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Picis Wins Emergency Department Software Contracts With Inova Health System and Exempla Healthcare

Posted on: Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 12:00 CDT

Picis, Inc., an established provider of high-acuity care information systems for hospitals, today announced the signing of Inova Health System in the Northern Virginia area, and Exempla Healthcare of Colorado. These two large hospital networks selected the Picis ED PulseCheck® emergency department information system (EDIS) to automate more than 400,000 emergency department patient visits per year, adding to a national network of nearly 20 IDN-affiliated hospitals using ED PulseCheck.

"With various facilities across our diverse health system, Inova needed an emergency department information system that would allow us to easily share data between providers, from any emergency department location," said Laurie Eccleston, R.N., M.P.A., information technology applications spokesperson, Inova Health System. "This selection process was a very collaborative effort between our clinicians and information technology department, coming together as a team to recognize their needs and identify the best system and technology for meeting those needs."

Inova Health System is nationally recognized for its implementation and use of technology. The ED PulseCheck agreement includes Inova Health System hospitals and emergency care centers across Northern Virginia. In addition, Inova has selected Picis' Business Transformation Services to help transform its care process and promote increased revenue capture through more accurate and automated coding.

"Picis ED PulseCheck provides the best technology available to further enhance the productivity of our emergency department physicians and nurses and help them improve patient care," said Dave Pecoraro, chief information officer, Exempla Healthcare. "ED PulseCheck also provides our administrative and management teams with the data and tools to report on core measures and increase operational efficiency at our hospitals." Exempla Healthcare hospitals implementing ED PulseCheck include Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colo. and Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colo. The network has also engaged Picis Business Transformation Services.

Designed by and for emergency department clinicians, ED PulseCheck is a native Web-based system that combines patient tracking, physician and nursing documentation, charge management, order entry and risk management. Picis' technology integrates voice recognition, the intuitive PicisPen™ input device and biometric authentication. In addition, Picis provides integration with existing hospital information systems. Inova Health System is installing the entire ED PulseCheck suite of products, including physician and nurse documentation and the PicisPen. "Picis was chosen for its robust functionality, Web-based architecture, risk management capabilities, and tools to generate and customize reports quickly and easily. Their easy-to-use, intuitive user interface provides multiple methods for busy clinicians to automate their workflow and documentation," adds Eccleston.

Exempla Healthcare has selected the complete ED PulseCheck suite, as well as the Rapid Clinical Record for use in both facilities. This bridge to the Meditech hospital information system enables physicians and nurses to access a patient's medical history quickly and easily with one link, helping to promote more informed decision making in the fast-paced ED environment.

"The emergency department in today's healthcare system is extremely busy and is central to the hospital's core business," said Todd Cozzens, president and chief executive officer, Picis. "This demanding environment requires specialized tools for automation transformation from proven experts. Inova and Exempla are examples of dynamic organizations that see the ED as a portal to their community and both saw the need to go beyond their core IT vendors to select a system that can help address these needs and integrate with their existing IT infrastructure."

About Inova Health System

Inova Health System is a not-for-profit health care system serving more than one million people annually. Based in Northern Virginia, Inova Health consists of hospitals and other health services including emergency and urgent care centers, home care, nursing homes, mental health and blood donor services, and wellness classes. Governed by a voluntary board of community members, Inova's mission is to improve the health of the diverse community we serve through excellence in patient care, education and research. Inova Health System is widely recognized as the region's leading health care provider and was recently, named to both U.S. News and World Report's 100 Best Hospitals and Verispan's 100 Most Integrated Health Systems Lists. For more information, visit www.inova.org.

About Exempla Health

Exempla Healthcare, formed in 1998, serves metropolitan Denver through its three hospitals -- Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital -- and the Exempla Physician Network of primary care, occupational medicine and specialty physicians. Exempla is dedicated to advancing the art of healing and the science of medicine for the patients and communities it serves. For more information, visit www.exempla.org.

About Picis

Picis is an established provider of innovative healthcare information technology solutions designed to transform the delivery of patient care information in the high-acuity areas of the hospital, including the emergency department, operating and recovery rooms and intensive care units. Picis offers the most advanced suite of integrated products focused on these life-critical areas of the hospital where the patients are the most vulnerable, the care process is the most complex and an increasing majority of hospital costs are incurred. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has licensed systems for use in more than 1,000 hospitals in 19 countries. More information is available at www.picis.com.

ED PulseCheck and PicisPen are trademarks of Picis, Inc. Picis is a registered trademark of Picis, Inc. © 2007 Picis, Inc. All rights reserved. Information contained in this release regarding Inova Health and Exempla Health have been supplied by these organizations and Picis, Inc. takes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness thereof. This press release contains express or implied forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, Picis' expectations concerning customer use of its products and management's plans, objectives and strategies. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Picis' control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, among other things, our ability to convince hospitals to shift from existing methods of collecting clinical data to our automated software solutions; competition; changing customer requirements; our ability to achieve and maintain profitability; market acceptance of our software products; claims that we or our technologies infringe upon the intellectual property or other proprietary rights of a third party and product liability claims relating to our products or services or our customers' use of our products or services.

Source: Business Wire

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