Full Range of Eclipsys Solutions to Meet Enterprise-Wide IT Needs of New Phoenix Children's Hospital Facility.Business Editors & Medical Writers 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)--Jan. 31, 2001 Remote Hosting of Complete Range of Information-Management Solutions Planned for New Hospital Eclipsys Corporation(R) (Nasdaq:ECLP), The Outcomes Company(TM), today announced that Phoenix 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. will implement Eclipsys' Sunrise(TM) software and other information-technology (IT) products and services throughout its new pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. facilities scheduled to open in downtown Phoenix The downtown of the city of Phoenix in the U.S. state of Arizona covers about two or three square miles, with axes running along Central Avenue and Washington/Jefferson Streets. About twenty-five mid-rise and high-rise buildings ranging up to 39 stories tall pierce the skyline. in fall 2001. Under the comprehensive agreement, Eclipsys also will provide Phoenix Children's with remote hosting and management support of all Eclipsys applications through the company's Technology Solutions Center in Mountain Lakes, NJ. Phoenix Children's Hospital will combine the Sunrise solutions with Eclipsys' remote hosting and information-management expertise as part of an enterprise-wide drive to ensure that Arizona's first freestanding, comprehensive children's hospital is also one of the nation's most fully automated, technologically sophisticated pediatric-care facilities. In the fall, Phoenix Children's will move from its current location within Phoenix's Good Samaritan Hospital Good Samaritan Hospital may refer to: In the United States:
man who helped half-dead victim of thieves after a priest and a Levite had “passed by.” [N.T.: Luke 10:33] See : Helpfulness Good Samaritan since its opening in 1983. Good Samaritan will use the new children's hospital for all of its pediatric care. Phoenix Children's will continue to operate a neonatal intensive care unit Noun 1. neonatal intensive care unit - an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn NICU ICU, intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care at Good Samaritan, in addition to providing a similar unit at the new hospital. "Technology has enormous potential to help us continually improve the care and service we provide to children and their families," said James Bands, chief financial officer for Phoenix Children's Hospital. "This agreement with Eclipsys is a major step toward our goal of developing a fully integrated, enterprise-wide IT system." "Our physicians and staff are excited about the functionality and flexibility of the applications we reviewed," Bands noted. "Given the variety of users who will need to access both clinical and non-clinical information, we needed an advanced yet user-friendly IT system. Eclipsys provides both." Phoenix Children's Hospital representatives visited Eclipsys customer sites that enabled them to see the Sunrise systems in use. "Our visits reassured us that we could immediately incorporate some well-tested systems for improving patient care while moving us closer to our ultimate goal of an electronic patient medical record that respects our high standard for patient privacy," said Bands. He added that the remote-hosting and subscription-pricing options offered by Eclipsys work well in a managed-care environment, as they allow hospitals to immediately start benefiting from technology without the high start-up investment traditionally associated with the development of IT infrastructure. "We're delighted to welcome Phoenix Children's Hospital to the growing list of prestigious healthcare enterprises that have selected Eclipsys as their information-management solutions provider of the future," 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. . "By combining a full range of leading-edge Sunrise solutions with Eclipsys' proven remote-hosting and management capabilities, Phoenix Children's Hospital underscores its commitment to improving outcomes and becoming one of the Southwest's leading providers of children's healthcare services." Full Range of Integrated Solutions to be Implemented Among the Eclipsys Sunrise software solutions to be implemented by Phoenix Children's Hospital are Sunrise Clinical Manager, featuring comprehensive Knowledge-Based Orders(TM) (KBO Noun 1. KBO - any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system Kuiper belt object minor planet, planetoid - any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun ) with both real-time and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. , rules-based clinical decision support. Clinical Manager's KBO includes multiple levels of clinical decision support, ranging from real-time checking of drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions to more-advanced time- and location-specific duplicate order checking. Sunrise KBO also includes expert levels of checking relative to changes in a patient's condition utilizing the full extent of electronic patient information available. In addition to comprehensive knowledge-based ordering capabilities, Clinical Manager features order communication and management, multidisciplinary clinical documentation, physician office documentation and workflow, and disease-management care documentation. Clinical Manager is now in use at more than 55 healthcare facilities. In addition to Clinical Manager, Phoenix Children's Hospital also will