University of Colorado Hospital Selects ibex Healthdata Systems to Implement ibex PulseCheck Emergency Department Information System at Its Two Hospital Campuses.

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ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004

Ranked as one of the top hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report, the University of Colorado Hospital has selected ibex Healthdata Systems' ibex PulseCheck(R) Emergency Department Information System for its two hospital campuses. ibex PulseCheck will be implemented in the emergency departments at the main campus in Denver as well as the Fitzsimmons Campus located in Aurora, Colorado.

"The University of Colorado Hospital has specific information system requirements for its emergency departments," says Steve Clark, Chief Information Officer. "We needed a system that could accommodate both hospital sites, manage patient throughput, and automate the patient documentation process while at the same time being able to interface with our hospital information systems. After conducting a comprehensive review of emergency department information systems, ibex PulseCheck came in as the number one emergency department information system."

"We are grateful in the confidence the prestigious University of Colorado Hospital has placed in ibex Healthdata Systems' and ibex PulseCheck," says Mark D. Crockett, MD, ibex's President and CEO. "ibex PulseCheck's full functionality and its ability to support multiple hospital emergency departments through its unique web browser architecture will more than meet the University of Colorado Hospital's need to manage the continual increase in emergency department patient visits."

The emergency departments at both University of Colorado Hospital campuses see more than 70,000 patients per year and include a specialized burn center, a level II trauma center and a 24-hour cardiac catherization lab. The University of Colorado Hospital is the region's leading specialty care and referral center and is an academic teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The new Fitzsimons campus in Aurora is home to the Anschultz Center for Medicine and the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute. The first phase of a new hospital on the Fitzsimmons campus, the Anschultz Inpatient Pavilion, recently opened to the public.

ibex PulseCheck's Patient Tracking and Reporting System, Nurse and Physician Documentation with the Risk Management overlay and Charge by Documentation will be implemented at the hospital's two emergency departments. The system will interface with the organization's McKesson ADT, lab, radiology and EKG order entry and results reporting systems, hospital and physician billing systems and the patient monitoring system.

With the addition of the two University of Colorado Hospital campuses, more than four million patients in more than 110 hospitals nationwide will be tracked and their care documented and managed by ibex PulseCheck.

Developed by emergency room clinicians, nurses and staff at ibex Healthdata Systems, ibex PulseCheck has been designed specifically for the emergency department with the flexibility to meet individual hospitals' and emergency departments' needs. The system's web browser-style format is easy for clinicians to use, and the system connects seamlessly to virtually all other hospital information systems, including MEDITECH, Cerner, McKesson, Eclipsys and SMS Siemens. www.ibexhealthdata.com