T-System to Offer Enhanced Diagnosis Decision Support to Emergency Department Physicians
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DALLAS, TX, May 31 (MARKET WIRE) --
As part of a commitment to continuously enhance its solutions, T-System,
Inc. today announced it will integrate diagnosis decision support from
Isabel Healthcare with its T SystemEV(R) emergency department information
system to assist physicians in determining an early and accurate
diagnosis. T-System is the industry leader in clinical, business and IT
solutions for emergency medicine with solutions in 1,700 U.S. hospitals.
"We're excited to partner with T-System, a company that mirrors our
passion to empower providers with advanced intelligence so they can
support a higher quality of patient care," said Don Bauman, chief
executive officer, Isabel Healthcare. "Efficiency is critical in EDs
because of the need to see and diagnose patients expeditiously and
quickly admit them to the hospital if necessary. Isabel helps doctors
consider all possible diagnoses especially when facing difficult cases or
want confirmation of a diagnosis. Mitigating delayed or misdiagnosis is a
major contributor to increasing the level of ED patient safety and
efficiency and reducing waste and cost."
Physicians and nurses using T SystemEV can enter a patient's demographics
and symptoms and receive a checklist of potential diagnoses. Isabel
instantly returns the differential and provides a number of sorting
options to further enhance efficiency (most common, by specialty, etc.),
as well as flagging high risk "don't miss" diagnoses -- a feature
critically important for EDs often operating with limited information and
time.
With one click, providers can access detailed evidenced based clinical
content about any medical condition in the checklist. Available at their
fingertips is a variety of online resources: peer-reviewed journals;
medical textbooks; websites including BMJ Groups Best Practice, PubMed,
Minute Consult, etc.; and organizational specific content that they may
already have access to or have developed like guidelines or protocols.
"Diagnosis decision support is a natural fit with T SystemEV's clinical
workflow in which ED clinicians are documenting their notes about
differential diagnoses and medical decision-making," said Robert
Hitchcock, M.D., FACEP, chief medical information officer, T-System.
"Through the integration, doctors have easy access to the latest
evidence-based knowledge to make rapid diagnoses in treating a broad
spectrum of illnesses and injuries, many deemed severe or
life-threatening. This powerful content meets our No. 1 one priority of
improving the ED healthcare delivery experience for both patients and
clinicians."
About Isabel Healthcare
Isabel Healthcare Inc. was founded in 2000 by
Jason Maude and is named after Maude's daughter, who almost died after a
potentially fatal illness was not quickly recognized. For more than 10
years, Isabel Healthcare has provided the Isabel diagnosis decision
support system to hospitals, physician practices and individual
physicians and has gained peer-reviewed validation and unmatched
experience. Today, Isabel is the only diagnosis decision support system
fully integrated with EMR and is used by thousands of physicians, nurse
practitioners, physician assistants and students worldwide, providing
diagnostic support and education by broadening their differential
diagnostic considerations. For more information, visit
www.isabelhealthcare.com or www.twitter.com/isabelhealth.
About T-System
T-System, Inc. sets the industry standard for clinical,
business and IT solutions for emergency medicine, with approximately 40
percent of the nation's emergency departments using T-System solutions.
To meet the individual needs of hospitals, T-System offers both paper and
electronic systems. These tools help clinicians provide better patient
care, while improving efficiency and the bottom line. Today, more than
1,700 emergency departments rely on T-System's gold-standard content and
workflow solutions. For more information, visit www.tsystem.com. Follow
us on Twitter (@TSystem), or become a T-System fan on Facebook.
CONTACT:
Corinne Tso
Director of Marketing for T-System
469.791.5540
ctso@tsystem.com
Angela Jenkins
Amendola Communications
for T-System, Inc.
720.859.6930
ajenkins@ACmarketingPR.com
Megan Pennie,
VP of Marketing
Isabel Healthcare
323.377.1687
megan.pennie@isabelhealthcare.com
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