric solutions we call the Physician Information System," said Paul Brient, chief executive officer, PatientKeeper. "Our mix of portal and mobile applications - built on an open, extensible infrastructure - means we can offer an intuitive, physician-focused suite of applications that enables healthcare organizations like CHI to cost-effectively deliver information where it's needed most for optimum patient care." PatientKeeper has over 450 hospital customers under contract for core components of its physician information system. The popularity of the PatientKeeper physician information system continues to grow because of its innovative, integrated portal and mobile applications which have been incorporated with all major hospital information systems including Cerner, Eclipsys, Epic, GE Healthcare/IDX, McKesson, MEDITECH, QuadraMed, Siemens and others as well as PACS systems, Document Imaging systems, electronic medical record systems and practice management systems.About Catholic Health Initiatives
Catholic Health Initiatives, the second largest Catholic health system in the United States, is a national nonprofit health corporation based in Denver, Colorado. Our health system includes 73 hospitals; 42 long-term care, assisted and independent living and residential facilities; and two community-based health organizations located in 19 states. Catholic Health Initiatives represents approximately 66,000 full- and part-time employees and total revenues of $7.1 billion.
About PatientKeeper
A creator and leading supplier of integrated physician information systems, PatientKeeper®, Inc. provides a single point of anytime, anywhere access to clinical and financial data from multiple, disparate systems. Physician-centric mobile and portal applications improve user satisfaction and patient safety, increase revenue and simplify data access for community health information exchange. For more information, visit www.patientkeeper.com.
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