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Siemens Partners With ExitCare To Deliver Patient Education Services to Health IT Customers
The new relationship aims to bolster patient engagement in treatment and follow-up care plans.
August 12, 2010
Malvern, PA, August 12, 2010 – Today, Siemens Healthcare announced its newly-formed partnership with patient education content provider, ExitCare, to begin providing expanded patient education services to its broad health information technology customer base. The move stems from Siemens’ goal to equip healthcare providers with fresh, highly relevant, patient-focused educational offerings in an easy-to-access format that complement its existing medical software technologies portfolio.
Plans include establishing links to ExitCareED™ Emergency Department and ExitCareIP™ In-Patient educational content within Siemens health IT customers’ workflows, thereby giving executives, clinicians, and administrators a fast, integrated way to view, distribute, and document patient-specific discharge instructions and general patient education information throughout the continuum of care.
“Because there is a strong correlation between the success of a patient’s treatment and recovery plan and that patient’s access to basic information about his or her condition, it is essential that healthcare providers have an easy way to deliver such education to all those they treat,” said Don Rucker, chief medical officer, Siemens Healthcare. “We are excited about the prospect of our partnership with ExitCare and look forward to the added value it will bring to our customers during both immediate and long terms.”
“Partnering with an industry leader like Siemens means that even more patients will soon become empowered to further participate in their own care,” said Richard Thompson, ExitCare executive vice president. “As a leading discharge instruction and patient education content provider, our unique enterprise-wide solution offers multiple languages and reading levels and relies heavily on graphics, bullets, subheads, and the use of color, all of which combine to make diagnosis and medical condition information easier to understand and engaging.”
The announcement was made at Innovations ‘10 for Healthcare IT in Orlando, FL, a symposium where Siemens health information technology customers can share ideas and expand their knowledge around invaluable tools and innovative strategies that will help them improve efficiencies and stay ahead of the technological curve.
About Siemens Healthcare Sector
The Siemens Healthcare Sector is one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, medical information technology and hearing aids. Siemens offers its customers products and solutions for the entire range of patient care from a single source – from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, and on to treatment and aftercare. By optimizing clinical workflows for the most common diseases, Siemens also makes healthcare faster, better and more cost-effective. Siemens Healthcare employs some 48,000 employees worldwide and operates around the world. In fiscal year 2009 (to September 30), the Sector posted revenue of 11.9 billion euros and profit of around 1.5 billion euros. For further information please visit: www.siemens.com/healthcare.
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCareis the leader in developing physician-authored, peer-reviewed, evidence-based Discharge Instruction and Patient Education information. The company’s unique product offering includes an enterprise-wide solution, many language options and much more. Visit www.ExitCare.com for more information.
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ExitCare, LLC announces partnership with HCI
Cincinnati, OH (June 24, 2010) – HCI, maker of healthcare televisions and patient infotainment systems, announced today an agreement with ExitCare to include ExitCare patient education information in HCI’s solutions.
HCI will integrate ExitCareIP™ (In-Patient) Discharge Instructions, Patient Comprehension, and ExitMeds ™ Drug Information Sheets into its InnovaTV Patient Portal product. ExitCare’s offerings include Discharge Instruction informational sheets with color illustrations on over 2,000 topics, in multiple languages. These informational sheets will be available in the patient room via HCI’s InnovaTV Patient Portal. Patients will be able to access this educational content right from their in-room HCI internet protocol television (IPTV). Through InnovaTV Patient Portal, patients can request information on their specific conditions in multiple languages. ExitCare’s comprehension surveys can also be administered via the patient-room IPTV.
About HCI
HCI has been making television solutions in the heart of the USA for over thirty years. HCI features IPTVs, which act not only as TVs, but radios, media players, and a means for internet connectivity in the patient room. IPTVs are available as 15” low-voltage units or wall/table mounted 20”, 22”, 26”, 32” and 42” sizes. HCI provides a range of mounts, table stands, swing arms, power cabinets, and hospital-grade DVD players, as well as patient infotainment systems. HCI IPTVs provide patients with cutting-edge technology with common-sense features like rounded corners, front keypads, and built-in ethernet capabilities. HCI’s focus is making patient entertainment and education easier for healthcare facilities. For more information, visit www.hci-tv.com or contact Diana Fernbach at dianafernbach@hci-tv.com.
About ExitC are, LLC
ExitCare is the leader in developing physician-authored, peer-reviewed, evidence-based Discharge Instruction and Patient Education information. The company’s unique product offerings include an enterprise-wide solution, ExitCareIP™ (In-Patient), ExitCareED™ (Emergency Department), ExitCareAC™ (Ambulatory Care) and ExitCareUCC™ (Urgent Care Centers), many languages, medical illustrations, two reading levels, a medication management solution and much more. Visit www.ExitCare.com for more information.
