Livingston, N.J., February 17, 2011 – In spite of the economic downturn, the company continues on a strong growth path with significant increases in sales and revenue, and is expanding its operations to meet the increased demands. This year's successes were underscored by a number of notable achievements, including signing new agreements with multiple hospitals, renewing or expanding existing agreements and forming partnerships with several healthcare vendors to enhance the EDIMS offering. EDIMS was also proud to achieve 2011/2012 CCHIT certification and **ONC/ATCB modular EHR certification for EDIMS 2.6, positioning it to assist hospitals with receiving stimulus funding and meeting the requirements for meaningful use.
Most notable among its wins this year was the Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS), New Jersey's largest integrated health care delivery system, including six hospitals. Saint Barnabas selected EDIMS because of its proven ability to drive productivity and profitability over the past several years at one of its hospitals. In addition to a best-in-class EHR, the hospitals benefit from features that include a comprehensive charge capture system and intuitive computerized provider order entry (CPOE). The hospitals also receive EDIMS' other recent upgrades, including its industry-leading clinical decision support tools and redesigned documentation module that further streamlines workflow for clinicians, billers, and medical records staff.
EDIMS and one of its hospital clients, Clara Maass Medical Center (CMMC), also signed a unique agreement to deliver medical services at the newly opened Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. By providing on-site medical attention -- from CMMC -- and the seamless and secure exchange of patient information from the arena's medical center to the hospital leveraging the EDIMS system, the arena is able to offer the highest quality emergency care to all of its customers, staff and players.
EDIMS also partnered with several vendors as part of its ongoing commitment to continually enhance its offering and provide industry-leading solutions that meet the needs of nurses, physicians, patients and hospitals. These included:
"We are thrilled with our growth in 2010 and are confident that it is just the beginning of some dramatic changes for our industry," said Shane Hade, CEO of EDIMS. "In 2011, we plan to further enhance our technology offerings and clinical expertise to maintain our position as the most advanced EMR system designed specifically to meet the demands of our nation's emergency departments."
** On Oct. 22, EDIMS electronic health record (EHR), EDIMS 2.6, was deemed 2011/2012 compliant and certified as an EHR Module by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This designation will enable EDIMS customers to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). EDIMS 2.6 certification number is CC-1112-430980-1.
Pre-market certification is issued until live site verification is complete. Applicants in the CCHIT Certified program are asked to submit at least 2 reference sites who have been using the certified product version for at least 45 days and who, between them, are using certain key functionalities. Once these sites have been verified by the Certification Program team, EDIMS 2.6 will move to Fully Certified status.
In the CCHIT Certified 2011 program, products are rigorously inspected against integrated EHR functionality, interoperability, and security criteria independently developed by the Commission’s broadly representative, expert work groups, using the Commission’s published testing methods. This program is intended to serve health care providers looking for maximal assurance that a product will meet their complex needs. The Emergency Department EHR certification program has been significantly updated from 2008, with additional functionality, interoperability, and security requirements.
EDIMS was previously certified as an EHR Module on Oct. 22, 2010 by CCHIT, an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 2011/2012 criteria support the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
“We are proud to add CCHIT Certification to the many advantages EDIMS offers our clients,” said Shane Hade, CEO of EDIMS. “Although we were confident that EDIMS meets the complex needs of emergency departments, it is great to have the external validation. Coupled with the earlier ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification to support achievement of meaningful use, this designation will play a key role in helping our client Hospitals meet meaningful use requirements and qualify for the financial incentives under ARRA. We believe it is a validation of our commitment to enhancing patient care, and the bottom line, in the emergency room. We are also proud that EDIMS is one of only 3 emergency department EHR vendors to achieve both certifications.”
EDIMS 2.6 meets the following certification criteria:
“We have found that hospitals are now seeking out a certified emergency department EHR solution to help their facilities meet the requirements outlined in the final rules for Meaningful Use and we are thrilled that we can now provide this to our clients,” said Shane Hade CEO of EDIMS. “Our clients have stated that our robust and highly intuitive CPOE module is an invaluable and unique component that will play a key role in helping them qualify for these EHR incentives.We believe that this, coupled with our system’s ability to improve productivity, charge capture, and clinician satisfaction, will help our clients enhance patient care while boosting the bottom line.“
The ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification program tests and certifies that Complete EHRs meet all of the 2011/2012 criteria and EHR Modules meet one or more – but not all – of the criteria approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for either eligible provider or hospital technology.
