BOCA RATON, Fla., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eclipsys Corporation(R) , The Outcomes Company(R), today announced that Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (RWJUHH), located in Hamilton, New Jersey, has activated Sunrise Clinical Manager 3.5 XA(TM). The system, which is remote hosted at the Eclipsys Technology Solutions Center in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, will be used by over 1,500 clinicians representing over 30 medical specialties.
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Sunrise Clinical Manager is an advanced, enterprise-wide clinical information solution that provides healthcare organizations such as RWJUHH with anywhere, anytime secure access to patients’ complete health records and streamlines the processes of ordering, providing and managing patient care. Clinicians can remotely access critical patient health information as easily as if they were at the patient’s bedside in the hospital. Clinical Manager supports industry standards promoting connectivity of information systems and healthcare organizations.
RWJUHH activated the Eclipsys advanced clinical information system in December 2004 in a single-phase implementation that connected clinicians to information and knowledge to enhance clinical decision making. To help optimize patient care, patient data from the last three years -- representing 800,000 patient visits and 1.5 million lab results -- was ported to Sunrise Clinical Manager from the hospital’s existing systems, providing clinicians with a wealth of historical patient information. The hospital is currently utilizing Sunrise Clinical Manager for its patient lists, nursing task lists, charges, orders and results features.
Led by the Eclipsys and RWJUHH project managers, a team of Eclipsys implementation/integration professional services consultants and the hospital’s information technology staff and clinicians participated in a collaborative effort to ensure the system would meet the needs of physicians, nurses and other clinicians across the continuum of care. To maximize acceptance of the system, clinicians were trained in a formal classroom setting. All clinicians were required to pass a competency exam in order to receive system access. Additionally, as the system went live, Eclipsys provided three professional services consultants on-site who, combined with the hospital’s super users, were available to answer questions and demonstrate the most effective way to access information.
“Clinicians are responding well to the system,” said Robert Irwin, chief information officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System. “Use of Clinical Manager will greatly benefit patients while helping us to achieve Leapfrog compliance.” Among The Leapfrog Group’s requirements for quality and safety is use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE). This has been shown to reduce serious prescribing errors in hospitals by more than 50 percent, according to information posted on the patient safety advocacy group’s Web site (http://www.leapfroggroup.org/ ).
House-wide activation of Sunrise Clinical Manager comes on the heels of another significant milestone for RWJUHH. The medical center is the first hospital in the state of New Jersey and the sole healthcare recipient of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for 2004. The organization joins a group of only three other healthcare organizations to have ever received the award. The Baldrige Award is the top honor a U.S. organization can receive for quality management and quality achievement.
“To be eligible for this prestigious award, RWJUHH established evidence- based criteria for enhanced business performance across all facets of the organization,” said Christy Stephenson, president and CEO at RWJUHH. “Doing so has created a heightened focus on our staff, our leadership and, most importantly, our customers. We consider the Eclipsys tools an important part of our continued commitment to process improvement and performance excellence.”
“We’re honored to be associated with Robert Wood Johnson Health System and Network, which shares our vision and commitment to safe, efficient and effective care,” said Paul L. Ruflin, president and CEO of Eclipsys. “With the activation of Sunrise Clinical Manager, the health system has in place a valuable tool which it can use to more efficiently and accurately document the care process, improve communication between clinicians, maximize patient safety and ensure quality at every turn.”
Next, the hospital will implement Sunrise Clinical Manager’s clinical documentation capabilities, which include care plans, flowsheets, assessments, structured notes, and templates that provide best-practice methods for healthcare organizations to automate and standardize care across a unit, hospital or health system. Clinical documentation is an important facet of the Eclipsys vision of a connected enterprise where knowledge and information flow quickly and easily among caregivers for maximum efficiency. Additionally, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick plans to activate Sunrise Clinical Manager 4.0 XA in November 2005.
About Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
Located in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton is a not-for-profit healthcare provider dedicated to offering the highest quality of hospital, emergency and outpatient services to the Greater Mercer County community. With over 1,734 employees and 650 physicians on the medical staff, representing over 30 medical specialties, the hospital is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System and Network and is affiliated with the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. For more information, see http://www.rwjhamilton.org/ .
About Eclipsys
Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced clinical, financial and management information software and service solutions to more than 1,500 healthcare facilities. Eclipsys empowers healthcare organizations to improve patient safety, revenue cycle management and operational efficiency through innovative information solutions. For more information, see http://www.eclipsys.com/ or e-mail info@eclipsys.com .
Statements in this news release concerning future results, performance or expectations are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Eclipsys as of the date hereof and Eclipsys assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Because such statements involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks include several risks in connection with our product strategy, including the uncertainty of the time and costs required to implement the strategy, the potential that our strategy could change, the potential that we may encounter technical difficulties in implementing our strategy, and the potential that the changes to our products may affect customer demand. Other risks include potential financial constraints and other factors faced by the healthcare industry, changing customer requirements and other risks described in the filings of Eclipsys with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2004. Eclipsys, Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks of Eclipsys Corporation. Sunrise and XA are trademarks of Eclipsys Technologies Corporation. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Eclipsys Michael E. Donner, Chief Marketing Officer (media) (561) 322-4485 michael.donner@eclipsys.com Robert J. Colletti, CFO (investors) (561) 322-4650 investor.relations@eclipsys.com Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Robert G. Irwin (732) 937-8931 robert.irwin@rwjuh.edu
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CONTACT: Media, Michael E. Donner, Chief Marketing Officer,+1-561-322-4485, or michael.donner@eclipsys.com, or Investors, Robert J.Colletti, CFO, +1-561-322-4650, or investor.relations@eclipsys.com, both ofEclipsys Corporation; or Robert G. Irwin, Robert Wood Johnson UniversityHospital, +1-732-937-8931, or robert.irwin@rwjuh.edu