Picis Names Mount Sinai Medical Center and Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Users of the Year.

WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Picis, Inc., the leading provider of high-acuity care automation and best practices software for hospitals, presented its 2006 User-of-the-Year awards at the annual Picis Exchange User Group Symposium, held in Palm Beach, Fla. In the emergency department (ED) excellence category, Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City was awarded the ED PulseCheck User of the Year for improving nursing and physician documentation and overall processes, which led to a $7.5 million increase in revenue and a 50 percent decrease in the average patient's length of stay. Perioperative suite user Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, the 2006 CareSuite(TM) User of the Year, was honored for advancing patient care through improved perioperative processes. This led to better patient flow, and enhanced data retrieval with simplified documentation. The Picis users were recognized for their broad use of product features and quantitative benefits realized while promoting better quality patient care.

Picis' annual Exchange User Group Symposium brought together prestigious medical centers from around the world to share best practices, hear success stories and learn strategies to get the most out of Picis' market leading emergency department and perioperative automation technology. More than 270 hospital chief information officers, physicians, nurses and healthcare informatics executives attended the symposium, which was keynoted by former Health and Human Services Secretary and Picis Director, Tommy Thompson.

"Through enhanced documentation with ED PulseCheck, Mount Sinai Medical Center increased professional receipts by 50 percent, completely eliminated lost charts, and raised end-of-month chart completion from 65 to 95 percent," said Kevin Baumlin, M.D., director of informatics and assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. "Becoming a more efficient emergency department enabled Mount Sinai Medical Center to further improve our high-level of patient care."

At Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, Surgical Services used Picis' CareSuite to increase patient's surgical access, contributing to revenue growth in its operating room, endoscopy, anesthesia care and post anesthesia care units.

"Using CareSuite's comprehensive data collection and analysis technology, we were able to improve preference card and billing accuracy," explained Colette Tilton, R.N., vice president of Patient Care Services at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. "We also saw increased scheduling efficiency."

"Mount Sinai Medical Center and Southern New Hampshire Medical Center are model Picis users: they've achieved substantial improvements in efficiency and realized significant ROI," said Todd Cozzens, chief executive officer and vice-chairman of Picis. "Congratulations to this year's winners who illustrate how large and small medical centers can use high-acuity automation technology to help improve patient care and transform their institutions into highly efficient operations."

Other Picis clients honored at the symposium include St. Alexius Medical Center, Bismarck, North Dakota and Sentara Healthcare of southeastern Virginia/northeastern North Carolina for their widespread use of Picis' CareSuite solutions in perioperative care areas. In addition, Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania and Daughters of Charity Health System in California were recognized for their achievements using ED PulseCheck.

About Picis

Picis is the leading, worldwide provider of information systems that deliver proven best-in-cluster patient care transformation for the highest-acuity care areas of the hospital -- the emergency department, the operating room and the intensive care unit. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has installed systems in more than 1000 medical centers and hospital networks worldwide. Picis has received numerous awards, including those from Microsoft, Ernst & Young, HCIT Research, Healthcare Informatics and Frost and Sullivan. Picis was recently named to both the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 and the Inc. Magazine 500 lists (105th overall) of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. More information is available at www.picis.com.

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