ExitCare is installed in over 1,000 hospitals and used by more than 50,000 office-based providers. For more information, visit www.exitcare.com, or contact Richard Thompson at rickt@exitcare.com.
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Design Clinicals Contracts with ExitCare to Enhance Patient Education Feature of MedsTracker
February 12, 2010
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) 21 June, 2010—Design Clinicals announced it has contracted with ExitCare to enhance MedsTracker patient information provided at discharge. MedsTracker has already received exclusive endorsement from the American Hospital Association for medication reconciliation. MedsTracker is known for providing medication instructions at discharge that are easy for patients to understand, resulting in better compliance and decreased hospital readmissions. The partnership will add new features to MedsTracker discharge medication instructions, including additional language options, color illustrations where appropriate, and the ability to document patient comprehension of their discharge medication instructions.
“We work constantly to ensure MedsTracker meets the highest expectations of clinicians, saving them time in medication reconciliation and ensuring the best patient support,” said CEO Dewey Howell, M.D., PhD, founder of Design Clinicals and lead designer of MedsTracker. “Our affiliation agreement with ExitCare ensures best-of-breed, quality patient education materials at discharge. Patient clarity is crucial for medication compliance after discharge and ultimately results in better outcomes, especially for Core Measures related to acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) and congestive heart failure (CHF).”
ExitCare enhancements include the liberal use of graphics, bullets, subheads and color to make medication instructions and diagnosis information easy to follow, engaging patients to actively participate in their care. There is also a feature that allows caregivers to administer a simple true/false test and then document patient comprehension.
“We are excited to be part of the Design Clinicals MedsTracker solution as the Discharge Instruction content provider. Design Clinicals is an innovative company that in a short period of time has achieved the prestigious American Hospital Association’s exclusive endorsement,” said Richard Thompson, ExitCare executive vice president. “The intuitive MedsTracker interface has proven to facilitate workflow, which will be further enhanced by the dynamic interfacing of two ExitCare core products, ExitCareEDTM (Emergency Department) and ExitCareIPTM (In-Patient).”
About ExitCare
ExitCare is the leader in developing physician-authored, peer-reviewed, evidence-based Discharge Instruction and Patient Education information. The company’s unique product offering includes an enterprise-wide solution, many language options and much more. Visit www.ExitCare.com for more information.
About Design Clinicals
Design Clinicals Inc., is a healthcare information technology company dedicated to providing leading-edge tools to improve the delivery of patient care. Design Clinicals’ premier product, MedsTracker electronic medication reconciliation software, was awarded exclusive endorsement by the American Hospital Association. Founded in 2005 by practicing physicians and hospital IT professionals, Design Clinicals offers innovative, intuitive software solutions that enhance communications and help improve workflow, patient safety and regulatory compliance. Products are highly adaptive, able to integrate with any hospital information system, with superior clinician adoption rates. For more information, visit http://www.DesignClinicals.com.
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ExitCare, LLC partners with Zolstice, LLC to create Smartphone Apps for ExitCare Patient Education Content
ExitCare, LLC announced today a partnership with Zolstice, LLC to develop a line of Smartphone Apps to make ExitCare’s patient education content available to both the healthcare and consumer markets. The smartphone apps will be another way to assist providers and hospitals to improve patient compliance by facilitating workflow.
February 12, 2010
“We are very excited to partner with Zolstice. Their expertise with smartphones has helped ExitCare develop an intuitive medical information solution for the layperson,” stated Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare. “One of ExitCare’s goals is to provide the healthcare industry with innovative solutions to meet a growing demand to educate and empower patients in order to improve outcomes while improving provider workflow.”
“Medical information is available to consumers over the Internet but is often of questionable reliability,” says Zolstice President Peter Lazar. “The new applications will allow patients to have accurate, clear medical information available with a few touches on their smartphones.”
ExitCare has released ChildHealth™ and Women’sHealth™, the first of a series of ExitCare smartphone apps that utilize ExitCare content. The products will be sold to two markets: first the consumer market by Zolstice, an ExitCare Partner, and second, the healthcare market through existing ExitCare Partners (VARs).
The Consumer Market:
ChildHealth and Women’sHealth currently work on the iPhone, iPod Touch and will work on the upcoming iPad. Versions are planned for other smartphones. The products include over a thousand ExitCare titles related to child health and women’s health, respectively. The information is ideally suited for parents and women who would like to have instant access to quality, peer-reviewed descriptions of conditions, illnesses or injuries that they or their young children might face. No Internet connection is necessary to access the content once downloaded, allowing it to be viewed on-the-go whenever needed.
