EDIMS Chief Medical Officer, John Fontanetta, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., Named Top Doc for 3rd Consecutive Year
LIVINGSTON, N.J.--(Business Wire)-- John Fontanetta, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., has been named a 2009 Top Emergency Doc by New Jersey Monthly Magazine in its Top Doc survey reported in the magazine`s November issue. This is the third year that Dr. Fontanetta has been named a Top Doc. With nearly 20 years of clinical and management experience in Emergency Medicine, Dr. Fontanetta currently serves as the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, N.J., which sees 73,000 visits/year. As Chief Medical Officer for EDIMS, a leading provider of emergency department (ED) information management systems for hospitals, Dr. Fontanetta contributes his expertise in efficient ED operations/process design, physician productivity, and the use of ED information systems and information management applications to transform the work performed in unscheduled healthcare environments. Dr. Fontanetta is a Diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine (Subspecialty of Pulmonary Medicine). According to New Jersey Monthly, who commissioned an independent survey conducted by the Polling Institute at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., a total of 20,254 New Jersey-based doctors were invited to give their recommendations for this year`s list. A total of 3,224 responses were validated and the highest vote-getters, minus any doctors who received disciplinary action, were then named as New Jersey`s Top Docs for 2009. The final list of 609 Top Doctors represents 60 medical specialties. Dr. Fontanetta received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York, N.Y., completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., and fellowship in Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx, N.Y. For photo of Dr. Fontanetta, please visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36981810@N07/4058489047/. About EDIMS LLC Guided by a team of over 350 practicing emergency department (ED) professionals, EDIMS LLC delivers high-acuity best practices to hospitals through its interoperable ED information management systems. Its electronic health record (EHR) solutions are being used at 39 hospitals and long-term care facilities in New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin and California, providing comprehensive computer physician order entry (CPOE), real-time charge capture and the ability to fully document ED patient encounters. EDIMS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alpha Physician Resources, an independent, full-service physician practice management firm that helps medical groups and hospitals maximize the service quality, productivity and profitability of EDs. For more information, visit http://www.EDIMS.net. Amendola Communications for EDIMS LLC Lindsey Karberg, 480-664-8412 ext. 13 lkarberg@acmarketingpr.com Copyright Business Wire 2009
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