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Contra Costa Regional Medical Center Selects Unibased Systems Architecture's ForSite2020[R] periOperative Resource Management System.


CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Contra Costa Contra Costa can refer to:
  • Contra Costa County, California
  • Contra Costa (railroad ferryboat)
 Regional Medical Center (Contra Costa) of Martinez, CA and Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) have finalized an agreement on the selection of Unibased's award-winning surgery management solution, ForSite2020[R]periOperative perioperative /peri·op·er·a·tive/ (-op´er-ah-tiv) pertaining to the period extending from the time of hospitalization for surgery to the time of discharge.

per·i·op·er·a·tive
adj.
 Resource Management System (ORMS ORMS Operating Resource Management System
ORMS Operations Research and Management Science
ORMS Operational Readiness Monitoring System
ORMS Orderly Room Management System
ORMS Oracle Retail Merchandise System
), for use in their hospital.

ORMS from Unibased is an award-winning surgery management system that has been first in its product category according to according to
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 KLAS KLAS Keystone Library Automation System (TM) for six consecutive years. ORMS will replace a product no longer marketed by Mediware Information Systems (Mediware), who referred Unibased to Contra Costa, under an agreement formed in 2007.

Contra Costa is the public hospital for Contra Costa County in California. The hospital is a newly constructed facility of 164 beds with nine (9) surgery suites, supporting more than 500,000 outpatients annually. As one of the newest hospitals in California List of hospitals in California (U.S. state), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. Alameda County
  • Alameda Hospital - Alameda, California
  • Alta Bates Medical Center - Berkeley, California
  • Washington Hospital - Fremont, California
, it is a state-of-the-art medical center with the latest seismic engineering and safety features available.

According to George Giorgianni, National Director of Perioperative Solutions for Unibased, "Contra Costa selected ORMS based upon the smooth transition from their current Mediware product, the Unibased reputation for quality, reliability and performance with the associated confirmation by KLAS(TM), intuitive and easy-to-use workflow, and speedy implementation. Contra Costa was most impressed by the robust features and capabilities of ORMS as well as the Unibased reputation for customer service."

About Unibased Systems Architecture (USA):

Celebrating its 23rd year in the HIT industry, Unibased Systems Architecture's reputation for product quality, reliability, and supporting services has no equal. Unibased and its products have maintained the highest rankings from the KLAS(TM) independent reporting for the last eight years. Unibased markets various products which are open, scalable, integrated client/server and web enabled solutions, designed to meet the unique needs of sophisticated enterprise organizations. Unibased has major solution offerings in the HIT and air travel markets, providing real-time production scheduling, human resource, security and financial systems. In the HIT industry, ForSite2020[R]is an integrated solution which offers alternative access management techniques, including scheduling, EMPI, and registration, and tracks patient resource needs from pre-access through follow-up. ForSite2020[R]also monitors the effectiveness of clinical programs, financial productivity and capacity management. ForSite2020[R]has an integrated module which addresses surgery procedure(s) and surgeon scheduling, pre-admission activity monitoring, surgeon preferences, suite utilization, 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, , clinical worker training and certification, perioperative charting, and surgery based EHR (Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND . ForSite2020[R] results in significant improvements in physician and patient relations; and includes a physician portal, consumer portal, automated order creation, a business intelligence offering labeled ForSite Analytics, and revenue cycle functions such as validation of patient demographics, patient's current insurance eligibility checking, assurance of medical necessity compliance, and estimation of the patient's out-of-pocket expense based upon scheduled and ordered services. Unibased products and services are available through direct sales, marketing partners, value added resellers See VAR.

(company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software).
 and system integrators. Unibased Systems Architecture is a private corporation founded in 1986, and is based in Chesterfield, Missouri Chesterfield is the largest city in west St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 46,635 as of 2006[1] It is a suburb of St. Louis. Geography
Chesterfield is located at  (38.653402, -90.
. Visit Unibased on the web at www.unibased.com or contact:
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