ChildHealth™, Women’sHealth™ and additional titles utilizing ExitCare’s content will be available in the future for the Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia smartphones. Users of this consumer product do not have the ability to print an ExitCare title from their smartphone.
The Healthcare Market:
ExitCare is working to release a version of ChildHealth™ and Women’sHealth™ that can be used by office-based physicians to conveniently push ExitCare titles to their patients or parents. This app will be available for resale by ExitCare’s partners as an add-on to the ExitCareAC™ or OnCall™ products for EMR or PHR applications.
With the advent of ARRA’s meaningful use, this ExitCare app provides a new way to connect providers with their patients via Electronic Medical Records, Personal Health Records, Web-site Portals and more. In the future, hospitals will utilize the ExitCare smartphone apps to provide Discharge Instructions to their patients to address Care Transitions requirements.
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare, a set of Discharge Instruction and patient education solutions, meeting the needs of an enterprise-wide system to include the Emergency Department, In-Patient, Ambulatory Care/Out-Patient and Web-based portal solutions. Common topics have been translated into 9 other languages to include Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese and others. ExitCare is installed in over 1,000 hospitals and used by more than 50,000 office-based providers. For more information, visit www.exitcare.com, or contact Richard Thompson at rickt@exitcare.com/
About Zolstice, LLC
Zolstice, LLC is a privately owned company whose mission is to develop innovative mobile technologies that provide useful and practical healthcare information both to the medical community and the lay public. For more information, visit www.zolstice.com or contact Peter Lazar at peter@zolstice.com.
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T-System Updates Free Clinician H1N1 Templates
To Latest CDC Guidelines, Adds Discharge Instructions
Downloadable Templates Reflect Most Current Seasonal and Swine Flu Protocols; Charts Available at No Charge to All Healthcare Professionals Including Emergency Clinicians
September 21, 2009
DALLAS, TX – (DATE) – T-System, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of emergency department (ED) clinical documentation tools, today announced it has issued revised H1N1 point-of-care charting templates reflecting the most recent recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The charts, which are available for free download via the T-System Web site (www.tsystem.com/h1n1flu), now include discharge instructions for patients, developed by ExitCare, the leader in physician-authored, peer-reviewed, evidence-based Discharge Instruction and Patient Education information.
T-System has included three classes of charts in the download (physician, nurse and order sets) and has also developed a set for pediatric use as well as for primary and urgent care clinics. The charts include guidelines for both the H1N1 virus and seasonal flu that enable consistent documentation, diagnosis and treatment.
“T-System continues to closely monitor the evolving H1N1 situation. These revised templates help physicians and nurses in emergency departments, urgent care facilities and primary care practices to provide the most up-to-date, accurate, consistent and complete care to affected individuals,” said Suzette Wier-Thorby RN, senior vice president and chief nursing officer for T-System. “Our current flu documentation includes content to address seasonal flu as well as H1N1, and we are very pleased to announce the inclusion of discharge instructions, made possible through our partnership with ExitCare. This all works to ensure that providers have the tools they need to provide a full spectrum of care for their patients as flu cases continue to ramp up.”
Initially released in May, the H1N1 templates from T-System provided immediate value for clinicians. "When H1N1 first hit, CDC guidelines were literally changing every day," according to Randy Pilgrim, MD, FACEP, President and Chief Medical Officer for The Schumacher Group, a leading emergency management firm. "Because we could continuously implement the most current information and guidelines across multiple emergency departments, thousands of physicians were able to remain focused on our core competency: delivering efficient, high quality patient care.”
"The T-System has been an important partner with The Schumacher Group for over a decade," Dr. Pilgrim added. "The H1N1 t-sheets are a great example of T-System’s leadership and commitment to impacting significant and timely documentation challenges in emergency medicine."
Although flu season typically begins in November, H1N1 has brought an early start to flu season, especially among colleges and public schools. While the H1N1 vaccine has recently been approved for broad national distribution, a report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology predicts that intensive care units across the nation will still be under “enormous stress” to treat cases of H1N1 and seasonal flu. The report stated that between 30 and 50 percent of the American population could be infected with the H1N1 virus during the fall and winter.
T-System’s H1N1 T-Sheets® are point-of-care tools to support consistent documentation, diagnosis and treatment for the remainder of the H1N1 alert and are not intended to replace clinical judgment. To download the charting templates with current CDC guidelines for H1N1 flu diagnosis and treatment, or to find out more information about the H1N1 virus, please visit: www.tsystem.com/H1N1flu.
