Daughters of Charity Health System Selects the Ibex PulseCheck to Automate Its Hospital Emergency Departments.

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- After an extensive investigation of ten emergency department information system vendors, Daughters of Charity Health System (www.dochs.org) has selected Ibex PulseCheck(R) to automate the emergency departments in its hospitals. With the implementation of the Daughters of Charity Health System hospital sites, nearly five million patients across the country annually will be triaged and their treatment automatically tracked and documented during their emergency department visits using Ibex PulseCheck.

Daughters of Charity Health System is headquartered in Los Altos Hills, California, and serves the medical needs of residents in the San Francisco Bay area and in and around Los Angeles. Its hospitals include O'Connor Hospital in San Jose; Seton Medical Center in Daly City; Seton Medical Center Coastside in Moss Beach; St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood; Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy; and St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles.

The Daughters of Charity Health System hospitals, representing more than 170,000 ED visits per year, will implement Ibex PulseCheck's patient tracking and reporting module, nursing and physician electronic documentation risk management, charge management billing and order entry, with interfaces to the hospitals' various clinical and information systems including Cerner, MedSeries 4, McKesson and Meditech.

"The Daughters of Charity health care Mission is committed to serving the sick and the poor, through delivery of comprehensive, excellent healthcare that is compassionate and attentive to the whole person. As our emergency departments are often the most visible aspect of what we offer to the communities we serve, meeting our Mission means providing the best possible care to our ED patients. Automating the care delivery process in the ED is one of our primary initiatives over the next several years," says Richard Hutsell, VP & CIO.

"We conducted a comprehensive search for the right emergency department information system for our hospitals," says Michael Day, a consultant to Daughters of Charity Health System's IT department. "Ibex PulseCheck's web browser-based platform, the company's clinical focus and the product's management reporting tools for measuring success were major factors in our decision. With the implementation of Ibex PulseCheck, we expect improved clinical flow resulting in further improvement in patient care in our emergency departments."

O'Connor Hospital will be the first to implement Ibex PulseCheck, which will coincide with a complete remodel of their emergency department. According to Howard Davis, MD, VP of Medical Affairs at O'Connor Hospital, "It would not be an understatement to describe the new O'Connor ED as the most technically advanced in the state of California."

"Daughters of Charity Health System has very unique and specific information requirements in serving the emergency medical needs of a very diverse and widespread patient population," says Mark D. Crockett, MD, FACEP, president of Ibex, a Picis company, "Because of the web browser-based platform, health systems like Daughters of Charity can realize economies of scale with the ability to operate across a number of sites and across a number of clinical information systems in two major metropolitan areas. The Daughters of Charity needed site-based as well as fully-integrated system data which Ibex PulseCheck can provide."

With the addition of Daughters of Charity Health System, 130 hospital sites across the country are using Ibex PulseCheck in their Emergency Departments.

Developed by emergency room clinicians, nurses, and staff, Ibex PulseCheck has been designed specifically for the emergency department with the flexibility to meet individual hospitals' and emergency departments' needs. The system's web browser-based format is clinician-friendly, and connects seamlessly to virtually all other hospital information systems. www.ibexhealthdata.com