“CCHIT is pleased to be testing and certifying products so that companies are now able to offer these products to providers who wish to purchase and implement certified EHR technology and achieve meaningful use in time for the 2011-2012 incentives,” said Karen M. Bell, M.D., M.S.S., Chair, CCHIT.
EDIMS 2.6 certification number is CC-1112-430980-1. ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification conferred by CCHIT does not represent an endorsement of the certified EHR technology by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services nor does it guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.
EDIMS 2.6 meets the following certification criteria:
The additional software relied upon to demonstrate compliance includes: Thomson Micromedex, Callibra Inc. - Discharge 123, and Izenda.
Livingston, N.J., Sept. 24, 2010 - EDIMS, a provider of electronic medical record (EMR) solutions specifically for emergency departments, announced their new interface capability with Proven Healthcare Solutions, a state-of-the-art provider of real time medical necessity admission review services for emergency department patients.
EDIMS clients will now be able to seamlessly access Proven Healthcare Solutions’ real time admission review service through their EDIMS main grid. “As one of the country’s first and most comprehensive emergency department-specific EMR’s, EDIMS, which is used in hospitals nationwide, was a natural choice for our first EDIS interface. Their long-term history of proven clinical, operational and financial success and high customer satisfaction in some of the country’s top-tier hospitals and health systems, coupled with their outstanding commitment to exceptional customer service, made our decision to select EDIMS an obvious one,” states Scott Serbin, Director of Marketing for Proven Healthcare Solutions.
Featuring the industries’ only 30 minute guarantee, Proven Healthcare Solutions’ innovative approach provides hospitals with a cost-effective solution to the challenge of 24X7 coverage for ED admission reviews. The need for reliable and consistent real-time review services has only increased with the growing complexity of payer requirements. Using the latest Milliman and InterQual evidence-based care guidelines, PHS’s experienced reviewers provide a recommendation as to whether the patient meets criteria for admission, observation or discharge. The response is then sent back electronically to the ED via EDIMS.
“At EDIMS, we are always striving to find solutions that will compliment clinicians’ workflow, improve patient care, and enhance hospitals’ financial outcomes. PHS’s solution addresses all of these by improving ED patient throughput, reducing denials for inappropriate admissions, and ensuring compliance through the appropriate assignment of patients,” said Shane Hade, CEO of EDIMS.
About Proven Healthcare Solutions
Proven Healthcare Solutions is an innovative industry leader providing a state-of-the-art approach to real-time
medical necessity admission review of emergency department patients. Their Electronic Admission Review Management
(E-ARM™) software, coupled with seasoned RN Admission Review Screeners provides facilities with the flexibility of
just-in-time medical necessity reviews at the point-of-service. Proven Healthcare Solutions is designed to
accommodate a hospital’s admission review needs whether it be providing night, weekend or holiday coverage, to
screening 100% of a facility's emergency department patients. For more information, visit
http://provenhcs.com.
The six-hospital system, which sees over 452,000 patients annually in its EDs, will be using the latest version of EDIMS, 2.6, by the end of this year. Key features that the hospitals will benefit from include a comprehensive charge capture system and intuitive computerized provider order entry (CPOE). The hospitals will also receive EDIMS‟ other recent upgrades to 2.6, including its clinical decision support tools and redesigned nursing documentation module that automates charting and billing.
“As New Jersey's largest health care system, we needed a clinician-friendly yet powerful system. We were impressed by EDIMS‟ track-record of improving productivity and increasing charge capture, while maintaining and even increasing clinician satisfaction,” said Joseph E. Sullivan, senior vice president and CIO of SBHCS. “EDIMS has already proven its ability to deliver excellent results at our Clara Maas Medical Center, so I am very pleased to now have them as a system-wide partner.”
Sullivan added, “In this era of the HITECH component of ARRA, adding the CPOE module is especially important to our facilities as they will use its ED medication order entries – along with the inpatient entries – to help meet the requirements outlined in the final rules for 'Meaningful Use'. EDIMS not only helps our providers meet these criteria, it also helps us integrate all of a patient's medical records thanks to the system's ability to interoperate with our various systems. So, now we will also have better access to information across our system."
The SBHCS hospitals include:
About the Saint Barnabas Health Care System
The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is New Jersey's largest integrated health care delivery system.
