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Christiana Care Selects Patient Care Technology Systems' Passive Tracking Software for Wilmington Hospital Emergency Department

Posted on: Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 09:01 CDT

Patient Care Technology Systems today announced that Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., has selected the Amelior EDTracker(TM) passive tracking software to improve workflow in its Wilmington Hospital emergency department. In November 2004, Christiana Care implemented the Amelior software in its Christiana Hospital facility, a Level 1 Trauma Center located in Newark, Del. Together, Christiana Care's emergency departments treated more than 130,000 patients in 2004.

The passive tracking software provides real-time, wireless tracking of the location of patients and medical equipment using badges worn by patients and staff in the emergency department and ancillary areas. The tracking software is called "passive" because no manual data entry is required by department clinicians and staff to maintain real-time communication on the location of patients and medical equipment. The software incorporates a rules-based intelligence that identifies when each stage of a patient's treatment occurs, which is then continuously displayed on electronic tracking boards configurable to each emergency department's layout. The elimination of data entry and the ability to generate detailed reports of all patient flow history assists emergency departments to efficiently match resources as patient flow fluctuates and to further analyze department utilization.

"Our implementation of Amelior EDTracker has resulted in a decrease in patient visit times while our patient volume has increased," said Charles L. Reese IV, M.D., FACEP, chair, department of emergency medicine, Christiana Care Health System. "We are pleased with Christiana Hospital's success and look forward to implementing the system at our 45,000 census Wilmington emergency department."

The Amelior EDTracker solution is the most implemented passive tracking software system in U.S. emergency departments and is now available as part of the Amelior ED(TM) patient care system, a comprehensive emergency department information system that integrates passive tracking with nurse and physician charting, computerized provider order entry, clinical decision support and patient disposition management.

About Christiana Care

Christiana Care Health System, which traces its roots back to 1888, is one of the region's largest not-for-profit health care providers, serving the people of Delaware as well as neighboring Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Christiana Care operates two hospitals, transitional care services and an extensive range of outpatient and home health services. Christiana Care's Wilmington Hospital is a 291-bed facility with outpatient primary care services including adult and pediatric medicine and women's health services at the Wilmington Hospital Health Center. Other key services included the Joint Replacement Center, psychiatric services, HIV Aids care and rehabilitation services. For more information, please visit www.christianacare.org.

About Patient Care Technology Systems

Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ:CSLR), is dedicated to becoming the leading provider of patient safety solutions in the high-acuity segments of healthcare. Anchored by their flagship solutions, Amelior ED(TM) patient care system, a comprehensive ED information system with integrated clinical decision support, and Amelior EDTracker(TM) passive tracking, the most implemented passive tracking software in U.S. emergency departments, PCTS provides a family of integrated and intelligent solutions designed to reduce medical errors and improve the operating performance of high-acuity departments. PCTS is a founding sponsor of the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation (EMPSF), a nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting and improving patient safety in emergency medicine. More information about EMPSF is available at www.empsf.org. For more information about PCTS, visit www.pcts.com.

Source: Business Wire

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