TAMPA, Fla. – Feb. 28, 2012 – MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest growing companies providing cloud-based software, announced today that Simply Healthcare will deploy its integrated care management, quality and compliance platform to proactively enhance its quality improvement initiatives. In doing so, Simply Healthcare is well positioned to respond to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) efforts to enhance quality outcomes and reduce costs. MedHOK, which offers fully NCQA certified software for HEDIS®, has more than 15 million live in production and is on track to reach 30 million within the year, making it one of the healthcare industry’s leading software companies.

Simply Healthcare is a Coral Gables, Fla.-based HMO that serves Florida’s Medicaid and Healthy Kids populations and Medicare Advantage members. It will leverage the MedHOK platform for annual HEDIS filings, as well as to identify and remediate any care gaps and improve outcomes going forward.

“We appreciate the expertise MedHOK brings to the table and their collaborative approach to achieving our goals,” said Dwight Pattison, director of quality management, Simply Healthcare.

MedHOK’s integrated care management, quality and compliance platform facilitates improved clinical outcomes and care coordination while enhancing quality measures, compliance and financial performance. It accomplishes this by:

• Providing real-time access to Star, HEDIS, pay-for-performance (P4P), and proprietary quality and performance measures, helping providers accurately monitor in real-time the data they need to achieve and maintain high quality ratings
• Triggering interventions when care gaps are identified, in particular for patients with multiple comorbidities and chronic conditions
• Utilizing predictive analytics models to generate profiles based on clinical, quality and financial data for member, provider and local populations
• Calculating risk scores for every member, enabling timely predictions of those at the highest risk for more accurate forecasting of care costs and utilization
• Continuously monitoring for and addressing regulatory changes from CMS and state Medicaid agencies, ensuring clients stay ahead of the compliance curve

“To thrive into today’s healthcare environment, health plans must be committed to improving quality and reducing costs,” said Anil Kottoor, president and CEO, MedHOK. “By leveraging the power of our integrated care, quality and compliance platform, they can eliminate the year-end HEDIS fire drills through continuous performance monitoring and streamlined workflows that mitigate care gaps.”

About MedHOK

Tampa, Fla.-based MedHOK has more than 15 million lives in production and expects to double that number in 2012, making it one of the healthcare industry’s fastest-growing software companies. It offers a cloud-based integrated software platform for care management, quality and compliance that enables physicians, ACOs, PCMHs, payers and TPAs to manage and measure care against national quality standards for optimal outcomes. Its innovative modular software helps healthcare organizations meet quality, care and compliance objectives across business lines by facilitating real-time information sharing with all stakeholders to address disease management and care coordination, clinical quality and utilization review, and quality and financial measures. ICD-10 compliant, HIE-ready and securely accessible on any device, the MedHOK platform is user-friendly, rapidly deployed and easily configurable for a low total cost of ownership and rapid return on investment. The company’s 360Measures holds full 2012 HEDIS® certification.

A new agreement between EBSCO Publishing and Isabel Healthcare allows mutual customers to link from the Isabel diagnosis tool and the evidence-based point-of-care tool DynaMed. The agreement brings the evidence-based content from DynaMed into the diagnostic process and allows users easier access regardless of whether a search begins in Isabel or DynaMed.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. The daily updates in DynaMed have led to DynaMed being recognized as the most current point-of-care reference in The British Medical Journal (BMJ 2011 Sep 23) and helped DynaMed rate higher than other disease reference tools in the latest KLAS report on Clinical Decision Support (Clinical Decision Support 2011: Understanding the Impact, 2011. © 2011 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com).

You can learn more about DynaMed, the Isabel agreement and the importance of evidence-based medicine in the clinical workflow by visiting the EBSCO Publishing booth (#819) at HIMSS 2012.