About T-System
Founded in 1996, T-System, Inc. and T-System Technologies, Ltd. (The T System), combine an uncommon collaboration of clinicians, technologists and service professionals dedicated to serving the current and future clinical information and technology needs of emergency medicine. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, T-System is the leading provider of clinically accepted emergency department information system (EDIS) solutions. Today, more than 1,800 civilian and military EDs in the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia and around the world partner with T-System to make the best patient care a reality for everyone. For more information, please visit www.tsystem.com or contact Joe Lastinger at (800) 667- 2482.
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ExitCare, LLC announces partnership with
Health Language, Inc.
Health Language and ExitCare Partner to Improve and Automate Patient Education and Discharge Instructions
September 22, 2008
DENVER & LAKE ELMO, Minn. – Sept. 22, 2008 – Health Language, Inc. ® (HLI) and ExitCare, LLC, the leading enterprise-wide patient discharge instruction and education information company, today announced a partnership to expedite the ability of physicians to provide patients with immediate, accurate and comprehensive patient education and discharge instructions.
HLI, the world’s leading supplier of language engine technology for medical vocabulary mapping and interoperability, will review and tag all of ExitCare’s 3,300-plus titles with ICD-9-CM (and eventually ICD-10-CM), CPT-4 and SNOMED CT codes to enable physicians to immediately find the appropriate handout for each patient. HLI’s Language Engine has the ability to automatically map ICD-9-CM codes to the mandated ICD-10-CM codes, ensuring a seamless transition.
“HealthLanguage is the ideal partner to ensure that we continue to meet the needs of physicians and patients in the U.S. as well as our growing market worldwide,” said Chuck Krejci, chief operating officer of ExitCare. HealthLanguage already has a proven track record and significant footprint internationally where SNOMED has been more widely adopted. It is vital that all of our titles, which have been translated into eight languages, are coded correctly to ensure that physicians and patients receive the right information at the right time.”
“We are pleased to work with a company that places the same premium on linking content to the most granular codes available,” stated HLI CEO George Schwend. “Further enhancing the synergies of the partnership
are the existing vendor relationships of both companies. ExitCare’s products have been integrated with programs from many of the same vendors that use HLI’s Language Engine to facilitate interoperability in inpatient and ambulatory care applications.”
HLI’s automated software tools will do the initial coding, which will then be reviewed in detail by HLI’s clinician coding experts to ensure accurate tagging. This will guarantee that when physicians enter an ICD, CPT or SNOMED code or use an electronic health record to trigger a diagnosis or procedure code, they will receive the exact handout that a patient with a particular condition needs.
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996. ExitCare is a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise-wide discharge instructions and patient education solutions, meeting the needs of office-based physicians, hospitals, and emergency departments. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Bosnian, Tagalog, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese. The company plans to add French Canadian in 2008. ExitCare is installed in nearly 1,000 healthcare facilities in the U.S. For more information, visit www.exitcare.com, or contact Richard Thompson, EVP, at 303.681.0787 or rickt@exitcare.com.
About Health Language, Inc.
Denver-based Health Language, Inc.® (HLI) develops and delivers state-of-the-art software solutions that automatically incorporate medical vocabulary and coding standards into healthcare information technology (HCIT) applications. HLI’s Language Engine® (LE®) allows centralized access to medical terminology standards and generates mappings to create a common pool of standardized codes and concepts that enhance patient safety, facilitate clinical outcomes analysis and accelerate reimbursement. It also provides standards for modeling, storing, updating and distributing information consistently for interoperability between hospitals, regions and countries. For more information, visit www.healthlanguage.com or call 303.307.4400.
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ExitCare, LLC announces partnership with EmpowER Systems®
EmpowER Systems will incorporate ExitCare's patient education information int their ED and In-Patient Solutions
August 25, 2008
Oak Brook, IL. – EmpowER Systems®, one of the nation’s leading technology systems companies focused on the hospital’s Emergency Department needs, announced today that they partnered with ExitCare, LLC to offer ExitCare’s Discharge Instruction information. “We are very excited to partner with ExitCare because of their reputation in the industry, eight different languages and enterprise-wide solution that will allow us to meet our current customers’ needs, as well as expand into other care settings. The EmpowER – ExitCare partnership will provide our clients with the user-friendliness of EmpowER ED™ as well as the strong discharge instruction content ExitCare is known for. By adding ExitCare’s patient education documents as an integrated solution with EmpowER ED™, we will answer the growing demand for consumer healthcare information. Our clients need tools that will enhance their ability to communicate effectively with patients to improve compliance and safety,” stated Kimberly Alise, chief executive officer. “It is important that we provide our clients with the best content solution available. We were introduced to ExitCare by our clients,” adds Ms. Alise.
