ibex PulseCheck Emergency Department Information System Addresses The Challenge of Interfacing with Hospital Information Systems.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

ROSEMONT, ILL.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003

Hospital Chief Information Officers are sometimes wary of department-specific medical information systems ("best of breed" solutions) because they question the vendor's ability to successfully interface with large hospital information systems. ibex Healthdata Systems, the premier provider of innovative Web browser-based emergency department information solutions to the healthcare industry, has time and again successfully faced that challenge and has interfaced its ibex PulseCheck(R) emergency department information system with every large hospital enterprise or integrated information system.

"ibex Healthdata Systems successfully interfaced with our Cerner Pathnet lab system," says Julio Silva, MD, Co-Chair of Emergency Medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. "We are very pleased with the ability to order lab tests and receive the results through ibex PulseCheck. The process of interfacing with the Cerner lab system was seamless."

"ibex Healthdata Systems programming specialists were very responsive in what we were attempting to do with the Cerner PathNet lab system and ibex PulseCheck," says Peggy Bigoness, Program Analyst for Rush Medical Labs. "We have been live with lab results since Fall 2001 and with lab order entry since January 2003. The interface development for both interfaces went very smoothly."

Alegent Health System, a healthcare organization which includes hospitals in Nebraska and Iowa, has been a user of ibex PulseCheck since October 2002. Four hospitals run ibex PulseCheck off one server and interface with the Cerner PathNet lab system for lab results. "The process of interfacing ibex PulseCheck with Cerner PathNet for lab results was painless for our IT Department," says Jacki Smith, IS Project Manager for Alegent. "We are currently testing another interface which will allow users of ibex PulseCheck to order lab tests through SMS Invision and Cerner PathNet, and we anticipate a successful go-live very soon."

"A key advantage of ibex PulseCheck is the seamless interface between medical and administrative systems, so that the same information does not have to be typed over and over again," says Bill Winter, Director, Information Systems at Sacred Heart Health Systems in Pensacola, Florida. "This not only saves time, but it also helps avoid mistakes that can arise when data is entered numerous times." Sacred Heart has a working ADT interface with ibex PulseCheck and SMS MedSeries 4.

Hospitals have purchased more than 300 separate ibex PulseCheck interfaces. Those interfaces have been with large hospital information systems such as Cerner, Meditech, SMS, Eclipsys, and McKesson. ibex PulseCheck has successfully interfaced with hospitals' ADT, lab, radiology and EKG order entry and results, clinical data repository (CDR), facility and physician billing, charge management, master file update and patient monitoring systems.

Developed by emergency room clinicians, nurses and staff, 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.