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Jewish Hospital First in Kentucky to Enhance Patient Safety With TheraDoc's Clinical Decision-Support Software

Posted on: Monday, 10 October 2005, 06:00 CDT

TheraDoc(R) Inc., a medical informatics company, is installing its expert clinical decision-support software at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky. TheraDoc will integrate its software with the hospital's existing information systems to enable real-time monitoring of electronic medical records and automated delivery of actionable patient information and therapeutic recommendations. Renowned for using technology to enrich patient care, Jewish Hospital is the first in Kentucky to implement TheraDoc's software. This implementation is another step in the hospital's ongoing initiatives to improve patient outcomes, enhance infection control and ensure appropriate antibiotic stewardship.

Jewish Hospital joins a growing list of hospitals in 22 states that are utilizing TheraDoc's real-time solutions to improve clinical performance, lower health care costs and enable timelier and more appropriate patient treatment. TheraDoc announced its newest client at the 43rd Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in San Francisco.

Stanley Pestotnik, TheraDoc's founder, president and CEO, said, "The award-winning Jewish Hospital is an innovative developer of cutting-edge health care advancements. Their decision to become the first hospital in Kentucky to install expert clinical decision-support software further demonstrates their commitment to advancing health care through technology and improving the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care."

Jewish Hospital's Vice President of Medical Affairs Dr. Lynn Simon noted, "We were looking for a system that could take a large amount of patient data and present it as actionable information that clinicians could use to address the immediate needs of individual patients." She stated further, "After investing a year in evaluating decision-support systems, we found that TheraDoc's powerful, real-time system met our objectives to enhance infection control and achieve the quickest, most effective treatments and interventions."

Vice President and CIO of Jewish Hospital, David C. Pecoraro, agreed. "TheraDoc's integration of the hospital's disparate information systems will allow us to move from a retrospective review to a proactive approach on infection management and antibiotic therapies. We expect the benefits to include improved treatment protocols and patient care, a reduction in admissions overall and in length-of-stay for ventilator patients in particular, all of which will lower costs."

TheraDoc is implementing its expert system platform (ESP) and suite of clinical decision-support software at Jewish Hospital, including Antibiotic Assistant(R), Clinical Alerts Assistant and Infection Control Assistant(TM). TheraDoc's software is designed to streamline and accelerate the data collection process and enable immediate access to critical patient information. It automatically monitors, analyzes and interprets clinical data stored in ancillary information systems in a variety of departments, such as pharmacy and radiology, in real time. The software then transforms the data into meaningful, actionable patient information.

TheraDoc's intelligent alerting system provides timelier notification of adverse events and infectious disease occurrences. It delivers patient information, disease- and patient-specific therapeutic recommendations, and evidence-based medical knowledge to the most appropriate clinicians, resulting in informed decision-making and timelier patient interventions.

About Jewish Hospital

Jewish Hospital is an internationally renowned high-tech tertiary referral center, developing leading-edge advancements in hand and microsurgery, heart and lung care, home care, rehab medicine (including sports medicine), orthopaedics, neuroscience, occupational health, organ transplantation, outpatient care and primary care. Jewish Hospital is the site of the world's first and the nation's second successful hand transplants in partnership with the University of Louisville and Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center. The hospital is also the site of the world's first and second successful AbioCor(R) Implantable Replacement Hearts, has achieved Magnet nursing designation and is federally designated to perform all five solid organ transplants -- heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas. U.S. News & World Report recently recognized Jewish Hospital as one of the "Best 50 Hospitals" in the areas of orthopaedic and heart and heart surgery care. Jewish Hospital was also named a "Top 100 Hospital" in the nation in cardiovascular excellence by Solucient, received distinction as a 2005 Most Wired Hospital by Hospitals and Health Networks, and was presented with the Consumer Choice Award as the most preferred hospital in Louisville for the seventh consecutive year. On the Net: http://www.jewishhospital.org.

About TheraDoc Inc.

TheraDoc is a medical informatics company specializing in therapeutic, real-time decision support that improves the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care in large and small health care organizations. Integrated with disparate hospital information systems or electronic medical records, TheraDoc's technology helps clinicians manage multiple processes of care across multiple conditions and diseases. Founded in 1999, TheraDoc designs, develops, and supports a suite of clinical decision support technologies. TheraDoc's founders and core medical informatics team are internationally recognized for their pioneering work in medical expert systems. Their experience in clinical decision support design and development spans two decades. On the Net: www.theradoc.com.

Source: Business Wire

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