The System includes six acute-care facilities, more than 18,200 employees (second largest private employer
in the state), 4,600 physicians (one-fifth of the state's practicing physicians) and 450 residents who provide
treatment and services for more than two million patients each year: 225,000 inpatients and same day surgery
patients, 452,000 Emergency Department patients and over 1.5 million outpatients, and 18,300 births.
Livingston, N.J., June 8, 2010 – Clara Maass Medical Center, (CMMC) a 445-bed Belleville, N.J.-based hospital and affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, today announced that it has entered an agreement with the new soccer stadium in Harrison, N.J., Red Bull Arena, to provide emergency medical services at each arena event, including the New York Red Bulls’ soccer games. To enhance patient care at the stadium, CMMC is using EDIMS, its emergency department (ED) electronic health record (EHR) system, on-site, ensuring the seamless and secure exchange of patient information from the arena’s medical center to the hospital, and expediting the admissions process and care if/when patients are transferred to the hospital.
CMMC’s on-site, fully stocked first-aid room at the arena is manned by a physician and a physician’s assistant, as well as an ambulance and two emergency medical technicians (EMTs) for each event. Medical staff for the events can fully and securely access the EDIMS system through an on-site computer and a VPN connection, giving them the information and tools needed to make informed decisions in less time.
“Already, we are seeing the benefits of having a full electronic health record system at the stadium – better quality and expedited care,” stated John Fontanetta, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., chair of emergency medicine for Clara Maass Medical Center. During the first stadium event, an elderly man, while enjoying the game with his sons and grandson, experienced shortness of breath and began to pass out. Security and the EMTs brought him to the first aid room. Dr. Fontanetta, the physician on staff, quickly diagnosed him with congestive heart failure and administered a complete set of medications to stabilize and treat that man’s condition. The Clara Maass medical team was then able to transfer the patient to the Medical Center’s emergency room, where his care was expedited because the complete medical event record from the stadium, including drug therapies administered, was already in the system. The man was admitted to the hospital and released after four days.
“Clara Maass Medical Center and EDIMS provide professional and state-of-the-art medical services for Red Bull Arena,” said Red Bull New York Managing Director Erik Stover. “Our relationship continues our commitment to ensuring a top-quality experience for our guests on event day.”
“We are pleased that our solutions are now assisting the Clara Maass medical team to provide care at Red Bull Arena. It’s a testament that our system helps clinicians make faster and more informed decisions at the point of care, and enables hospitals – and its medical extension centers – to drive ED quality, safety and efficiency to higher levels,” said Shane Hade, EDIMS’ CEO. “We look forward to helping provide superior care and support for the games and events at the state-of-the-art Red Bull Arena.”
About EDIMS LLC
For over 20 years, EDIMS LLC has been delivering enhanced ED
operations through its interoperable ED information management systems. Its
electronic health record (EHR) solutions, designed to support clinicians’
workflow and provide clinical decision support, are being used at 40 hospitals
and long-term care facilities nationwide. EDIMS ability to provide
comprehensive order entry, real-time charge capture, and to fully document ED
patient encounters helps EDs improve reimbursement and enhance patient care
while reducing the amount of time and effort involved in documentation and
billing. For more information, visit
http://www.EDIMS.net.
About Clara Maass Medical Center
Located in Belleville, NJ, Clara Maass Medical
Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, provides a
complete continuum of care to residents of northern New Jersey. Clara Maass
centers and services include The Health and Wellness Center, Nuclear Medicine,
The Cancer Center at Clara Maass, Diagnostic Cardiac Services including Cardiac
Catheterization, Emergency Angioplasty and Rehabilitation, The Pain Management
Center, The Joint & Spine Institute, a Vascular Center, Same Day Surgery, The
Wound Center at Clara Maass, The Center for Sleep Disorders, The Bariatric
Surgery Center, Rehabilitation Services, The Eye Surgery Center, Maternity
Services and Parent Education, as well as Pediatrics. For a physician referral
or more information about Clara Maass, call 1-888-SBHS-123 or visit
www.saintbarnabas.com.
Livingston, N.J., May 13, 2010 – EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of advanced emergency department (ED) information management systems, today announced it has formed a strategic relationship with Medit Corporation that will help EDIMS’ hospital clients speed triage and treatment of their ED patients. The combination of the EDIMS’ electronic medical record (EMR) system with Medit’s MiRapidAccess self-service registration kiosk, patient ID cards and MIICE online personal health records (PHRs) will enable EDIMS’ hospital clients to streamline the registration process, provide clinicians with current and accurate patient information, and treat patients as quickly as possible.
