Abington Memorial Hospital to Implement Complete Spectrum of Eclipsys' Integrated Sunrise Solutions.Business Editors/Medical & Technology Writers DELRAY BEACH Delray Beach, resort city (1990 pop. 47,181), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled 1895, inc. 1911. Mostly residential, Delray Beach is also the trade center for a citrus-fruit and vegetable-growing region. , Fla. & ABINGTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2001 Long-Time Customer Becomes Founding Member of New Balanced Outcomes Partner Program to Build Premier Site for Total Integrated Suite of Eclipsys Information-management Solutions Abington Memorial Hospital, a 508-bed regional teaching hospital in Abington, Pa., and Eclipsys Corporation(R) (Nasdaq:ECLP), The Outcomes Company(R), today announced the signing of a comprehensive, long-term strategic partnership agreement under which the hospital will replace its current information systems with a complete, integrated suite of Eclipsys' knowledge-driven Sunrise Sunrise, city (1990 pop. 64,407), Broward co., SE Fla., a residential suburb 8 mi (13 km) W of Fort Lauderdale; inc. 1961 as Sunrise Golf Village. It is a major office and commercial center and the site of Sawgrass Mills, one of the largest malls in the United States. (TM) healthcare information solutions. Reflecting the unique, far-ranging nature of this long-term agreement, Abington Memorial Hospital becomes a founding member of Eclipsys' new Balanced Outcomes Partner Program. Under the program, Abington has licensed the products of the following six Sunrise software product suites -- Clinical Manager, Decision Support Manager, Access Manager, Patient Financial Manager, Record Manager and Enterprise Resource Manager. Eclipsys will provide Abington with dedicated implementation services for critical Sunrise modules to promote rapid achievement of improved patient-care, financial and satisfaction outcomes throughout the enterprise. Other key elements of the Balanced Outcomes Partner Program at Abington Memorial Hospital include a Network Assessment and Benchmark Project to be performed by Eclipsys' Network Solutions and Business Solutions groups, respectively, as well as establishment of an Executive Oversight Committee, jointly staffed by top Eclipsys and Abington executives, to regularly review the project's progress and ensure its success. When the first phase of this extensive implementation is complete, Abington will serve as a premier showcase site for Eclipsys' integrated Sunrise solutions, where other customers and prospects can visit to see the full benefits of utilizing the complete outcomes-enhancing Sunrise product line. Abington Memorial Hospital provides a comprehensive range of healthcare services throughout the suburban Philadelphia area. The new strategic agreement with Eclipsys is designed to facilitate the hospital's move from Eclipsys' heritage Eclipsys 7000 clinical-information system and related components to the open, modular and scalable architecture of e-healthSOURCE(TM), which supports the advanced clinical-management capabilities of Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager and other applications in the integrated Sunrise product family and those from Eclipsys' HEALTHvision affiliate. Alison Ferren, chief information officer at Abington, said that "This long-term partnership agreement with Eclipsys positions Abington Memorial Hospital to realize three key visions that emerged from our strategic-planning process: achieving full integration of our disparate information systems, providing our physicians and other clinicians with the best tools available to enhance the quality and cost-effectiveness of care they provide, and realizing the full benefits of electronic healthcare information technology, including Internet-based applications. "Abington traditionally has taken a `best-of-breed' approach to information technology, selecting the best applications available and integrating them," Ferren noted. "Entering into this major strategic agreement with Eclipsys, our philosophy hasn't changed -- we simply recognized that Eclipsys, with Sunrise Clinical Manager and the rest of the Sunrise product line, is the only vendor that shares our best-of-breed philosophy and is committed to offering the best applications available and achieving their full integration. This shared strategic vision -- along with Eclipsys' emphasis on providing end-to-end information solutions and helping healthcare organizations to proactively address patient-safety issues -- made Eclipsys the only logical choice to be our primary information-solutions provider. "An added benefit of entering into the Balanced Outcomes Partner Program is that we conservatively estimate that the hospital will save 12 to 18 months of time and expense by not having to go through a vendor-selection process and interface development for all the applications covered in the agreement," Ferren added. "With this far-reaching strategic partnership agreement, Abington Memorial Hospital has leapt leapt v. A past tense and a past participle of leap. to the forefront of the prestigious medical institutions that have chosen to implement our full Sunrise product family to help achieve their strategic goals," said Harvey J. Wilson, Eclipsys chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We look forward to working extremely closely with Abington Memorial Hospital to demonstrate the dramatic power of our integrated, knowledge-driven Sunrise solutions to improve processes and enable improved clinical, financial and customer-satisfaction outcomes throughout the healthcare enterprise." The `gold standard' of clinical systems In the first phase of project implementation, designed to rapidly implement mission-critical Sunrise components, Abington will implement Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager solution featuring Knowledge-Based Orders(TM) (KBO Noun 1. KBO - any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system Kuiper belt object minor planet, planetoid - any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun ). Clinical Manager's KBO includes multiple levels of clinical decision support, ranging from real-time checking of drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions to more-advanced time- and location-specific duplicate order checking. Sunrise KBO also includes expert levels of checking relative to changes in a patient's condition, utilizing the full extent of electronic patient information available. Clinical Manager also includes order communication and management, multidisciplinary mul·ti·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or making use of several disciplines at once: a multidisciplinary approach to teaching. clinical documentation, physician office documentation and workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. , and disease-management care-documentation capabilities. "We believe that Sunrise Clinical Manager is truly the `gold standard' in clinical information systems, and for us, the VHA's endorsement of Clinical Manager as the preferred computerized computerized adapted for analysis, storage and retrieval on a computer. computerized axial tomography see computed tomography. physician order-entry (CPOE CPOE Computerized Physician Order Entry CPOE Computerized Provider Order Entry CPOE Computerized Prescriber Order Entry ) system for its members really cemented it," Ferren noted. "No other vendor has physicians actually using its clinical information system the way Eclipsys does. We currently have all physician orders from our inpatient inpatient /in·pa·tient/ (in´pa-shent) a