Eclipsys, Peers Recognize Excellence in Providing Better Healthcare Through Knowledge.Business Editors DELRAY BEACH Delray Beach, resort city (1990 pop. 47,181), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled 1895, inc. 1911. Mostly residential, Delray Beach is also the trade center for a citrus-fruit and vegetable-growing region. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001 Awards for Exceptional Achievement, Improved Outcomes Presented At Annual User Conference Customers of Eclipsys Corporation(R) (Nasdaq:ECLP), The Outcomes Company(R), were recognized by their peers from around the world and from Eclipsys by receiving awards for outstanding achievement at the recent 2001 Eclipsys User Network (EUN EUN Egyptian Universities Network EUN Laayoune, Morocco - Laayoune-Hassan I Morocco (Airport Code) EUN Endogenous Urinary Nitrogen EUN External Update Notification EUN End User Network ) Annual Conference. More than 1,100 healthcare professionals attended the four-day educational and networking event, held Oct. 28-31 in Orlando, Fla. The conference represented the first time that representatives of all of Eclipsys' current and heritage products and services came together for a joint educational experience. "As much as our people, products and services, our customers are truly our greatest asset," said Harvey J. Wilson, Eclipsys chairman and 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. . "Through their innovation, dedication and partnership with Eclipsys, they play a major role in continuing to advance our solutions and the entire field of advanced medical informatics medical informatics, n the field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine. . And, while all of them have noteworthy stories of their achievement, we are always proud to recognize the exceptional accomplishments of at least a few of them at our annual conference awards ceremony." The EUN Awards Banquet was one of the major highlights of the event, which also included more than 100 customer-led educational sessions, training classes provided by Eclipsys, and noted speakers such as Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an award-winning author and historian. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995, but her reputation was later damaged by her admission of plagiarism. , presidential historian and author. The conference's physician track, focusing on how direct physician use of advanced information systems improves patient safety and overall care delivery, included presentations by such industry leaders as David W. Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. , MD, MSc, chief of the Division of General Medicine of Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. and medical director of clinical and quality analysis, Partners HealthCare Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital founded the organization in 1994. System, Boston; and Clement McDonald, MD, director of the Regenstrief Institute The Regenstrief Institute, Inc. is a private, non-profit research organization affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM).[1] It was founded in 1969 by Sam Regenstrief[2]. for Health Care, Indianapolis. Another EUN Conference highlight was Eclipsys' unveiling of the latest version of the proven functionality of Eclipsys' Sunrise(TM) product suite, called SunriseXA(TM). The first components of the open, modular, Web-based SunriseXA are slated to be available in early 2002, Wilson announced during the EUN opening ceremonies. The Stellar Awards The Chicago-based Central City Productions, Inc. (CCP) produces the Stellar Gospel Music Awards. It has been 20 years since the first awards show was taped at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago. Stellar Awards, judged by a panel of users' peers, were presented in four categories -- Customer-Satisfaction Attainment, Performance Improvement, Outcomes Achievement, and Physician Achievement. Nominees for each award provided information concerning the challenge or issue the organization sought to address; the solution identified; the process taken to implement the solution; the Eclipsys solutions utilized and their role in the process; and the results or outcomes achieved. Customer-Satisfaction Attainment: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world. "CHOP" has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Child Magazine in recent years. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a long-time user of the company's heritage Eclipsys 7000 clinical information system, implemented a new Web-based method for physician discharge noting. This has enabled the discharge note to evolve into a multi-disciplinary tool for home care and family/patient education. A related report has also improved efficiency of daily rounds and communication between residents and staff regarding aspects of patient care. Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. recently announced that it has contracted with Eclipsys to evolve to the company's Sunrise Clinical Manager solution. Performance Improvement: Covenant Health Care Covenant Health Care, Saginaw, MI, received the award for Performance Improvement for achievement of an ambitious two-month project to dramatically expand utilization of Sunrise Decision Support Manager's management decision-support capabilities throughout a group of more than 150 leaders in its organization to achieve improved operational efficiencies. Support was provided by Eclipsys' Business Solutions Group. Outcomes Achievement: North Mississippi Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract A long-time user of the company's Eclipsys 7000 system, Tupelo tupelo, in botany tupelo: see black gum. Tupelo, city, United States Tupelo (t  `pĭlō, ty , MS-based NMHS NMHS National Mental Health StrategyNMHS National Maritime Historical Society NMHS Newark Memorial High School (Newark, CA) NMHS National Meteorological Hydrological Services NMHS Newport Middle High School continues to receive awards for innovation in improving care delivery through system enhancements and usage. This year, the health system won for linking the clinical system to auto-paging capabilities that immediately notified respiratory therapists when "STAT" or "now" orders were entered, thus speeding the delivery of care and improving staff efficiency. The auto-paging capability is being rolled out to other departments as well. Physician Achievement: Abington Memorial Hospital To reduce the potential for adverse medical events (AMEs), this Abington, PA-based community hospital achieved universal physician order entry in a project spanning less than one year. Abington currently uses the Eclipsys 7000 but is moving to Sunrise Clinical Manager and other Eclipsys solutions as a founding member of the company's Balanced Outcomes Partner Program. The VIP Awards Very Impressive Performer or VIP Awards are given by Eclipsys to recognize the outstanding performance of users in the categories of partnership, clinical performance, financial performance, and innovation. "Often, we find that our customers don't realize the excellence of their own achievements," said Eclipsys President James E. Hall. "Eclipsys, on the other hand, has the privilege and perspective of working with all of our customers on a daily basis; that perspective affords us the opportunity to recognize their many amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. accomplishments. Whether they demonstrated significant accomplishments, overcame tremendous obstacles or provided a shining example of personal leadership or perseverance, each winner has a lot to be proud of." Partnership: University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. Chandler Medical Center The Chandler Medical Center at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky is comprised of the following:
