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Great Plains Regional Medical Center Selects Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Essentials to Help Drive Quality and Outcomes Improvements

Posted on: Thursday, 27 March 2008, 09:01 CDT

Eclipsys Corporation®, (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today announced that Great Plains Regional Medical Center, North Platte, NE, has selected Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Essentials™ to help drive improved care quality outcomes and increase operational efficiency. Sunrise Clinical Essentials is Eclipsys cost-effective clinical information solution consisting of pre-bundled software and a prescriptive delivery approach that delivers faster time-to-value, while providing the foundation for more advanced applications.

Sunrise Clinical Essentials will help connect Great Plains Regional Medical Center's care providers with a shared electronic medical record (EMR), enabling physicians, pharmacists and nurses to make informed, timely decisions and deliver safe, integrated care throughout the course of the patient's treatment. Great Plains Regional Medical Center will also implement Sunrise Clinical Essentials to help the organization have a safer medication management process. By automating the medication management workflows of its physicians, pharmacists and nurses, Great Plains Regional Medical Center will help reduce miscommunications, delays and avoidable medication errors.

"Great Plains Regional Medical Center is committed to staying on the cutting edge of healthcare information technology," said James Anderson, chief information officer, Great Plains Regional Medical Center. "After reviewing a number of options available in the market today, it was clear to us that Sunrise Clinical Essentials was the best platform to help us easily measure and drive quality performance and outcome improvements in the shortest time frame. With Sunrise Clinical Essentials, we also have a great base to build from as we add more advanced Eclipsys enterprise solutions."

Once Sunrise Clinical Essentials is deployed, Great Plains Regional Medical Center will then activate additional Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise solutions, including advanced clinical documentation, order sets, Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting™, Sunrise Critical Care™, Sunrise Knowledge-Based Medication Administration™, and Sunrise Clinical Analytics™.

"We're excited that Great Plains Regional Medical Center recognized the industry leading value of Sunrise Clinical Essentials to achieve a faster time to outcomes, and also has plans to deploy additional Eclipsys solutions to automate more workflows across its enterprise," said Jay Deady, Eclipsys executive vice president of Client Solutions at Eclipsys. "We look forward to working with the experienced team at Great Plains Regional Medical Center to implement a solution that helps the organization achieve its care quality improvement goals."

Great Plains Regional Medical Center will implement Sunrise Critical Care to extend the patient's electronic record to its high-acuity intensive care units. Sunrise Critical Care also includes alerts, reminders and warnings, which will help Great Plains Regional Medical Center perform key interventions within the six- to eight-hour "window of opportunity" when it's most critical to improving outcomes

Sunrise Clinical Analytics will enable Great Plains Regional Medical Center to easily extract data from Sunrise Clinical Manager to understand trends in how patient care is delivered. The solution enables real-time analysis, and if necessary, intervention for compliance and better management of pay-for-performance and quality reporting.

The Eclipsys solutions will be remotely hosted by the ISO 9001:2000-certified Eclipsys Technology Solutions Center in Mountain Lakes, NJ.

Added Anderson, "We were also very impressed with Eclipsys remote hosting capabilities, as the service will enable us to focus on providing the best possible patient care."

About Great Plains Regional Medical Center

Great Plains Regional Medical Center is a full-service medical center in North Platte, Nebraska that offers inpatient and outpatient services that include home support services, outreach programs, and follow-up care to meet the diverse needs of the community. Its patient-centered care includes education, physical comfort, emotional and spiritual support, coordination of care, involvement of family and friends, and help with transitions. For more information, visit http://www.gprmc.com.

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced integrated clinical, revenue cycle and access management software, clinical content and professional services that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial, operational and client satisfaction outcomes. For more information, see www.eclipsys.com or email info@eclipsys.com.

Statements in this news release concerning the benefits provided by Eclipsys software, content, and implementation and remote hosting 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 software, content 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. 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 Clinical Essentials, Sunrise Critical Care, Sunrise Knowledge-Based CPOE, Sunrise Knowledge-Based Medication Administration and Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting are trademarks of Eclipsys Corporation. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Source: Business Wire

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