ATLANTA, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poseidon Group, Inc., a leading provider of emergency department documentation and web-based electronic medical record (EMR) solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that Kaweah Delta Health Care District selected The Poseidon Group’s NavigatorWeb(TM) Emergency Department Information System (EDIS). Through a multi-year agreement, the deployment of the NavigatorWeb(TM) solution will streamline Kaweah Delta emergency department’s internal processes, increase patient satisfaction, decrease overall operating costs, reduce medical errors, and optimize reimbursement.
“Our goal is to continually prove our commitment to delivering the best healthcare using cutting edge technology to the community,” stated Rick Brown, Nursing Manager at Kaweah Delta Health Care District, “The functionality that resided in The Poseidon Group’s core product was a good match for the needs of our business, and that made them the partner of choice in securing Kaweah Delta’s emergency department automation objectives.”
The Poseidon Group will implement its web-based NavigatorWeb(TM) technology during the fourth quarter of 2004. The solution provides Kaweah Delta’s nurses, physicians, and internal administrative personnel with benefits such as quality assurance, data analysis and rapid data retrieval. The application includes a status / tracking board, nursing module, physician module, coding & billing module, and administrative module.
“Kaweah Delta’s selection of The Poseidon Group underscores our company’s leading position in deploying proven EDIS solutions to hospital emergency departments nationwide,” said Jeffrey J. Oyler, MD, FACEP, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Poseidon Group. “We are excited to enter into this relationship with Kaweah Delta. They are a proven authority on ED automation and we are pleased to be a part of the solution that will play a critical part in meeting Kaweah Delta’s growth initiatives”
About The Poseidon Group, Inc.
The Poseidon Group, Inc. is focused on addressing the needs of healthcare providers by providing documentation and web-based EDIS solutions to the healthcare industry. Poseidon’s Navigator solutions are currently being utilized in emergency departments (ED) across the United States with annual volumes ranging from 5,000 to 125,000. The Poseidon Group offers two products (a) Navigator PC: an application designed to start ED staff on the migration path to an electronic medical record (EMR); and (b) NavigatorWeb(TM) a comprehensive, web-based EDIS. The Poseidon Group’s end-to-end and modular solutions can be seamlessly integrated with existing hospital systems, and are proven to deliver shared knowledge and free flow of information to healthcare providers; increased patient satisfaction; consistent high-level documentation; reduction of medical errors; insured compliance with JCAHO, CMS, and HIPAA; increased employee loyalty / moral, and automated data analysis. For more information, visit the company’s website at http://www.poseidongroup.com/
About Kaweah Delta Health Care District
For more than 40 years, Kaweah Delta Health Care District has served the Southern San Joaquin Valley as a leader in health care. With a complete range of programs and services, which range from cardiac care to rehabilitation and from cancer care to neurosurgery, Central California residents no longer need to leave home to receive university level care ... Kaweah Delta makes it available right in their own backyard. For more information, visit the Kaweah Delta’s website at http://www.kaweahdelta.org/.
The Poseidon Group, Inc.
CONTACT: Ronald A. Ballecer of Kaweah Delta Health Care,+1-559-624-3966, rballece@kdhcd.org; or Carr Scott of The Poseidon Group, Inc.,+1-404-261-0401, cscott@poseidongroup.com