NEW YORK, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc., the leading provider of risk reduction and clinical quality improvement systems and services for obstetrics, today announced the appointment of Bruce Brandes to the position of Senior Vice President - Sales. Brandes joins E&C from Eclipsys Corporation where he served as President-Southern Region. He joined Eclipsys in March 1999 and served in a number of sales leadership roles before earning his last position.
Brandes, who is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), has over 16 years’ experience in healthcare IT sales and sales management, including roles with IBM’s healthcare vertical operations in South Louisiana; Enterprise Systems, Inc. (ESI), (now the Resource Management Group of McKesson); and Confer Software, a Silicon Valley Web-based disease- management startup. He holds his BS in Finance from the University of Florida and an MBA from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Our hiring of Bruce marks an important milestone for E&C,” said Eyal Ephrat, MD, E&C’s CEO. “E&C has clearly gained acceptance and momentum as the industry’s only proven OB risk management and patient safety software and services package. Bruce will provide the leadership we need to build upon our client base and expand our market presence. We are delighted to have his integrity, experience and track record of sales growth in healthcare information technology on our leadership team.”
E&C’s IPROB(TM) 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 rules and protocols in OB and 13,000 clinical data fields. IPROB’s powerful inference engine analyzes current patient data against this 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 real-time, knowledge-based best practice software systems and associated consulting services along the obstetrics continuum (prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum). E&C systems have proven their ability to enhance the quality of care, while reducing risk and medical liability exposure. E&C is based in New York City. Visit the E&C website at: www.ecmed.com.
E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc.
CONTACT: Gail Brennan of E&C Medical Intelligence, +1-212-686-1530, orGailB@ecmed.com