"ExitCare, LLC is excited to have been selected by EmpowER Systems, a company that is considered an innovative and best-of-breed in EDIS," said Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare, LLC “The fact that EmpowER plans to expand their product offering into the hospitals’ In-Patient care setting is a perfect fit since ExitCare has differentiated its product offering by providing an enterprise-wide solution. The healthcare market wants an integrated solution that will save time and provide a comprehensive solution with consistent information.”
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996. ExitCare is a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise-wide Discharge Instructions and patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician, hospital Emergency Department and hospital in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Bosnian, Tagalog, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese. The company plans to add French Canadian in 2008. ExitCare is installed in nearly 1,000 healthcare facilities nationwide.
For more information, visit www.exitcare.com, or contact Richard Thompson, EVP, at (303) 681-0787 or rickt@exitcare.com.
About EmpowER Systems
Founded in 1999, EmpowER Systems is a boutique company specializing in seamless, comprehensive computerization of emergency departments. The user-friendly EmpowER ED™ requires 1 hour of training and is regarded as an EDIS role model in the Joint Commission publication "Accreditation Issues for Emergency Departments." EmpowER Systems was created to solve the critical problems facing EDs today: illegible/incomplete documentation, inefficient communication causing delayed patient flow, down-coding of charts leading to reduced reimbursement, poor government compliance, risk of error/malpractice, and inefficient and error-prone prescriptions/discharge. To solve these issues, EmpowER ED™ was designed by an EM physician and ED staff—people who know how patient flow works. EmpowER ED™ was designed by clinicians for clinicians to eliminate redundancies and make communication efficient in the ED.
For more information, visit www.empower.md or contact Annie Hasselgren, VP PR & Marketing, at ahasselgren@empower.md.
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ExitCare, LLC announces partnership with Hill-Rom, Inc.
Hill-Rom will incorporate ExitCare's patient education information
June 23, 2008
Batesville, IN. – Hill-Rom (NYSE: HRC) today announced the new agreement to enhance and add integrated functions and value for the company’s NaviCare® WatchChild® solution.
Hill-Rom’s relationship with ExitCare, L.L.C. will integrate an educational component, the ExitCare Labor & Delivery product, consisting of hundreds of Labor & Delivery patient education topics augmented with color illustrations. ExitCare Labor & Delivery provides an important tool to facilitate communication between clinicians with patients and family members.
“The NaviCare WatchChild solution has been extremely well received since the introduction of the enhanced version just a little over two months ago,” said Adam McMullin, vice president, Marketing and Strategy, Hill-Rom IT Solutions. “We are excited to form a relationship with an innovative partner in ExitCare, L.L.C. to enhance the value of our WatchChild solutions. We know this addition will help caregivers help their patients and ultimately, enhance outcomes for them. That’s a powerful proposition and one we are pleased to be able to bring to market
together.”
The newly introduced, enhanced WatchChild solution evolved from a recognized need to provide an integrated and intuitive way to manage obstetrical operations, including reporting, communication, care plan development, skin and fall assessment screening and operating room record/pre-anesthesia checklists. The NaviCare WatchChild solution also offers state-of-the-art data archiving capability to help manage long-and-short-term liability risks for hospitals and caregivers. The relationship announced today will extend and expand ease of use for caregivers, in turn, enhancing outcomes for their patients.
The NaviCare WatchChild solution is part of the NaviCare® Clinical Operations Platform. In February 2008, Hill-Rom introduced an enhanced NaviCare Clinical Operations Platform designed to support hospital efforts to provide improved patient safety, quality of care and operational efficiency.
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create patient education content and software. ExitCare is a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital’s Labor and Delivery, Surgery, Emergency Departments and overall inpatient needs. The text is augmented with color illustrations to enhance the patient’s understanding. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Bosnian, Tagolog, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese. The Company will add Canadian French in 2008. ExitCare is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide.
About Hill-Rom, Inc.
Hill-Rom is a leading worldwide manufacturer and provider of medical technologies and related
services for the health care industry, including patient support systems, non-invasive therapeutic products for a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions, medical equipment rentals, and information technology solutions. Hill-Rom’s comprehensive product and service offerings are used by health care providers across the health care continuum in hospitals, extended care facilities and home care settings to enhance the safety and quality of patient care.
