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Lourdes Health System Goes Live With CliniComp's Essentris Perinatal Solution

Posted on: Monday, 26 November 2007, 09:01 CST

CliniComp Intl., a leading provider of intelligent charting and surveillance solutions, today announced that New Jersey-based Lourdes Health System went live with the Essentris™ Perinatal Solution. The implementation completes its fully integrated inpatient solution deployment in all perinatal areas of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro, with more than 300 clinician and administrator users. Lourdes Health System is part of Catholic Health East, one of the nation's leading healthcare systems.

Healthcare professionals now are using Essentris Perinatal in the Antepartum, Postpartum, and Labor and Delivery units of both hospitals as well as in the Special Care Nursery in Willingboro and in the Intensive Care Nursery and Pediatrics in Camden. Next month Lourdes Health will expand the system to an outpatient clinic affiliated with Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden.

"CliniComp's implementation methodology was a great match for our internal project management processes, and resulted in one of our smoothest implementations," said Maureen Hetu, Chief Information Officer, Lourdes Health System. "Their flexibility, and willingness to adapt to the ever-changing clinical environment throughout the implementation, was another key factor in the overall success of the project, and set them apart from the competition. The combination of these two strengths -- skilled, disciplined execution, balanced with the willingness to adapt their process and product to the needs of our clinicians -- enabled Lourdes to meet our objective of deploying Essentris Perinatal at multiple hospitals simultaneously while remaining on time and within budget. CliniComp is a leader in providing reliable, easy to use clinical information technology that supports us in providing the highest quality care to our patients. The clinical staff has already begun to realize the benefits of CliniComp's automation."

"Our new implementation methodology lays out a seamless process of fast and easy simultaneous solution deployment and activation scaleable to different levels of acuity within multiple facilities to accommodate diverse clinical and policy needs," said J.F. Lancelot, president, Technology & Operations, CliniComp Intl. "Our experienced professionals provide guidance, support and training every step of the way, ensuring a smooth and on time implementation and we help health institutions attain a new level of advanced enterprise care management excellence and operational efficiency."

The new methodology draws upon evidence-based best practices developed by CliniComp over more than 20 years. "Processes and guidelines can always be improved to reflect new innovations, lessons learned and feedback from our customers," Lancelot said. "We've identified what continues to work and have strengthened areas to better address the complexities involved in installing clinical systems in today's healthcare environment. Our new process centers on an adaptive project management methodology which actually makes any size implementation a controlled process for our customers."

Essentris Perinatal is uniquely designed to manage clinical workflow across the entire continuum of perinatal care. It provides integrated modules for fetal surveillance, maternal charting and Neonatal (level 3) ICU management. The system captures and links all episodes of care including mother to baby information into a longitudinal electronic medical record. Essentris Perinatal is built on the award-winning Essentris platform, a multidisciplinary, hospital-wide charting and surveillance solution.

About Lourdes Health System

Lourdes Health System is one of southern New Jersey's leading health care providers. The system is comprised of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, a 410-bed regional referral center located in Camden, and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, a 249-bed community hospital located in Willingboro. The Lourdes Health System is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, N.Y., and is a member of Catholic Health East, a health system with 31 hospitals on the East Coast. For more information, visit http://www.lourdesnet.org.

About CliniComp

CliniComp is a leading provider of multidisciplinary charting and surveillance solutions to leading hospitals and health systems. In its nearly two-decade history, CliniComp has been a pioneer in bridging the gap between the back-office and the bedside by extending existing HIS and ancillary systems to the point of care. The Essentris enterprise solution maximizes IT investment and enforces consistent workflow across all aspects of patient care. Essentris' use of a single interdisciplinary electronic chart enables caregivers to easily access an enterprisewide view of the total clinical experience and provides a new generation of real-time clinical surveillance and analysis tools. The result is a dramatic improvement in quality and safety of patient care, outcomes and clinical decision-making. Essentris is deployed at approximately 50 client sites, including UCLA Healthcare, Baptist Health South Florida and Tenet Healthcare Corporation. CliniComp also has a sizable deployment across the Military Health System, covering 40 percent of all Department of Defense beds. For more information, visit www.clinicomp.com or call 800.350.8202.

Source: Business Wire

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