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December 14, 2005
Journal of the American
Medical Association
The Long Road to
Patient Safety: 
A Status Report on
Patient Safety Systems.

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December 1, 2005
Office of News and
Public Information

National System
Needed to Measure
and Report on Health
Care Performance;
New Board Should
Be Created to Guide Development.
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August 21, 2005
NY TIMES

It's the Simple
Things But Hospitals
Don't Do Them.
 
 
 
Our software is built around the following core components:

1. An Interface Engine which downloads data from a client hospital’s pharmacy financial, laboratory, microbiology, pharmacy, and diagnostic reporting systems.

2. An Integrated Patient-Specific Database
which stores all the various data elements now almost universally
stored in isolated, non-interactive, individual vendor databases. The existence of this database immediately represents
a quantum leap forward in the availability of clinical data to most hospital clients since it provides a one-step user log-in
to access clinical data now stored in multiple data systems, each requiring separate log-in (and log-off) before data is made available.

3. A Rules Engine
(the heart of our system) which in real-time continuously monitors each and every addition to the patient care database. It cross-references database additions with each other, with user defined practice rules, and with promulgated standards of evidence-based medicine. It then fires real-time alerts to bedside caregivers to prevent errors and to ensure compliance with evidence-based standards. Finally, the rules engine monitors compliance with its alerts and passes up the chain of command (in real time) highly focused reports concerning evolving or incipient caregiver failures as they occur.

4. A Physician Communications Portal that permits physicians to remotely communicate patient care orders.
(The software then presents such orders to the rules engine for real-time, instantaneous review and action before they
are transmitted for implementation). Additionally, the software permits physicians to make remote, web-based virtual rounds by presenting to them all relevant patient data (nurse’s notes, vital signs, lab, x-ray and pharmaceutical data)
as they are generated.

5. An External Communications Portal which automatically parses the database to deliver patient data required by
(i) insurance payers to authorize reimbursement for inpatients and (ii)post-discharge providers of care (nursing homes, rehab facilities, durable medical equipment companies and nursing homes). The software provides a 100% automated alternative to existing manual systems.

6. Document Imaging Capability which enables handwritten progress notes to be automatically filed in the patient record for the purpose of creating 100% digital medical records available for viewing by authorized personnel on the internet from anywhere on the globe. Our imaging capability eliminates the problem of missing or misplaced clinical records. Our software is HIPAA compliant and encrypted to insure patient confidentiality.