“One of the greatest challenges in an emergency department — for patients and staff alike — is the amount of time it can take to register and triage people to ensure that the highest-risk patients are seen first,” said EDIMS’ CEO, Shane Hade. “MiRapidAccess streamlines the front-end registration process, improving patient throughput and satisfaction while contributing to more positive outcomes and continuity of care.”
Unlike other patient ID cards that carry only static – and sometimes outdated – data, Medit’s hospital-branded card provides online access to the patient’s latest PHR information, which includes demographics, conditions, medications, allergies, emergency contacts, advanced directives, physician information and more.
“Whatever the patient has chosen to include as part of his or her personal health record is immediately accessible when the card is used,” said Carl Jarvis, Medit president and CEO. “No other kiosk has this real-time, online access, which we believe is critical to providing caregivers with the information they need to best care for their patients in the fast-paced environment of the emergency department.”
When registering using the kiosk at the ED, patients simply swipe their patient ID card, verify their key information and answer a few simple questions regarding their current complaint. Their information is immediately sent to EDIMS EHR to help nurses prioritize and begin patient care.
Patients can also opt to wear a medical wristband containing a personal emergency access number that gives first responders immediate access to the patient’s MIICE PHR online or through any phone. This provides patients the ability to share emergency information with EMTs and other first responders prior to arriving at the hospital. This is especially important for critically ill or injured patients who are transported to the hospital by ambulance and who cannot self register as it provides ED clinicians with access to a patient’s medical history.
In addition to speeding registration and care delivery, the combination of MiRapidAccess, MIICE, and the EDIMS system effectively deals with two other patient-satisfaction concerns — privacy and having to repeat basic information multiple times.
“Patients and family members don’t want their personal information overheard in a busy registration area,” Hade said. “And with HIPAA federal regulations governing patient confidentiality, hospitals are more concerned than ever in respecting that privacy. Also, patients having to repeat — and staff having to retype — information multiple times during the course of treatment not only makes it more likely that the information will be overheard, it annoys patients — and can lead to a greater potential for avoidable errors. The integration of MiRapidAccess information with the EDIMS EHR positively impacts all of these issues, contributing to greater patient satisfaction as well as improved staff productivity.”
The patient ID cards will be made available by participating EDIMS’ hospitals at no charge to the patient. Hospitals may choose to make them available through their affiliated physicians, at the ED registration desk, or when the patient uses the MiRapidAccess kiosk for the first time.
“Offering the cards through their physicians certainly provides yet another way the hospital can more closely align with primary care physicians to deliver connected care across the community,” Hade noted. “It also gives patients another convenient way to access the service.”
Hade concluded, “We’re pleased to be partnering with Medit. The move enables our clients to further leverage their EDIMS investment to support high-quality, safe, efficient emergency care. The two solutions are a powerful combination.”
About EDIMS LLC
For over 20 years, EDIMS LLC has been delivering enhanced ED
operations through its interoperable ED information management systems. Its
electronic health record (EHR) solutions, designed to support clinicians’
workflow and provide clinical decision support, are being used at 40 hospitals
and long-term care facilities nationwide. EDIMS ability to provide
comprehensive order entry, real-time charge capture, and to fully document ED
patient encounters helps EDs improve reimbursement and enhance patient care
while reducing the amount of time and effort involved in documentation and
billing. For more information, visit
http://www.EDIMS.net.
About Medit Corporation
Medit Corporation is the developer of MiRapidAccess™,
an emergency department-based rapid access kiosk that allows patients to
self-register, while offering healthcare professionals fast, convenient access
to a Web-based medical information database simply by using an emergency access
number printed on a patient’s wristband or hospital-branded wallet card. Based
on a subscription-based personal health record (PHR) program called MIICE
“Medical Information In Case of Emergency”, which offers patients emergency
access to personal and medical information, MiRapidAccess helps healthcare
facilities streamline registration, improve nurse triage, reduce patient
waiting times, and minimize medical and information errors. For more
information, visit http://www.miice.com.
