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Banner Health to Implement E&C's Intelligent Patient Record for Obstetrics at 17 Facilities

Posted on: Thursday, 21 July 2005, 15:01 CDT

NEW YORK and PHOENIX, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- E&C Medical Intelligence, the leading provider of risk reduction and clinical quality improvement systems and services, today announced that Banner Health, Phoenix, AZ has signed an agreement to provide its Intelligent Patient Record for Obstetrics (IPROB(TM)), including its full risk reduction package, to the entire Banner system. The IPROB system is recognized as the most advanced best practice and real-time risk management support tool for the OB practitioner. Used in nearly 80,000 births to date, IPROB has demonstrated statistical reductions in risk and prevention of critical clinical errors in what is traditionally the highest medical liability risk area in healthcare.

"Patient safety is a cornerstone of Banner Health's mission to provide excellent patient care," said Banner's Senior Vice President of Care Management and Quality, John Hensing, MD. "The Intelligent Patient Record for Obstetrics, like other real-time medically smart technologies, is a tremendous tool to improve the care of mothers and their babies at Banner."

"Our new partnership with Banner Health is an important milestone in fulfilling our mission," said E&C's CEO, Eyal Ephrat, MD. "By implementing the E&C solution Banner has taken a major step toward creating a much safer environment for its OB patients. E&C will do its utmost to help Banner achieve the desired impact on such a large and geographically diverse population."

IPROB provides unique, new tools to help eliminate clinical errors in real-time and improve the quality of care in the OB environment. Functioning as a complete intelligent OB chart for both physicians and nurses, the system proactively supports clinicians in providing the highest level of care and avoiding clinical mistakes, while generating meticulous documentation. At its core is a comprehensive clinical knowledgebase comprised of over 6,500 best practice protocols in OB and 13,000 clinical data fields. IPROB's powerful inference engine analyzes current patient data against this extensive clinical knowledgebase to offer clinicians appropriate choices of care, documentation and risk management pathways for the current specific clinical situation. The complete IPROB package also includes an extensive risk management consultancy to help identify, isolate, and remediate quality deviations from the hospital's accepted best practices.

About Banner Health

Phoenix-based Banner Health is one of the largest non-profit health care systems in the country. The system owns or manages 20 acute-care hospitals, four long-term care centers and an array of other services, including family clinics, home care services, hospice, a nursing registry, and home medical equipment services in seven states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.

About E&C Medical Intelligence

E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc. is a pioneer in automated clinical management support and documentation. The company provides breakthrough real-time, knowledge-based best practice software systems featuring an intelligent patient record and associated consulting services that, together, reduce risk and improve the quality of care. The company currently offers proven solutions along the obstetrics continuum: prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum. The company is based in New York City with offices in Phoenix, Chicago, Orlando and Nashville. Visit the E&C website at: http://www.ecmed.com/.

E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc.

CONTACT: Gail Brennan of E&C Medical Intelligence, +1-212-686-1530,GailB@ecmed.com

Web site: http://www.ecmed.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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