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Christiana Care Improves Patient Flow in Emergency Department with Patient Care Technology Systems' Passive Tracking Software; Amelior EDTracker Software Improves Management of One of Nation's Busiest Emergency Departments.


ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS PCTS POSIX Conformance Test Suite
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), announced today that Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del. has improved the operating performance of their Christiana Hospital emergency department since implementing Amelior EDTracker(TM) passive tracking software. Christiana Hospital is part of Christiana Care Health System, an integrated delivery system integrated delivery system Integrated provider Medical practice A coordinated health care system formed by physician groups and hospitals which ↑ efficiency and ↓ redundancy in providing health care; IDSs coordinate delivery of a broad range of health  serving patients in Delaware and the surrounding areas.

The passive tracking software provides real-time, wireless tracking of the location of all patients and medical equipment in an emergency department. Patients and staff wear wireless badges which send signals to sensors located throughout the department, waiting room and support areas. The Amelior EDTracker software uses a rules-based intelligence engine to translate the data collected by the sensors into insights on the location and the care status of each patient. The information is communicated in real time on electronic tracking boards on workstations throughout the department enabling staff to know the location of all patients without any manual updating required. The elimination of data entry and the ability to generate detailed, time-stamped reports of all patient flow history assists emergency departments to improve 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 overall efficiency, key factors in managing increasing patient volumes.

"Our department treats over 92,000 patients a year," said Linda Laskowski Jones, RN, MS, director of trauma, emergency and aeromedical aer·o·med·i·cine  
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 services at Christiana Care. "Prior to installing Amelior EDTracker, it was very difficult to manually track the current location of all our patients accurately and efficiently. Since implementing Amelior, we have reduced the average time a patient spends in our ED by over 20 minutes, and we have seen an improvement in patient satisfaction. The system represents a real-time decision support tool to help manage a large, high-volume department more efficiently."

The Amelior EDTracker(TM) software utilizes a Web-based, Microsoft(R) .NET platform facilitating the use of thin client workstations to minimize space requirements within an emergency department.

"The primary advantage of using passive tracking is that a tremendous amount of patient information is collected without requiring the staff to enter any data," said Tony Marsico, 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.  of PCTS. "This is particularly valuable for departments treating rising patient volumes in large multi-pod facilities where it is very difficult to manually track all patients accurately." He added: "Since 40 percent or more of patient admissions can originate in Verb 1. originate in - come from
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 the emergency department, hospitals can make a significant impact on patient flow throughout the hospital by implementing passive tracking first in the emergency department and interfacing the system with nurse call and bed management systems. In this way, bed requests and confirmations of bed availability are managed electronically, reducing admitting bottlenecks that can lead to overcrowding overcrowding

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 revenues. The business case for passive tracking can then be established to support enterprise-wide implementations."

About Christiana Care

Christiana Care Health System, which traces its roots back to 1888, is one of the region's largest not-for-profit health care providers, serving the people of Delaware as well as neighboring neigh·bor  
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 Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It operates two hospitals, including Christiana Hospital, a 780-bed hospital and a level 1 trauma center level 1 trauma center Emergency care A hospital equiped to handle any level of severity of trauma, and has a trauma surgeon on-site 24/7 and an OR ready at all times for trauma cases. See Trauma center.  located in Newark, Del. The Christiana Hospital Emergency Department treats over 92,000 patient visits annually making it the 16th busiest ED in the nation. For more information, please visit www.christianacare.org.

About Patient Care Technology Systems

Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ:CSLR), is dedicated to becoming the leading provider of patient safety solutions in the high-acuity segments of healthcare. Anchored by their flagship solutions, Amelior ED(TM) patient care system, a comprehensive ED information system with integrated clinical decision support, and Amelior EDTracker passive tracking, the most implemented passive patient tracking system in U.S. emergency departments, PCTS provides a family of integrated and intelligent solutions designed to reduce medical errors and improve the operating performance of high-acuity departments. For more information about PCTS, visit www.pcts.com.
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