Best Practices Drive Lourdes Health System's Multi-Site Deployment of CliniComp's Essentris Perinatal Solution.New System Automates Clinical Workflow and Documentation across Entire Perinatal Continuum SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- CliniComp, Intl., a leading provider of intelligent charting and surveillance solutions, today announced that Lourdes Health System will deploy its Essentris[TM] Perinatal Solution at multiple sites including two New Jersey-based hospitals, Our Lady of Lourdes The apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes began when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year old peasant girl from Lourdes, when questioned by her mother, admitted that she had seen a "lady" in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, on 11 February, 1858, while she was gathering Medical Center in Camden and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro. Lourdes Health System is part of Catholic Health East, one of the nation's leading healthcare systems. Lourdes selected Essentris after an extensive market evaluation process and the system's demonstrated ability to support evidence-based best practices across the continuum of perinatal care. Essentris Perinatal is an integral part of Lourdes' Labor and Delivery, Recovery, Mother/Baby and Pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. units of both hospitals, with the solution being implemented in the Special Care Nursery in Willingboro and in the Intensive Care Nursery in Camden. The two facilities combined deliver more than 2,000 babies per year. "We are excited because Essentris will provide an electronic maternal chart that is integrated throughout our care continuum," said Cecilia Taylor, assistant vice president of patient care services for Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. "From the moment the mother sees an OB/GYN physician at one of our clinics to the time she leaves the hospital after delivery, we will be able to follow her progression with a single paperless record." 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. Taylor, hospital administrators, nurses and physicians all reviewed competing clinical applications before selecting CliniComp's Essentris. "The system is intuitive and easy to follow," she said. "We unanimously agreed that it was the best product on the market for our purposes." Essentris Perinatal is uniquely designed to manage clinical workflow across the entire continuum of perinatal care: ante partum, labor and delivery, postpartum postpartum /post·par·tum/ (post-pahr´tum) occurring after childbirth, with reference to the mother. post·par·tum adj. Of or occurring in the period shortly after childbirth. to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Noun 1. neonatal intensive care unit - an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn NICU ICU, intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care (NICU NICU abbr. neonatal intensive-care unit ). It provides integrated modules for fetal surveillance, maternal charting and Neonatal (level 3) ICU ICU intensive care unit. ICU abbr. intensive care unit ICU see intensive care unit. ICU management. The system captures and links all episodes of care including mother to baby information into a longitudinal electronic medical record. Essentris Perinatal is built on the award-winning Essentris platform, a multidisciplinary, hospital-wide charting and surveillance solution. "Lourdes Health System is an acknowledged leader of women and children's services, and its clinical team certified that Essentris meets the highest standards, which once again affirms our technology platform and full-service commitment," said John Reardon
About Lourdes Health System Lourdes Health System is one of southern New Jersey's leading health care providers. The system is comprised of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, a 410-bed regional referral center located in Camden, and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, a 249-bed community hospital located in Willingboro. The Lourdes Health System is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters Franciscan Sisters can refer to:
For more information, visit http://www.lourdesnet.org. About CliniComp CliniComp is a leading provider of multidisciplinary charting and surveillance solutions to leading hospitals and health systems. In its nearly two-decade history, CliniComp has been a pioneer in bridging the gap between the back-office and the bedside by extending existing HIS and ancillary systems to the point of care. The Essentris enterprise solution maximizes IT investment and enforces consistent workflow across all aspects of patient care. Essentris' use of a single interdisciplinary electronic chart enables caregivers to easily access an enterprise-wide view of the total clinical experience and provides a new generation of real-time clinical surveillance and analysis tools. The result is a dramatic improvement in quality and safety of patient care, outcomes and clinical decision-making. Essentris is deployed at approximately 50 client sites, including UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Healthcare, Baptist Health South Florida and Tenet Healthcare Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) is an operating company that owns and operates 57 hospitals in the United States [1]. It is based in Dallas, Texas. Its stock ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is NYSE: THC. Corporation. CliniComp also has a sizable deployment across the Military Health System, covering 40 percent of all Department of Defense beds. For more information, visit www.clinicomp.com or call 800.350.8202. |
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