patient who comes to a hospital or other health care facility for diagnosis or treatment that requires an overnight stay. in·pa·tient n. units and emergency trauma center trauma center n. A medical facility that is designated to treat severe physical trauma as a result of the specialized training of its staff and the availability of appropriate diagnostic and treatment tools. being entered into the heritage Eclipsys 7000 system. "Our physicians truly believe that tools such as Clinical Manager's KBO and alerts can help them provide better care and safeguard the health of their patients, which supports our patient-safety strategic initiative that is already well underway at Abington Memorial Hospital," she added. Ferren also noted the hospital's strong interest in the forthcoming Internet and handheld versions of Sunrise Clinical Manager. Like many other Eclipsys customers, Abington has already begun to adopt wireless technologies. Eclipsys' Network Solutions Group has installed wireless LANs A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area and deployed 40 Eclipsys Mobile Workstations on the hospital's nursing units to enable its caregivers to access clinical and other patient information anytime, anywhere, to provide more cost-effective and higher-quality care. Other applications complement Clinical Manager In addition to Clinical Manager with KBO, the first phase of implementation at Abington calls for replacing Eclipsys' heritage OpenHUB(TM) integration product with WebLink, Eclipsys' new Web-based systems-integration tools for integration with Eclipsys heritage and third-party systems throughout the hospital. WebLink utilizes industry-standard integration technologies and the power of the Internet to integrate disparate applications cost-effectively, without the use of programming or scripting languages A high-level programming, or command, language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting, or script, language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an . "Abington Memorial Hospital currently runs more than 70 software applications and maintains more than 130 applications interfaces, so WebLink is critical to our efforts to achieve full integration," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ferren. The first phase of the implementation also calls for Abington to add Eclipsys' Sunrise Decision Support Manager solution, which features product-line management, cost accounting, departmental and flexible budgeting, business development, contract management, resource-utilization management, process improvement, clinical analysis and ad-hoc reporting. Abington Memorial Hospital's e-health strategy will be supported by implementation of CAREvision, the Web-based ambulatory Movable; revocable; subject to change; capable of alteration. An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King's Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found, moving its location as the king moved. clinical solution offered by Eclipsys' HEALTHvision affiliate. CAREvision enables healthcare organizations to enhance physician-patient relationships physician-patient relationship Medical malpractice A formal or inferred relationship between a physician and a Pt, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a Pt; the establishment of a PPR is 'automatic' in and deliver secure, interactive patient care by providing a complete portfolio of clinical, operational and knowledge-management tools. The hospital also will add Sunrise Enterprise Resource Manager (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), featuring the industry-leading Surgery Manager, a comprehensive surgery departmental-management system, along with Sunrise ERP's integrated Materials Management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, , Accounts Payable and Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. modules. In the second phase, Abington will implement Sunrise Access Manager, including comprehensive patient-registration and enrollment-management features, patient tracking with managed-care capabilities and patient scheduling. Abington also will add Sunrise Patient Financial Manager, including patient billing and accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying , contract management, medical records abstracting and electronic data interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. ) with multi-entity Combined Business Office capabilities. Additional Sunrise products to be implemented by Abington include the Sunrise Record Manager document-management solution, which will support the hospital's compliance with the data access and security regulations of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when ), as well as facilitate its efforts to evolve to a paperless patient-record environment. Also to be implemented are Access Manager's Sunrise Enterprise Person Identifier (ePI), a vendor-independent, master person index for effective identification of patients, physicians and others identified within the medical center's numerous information systems; Sunrise Critical Care, a clinical-documentation and monitored-care application for the information-intensive needs of critical-care areas; and Sunrise Dictionary Manager, which synchronizes similar information stored in master tables and data dictionaries A database about data and databases. It holds the name, type, range of values, source, and authorization for access for each data element in the organization's files and databases. across multiple applications and systems between Sunrise and legacy applications. About Abington For more information on Abington Memorial Hospital, see its Web site at www.amh.org. About Eclipsys Eclipsys Corporation delivers end-to-end information solutions to more than 1,400 healthcare organizations (HCOs) worldwide. These solutions enable HCOs to balance and improve clinical, financial and satisfaction outcomes. The Eclipsys mission of "better healthcare through information(TM)" aligns with customers' goals and strategies of improving quality and efficiency of care. Sunrise(TM), Eclipsys' comprehensive software line, includes industry-leading integrated clinical, financial, health information, ERP and management information solutions. Sunrise solutions are built on a single, open, modular architecture -- e-healthSOURCE(TM) -- shared by the products of Eclipsys' HEALTHvision affiliate (see www.healthvision.com). In conjunction with HEALTHvision, Eclipsys provides locally branded Web-based customer relationship management solutions to healthcare delivery systems. Sunrise products are complemented by Web-based integration technology, ASP delivery options, wireless access and network solutions, business process reengineering See reengineering. and full IT outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. . For more information, see www.eclipsys.com or email info@eclipsys.com. Statements in this news release concerning future results, performance or expectations are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Because such statements involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks include risks described in the filings of Eclipsys with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Eclipsys, Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks and Sunrise, Knowledge-Based Orders, Enterprise Person Identifier, OpenHUB and the phrase "better healthcare through information" are trademarks of Eclipsys Solutions Corp. e-healthSOURCE is a trademark of HEALTHvision, Inc. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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