NEW YORK, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc. (E&C), the exclusive provider of intelligent informatics coupled with risk reduction and patient safety systems and services for obstetrics, today announced the appointment of Dorothy Berry to the position of Vice President -- Risk Management/Patient Safety. Berry’s comprehensive expertise in these areas along with her extensive business and informatics experience will further strengthen E&C’s capabilities to provide real-time best practice and risk management support tools for hospitals and physicians.
Berry brings a decade of clinical experience and 18 years in healthcare risk management and patient safety to E&C. She has held leadership positions with several leading national professional liability carriers, most recently as Vice President of Healthcare Services for GE Insurance Solutions. She is certified in Six Sigma, a Fellow in the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM), CPHRM certified and is currently serving on the ASHRM Board. She maintains an active RN license in Illinois and will be based out of E&C’s Chicago office.
“I expect Dorothy to be a key contributor to achieving our mission of helping our clients significantly and quantifiably reduce the risk of patient injury and malpractice liability,” said Eyal Ephrat, MD, E&C’s CEO. “Clinical mistakes and malpractice liability can be avoided. And to that end, Dorothy will focus on optimizing IPROB(TM)'s (Intelligent Patient Record for Obstetrics) patient safety/risk management capabilities and on facilitating client hospitals and malpractice insurance carriers in the realization of all of the system’s benefits. As a result, she will be integral to demonstrating the overall impact of our flagship product.”
IPROB provides unique new tools to help eliminate clinical errors in real- time and improve the quality of care in the OB environment. Functioning as a complete intelligent OB chart for both physicians and nurses, the system proactively supports clinicians in providing the highest level of care and avoiding clinical mistakes, while generating meticulous documentation. At its core is a comprehensive clinical knowledgebase comprised of over 6,500 best practice protocols in OB and 13,000 clinical data fields. IPROB’s powerful inference engine analyzes current patient data against this extensive clinical knowledgebase to offer clinicians appropriate choices of care, documentation and risk management pathways for the current specific clinical situation. The complete IPROB package also includes an extensive risk management consultancy to help identify, isolate, and remediate quality deviations from the hospital’s accepted best practices.
About E&C Medical Intelligence
E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc. is a pioneer in automated clinical management support and documentation. The company provides breakthrough real- time, knowledge-based best practice software systems featuring an intelligent patient record and associated consulting services that, together, reduce risk and improve the quality of care. E&C currently offers proven solutions along the obstetrics continuum: prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum. The company is based in New York City with offices in Chicago, Orlando, Phoenix and Nashville. Visit the E&C website at: www.ecmed.com.
E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc.
CONTACT: Gail Brennan, E&C Medical Intelligence, +1-212-686-1530,Gailb@ecmed.com
Web site: http://www.ecmed.com/