Agreement Provides Linking Between Isabel’s Diagnosis Decision Support Tool and the Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support Content from DynaMed^™

IPSWICH, Mass. — February 21, 2012 — Institutions using the clinical decision support resources Isabel and DynaMed^™  will benefit from tighter integration of the two tools. A new agreement between Isabel Healthcare and EBSCO Publishing allows direct linking between the Isabel diagnosis tool and the evidence-based point-of-care tool DynaMed, allowing mutual customers to link from one resource to the other. The agreement brings the evidence-based content from DynaMed into the diagnostic process and allows users easier access regardless of whether a search begins in Isabel or DynaMed.

Isabel Healthcare provides a web-based application called Isabel, the industry leading diagnosis decision support system designed to provide essential diagnosis and treatment information at the point of need. For a given set of signs and symptoms, Isabel presents the clinician with a list of likely diagnoses to consider, and each diagnosis is linked to knowledge to help with further investigation, potential testing and treatment. The Isabel system has been extensively validated and is currently being used by leading healthcare systems across North America improving efficiency in decision making.

“We are excited about the tighter integration between DynaMed and Isabel and the decision making efficiencies associated with easy access to information at the point-of-need,” stated Don Bauman, CEO of Isabel Healthcare. “Improving decision making efficiency affords clinicians with more patient-facing time, improves time to diagnosis and treatment, and lowers costs.”

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.

Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of Systematic Literature Surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

About Isabel Healthcare

Isabel Healthcare Inc. was founded in 2000 by Jason Maude and is named after Maude’s daughter who almost died after a potentially fatal illness was not recognized. For over 10 years, Isabel Healthcare has provided the Isabel diagnosis decision support system to hospitals, physician practices and individual physicians and gained peer reviewed validation and unmatched experience. Today, Isabel is the only diagnosis decision support system fully integrated with EMR and is used by thousands of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and students world-wide, providing diagnostic support and education by broadening their differential diagnostic considerations. Connect with us at info(at)isabelhealthcare(dot)com, 734-332-0612 or http://www.isabelhealthcare.com or http://www.twitter.com/isabelhealth to learn more.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 350 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL^®, DynaMed^™, Nursing Reference Center^™, Patient Education Reference Center^™, Rehabilitation Reference Center^™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source^™ and SocINDEX^™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE^®, PsycARTICLES^® and PsycINFO^®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost^®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com.

Diagnosis decision support tool helps physicians determine correct diagnosis the first time; enhances point-of-care diagnostic skills of residents and medical students

LAS VEGAS-HIMSS Annual Conference-Feb. 20, 2012-Isabel Healthcare today announced that Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha, Neb., and Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital(LLUCH), Loma Linda, Calif., have selected Isabel, its diagnosis decision support and clinical knowledge system to assist their combined 950 physicians identify a patient’s diagnosis accurately the first time. The two facilities will further employ the Isabel web application to instruct, train and improve the diagnostic skills of residents and medical students at the point of care.

Isabel Healthcare will demonstrate its solution at booth #13247 at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Conference. The event is this week at the Venetian Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas.

“We chose Isabel because there is no other decision support solution like it on the market,” said George Reynolds, M.D., MMM, vice president, chief medical informatics officer and chief information officer at the 145-bed Children’s Hospital & Medical Center. “When our physicians work unusual or complex cases, they can enter the symptoms at the point of care into Isabel, and the solution will generate potential diagnoses. This tool empowers our 600 doctors in making the right decisions and arrive at the right diagnosis as quickly and efficiently as possible.”

Children’s (Omaha, Neb.) will integrate Isabel with an ambulatory EMR and its new inpatient electronic health record (EHR).

“Like every other EHR, our electronic records solution is bundled with traditional clinical decision support,” continued Reynolds, a pediatric intensivist. “However, that kind of decision support software differs significantly from Isabel’s because it is more closely aligned with medication prescribing. It tells experienced clinicians how to treat a diagnosis that they have already determined. Isabel, instead, helps them identify the diagnosis. The tool broadens our decision support portfolio and greatly expands the quality of care we deliver to infants, children and young adults.”

In addition to decision support, Children’s will use Isabel as a resource to teach its more than 150 residents and medical students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine.

“Isabel is a remarkably potent teaching tool,” Reynolds said. “Not only does it provide very specialized advice to practitioners who are very experienced, the solution serves as a general educational platform for residents just launching their careers and medical students.”

