Monmouth Medical Center Chooses AffinityEnterprise.RESTON, Va.--(BW HealthWire)--July 23, 1998-- Compucare Signs Eleventh New Jersey Hospital Monmouth Medical Center (MMC See MultiMediaCard and Microsoft Management Console. ), a 526-bed hospital in Long Branch, New Jersey, recently signed a contract for the AffinityEnterprise healthcare information system, it was announced by Steven Russell, senior vice president of field operations for Compucare, developer of Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. healthcare information systems software. MMC is one of 10 hospitals in the New Jersey-based Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS SBHCS Saint Barnabas Health Care System (New Jersey) SBHCS Socket Button Head Cap Screw ). "One of the primary initiatives of SBHCS is to standardize and centralize many of its operations and Monmouth brings to four, the number of facilities within SBHCS to acquire Affinity(R)," said Russell. "Besides, the current system would not have supported the change to Year 2000 and the already-compliant Affinity product line will resolve that issue, as well." Monmouth purchased a suite of patient management and financial products, including Patient Accounting, Contract Management, DRG/Case Mix, Patient Registration, Community Master Population Index (CMPI CMPI Center for Medicine in the Public Interest CMPI Common Manageability Programming Interface CMPI Caisse de Maladie des Professions Indépendantes (Luxembourg) CMPI Community Mentor Protege Initiative ), Central Business Office (CBO CBO See: Collateralized Bond Obligation. ), Medical Record Index, Utilization Management, Medical Records, Inpatient and Ambulatory Abstracting, and Affinity SQL Connect for report writing. The Affinity products will be installed on a Hewlett Packard 9000 Server in the Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI) version. According to Russell, Affinity's CBO and CMPI fit right into SBHCS's plan to consolidate the business office operations in its southern region. MMC is expected to go "live" with AffinityEnterprise by year end 1998. Besides MMC, other SBHCS facilities that have or will install Affinity are Kimball Medical Center Kimball Medical Center is a hospital located in Lakewood Township, New Jersey that serves parts of northern Ocean County and southern Monmouth County. The hospital is affiliated with the Saint Barnabas Health Care System. and Shoreline Behavioral Center in Lakewood, and Community Medical Center in Toms River. MMC brings to 11 the number of New Jersey hospitals using Compucare's Affinity products. Compucare, 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. , enables effective healthcare through information technology and professional services to community hospitals, multi-hospital organizations and large hospitals ranging in size from 35 to 2,000 beds. Compucare was one of the first vendors to deploy a full suite of HIS applications on WindowsNT(R), integrate web browser Intranet applications and offer Year 2000 compliant products. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Compucare employs more than 250 professionals throughout the Uniation, visit Compucare's Website at www.TheComCOMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS |
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