Children's Hospital Boston, eClinicalWorks Team to Push Clinical Information Into...

Children's Hospital Boston, eClinicalWorks Team to Push Clinical Information
Into Patients' Personally Controlled Health Records

Collaboration will enable patients to access, control health information from
multiple sites of care

BOSTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital Boston and
eClinicalWorks(R) today announced a collaboration that will enable patients
who are seen at Children's ambulatory programs and in primary care practices
in the Pediatric Physicians' Organization at Children's (PPOC) to aggregate
health data from both sites of care into a single personally controlled health
record (PCHR). This will be the first instance in which two separate health
care provider organizations will feed a single PCHR from their different
electronic medical record (EMR) systems - giving patients a more complete,
comprehensive view of their medical information.

"We see this as a major step forward in the advancement of the ultimate goal
of PCHRs and ongoing efforts to create data liquidity for patients and
providers," said Daniel Nigrin, MD, MS, chief information officer at
Children's. "This will exemplify a revolutionary new model for health
information exchange and present combined health data to patients in a way
that is easily accessible and manageable."

Ambulatory patients at Children's may view their PCHR through the hospital's
patient portal, MyChildren's, which was launched earlier this year. The PCHR
is powered by the Indivo system, which was developed by researchers in the
Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) as a way to give patients
access to a portable, secure digital copy of their health and wellness
information. Indivo displays information from the hospital's EMR system from
Cerner Corporation and gives an individual the ability to grant permissions to
institutions, clinicians, researchers and other users of medical information
to access their data.

"We built MyChildren's around Indivo to put patients in control of their
health information and give them the opportunity to create a single, secure,
unified view of their records," said Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, an attending
physician in Children's Division of Emergency Medicine, CHIP faculty member
and co-founder of the Indivo system. "With patients at the center of
information exchange they can decide what information they want included in
their record and who they want to have access to that information, be it a
provider or family member. For physicians, PCHRs promise to be an integrated
source of a patient's health care information, ensuring the data are in the
right place at the right time - something that is oftentimes absent in today's
health care environment."

Through this new collaboration, eClinicalWorks will begin to integrate its
eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX) product, a solution for
creating community records, with MyChildren's and to populate patients' PCHRs
with information from PPOC practices. This information will be made available
to patients via their existing MyChildren's account.

"Just as EMRs have transformed the way physicians practice medicine, PCHRs
promise to change the medical process for patients - demystifying the process
and activating individuals to become more involved in their health care," said
Girish Kumar Navani, CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks. "eClinicalWorks has
enjoyed a successful partnership with the PPOC and implementing EMRs in its
member practices. We look forward to expanding our partnership with Children's
and subsequently the health information that is made available to its patient
families."

The PPOC partnered with eClinicalWorks in 2008 when 22% of participating
providers used EMR in their practices. By October 2009, the organization
expects more than 75% of its members to be up and running with EMR - the
majority with eClinicalWorks - and remaining practices to be fully implemented
by September 2010. In an internal survey conducted one year after the first
systems went live, the majority of respondents positively rated the EMR/PM
solution and agreed that it had helped improve clinical care.

"We've tried to be very thoughtful about our EMR implementation and worked
closely with our members and eClinicalWorks to customize the product and
incorporate the system into workflows," said Greg Young, MD, president and CEO
of the PPOC. "Because of the diversity of our membership and the populations
they serve, it was important that the EMR be tailored to fit patients' needs."

As part of Children's implementation of Indivo, hospital clinicians are able
to view a patient's PCHR record via the hospital's Cerner electronic medical
record system when granted permission by a patient. Members of the PPOC will
have the same access to the PCHR through eClinicalWorks, who will embed the
system into existing workflows to encourage easy access and use.

The Indivo system is built to public standards and available under an
open-source license, enabling straightforward customization as well as
interoperability between the system and vendor products. Developed more than a
decade ago, the system is in use worldwide and has served as a reference model
for PCHR providers including Dossia, Microsoft and Google.

Children's, the PPOC and eClinicalWorks aim to complete integration with
MyChildren's and its Indivo PCHR by early 2010.

Founded in 1869 as a 20-bed hospital for children, Children's Hospital Boston
today is one of the nation's leading pediatric medical centers, the primary
pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and the largest
provider of health care to Massachusetts children. In addition to 396
pediatric and adolescent inpatient beds and more than 100 outpatient programs,
Children's houses the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric
medical center, where its discoveries benefit both children and adults. More
than 500 scientists, including eight members of the National Academy of
Sciences, 11 members of the Institute of Medicine and 12 members of the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute comprise Children's research community. For more
information about the hospital visit: www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom.

The Pediatric Physicians' Organization at Children's (PPOC) was incorporated
to bring together pediatricians, pediatric medical groups, and pediatric
specialists at Children's Hospital Boston. The mission of the PPOC is to
enhance member pediatricians' ability to deliver the highest quality patient
care to the children they serve. In addition, the PPOC will improve the
professional satisfaction and operational effectiveness of its members. This
mission can best be achieved through integration of the collective expertise
of its members in collaboration with Children's Hospital and the Physicians'
Organization at Children's.
eClinicalWorks(R) is a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical
systems market. The company's unified electronic medical record (EMR) and
practice management (PM) solutions are proven for every market segment: large
practice groups, including Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC),
Electronic Health Records of Rhode Island (EHRRI) and the New York City
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as well as medium, small and solo
practices regardless of specialty. The company enjoys high profitability with
a five-year compounded growth rate of more than 100 percent year-to-year. With
an established customer base of more than 30,000 providers and 100,000
healthcare professionals across all 50 states, eClinicalWorks has been awarded
multiple top industry honors including being named to the Inc. 500 in 2008 and
2007, and prominently placed in a report released by IDC company Health
Industry Insights, titled Healthcare Provider Industry Short List: Ambulatory
Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records. Based in
Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks has additional offices in New York City and
Alpharetta, Ga. More information on eClinicalWorks can be found at
www.eclinicalworks.com or by calling 866-888-MYCW.

CONTACT:
Keri Stedman Heather Caouette
Children's Hospital Boston eClinicalWorks
617-919-3114 508-836-2700
keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu Heather.c@eclinicalworks.com

SOURCE Children's Hospital Boston

Keri Stedman, Children's Hospital Boston, +1-617-919-3114,
keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu; or Heather Caouette, eClinicalWorks,
+1-508-836-2700, Heather.c@eclinicalworks.com