Richard Chinnock, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and physician-in-chief at the 277-bed LLUCH, which renewed its contract with Isabel, agreed.

“At LLUCH, we have several physicians who have written the textbook in their specialty,” Chinnock explained. “They don’t need Isabel to figure out complicated diagnoses; however, the residents who work with them and who admit and evaluate patients want to know what those experts are thinking. Isabel helps our house staff and medical students hone their clinical and diagnostic skills. It’s a tremendous teaching aid.”

“We are honored to partner with Children’s Hospital and Loma Linda to support their shared mission to achieve clinical excellence and train the next generation of practicing physicians,” said Don Bauman, Isabel Healthcare’s chief executive officer. “Finding time to diagnose early and accurately in our knowledge-intensive industry is a huge challenge and if performed incorrectly can waste resources and lead to potentially life threatening and costly errors. Our knowledge management tool helps doctors reach a more informed judgment in a matter of seconds.This advanced intelligence can lead to more appropriate test ordering and treatment planning.”

About Children’s Hospital & Medical Center

Proudly serving children since 1948, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center is recognized as a 2011-12 Best Children’s Hospital by U.S. News & World Repot in cardiology and heart surgery, and orthopedics. It is the only full-service, pediatric health care center in Nebraska providing expertise in more than 30 pediatric specialty services to children across a five-state region and beyond. Located in Omaha, the 145-bed, non-profit hospital houses the only dedicated pediatric emergency department in the region and offers 24-hour, in-house services by pediatric critical care specialists.

About Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital

Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital (LLUCH) includes services for all pediatric patients and for obstetrics. It is internationally recognized for its pioneering pediatric heart transplant program and for having the first clinically dedicated proton beam treatment center in the world. LLUCH offers a full spectrum of services, including heart, kidney and bone marrow transplant. It hosts a level I pediatric trauma center – one of only three in the state. An 84-bed NICU, 25-bed PIC and 14-bed Cardiac ICU bring cutting edge therapies to a 4-county area of California comprising approximately 25% of the land mass of the state. It is the major teaching hospital for pediatric training for 82 pediatric and med/peds residents and for 170 medical students of Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

About Isabel Healthcare

Isabel Healthcare Inc. was founded in 2000 by Jason Maude and is named after Maude’s daughter who almost died after a potentially fatal illness was not recognized. For over 10 years, Isabel Healthcare has provided the Isabel diagnosis decision support system to hospitals, physician practices and individual physicians and gained peer reviewed validation and unmatched experience. Today, Isabel is the only diagnosis decision support system fully integrated with EMR and is used by thousands of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and students world-wide, providing diagnostic support and education by broadening their differential diagnostic considerations. Connect with us at info@isabelhealthcare.com, 734-332-0612 or Isabelhealthcare.com or info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog to learn more.

Awarepoint solution helps leading United Kingdom facility improve patient flow, equipment tracking, and hand hygiene compliance

SAN DIEGO – February 16, 2012 – Awarepoint Corporation, the leading provider of real-time location system (RTLS) solutions for healthcare, announced today that The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust (the Trust) in the United Kingdom has implemented the first phases of its real-time location system (RTLS) to improve patient flow, equipment tracking, and hand hygiene compliance. The RTLS data, as well as extensive data from other systems, is processed through the Awarepoint Rules Engine to help facilitate the flow of patients through the hospital, improving throughput times and creating a more healing environment.

“Like hospitals in other countries, we face the challenge of delivering the highest quality care at a time of severely constrained resources and staffing,” said David Loughton, chief executive of The Trust. “The enterprise-wide implementation of Awarepoint software gives us the ability to care for patients more quickly and provides staff with additional information they need to make decisions. Faster treatment and more efficient processes result in better outcomes and lower clinical, administrative, and operational costs.”

The Awarepoint system was first implemented in a ward of the hospital designed to handle injured and sick patients who also suffer from Dementia. The system quickly proved to provide staff with the critical information they needed to care for patients.

