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Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Selects Patient Care Technology Systems' Emergency Department Information System

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 09:01 CDT

Patient Care Technology Systems today announced that Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, located in Newport Beach, Calif., has selected the Amelior ED(TM) patient care system for computer-based patient tracking and clinical charting in its emergency department. Hoag Hospital is a 409-bed not-for-profit facility that treats over 50,000 patients in its emergency department annually. PCTS is exhibiting next week in booth #613 at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly held at the Washington D.C. Convention Center from Sept. 26-28, 2005.

The Amelior ED system selected by Hoag Hospital will integrate a passive form of patient tracking with computer-based emergency nurse and physician documentation. The passive tracking software provides real-time, wireless tracking of the location of patients 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 information on the location of patients. 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 an emergency department's individual 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 analyze historical department utilization. The integrated clinical documentation modules incorporate clinical decision support.

About Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (www.hoaghospital.org) is a 409-bed, not-for-profit, acute care hospital located in Newport Beach. Fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), Hoag Hospital offers a comprehensive mix of health care services, including Centers of Excellence in cancer, heart and vascular, orthopedics and women's health services. A National Research Corporation Consumer Choice Award endorses Hoag Hospital as Orange County's most-preferred hospital based on overall quality of health care services and places Hoag Hospital in the top five percent of hospitals nationwide. And in a local newspaper survey, Orange County residents have named Hoag Hospital the county's top hospital for nine consecutive years.

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 computerized provider order entry, 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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