DeKalb Medical Center Selects HEALTHvision to Improve Access to Clinical Resources.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004 Solutions to Provide Integrated Information and Applications for More Than 1,100 of the Organization's Physicians HEALTHvision, a leading healthcare Internet company, announces that it has signed a multi-year agreement with DeKalb Medical Center to provide the organization with improved and more 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. access to its clinical information systems. Specifically, HEALTHvision's Web-based clinical solutions will integrate data from DeKalb Medical Center's disparate legacy systems into a single, user-friendly interface. Physicians on the organization's medical staff, as well as referring physicians, soon will be able to able to use any Web-connected PC to access the patient-specific information currently stored in the systems provided by SCC SCC - strongly connected component Soft Computer, Siemens, McKesson and MEDiscribe. For DeKalb Medical Center, HEALTHvision's solutions promise a substantial improvement in clinical 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. . Physicians associated with the organization currently search through as many as four separate places to access patient information and clinical results. Additionally, because DeKalb Medical Center employs a staff of hospitalists to monitor inpatient care inpatient care Managed care Services delivered to a Pt who needs physician care for > 24 hrs in a hospital , referring physicians outside the walls of the hospital can encounter difficulty obtaining updated patient information throughout the care delivery process. HEALTHvision's solutions will resolve these issues, providing consolidated information to medical staff members and allowing them to focus more of their efforts on providing care. "The people and factors vying vy·ing v. Present participle of vie. vying vie for our physicians' time continue to grow, but the amount of time our physicians have to give remains the same. To maintain the quality of care, we have to make it easier for physicians to get the information they need," said Cynthia Davis, chief information officer for DeKalb Medical Center. "HEALTHvision's Web-based solutions give physicians quick and secure access to vital resources like lab and transcription results. More importantly, the solutions give physicians more time to spend with their patients." DeKalb Medical Center is a 627-bed, not-for-profit health system based in Atlanta. The health system has more than 1,100 physicians on its medical staff, serving two hospitals: DeKalb Medical Center's main campus in central DeKalb County DeKalb County stands for the following Counties in the United States of America:
"DeKalb Medical Center serves as a prime example of where healthcare needs to go if it is to keep pace with physician expectations and customer demands," said Scott Decker, chief executive officer for HEALTHvision. "The organization's processes for distributing information were frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: physicians and at times hindering hin·der 1 v. hin·dered, hin·der·ing, hin·ders v.tr. 1. To be or get in the way of. 2. To obstruct or delay the progress of. v.intr. patient care. Seeing this, DeKalb Medical Center made a strategic decision to find a solution that will offer immediate and measurable results -- and do so at a fraction of the cost of larger, clinical transformation initiatives." HEALTHvision relies on an application service provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) model to deliver its award-winning solutions to more than 300 healthcare organizations throughout the country. At the foundation of these solutions is e-healthSOURCE, HEALTHvision's Web-based infrastructure, which essentially allows customers to "plug-in" to implement a comprehensive and customized e-health strategy. The result is a single point of access to the resources that create a connected healthcare community for physicians, patients and consumers. About HEALTHvision HEALTHvision is a leading healthcare Internet company, focused on creating a connected healthcare community for physicians, patients and consumers. The company's web-based infrastructure, e-healthSOURCE, is the most widely used in the industry, hosting more than 6 million unique patient records. Additionally, more than 350 healthcare organizations use the company's solutions to make health care easier for their key audiences -- a number that represents more than 23,000 clinicians (including 11,000 physicians), thousands of patients and millions of consumers. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , based in Irving, Texas Irving (pronounced 'er-ving') is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 191,615; the 2006 estimate was 201,927 according to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, and 196,084 according to , HEALTHvision was formed in July 1999. For more information, visit www.healthvision.com. |
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