“The work Awarepoint did in conjunction with our new care standards for dementia patients was groundbreaking. We are committed to delivering the best and safest care possible. The work Awarepoint did with us shows that they are committed to the same standards. We look forward to partnering with Awarepoint as we move the system throughout the Trust,” said Loughton.

The aware360° Suite that the Trust installed translates real-time data into actionable intelligence.

Awarepoint performed an extensive analysis of the Trust’s workflow and that workflow could then be mapped into the software. As the software received location data from the RTLS and additional data from other hospital systems, it processed that data against the workflow mapping. When specific types of care need to be provided to a patient, the system alerts the staff member responsible for the care. The software constantly monitors all patients in the 800-bed facility looking for events that caregivers need to know occurred. When those events occur, the caregivers are alerted. This constant monitoring and alerting allows care to be given in a more timely manner, resulting in shorter hospital stays and higher patient satisfaction.

“We are proud our technology is playing a crucial role in advancing the Trust’s vision of being a first-class hospital providing top quality and safe care in every way,” said Jay Deady, president and CEO of Awarepoint. “While most facilities typically apply RTLS to track and monitor the location of clinicians, patients and portable equipment, the Trust is utilizing the technology to its full range of capabilities, serving as an international and pioneering model for other organizations seeking to transform health delivery and financial outcomes through proven, leading edge software.”

About Awarepoint Corporation

Awarepoint provides the only complete RTLS solution optimizing healthcare workflow for improving asset management and availability, optimal patient flow, and increasing care team efficiency.

The company’s aware360°Suite provides unmatched real-time location system (RTLS) technology, best-in-class software, and fully managed services for the healthcare enterprise. By improving asset, patient, and personnel visibility across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the Quality, Efficiency, Experience, and Economics of care. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com/.

About The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust (The Trust) was established in 1994 and is one of the largest acute providers in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. It provides a comprehensive range of services for the people of Wolverhampton, the wider Black Country, South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire, and Shropshire. The Trust gained Cancer Centre status in 1997, was designated as the 4th Regional Heart & Lung Centre during 2004/05 and became one of the first wave Bowel Screening Centres in 2006.

The Trust is the largest teaching hospital in the Black Country providing teaching and training to around 130 medical students on rotation from the University of Birmingham Medical School. Providing training for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals through well-established links with the University of Wolverhampton, the Trust has an operating budget of £350 million, 800 beds including 27 intensive care beds and 14 neonatal intensive care cots and employs almost 5000 staff. In 2008/09 the Trust treated more than 670,000 patients at hospital and community sites across the West Midlands.

Total Hospital Efficiency Lowers Costs and Improves Quality

February 14, 2012 – Care Logistics today announced an agreement with Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP), a member of Catholic Health Partners (CHP), to implement the Care Logistics^TM Hospital Operating System^TM solution in the three HMHP hospitals. The signing is the latest for Care Logistics in a time that has seen strong validation of its patient logistics solution from hospitals across the country. Among the results hospitals have achieved by working with Care Logistics are: an increase in net operating margin from one percent to more than five percent; a 25 percent decrease in patient average length of stay; and a 49 percent decrease in hospital-acquired infection rates.

Care Logistics helps hospitals achieve these dramatic performance breakthroughs by creating a culture of efficiency in the hospital, designing a new patient care coordination model, implementing an enterprise logistics software suite and establishing real-time operational performance management. The result is increased and smoother patient flow that leads to a higher level of reliable and predictable operational performance. Based on experience with its other customers, Care Logistics anticipates HMHPs’ return on investment will occur within the first 12 months of operation of the complete solution.

“We are very excited about the partnership with Care Logistics and the implementation of its enterprise-wide solution to increase our total hospital efficiency,” said Robert Shroder, president and chief executive officer, HMHP. “We chose Care Logistics because we believe its ability to customize a solution to our needs will best support our patient care efforts and, most importantly, help us deliver higher quality care to the communities we serve.”