Hill-Rom…enhancing outcomes for patients and their caregivers.
www.hill-rom.com
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ExitCare, LLC announces partnership with Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
HMS will incorporate ExitCare's patient education information
February 26, 2008
Nashville, Tenn. – Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.® (HMS) announced today that they have partnered with ExitCare, L.L.C, to bring their patient education information into their over 500 customer facilities nationwide. HMS is one of the nation’s leading information technology systems companies focused on the community hospital marketplace.
“We are very excited about this partnership with ExitCare. By incorporating ExitCare’s patient education documents into HMS clinical applications, we are enhancing our customers’ ability to communicate effectively with their patients to improve compliance and safety,” stated Tom Stephenson, President and Chief Executive Officer of HMS. “It is important that we provide our customers with the best content solutions available. The ExitCare information system will be integrated within our Clinical View and Patient Care Documentation solutions and ready for the market by May 2008.”
“ExitCare, L.L.C. is dedicated to providing best-of-breed patient education and discharge instructions to the medical professional that improves the communication between healthcare providers and their patients,” said Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare, L.L.C. “We are excited to be working with HMS because they are a recognized leader in the community hospital marketplace,” he says. Thompson adds, “The healthcare market wants an integrated solution that will save time as well as provide a comprehensive solution.”
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, L.L.C. is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital’s Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Tagolog, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese. Company plans to add French and Korean in 2008. ExitCare is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information, visit www.exitcare.com, or call Richard Thompson, EVP, at (303) 681-0787 or rickt@exitcare.com.
About HMS
Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.® (HMS) is a Nashville-based healthcare company that develops, sells and supports integrated clinical and financial hospital information systems and services. Founded in 1984, HMS counts among its customers over 600 community hospitals; behavioral, rehabilitation and long-term acute care facilities; and multi-entity healthcare organizations nationwide. With the HMS system, caregivers are able to increase their efficiency in delivering quality care with an emphasis on improving patient safety. For more information, please visit www.hmstn.com or call 800.383.3317.
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Encite, Inc. Announces Partnership with ExitCare, L.L.C. Encite will Incorporate ExitCare's Patient Education Documents
May 7, 2007
Johnstown, PA – Encite, Inc., one of the nation’s leading electronic medical record providers announced today that they have partnered with ExitCare, L.L.C, to bring patient education information to their clients nationwide. “We are very excited about this partnership with ExitCare. By adding ExitCare’s patient education documents into Encite, we are enhancing our physicians’ ability to communicate effectively with their patients, increasing patient satisfaction, improving compliance and reducing exposure to malpractice,” said Ed Horner, President, Encite, Inc.
"ExitCare, L.L.C. is dedicated to providing patient education information that meets our criteria, such as titles authored by physicians, which are peer-reviewed and easy for patients to understand. The ExitCare information also includes color illustrations with the text designed to improve communication between healthcare providers and their patients," said Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare, L.L.C. "Our over 3,000 patient education titles, six different languages and software have been integrated with the Encite Electronic Medical Record (EMR). ExitCare® will help the provider better educate their patients, thereby, providing improved patient care and compliance," he says. Thompson adds, "We are excited to be working with Encite. They are a recognized EMR company that meets the needs of physicians in a solo or small group environment. The Encite EMR is a flexible and intuitive product that physicians have embraced. By adding ExitCare’s educational documents, they are augmenting their EMR with quality, comprehensive patient education material, and we are proud to be an important part of the leading small practice EMR."
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ExitCare, LLC Announces Partnership with First DataBank, Inc.
March 27, 2007
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC, one of the nation’s leading enterprise wide patient education providers announced today that they have partnered with First DataBank, to integrate their drug information into ExitCare’s ExitMeds. “We are very excited about this partnership with First DataBank. By adding First DataBank’s drug information into the ExitMeds product, we are enhancing our customers’ ability to communicate drug information with their patients as well as provide our customers with additional functionality and efficiencies,” stated Roger Jacobi, President, ExitCare, LLC.
“ExitMeds™ is a module that allows users to write prescriptions electronically, perform Medication Reconciliation at discharge, and print drug specific educational monographs. Another prescription related module for the ExitCare Patient Information System includes the Patient Medication Schedule which allows clinicians to create patient friendly medication schedules, with dates and times of when to take each medication. The new First DataBank content also allows users to check for drug to drug, as well as patient allergy to drug interactions,” said Jacobi.
“We are proud to be part of the ExitCare® solution to facilitate, among a variety of clinical decision support tasks, electronic prescribing and medication reconciliation - two of the most pressing patient safety-related issues today,” said Don Nielsen, MD and CEO of First DataBank. “Saving lives and preventing harm to patients by reducing medication ordering errors is one of our primary aims. Together, we can help to meet this goal.”
