Cancer Treatment Centers of America Deploys Misys Insight and Misys Radiology to Maximize Patient Safety.CHICAGO & RALEIGH, N.C. -- Comprehensive Surveillance and Management Solution Enables Critical Bedside Access to Diagnostic Imaging Results Misys Healthcare Systems, a market leader in healthcare information technology, announces that Cancer Treatment Centers of America Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) is a company which operates cancer treatment hospitals and outpatient oncology clinics. It was started over 20 years ago by Richard Stephenson, whose mother died of cancer. (CTCA CTCA Cancer Treatment Centers of America CTCA Canadian Telecommunications Consultants Association CTCA Channel-To-Channel Adapter CTCA Construction Technology Centre Atlantic, Inc. ) sites in Zion, Ill., and in Tulsa, Okla., are deploying radiology results from Misys Radiology(TM) to Misys Insight(TM). This final phase of a two-year system deployment The deployment of a mechanical device, electrical system, computer program, etc., is its assembly or transformation from a packaged form to an operational working state. Deployment implies moving a product from a temporary or development state to a permanent or desired state. is part of CTCA's strategy to send timely clinical notifications of abnormal results to physicians and caregivers to achieve higher quality care and patient safety. Part of the Misys Optimum(TM) product family, Misys Insight integrates data from most hospital and clinical information system. It then sends clinical notifications via Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), pager, cell phone, e-mail or fax to physicians and clinicians whenever and wherever they are to ensure prompt clinical interventions of adverse events. The clinical software helps manage better care and reduce medication-related errors by continuously monitoring changes in the patient condition. Used concurrently with Misys Radiology(TM) information system, Misys Insight empowers physicians and other clinicians to optimize diagnostic imaging efforts in order to make clinical decisions affecting positive outcomes. 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. Mary Matzke, R.N., managing director of Information Technology, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, "Using the dual systems, our healthcare professionals delivering bedside care at the two facilities will have timely access to critical radiology reports. These results help the physician to determine whether the cancer is in remission or is advancing." With the inclusion of radiology results, the full clinical alerting functionality of Misys Insight is now complete at CTCA's two facilities. Its electronic notifications of patients' Admissions Discharge Transmission (ADT (Asynchronous Data Transfer) A transmission technique used in ISDN PBXs that dynamically allocates bandwidth. See also abstract data type. ADT - abstract data type ) information, lab results, radiology orders and medication orders are sent to physicians, oncologists, nurses, diagnostic imaging personnel, clinical pharmacists This is a list of notable pharmacists.
Matzke noted that healthcare professionals using the Misys Insight Web application can monitor centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. interaction of patient ADT, lab, pharmacy and radiology data via the hospital's Intranet. "The interaction of this data is really amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. , and it's great to compare the drug and lab results to see if they are compatible or incompatible interactions affecting the patients," she said. "When you are administering chemotherapy, physicians have peace of mind knowing an extra layer of electronic checking is helping catch adverse drug affects that could potentially harm the patient." CTCA executives are also enthused with Misys Insight's low cost and high return on investment experienced as a pilot site user. "For the amount of patient safety you are guaranteeing, you can't beat the investment when considering the ease of installation," continued Matzke. Kristen McRae, product manager for Misys Insight, Misys Healthcare Systems, agrees. "Misys Insight, when coupled with Misys Radiology, is a dynamic comprehensive surveillance and management system for healthcare organizations demanding technology that boosts productivity and job satisfaction of their diagnostic imaging personnel," she said. "Misys is pleased to have a relationship with CTCA where focus on patient safety is the No. 1 priority." About Cancer Treatment Centers of America Founded in 1988, Cancer Treatment Centers of America practices patient empowerment patient empowerment The providing of information regarding therapeutic options so that a Pt can actively participate in the decision on whether to undergo a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure, or pursue alternatives. See Patient Bill of Rights. medicine through a network of cancer treatment hospitals and community oncology programs in Illinois, Oklahoma and Washington. The facilities provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary path to cancer care by integrating cutting-edge medical treatments with time-honored support therapies such as nutrition, naturopathy naturopathy /na·tur·op·a·thy/ (na?cher-op´ah-the) a drugless system of health care, using a wide variety of therapies, including hydrotherapy, heat, massage, and herbal medicine, whose purpose is to treat the whole person to stimulate , psychological counseling and spiritual therapy. For more information on CTCA, visit www.cancercenter.com or call 1.800.515.9602. About Misys Healthcare Systems Misys Healthcare Systems, one of the top five healthcare IT companies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , develops and supports reliable, easy-to-use software and services of exceptional quality that enable physicians and caregivers to more easily manage the complexities of healthcare. With 25 years of industry experience, Misys currently serves more than 92,000 physicians in 18,000 practice locations, 1,250 hospitals, 600 home care providers and hundreds of commercial laboratories, clinics, managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality and other related organizations. Misys' family of leading clinical products and Web-based technologies - Misys Optimum(TM) solutions - are designed from the ground up to share patient data across all medical care settings. Misys Optimum connects community-based physicians and caregivers to the acute care enterprise, enabling increased efficiencies, better decision-making and improved hospital-physician relations. For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com. About Misys plc Misys plc, the global software products and solutions company, serves customers in the international banking and securities, international healthcare, and UK general insurance industries. Through a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Sesame, it also provides business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in services to independent financial advisors (IFAs) in the UK. Misys partners with its customers to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries, and employs over 6,000 people internationally. For more information, visit www.misys.com. The Misys name, together with Misys Optimum, Misys Insight and Misys Radiology, are trademarks of Misys plc. |
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