CliniComp Announces First Comprehensive, Rapid-Response Patient Safety System.

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CliniComp, Intl., a recognized leader of advanced, hospital-wide clinician documentation systems with EMR, today announced its patient safety system, an automated set of IT tools that help hospitals to tackle "failure to rescue" by implementing rapid response teams. This integrated bundle of products is an enhancement to CliniComp's existing clinical documentation product, adding proactive clinical surveillance and monitoring for compliance with best practices.

According to a recent three-year HealthGrades Quality Study titled Patient Safety in American Hospitals (July 2004), failure to rescue accounts for 60,000 deaths each year in Medicare patients under the age of 75. Further, clinical signs of deterioration 24 hours before a crisis are not acted upon in 48 percent of cases.

"Failure to rescue is very real and very worrisome for hospitals. Relying on paper charts and making `rounds' will not suffice to improve patient safety," said Richard Kremsdorf, MD, president and CEO of CliniComp, Intl. "We have a comprehensive solution that will allow hospitals to make significant patient safety improvements in less time and at a greater value than anything we know of on the market."

Building an effective patient safety net requires three elements: point-of-care tools for caregivers; proactive clinical surveillance; and real-time monitoring of the patient care process.

CliniComp's patient safety system comprises three complementary tools, that working together, give hospital staff a way to monitor patients, intervene before a crisis and establish and ensure best practices:

--Essentris(TM) Clinical Documentation: A comprehensive electronic medical record with clinical documentation and order entry. When integrated with a data repository, Essentris provides the foundation for a wide range of key capabilities, including true clinical decision support, outcomes measurement and chart auditing.

--Essentris OnWatch(TM): A proactive clinical surveillance tool that allows hospital staff to proactively monitor and intervene with patients that are exhibiting warning signs of clinical decline. More than simple alerting, OnWatch automatically watches for a series of triggers that indicate selected clinical parameters are out of range or trending in the wrong direction. Hospital staff is then immediately notified that a patient needs urgent attention.

--Essentris(TM) GDR: Allows hospital executives to easily evaluate patient outcome data and clinical processes and establish, and then monitor, compliance with best practices. Reports are available in real-time so that non-compliance can be addressed immediately - benefiting the patient and directing education about the protocol precisely when and where it is needed for maximum impact.

About CliniComp

Founded in 1983, CliniComp, Intl. is a pioneer in its field, developing advanced hospital-wide clinician documentation systems for hospitals, integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers and other acute care providers. By completely automating the documentation process for each hospital's patient care environment, manual charting is eliminated. This in turn greatly reduces errors, improves productivity, and allows for better information flow. Automated charting forms the very foundation of the hospital-wide electronic medical record. For more information about CliniComp, please call 800-350-8202 or visit www.clinicomp.com.