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare®, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital’s Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Tagolog and Vietnamese. ExitCare® is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
About First DataBank, Inc.
First DataBank, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is the leading provider of context-relevant, integrated drug information. For over 25 years we’ve partnered with information system developers throughout the healthcare continuum to make drug content relevant from the perspectives of multiple end users, and executable at the point of need. We have successfully delivered proven drug knowledge bases for integration into a wide range of applications, with particular expertise in clinical decision support within the workflow. Together with our development partners, First DataBank helps reduce the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events, which promises to lower healthcare costs and improve patient care.
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ExitCare Announces Content Enhancement Relationship with The Sullivan Group, Leading Risk Management Group
Risk Reduction Overlay to Fortify Patient Discharge Instruction System
September 13, 2006
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC, developers of the ExitCare Patient Education System, today announces its partnership with The Sullivan Group (TSG), a leading provider of risk management solutions for medical professionals. In doing so The Sullivan Group will provide further expertise in Emergency Medicine Risk and Safety to ExitCare, which TSG considers to be the flagship company in patient discharge information.
This partnership represents a completely new concept in emergency medicine risk management. ExitCare provides a comprehensive library of patient discharge instructions that reduces risks while educating and reminding patients to extend this continuum of care into their home environment. Further risk reduction is realized by potentially fewer returns to the ED by better educating the patient upon discharge.
"The ExitCare product offering of ExitCare with 'TSG fortified' risk reduction will allow patients to become better educated about potential outcomes of their ailment, courses of treatment, and potential adverse outcomes." Dr. Daniel Sullivan, founder and chief executive officer of TSG says, "It is clear that by using these instructions we are reducing even further the risk of an unfortunate event. This increased level of care will expand on the continuum of care to the home environment."
Rick Redalen, MD, Chief Executive Officer of ExitCare, states, "My goal is to empower physicians and patients with consumer friendly patient education information that will improve patient care and reduce bad outcomes. By working with The Sullivan Group, we are taking our commitment to a new and higher level. TSG will review each of our high-risk topics to ensure they meet the highest standards of risk management. Also, we will add additional language to our patient education material to improve even further on our patient and family education on the signs and symptoms of their medical condition. I am very excited to include this new dimension of consumer health information that will further empower patients." Dr. Redalen further adds, "We chose The Sullivan Group as a part of our continued commitment to build an even better patient information system. The addition of risk fortification from Dan Sullivan and The Sullivan Group allows us to even further differentiate ExitCare in the marketplace."
About The Sullivan Group
Dr. Daniel Sullivan, founder and chief executive officer of TSG, is renowned in the American health care system for his ideas on patient safety, empowerment, and risk reduction. The Sullivan Group's patient safety and risk management system combines web-based risk and safety education programs, intelligent medical records for physicians and nurses, and a web-based clinical audit tool to help medical professionals decrease errors and improve patient outcomes. This new paradigm in risk reduction and patient safety has helped hundreds of hospital emergency departments reduce their malpractice claims by more than 40%. The Sullivan Group serves more than 500 hospitals, healthcare organizations and insurance companies nationwide, including HCA, Premier, Triad Hospitals, and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company. For more information, please visit www.thesullivangroup.com, or call 1-866-Med-Risk.
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare®, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital's Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Tagolog, and Vietnamese. ExitCare® is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
Contacts:
Jeff Johnson
The Sullivan Group
630-268-1188
jjohnson@thesullivangroup.com
Richard Thompson
ExitCare, LLC
303-681-0787
rickt@exitcare.com
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ExitCare, LLC Announces
Dr. Earl Showerman Joining its Editorial Team
March 13, 2006
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC, one of the nation’s leading electronic patient education publishers, announced today that Dr. Earl Showerman, former president of Epic Software Systems, Inc., has been recruited to be a contributing editor. "We are very excited to have Dr. Showerman join our editorial team. He brings over twenty years of experience specific to authoring and reviewing patient education content to the team," said Dr. Rick Redalen, CEO, CMO, of ExitCare, LLC. "His initial responsibilities will include the enhancement of the company’s Editorial Guidelines, the recruitment of an Editor-In-Chief to focus on the needs of the Emergency Department as well as in-patient and ambulatory care services, and the selection of additional medical professionals on the editorial board of reviewers. This is very important to support the enterprise-wide patient education needs of today’s healthcare institutions."