“We wanted to extend the success we are having with Care Logistics in CHP’s northwest Ohio region to HMHP so that we can improve the care experience for our patients and increase our capacity to serve more members of the communities in which we operate,” noted Samantha Platzke, senior vice president, office of operations and systems effectiveness, CHP.

For too long, hospitals have been unable to maximize performance because balancing the flow of patient needs against a variable daily census created an unpredictable environment. CareLogistics solution helps bring a structured process to the hospital in a manner that supports real-time operational performance management.

“By combining successful performance improvement methodologies with care coordination and customizable, enterprise logistics software, we are able to help hospitals make dramatic leaps in efficiency that enhances care quality, reduces lengths of stay, and lowers the cost to provide care,” said Karl Straub, president of Care Logistics. “We are proud that HMHP has turned to Care Logistics to help them implement the systems that will deliver outstanding performance in a reliable and predictable manner.”

About Humility of Mary Health Partners

Humility of Mary Health Partners is an integrated health system located in the Youngstown/Warren area. It is a region of Catholic Health Partners (CHP) in Cincinnati, the largest health system in Ohio and one of the largest Catholic health systems in the United States. HMHP provides a full spectrum of health care services, including inpatient, outpatient, emergency, urgent care, home care and long-term care.  Members are St. Elizabeth Health Center, St. Joseph Health Center, St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, HM Home Health Services, The Assumption Village, Humility House, Hospice of the Valley and Laurel Lake. Learn more about HMHP online at www.HMpartners.org.

About Catholic Health Partners

Catholic Health Partners (CHP) is the largest health system in Ohio and the fourth largest employer in Ohio, and CHP is also one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States. With $5.6 billion in assets, CHP employs more than 38,000 associates in more than 100 organizations –- including 31 hospitals –- that meet the health care needs of people in Ohio, Kentucky and contiguous states.  Learn more about CHP at www.health-partners.org

About Care Logistics

In support of our customers’ operational goals we provide a leadership mindset curriculum, process reengineering and enterprise logistics software, which help hospitals achieve reliable and predictable operational performance in the areas of throughput, quality and experience. Care Logistics is a subsidiary of Jackson Healthcare, a group of companies focused on providing the healthcare industry with innovative physician and clinical resources and IT solutions. For more information, contact Care Logistics at 800.930.0870.  Learn more about Care Logistics at www.carelogistics.com

Ten Additional Practices Select Merge RIS to Achieve Meaningful Use

CHICAGO, Feb. 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced the addition of ten radiology practices that have selected Merge RIS to achieve Meaningful Use (MU). Almost 30 radiology practices now utilize Merge RIS as their complete and fully-certified EHR.

“Meaningful Use had a major impact on the radiology industry,” said Jeff Surges, CEO of Merge Healthcare. ”In just one short year, we’ve witnessed a widespread acceptance of Meaningful Use and its ability to help radiologists achieve health and efficiency goals. With almost 28,000 radiologists, the MU incentive opportunity represents more than 1 billion dollars in incentive payments. We’re proud to have led the charge by delivering one of the industry’s only radiology-specific solutions with complete ambulatory certification, and for helping our clients build a foundation for growth and improved patient care.”

Merge RIS v7.0 provides a radiology-specific EHR with complete certification that enables radiologists to capture and report on the metrics required to demonstrate Meaningful Use of electronic health records, without disrupting their traditional workflow. With Merge RIS v7.0, radiologists can qualify to receive up to $44,000 in stimulus incentives, per eligible provider, and more importantly, avoid future penalties that will come from not meeting Meaningful Use.

“As radiologists face mounting regulation and restrictions in terms of what will and won’t be reimbursed, it was quite apparent that our community needed a radiology-specific solution tool that would help us meet these challenges in a cost-effective manner,” said Dr. Mark Stein, West Coast Radiology. ”With Merge RIS, we can now address these challenges head on. And not only will Merge RIS enable us to meet Meaningful Use criteria and avoid future penalties, but it will also streamline our workflow, which in turn will help us provide better patient care.”