implement Sunrise Access Manager, which supports patient enrollment, registration, tracking and scheduling, and features the industry-leading vendor-independent enterprise master person index, Sunrise Enterprise Person Identifier(TM); and Sunrise Patient Financial Manager, which includes patient billing and accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying , contract management, medical records abstracting and electronic data interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. ) with multi-entity combined business office (CBO CBO See: Collateralized Bond Obligation. ) capabilities. Other components of Eclipsys' Sunrise suite of leading-edge applications to be implemented by Phoenix Children's are Sunrise Decision Support Manager, which offers cost accounting, product-line management, departmental budgeting, business development, contract management, resource utilization management Utilization management is the evaluation of the appropriateness, medical need and efficiency of health care services procedures and facilities according to established criteria or guidelines and under the provisions of an applicable health benefits plan. and process improvement; and Sunrise Record Manager, featuring wide-ranging health information management (HIM) functionality that includes comprehensive chart tracking and request, chart completion, release of information, electronic signature and medical-record abstracting. About Eclipsys' ASP Services and the Technology Solutions Center The Eclipsys Technology Solutions Center, which will provide remote hosting and remote management of all Eclipsys solutions to be implemented by Phoenix Children's Hospital, is an integral part of the company's comprehensive information-management capabilities, which range from remote hosting to full outsourcing, network services, transition management and business solutions. These services enable the healthcare delivery organization to tap into Eclipsys' extensive human and technological resources to cost-effectively manage the organization's IT operations, while enabling the enterprise to focus on its core mission -- providing high-quality healthcare services. The state-of-the-art Technology Solutions Center is a 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. command-and-control center. Operating 24 hours a day, the Solutions Center provides complete hardware resources, all necessary operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and utility software, systems programming support, database-management functions, installation of fixes and new releases as provided by software vendors, network connectivity and support, and comprehensive system security, emergency backup and disaster-recovery services, including an offsite backup facility. Remote hosting and management can be provided for both Eclipsys and non-Eclipsys software applications. About Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix Children's Hospital is the only acute-care hospital in Arizona dedicated exclusively to pediatrics. An independent, nonprofit hospital, Phoenix Children's serves as a regional referral center for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses, and provides one-third of all the pediatric care in Arizona -- more than twice that of any other single hospital in the state. Its inpatient services inpatient service Managed care A service provided to a hospitalized Pt. Cf Outpatient service. include pediatric critical care, neonatal intensive and intermediate care, biobehavioral (psychiatric) care and subacute care. The hospital maintains outpatient specialty care centers in Phoenix, Glendale, Mesa and Scottsdale, and operates a general pediatric clinic in Phoenix that serves underprivileged children. Phoenix Children's Hospital has more than 740 medical staff members, including over 50 pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists who are employed by the hospital. For more information, visit the hospital's Web site at www.phxchildrens.com. About Eclipsys Eclipsys Corporation delivers end-to-end information solutions to healthcare organizations (HCOs), with one or more of its products installed or being installed in more than 1,400 facilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and nine other countries. These solutions enable HCOs to balance and improve clinical, financial and satisfaction outcomes. Sunrise(TM), Eclipsys' comprehensive software product line, provides clinical, financial, health information, enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. and management information solutions. Eclipsys also provides outsourcing, remote hosting, network services and business solutions consulting to complement its Sunrise solutions and assist its customers in meeting their healthcare information requirements The information needed to support a business or other activity. Systems analysts turn information requirements (the what and when) into functional specifications (the how) of an information system. . For more information, see 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. . 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 risks described in the filings of Eclipsys with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Eclipsys, Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks, and Sunrise, Knowledge-Based Orders and Enterprise Person Identifier are trademarks of Eclipsys Solutions Corp. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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