Earl Showerman graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Medical School, and received post-graduate training at the University of Washington. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians in 1984. For over 25 years, he practiced emergency medicine at Providence Medford Medical Center where he also served stints as ED medical director, EMS Supervising Physician, and Medical Advisor to the Center for Health Promotion. In 1986, he helped develop the Emergency Patient Instruction Compiler, an aftercare instruction software that would ultimately be installed at over 400 hospitals and clinics.
“I am gratified to be included in the development team dedicated to enhancing patient health literacy. ExitCare provides instruction content in numerous languages and includes superb anatomic color graphics. This is a great opportunity to help educate millions of patients using peer-reviewed, evidence-based content, coupled with attractive instructional graphics, and translated into more languages than any other medical software available today.”
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, L.L.C. is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare®. ExitCare is a consumer healthcare information company which provides enterprise wide patient education solutions. It meets the needs of office-based physicians, the hospital’s Emergency Department, and hospital in-patient needs. Commonly used topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese, and there are plans to add French and Tagolog in 2006. ExitCare is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
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MediNotes Corporation Announces Partnership
with ExitCare, LLC MediNotes will Incorporate
ExitCare's Patient Education Documents
February 6, 2006
West Des Moines , IA, and Lake Elmo, MN - MediNotes Corporation, one of the nation’s leading electronic medical record providers announced today that they have partnered with ExitCare, LLC, to bring their patient education tool ExitCare® into their over 3,400 client sites nationwide. "We are very excited about this partnership with ExitCare. By adding ExitCare’s patient education documents into MediNotes e, we are enhancing our physicians’ ability to communicate effectively with their patients," stated Don Schoen, CEO and President, MediNotes Corporation.
"ExitCare, LLC. is dedicated to providing valuable products that improve communication between healthcare providers and their patients," said Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare, LLC. "Our 1,600 plus patient education titles have been tagged to ICD-9 or CPT or both codes to facilitate integration with the MediNotes Electronic Medical Record (EMR). ExitCare will help the provider better educate their patients, therefore, providing improved patient care and compliance," he says. Thompson adds, "We are excited to be working with MediNotes. They are a recognized EMR company that meets the needs of physicians in a solo or small group environment. By adding ExitCare’s educational documents, they are augmenting their EMR with quality, comprehensive patient education material, and we are proud to be an important part of the leading small practice EMR."
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital’s Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese. Company plans to add French and Tagolog in 2006. ExitCare is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
About MediNotes Corporation
MediNotes Corporation is a leader in electronic health record solutions for primary care and specialty medical practices and currently serves more than 3,400 installed sites and more than 9,000 users nationwide. The company’s dedicated employees are driven to create technology solutions that are proven, powerful and provide doctors with peace of mind. The enhancements of MediNotes e are based on the needs and suggestions of our users as well as the competitive EMR landscape. For more information, visit www.medinotes.com, or call Lana Overturf in the Marketing Department at 515-327-8850, ext 238.
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ExitCare, LLC Announces
Acquisition of EPIC Software Systems Inc.
January 10, 2006
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC today announced the acquisition of EPIC Software Systems, Inc., an Oregon Corporation, and one of the first companies in the healthcare discharge instruction market. EPIC is an acronym for Emergency Patient Instruction Compiler.
EPIC Software Systems provides Emergency Departments and clinics with over 600 patient education titles in both English and Spanish. The company installed its first customer site in 1986. Currently, the company has over 400 sites using their discharge instructions.
“EPIC Software Systems has always been recognized as one of the leading companies in the discharge instruction market. They have an excellent reputation in the marketplace which reflects their commitment to excellence and the vision of their founder, Earl Showerman, M.D.,” said Rick Redalen, M.D., CEO of ExitCare. “I am very happy to announce that Dr. Showerman will assume the role of Contributing Editor at ExitCare, and key EPIC Software Systems personnel will become part of the ExitCare team.”
ExitCare provides an enterprise wide solution to patient education, meeting the needs of Emergency Departments, hospital in-patient, and ambulatory care, to include integration with office-based physician Electronic Health Records or Electronic Medical Records. The ExitCare ExitCare common titles have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Portuguese. The text has been augmented by color graphics to facilitate understanding by the layperson. ExitCare will add the EPIC Software System’s titles to its current repository of over 1,600 titles.
“We are excited to become part of ExitCare, one of the most innovative and dynamic sources of consumer health information,” said Earl Showerman, M.D., EPIC Software Systems’ president. “As part of the ExitCare family we will be able to offer our customers enhanced patient education software with new content, superb graphics, and other features, including prescription writing. I look forward to joining the ExitCare editorial team.”
For more information call 800-694-6669.
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