“In addition to improving workflow and meeting MU criteria, we see Merge RIS as a tool that will help increase our marketability,” said Alicia Vasquez, President, Arcadia Radiology Medical Group and Immediate Past-President of the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA). ”Because we’ve invested in Merge RIS, we are able to use it as a recruitment vehicle and say to radiologists that we can help you get your MU dollars.”

Merge RIS v7.0 functionality includes ePrescribing, enhanced reporting that enables physicians to automatically trend clinical data and report on Meaningful Use measures, new clinical decision support, the clinical exchange of health information through industry standard formats, and a patient portal that empowers patients to access their records at their convenience. This new functionality was built natively within the intuitive, web-based Merge RIS so that any radiology practice can achieve Meaningful Use attestation in a manner that works for their specialty.

About Merge Healthcare

Merge Healthcare is a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, with a client base consisting of more than 1,500 hospitals and 6,000 clinics across the country. Merge solutions facilitate the sharing of images to create a more effective and efficient electronic healthcare experience for patients and physicians. Merge provides enterprise imaging solutions for radiology, cardiology, orthopaedics and eye care; a suite of products for clinical trials; software for financial and pre-surgical management, and applications that fuel the largest modality vendors in the world. Merge’s products have been used by healthcare providers, vendors and researchers worldwide to improve patient care for more than 20 years. Additional information can be found at www.merge.com.

The second-largest, nonprofit, secular healthcare system in the nation, North Shore-LIJ provides care to patients throughout Long Island, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island, a service area encompassing more than 7 million people. The winner of the National Quality Forum’s 2010 National Quality Healthcare Award, the health system consists of 15 hospitals and more than 200 ambulatory care centers throughout the region, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and the newly opened Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN –Jan. 4, 2012 – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that North Shore-LIJ Health System has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution.

The second-largest, nonprofit, secular healthcare system in the nation, North Shore-LIJ provides care to patients throughout Long Island, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island, a service area encompassing more than 7 million people. The winner of the National Quality Forum’s 2010 National Quality Healthcare Award, the health system consists of 15 hospitals and more than 200 ambulatory care centers throughout the region, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and the newly opened Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customizable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical’s award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

Central to this capability is the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate’s Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

“North Shore-LIJ has achieved national recognition for the quality of care it provides to a large and diverse patient base,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “That makes its decision to partner with us on enterprise-wide clinical decision support even more meaningful. We look forward to working with and helping the system achieve its long-term care goals.”

Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clinical Solutions business unit provides evidence-based medical content, workflow based applications software and services that allow clinicians to efficiently and effectively diagnose and document patient care. Key brands ProVation Medical, UpToDate, Medi-Span®, Facts & Comparisons®, Pharmacy OneSource®, Lexicomp™ and Medicom (China) lead in market segments that include drug information, disease information, clinical patient order sets, clinical documentation and hospital pharmacy productivity applications.

About ProVation Medical

ProVation^® Medical provides procedure documentation and clinical decision support solutions for hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers. ProVation MD, ProVation MultiCaregiver and ProVation EHR software reduce transcription, paper storage and image printing costs and deliver a high Return on Investment through electronic procedure documentation. ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate decision support, puts evidence-based healthcare into practice by establishing and maintaining standards of care.

ProVation Medical is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2010 annual revenues of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion).

MINNEAPOLIS, MN –Nov. 2, 2011 – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Houston Healthcare has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution at Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital.

Located in central Georgia, Houston Healthcare has been Houston County’s largest healthcare provider the past 50 years. The health system includes the 237-bed Houston Medical Center and the 45-bed Perry Hospital, as well as the Houston Heart Institute, The Surgery Center, Houston Health Pavilion and and a number of urgent care and outpatient centers. Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital are Joint Commission-accredited and have been awarded the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Patient Safety three consecutive years.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customizable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical’s award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

Central to this capability is the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate’s Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

“Houston Healthcare is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safest care to the communities it serves, a mission that has received national recognition,” said Mike Haldane, Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Documentation, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “We are pleased that they have selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to further this mission by providing evidence-based order sets at the point of care.”

Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clinical Solutions business unit provides evidence-based medical content, workflow based applications software and services that allow clinicians to efficiently and effectively diagnose and document patient care. Key brands ProVation Medical, UpToDate, Medi-Span®, Facts & Comparisons®, Pharmacy OneSource®, Lexicomp™ and Medicom (China) lead in market segments that include drug information, disease information, clinical patient order sets, clinical documentation and hospital pharmacy productivity applications.

About ProVation Medical

ProVation^® Medical is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2010 annual revenues of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion)

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – October 4, 2011 – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Carson-Tahoe Regional Healthcare has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution.

Located in northern Nevada, Carson-Tahoe Regional Healthcare serves the medical needs of the residents of Dayton, Minden, Lake Tahoe and Carson City. The health system includes Carson-Tahoe Regional Medical Center, Minden Medical Center, Eagle Medical Center, Carson-Tahoe Cancer Center, Carson-Tahoe Specialty Medical Center, Carson Tahoe Cardiology, Carson Tahoe Surgery Center and Sierra Surgery Hospital.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customizable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical’s award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

Central to this capability is the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate’s Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Philips Healthcare has released Xcelera R3.2, its latest multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution. Xcelera features enhanced connectivity with other hospital information systems and the patient’s electronic medical record. It also has a Tele-Cardiology feature available that allows for images and reports to be accessed remotely, and for hospitals to share information with affiliated clinics and other sites.

WHAT: Philips announces the availability of Xcelera R3.2, the latest release of its multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution. Now shipping, Philips Xcelera R3.2 delivers vital patient information across the care continuum via enhanced connectivity with other hospital information systems and the patient’s electronic medical record.

WHY: Building on the successful Xcelera platform, Xcelera R3.2 continues to optimize clinician workflow by functioning as a single resource for patient cardiovascular imaging information and study management. It offers a highly-configurable, scalable and customizable solution that can grow to meet clinician needs.

Optional advanced quantification applications provide analytical assessment for ultrasound, cardiovascular X-ray, nuclear medicine, as well as clinical review of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) and electrophysiology (EP) examinations. An optional interface enables the viewing of electrocardiograms from select systems via the Xcelera workspace. The system also performs the necessary functions for exam storage, allows for study review, and offers optional pediatric decision support and clinical reporting tools.

Xcelera’s available Tele-Cardiology features enable images and reports to be accessed remotely through a secure connection. Hospitals can share information with affiliated clinics or other sites in a larger enterprise and allow cardiologists to access relevant studies, as Xcelera delivers the ability to view full-fidelity images, perform quantification, utilizing the optional QLAB 8.1 plug ins, and create reports.

In addition, Xcelera R3.2 offers several new features that support and enhance clinical workflow:

• Support for Enterprise Master Patient Index (eMPI) provides a patient-oriented perspective that can increase efficiency for the clinician, by allowing for a single view of patient records and all relevant cardiovascular studies from multiple institutions in one “virtual” patient folder. This eliminates the inefficiencies that can result if a patient has different medical record numbers assigned at each of those facilities.
• New, customizable security features can be managed by Xcelera to restrict or grant access to users on an individual basis, including the ability to control user access to data at the institutional and enterprise levels.
• A new DICOM measurement mapping tool improves interoperability with other vendors’ ultrasound systems that export DICOM structured reporting (SR), and enables users to access rich clinical ultrasound information in Xcelera.
• Collaboration with TomTec Imaging Systems GmbH adds its ImageArena suite of advanced quantification plug-ins as available options, allowing assessments of 2D and Live 3D/4D imaging studies from most major ultrasound equipment providers.
• Support for the new Philips QLAB 8.1 quantification software, which assists with analysis of image data acquired on Philips ultrasound systems, providing semi-automated and objective methods for quantifying ultrasound data.

“The Xcelera R3.2 is an even more robust solution, offering full interoperability with Philips’s X5-1 transducer for the iE33 xMATRIX Ultrasound system while maintaining the system’s reliability and responsiveness. Our facility experienced a seamless transition,” said Sherif B. Labib, M.D., Associate Professor in Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine and Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, Lahey Clinic.