Landmark Medical Center Goes Live with Forerun's EDDashboard Based on InterSystems Ensemble
Ensemble Rapid Integration Platform Provides Hospital-Wide
Connectivity
ORLANDO, Fla.--(Business Wire)--
InterSystems Corporation and Forerun, Inc. today announced that
Landmark Medical Center, a full-service healthcare network, has
implemented Forerun, Inc.'s EDDashboard. Utilizing InterSystems
Ensemble(R) as its integration engine, the EDDashboard went live at
year-end 2007 and is already delivering major improvements in patient
management and care delivery. The announcement was made at the HIMSS
2008 annual conference and exhibition.
"This system provides a global view of what's happening in the
Emergency Department (ED) in real-time," said Dr. Victor Pinkes,
Landmark Medical's Chairman of Emergency Medicine. "In addition to
tracking the true time that a patient spends in the ED prior to
hospital admittance or discharge after treatment, the EDDashboard
enables rapid identification of life-threatening conditions that must
be addressed immediately. The result is optimal response and care
delivery as well as improved patient management," Pinkes noted.
The leading database provider in healthcare, InterSystems develops
and markets innovative database and integration software. Its product
line includes the InterSystems CACHE(R) high-performance object
database, InterSystems HealthShare(TM) platform for regional and
national electronic health records, and InterSystems Ensemble rapid
integration platform. Ensemble has been ranked number one for
integration engines for the last two years by KLAS, a leader in
healthcare technology research.
Forerun, an InterSystems application partner, develops and markets
integrated clinical support systems, tools, and services that enable
providers to deliver high quality outcomes and the highest patient
satisfaction at the most efficient cost.
One Screen Delivers Full Perspective
Approximately 70 percent of Landmark Medical's hospital admissions
come through the ED, which treats about 47,000 patients annually,
according to Dr. Pinkes. "We use a mid-level triage model where the
patient is first registered, then triaged by mid-level clinicians and
then treated by a physician," he explained. "It's extremely important
to know how many patients are waiting for treatment and exactly where
they stand in the treatment process."
Using Ensemble, information from the hospital's registration,
laboratory, pharmacy and radiology systems flows to the EDDashboard.
"With the Ensemble-based EDDashboard, we have a global awareness of
what's happening with each patient," Pinkes continued. "Everything
that is clinically relevant--tests ordered and completed,
prescriptions ordered, and clinician notes, for example--is visible on
a single screen for each patient. This builds confidence among
clinicians that they aren't missing critical information while
simultaneously improving the ED workflow."
Next Step: Measure the Benefits
"It's too soon after implementation to do a comparative study of
workflow improvements since the EDDashboard went up," said Colleen
Ryan, Director of IT at Landmark Medical. "However, we can already see
a positive impact on communication among caregivers and faster patient
discharge or patient admittance, depending on what is appropriate.
And, from a technical viewpoint," she continued, "Ensemble has made it
easy to rapidly integrate the hospital systems with the EDDashboard to
enable a smooth flow of critical patient information at all times."
"In addition, the Ensemble-enabled EDDashboard is helping to
identify and eliminate bottlenecks by providing the objective data
needed to verify what I may already intuitively know to be true," said
Pinkes. "The result is faster delivery of quality care with
significant benefits for both providers and patients that we plan to
quantify with comparative data by the end of 1Q08."
ED Economics
In addition to supporting quality care delivery, the EDDashboard
also has a positive effect on each provider's bottom line, according
to Ken Wolfe, Forerun CEO. "Just 15 years ago, an estimated 2,000
people were treated per ED bed," he said. "Today, hospital executives
plan on serving just 1,300 people per ED bed annually due to the
amount of work needed to process each patient. Technology such as the
EDDashboard makes it possible to increase patient throughput while
simultaneously providing top-tier care."
"Based on input from ED physicians and administrators, Forerun's
EDDashboard combines innovative design with emphasis on information
presented in a form that clinicians find very helpful in delivering
quality care," said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems Vice President of
Strategic Planning. "In contrast to older style departmental software,
for which integration was often an afterthought, the EDDashboard was
designed from the start to operate as a fully connected application.
Its use of Ensemble's extensive connectivity capabilities enables ED
workflow improvements needed to support a hospital network's economic
model in the increasingly competitive healthcare sector. We are
excited about working with Forerun as they deliver this comprehensive,
highly anticipated software to EDs nationwide."
About InterSystems
InterSystems Corporation is a global software product company with
headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 22 countries.
InterSystems provides innovative products that enable fast
development, deployment, and integration of enterprise-class
applications. InterSystems CACHE(R) is a high performance object
database that makes applications faster and more scalable.
InterSystems Ensemble(R) is a rapid integration platform that enriches
applications with new functionality, and makes them connectable.
InterSystems HealthShare(TM) is a platform that leverages existing
healthcare applications to rapidly create regional or national
electronic health records.
InterSystems is the world's #1 vendor of database and integration
technologies for healthcare applications. InterSystems products are
used by thousands of hospitals and labs, including all 18 hospitals on
the Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals as rated by U.S. News and
World Report. For more information, visit InterSystems.com.
About Forerun
Headquartered in Waltham, Mass., Forerun is single-mindedly
committed to improving the clinical quality and economics of Emergency
Departments. We are leveraging the insights and experience of leading
practitioners of Emergency Medicine to dramatically improve the
quality, speed, and effectiveness of clinical care in Emergency
Departments worldwide.
Forerun owns the exclusive commercial rights to the EDDashboard, a
nationally recognized, clinically focused ED information system. The
EDDashboard has more than six years of proven operational success at
the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of
Harvard Medical School.
The EDDashboard improves medical care and the operational
efficiency of the Emergency Department. Data points from many sources
are consolidated at a single display, providing a more comprehensive
and integrated view of the patient's condition. The EDDashboard's
real-time patient information capabilities, clinical decision support,
and enhanced communication result in reduced patient waiting times,
length of stay, medical errors, and duplicate test ordering while
delivering improved patient satisfaction and continuity of care.
For additional information, see www.forerunsystems.com.
InterSystems Corporation
Maureen Flaherty, 617-621-0600
pr@intersystems.com
or
Shoor & Company
Rita Shoor, 803-699-0710
rshoor@shoorpr.com
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