Since its founding, Eclipsys has been committed to working alongside its customers as their information partner, enabling them to achieve maximum improvement in clinical, financial and satisfaction outcomes and rapid return on their Eclipsys investment. Hall noted that the VIP Award for Partnership is given to the customer who represents the "gold standard" of an Eclipsys customer partner. "From system selection through contract negotiation and now implementation, in all cases UKCMC UKCMC University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center has recognized the value of partnership in our mutual success. Their staff recognizes the strategic importance of the project's success, achieving buy-in from throughout their organization so strong that the IT project is considered one of the seven criteria for the medical center's success. They work side-by-side with Eclipsys to ensure that issues are dealt with fairly and promptly, and never lose sight of the `big picture' and the goals we are working together to achieve. UKCMC is a true partner in every sense of the word." The medical center is implementing Sunrise Clinical Manager and other Eclipsys products as the foundation for its enterprise-wide IT infrastructure, supporting its goal of becoming one of the top 20 academic medical centers nationwide. International: Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust National Health Service Trusts (NHS Trusts) provide many services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. They are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. The next award recognizes that while healthcare organization in every country face the challenge of providing high-quality care cost-effectively, the issues and environments they face can be quite different indeed. Salford Royal Hospitals in the United Kingdom  This article has recently been split into multiple articles entitled:
The International Award was presented on behalf of Eclipsys by Roger Dickens, chairman of the company's international partner, iSOFT PLC. Eclipsys and iSOFT entered into a strategic alliance in spring 2001 designed to expand services and support to those overseas healthcare organizations utilizing Eclipsys' clinical solutions. Clinical Performance: Fairview Health System Fairview Health System, Minneapolis, MN, is implementing Sunrise Clinical Manager as the foundation for a comprehensive electronic medical record across its four area hospitals -- three community and one academic -- to ensure the use of best practices, cost efficiencies and enhanced safety for patients, physicians and other clinicians. Toward that end, Fairview has developed a close working relationship with Eclipsys as well as a quality process that includes a framework for ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). measurement that positions its staff to optimize outcomes. Financial Performance: Saint Francis Saint Francis, city, United States Saint Francis, city (1990 pop. 9,245), Milwaukee co., SE Wis., a residential suburb of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan; inc. 1951. There is meat processing and the manufacture of plastic and metal products. Hospital and Medical Center Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT, received the Financial Performance VIP Award for its use of Eclipsys' Sunrise Decision Support Manager to discover and collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in underpayments from managed-care contracts. The system has enabled them to compare net revenue to payments data in order to identify and seek payment for underpaid un·der·paid v. Past tense and past participle of underpay. underpaid Adjective not paid as much as the job deserves underpaid adj → claims. Turnaround: Catholic Health Partners Catholic Health Partners, Cincinnati, OH, received the Turnaround Award for dramatically improving the utilization of its decision-support system to improve clinical, financial and satisfaction outcomes. The organization upgraded from its Eclipsys heritage system to the current Sunrise Decision Support Manager advanced system, successfully implementing and more-effectively using it across its multi-facility organization. Teamwork: Sarasota Memorial Health Care System Sarasota, FL's preeminent healthcare provider received the VIP Award for Teamwork due to its ongoing leadership role in working with Eclipsys as a Sunrise Clinical Manager development partner and early adopter, as well as for its use of other Eclipsys solutions such as Decision Support Manager. Unique Role: Methodist Health Care System Methodist Health Care System of Houston, TX, received the "Best Performance in a Unique Role" award for its early adoption of Sunrise Critical Care/Sunrise Clinical Manager desktop and data integration in order to add Clinical Manager's Knowledge-Based Orders advanced capabilities to its very successful utilization of Sunrise Critical Care clinical-documentation features throughout its 600-plus-bed organization. About Eclipsys With a mission of "better healthcare through knowledge(TM)," Eclipsys Corporation delivers advanced, knowledge-driven information solutions used by more than 1,450 healthcare organizations worldwide to balance and improve clinical, financial and customer-satisfaction outcomes. SunriseXA(TM), Eclipsys' clinically focused enterprise solution set, is built on a single, open, component-based Web architecture based on Microsoft .NET See .NET. . Products are complemented by Web-based enterprise application integration, ASP delivery options, full IT outsourcing, wireless access smart devices and network solutions, and business-transformation services to provide comprehensive, enterprise-wide solutions. For more information, see http://www.eclipsys.com or email info@eclipsys.com. Statements in this news release concerning future results, performance or expectations are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995, as amended. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Eclipsys as of the date hereof and Eclipsys assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Because such statements involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks include potential financial constraints and other factors faced by the healthcare industry, changing customer requirements and other risks described in the filings of Eclipsys with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended Dec. 31, 2000. Eclipsys, Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks and Sunrise, SunriseXA and the phrase "better healthcare through knowledge" are trademarks of Eclipsys Solutions Corp. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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