| HSHS
Selects Medicity for Consolidated Clinical Record
and Physician Portal
Salt Lake
City, UT, January 7, 2008 —Hospital
Sisters Health System (HSHS) today announced a contract
with Medicity, Inc., to configure a comprehensive,
electronic-heath-record solution for its 13 hospitals
in Wisconsin and Illinois. Medicity, a Salt Lake City-based
health information software firm, will deploy its
ProAccess™ clinical application suite and MediTrust™
interoperability platform to better serve HSHS patients
and physicians by improving the quality, timeliness,
and availability of healthcare information exchanged
in and among its service communities.
Medicity’s platform aggregates patient data
from both inpatient and outpatient settings and routes
results according to the physician’s preferred
access method—mobile rounding device, fax machine,
office printer, or web browser. Longitudinal patient
information is available in trended views via the
Internet and can be staged for receipt into a physician
office EMR.
“We selected Medicity because its solution
provides us with more than a ‘hospital portal.’
Medicity couples innovative clinical applications
with a focus on infrastructure that enables clinical
information-sharing across hospitals or within a community.
This dual emphasis, together with options for exchanging
data with physicians, makes Medicity the right partner
for this important HSHS project,” explained
Mark Reifsteck, President of the Clinical Information
Network, an HSHS subsidiary responsible for coordinating
the initiative.
Medicity’s HSHS plan is flexible enough to
accommodate physician preferences for receiving and
retrieving patient data from any location, an important
factor in user adoption. Medicity’s ProAccess
Mobile solution provides an always-connected strategy
for results distribution, physician rounding, and
ePrescribing, using a tablet PC or PDA. Popular requests
such as ambulatory order entry and eSignature are
also supported via Medicity’s platform.
“Physicians are increasingly asking for electronic
access to clinical information,” notes Kipp
Lassetter, Medicity CEO. “Requests from physician
practices to receive patient data directly into their
EMR systems have multiplied in the last few years
with the increased adoption of EMRs,” he adds.
“To tackle these requests one at a time without
a framework would be costly and inefficient.”
HSHS will integrate with major EMRs, giving physicians
choices for receiving hospital data—including
what, how, and when information is delivered. Medicity
has developed an extensive library of physician application
interfaces that includes most major EMRs and practice
management systems. Electronic result distribution
will substantially reduce dependence on paper—with
its attendant risks and expense—system wide.
“Ultimately, we will invite physician practices
and other organizations to share information,”
adds Reifsteck. “The investment HSHS is making
in Medicity’s master person index and record
locator service will lay the foundation for community
data-sharing that will improve patient care.”
About Medicity
Medicity, Inc., serves the healthcare industry with
Web-based portal solutions, EHRs, and community-wide
patient indexing solutions for hospitals, payors,
and large physician groups. The company serves more
than 1800 healthcare organizations and has been connecting
healthcare since 1998. For more information please
visit www.medicity.com.
Contact:
Courtney J. Lassetter
courtney@medicity.com
(801) 322-4444
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