Livingston, N.J., April 21, 2010 — EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of interoperable emergency department (ED) information management systems for hospitals, today announced a multiyear agreement to license Callibra Inc.’s Discharge 1-2-3 solution, which automates the ED discharge process, including providing patient specific instructions and prescriptions. EDIMS will incorporate Discharge 1-2-3 into its ED electronic health record (EHR) to enhance the value of its offerings by helping hospital clients further improve care delivery, patient communication and clinician efficiency.
“After evaluating three vendors, we selected Callibra’s Discharge 1-2-3 because it offers the most comprehensive, robust and flexible ED discharge solution in the market,” said Shane Hade, EDIMS’ CEO. “Its discharge instructions are written in lay language, which enhances patient-clinician communication and patient adherence to the care plan, resulting in higher quality and superior outcomes, including fewer readmissions. The easy-to-understand instructions improve ED efficiency by streamlining workflow and reducing the volume of patient calls to ED nurses and physicians, thus increasing clinician productivity, revenue and savings for hospitals.”
EDIMS also chose Callibra because Discharge 1-2-3 can be easily customized to individual physician preferences and is available in several foreign languages, including Spanish, Russian and Chinese. In fact, every title is translated into every language supported. “The agreement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to continually enhance and provide EDs with a solution that meets the needs of nurses, physicians, patients and hospitals,” continued Hade.
According to Christopher Galassi, MD, CEO and technical director at Callibra, “We are
pleased that EDIMS has selected our application to enable its ED clients to positively
affect the quality and safety of care, clinician efficiency and patient experience. We
look forward to partnering with EDIMS to assist hospitals in addressing their business
needs and empowering patients to take better care of themselves at home.”
About Callibra Inc.
Based in Schaumburg, Ill., Callibra, Inc. is a medical
software company that offers Discharge 1-2-3, a discharge and prescription automation
solution that offers the most rigorously prepared emergency medicine-specific content of
its kind. It is widely used by emergency departments, hospitals, urgent care, and
clinics across the country. For more information, visit
www.discharge123.com.
About EDIMS LLC
For over 20 years, EDIMS LLC has been improving ED operations
through its interoperable ED information management systems. Its electronic health
record (EHR) solutions, designed to support clinicians’ workflow and provide clinical
decision support, are being used at hospitals and long-term care facilities nationwide.
EDIMS ability to provide comprehensive order entry, real-time charge capture, and to
fully document ED patient encounters helps EDs improve reimbursement and enhance patient
care while reducing the amount of time and effort involved in documentation and billing.
For more information, visit http://www.EDIMS.net.
Livingston, N.J., March 23, 2010 — EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of comprehensive emergency department (ED) information management systems, today announced that Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBI) successfully launched the newly enhanced EDIMS electronic health record (EHR). This significant EHR upgrade at the 673-bed facility includes a revenue cycle management (RCM) module to improve billing and charge capture; an advanced, intuitive computerized physician order entry (CPOE); and more robust, workflow-driven physician and nursing documentation.
"I couldn't imagine working in an ED that didn't use EDIMS for its electronic health record. Here at the Beth, EDIMS' recent upgrade to its full suite of services simplifies our documentation, facilitates communication, and reduces the chance for errors so we can deliver better, safer and more streamlined care to our patients," said Eric J. Wasserman, MD, FACEP, Vice Chair / Medical Director - Department of Emergency Medicine at NBIMC which sees 95,000 patients annually. "We're particularly excited about EDIMS' RCM module which we expect will boost our revenue by capturing more charges and improving our billing.
Nurses and patients at NBI began experiencing benefits of the upgraded system shortly after the first phase of implementation in December 2009. "Wait times have decreased significantly and nurses already are spending less time on paperwork and more time with patients because of the improved documentation," said Debbie Canfield, RN, Director of Patient Care at NBIMC's Emergency Department. "The EDIMS solution is intuitive, so training was a breeze."
"We are pleased that Newark Beth Israel Medical Center has selected our solutions to help physicians and nurses make more informed decisions at the point of care and advance revenue cycle management to boost the bottom-line," said Shane Hade, EDIMS' CEO. "We look forward to continuing working with the great staff at NBIMC to drive ED quality, safety and productivity to another level."
About Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, a
673-bed regional care, teaching hospital established in 1901, provides
comprehensive health care services to its local communities and is a major
referral and treatment center for patients throughout the northern New Jersey
metropolitan area. With more than 800 physicians, 3,200 employees and 150
volunteers, the Medical Center has over 300,000 outpatient visits and 25,000
admissions annually. It is one of two hospitals in New Jersey where heart
transplants are performed and the only hospital in New Jersey certified to
perform lung transplants. The Medical Center is part of Saint Barnabas Health
Care System, a seven hospital health system in northern New Jersey. For more
information, visit
http://www.saintbarnabas.com/hospitals/newark_beth_israel/index.html.
About EDIMS LLC
For over 20 years, EDIMS LLC has been improving ED operations
through its interoperable ED information management systems. Its electronic
health record (EHR) solutions, designed to support clinicians' workflow and
provide superior clinical decision support, are being used at hospitals and
long-term care facilities nationwide. EDIMS ability to deliver comprehensive
order entry, real-time charge capture, and to fully document ED patient
encounters helps EDs improve reimbursement and enhance patient care while
reducing the amount of time and effort involved in documentation and billing.
For more information, visit http://www.EDIMS.net.
Livingston, N.J., January, 2010 - EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of interoperable emergency department (ED) information management systems, today announced that the ED department at Clara Maass Medical Center smoothly upgraded to the newest version of EDIMS' electronic health records (EHR) system. The 465-bed Belleville, N.J.-based hospital, a member of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, Livingston, NJ, is the first facility in the nation to implement the recently released EDIMS v2.6 system. This version includes greatly enhanced medication reconciliation, streamlined assessments, and several new features.
"The new version has made my life easier by improving workflow efficiency and placing additional and more comprehensive patient information readily available at my finger tips," said Robert Giles, MD, an emergency physician at Clara Maass. "For example, the new feature that automatically checks for drug interactions has enabled me to provide better care. This feature saves me about an hour every day because I no longer have to search the Internet, access a drug checking application on my personal digital assistant, and then enter prescription information to be printed out for clinicians, patients or both. Now all the information I need is available within EDIMS."
ED Nurses at Clara Maass report a similar experience using v2.6. "The enhanced documentation and assessment features of the system makes it much easier and faster to triage and chart patients," said Gerard Bernales, RN. "The new system automatically retrieves and populates the patient's history into the record; I just confirm with the patient whether they are still on those medications and have the same allergies and history. This new version of EDIMS helps us to be even more efficient, which of course is especially important in a busy ED."
EDIMS v2.6, Bernales said, also allows Clara Maass to build and customize a list of commonly prescribed medications that patients take, making it easier to triage and easier for the provider to maintain and reconcile medications patients are taking at home and prescribed upon admission, transfer or discharge.
In addition to drug interaction and historical triage enhancements, new features of EDIMS v2.6 include:According to said Shane Hade, EDIMS' CEO, "We are pleased that Clara Maass is using our solutions to help clinicians make faster and more informed decisions at the point of care. With version 2.6, we enhanced our EHR to better support the needs of emergency departments - our systems deliver quick value, enabling hospitals to drive ED quality, safety and efficiency to higher levels as soon as they deploy the system."
About Clara Maass Medical Center
Located in Belleville, N.J., Clara Maass Medical Center is a 465-bed facility serving
primarily residents of Essex, Hudson, and Bergen Counties. Ranked first in the state
for cardiac care by New Jersey Department of Health-Hospital Performance Report, Clara
Maass Medical Center also received the 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 Distinguished Hospital
Award for Clinical Excellence by Healthgrades; bestowed on the top 5% of hospitals
nationally. Clara Maass Medical Center is recognized for numerous centers of excellence,
including The Cancer Center; Diagnostic Cardiac Services; The Orthopedic Spine & Joint
Institute; The Pain Management Center at Clara Maass; The Wound Center; and state-of-the-art
Emergency Department. The medical center is staffed by more than 700 physicians and 2,000
employees delivering care to more than 190,000 patients each year. For more information,
please visit www.saintbarnabas.com/hospitals/clara_maass/
About EDIMS LLC
For over 20 years, EDIMS LLC has been delivering enhanced ED operations through its
interoperable ED information management systems. Its electronic health record (EHR)
solutions, designed to support clinicians' workflow and provide clinical decision
support, are being used at 40 hospitals and long-term care facilities nationwide.
EDIMS ability to provide comprehensive order entry, real-time charge capture, and to
fully document ED patient encounters helps EDs improve reimbursement and enhance patient
care while reducing the amount of time and effort involved in documentation and billing.
For more information, visit EDIMS.net.
Livingston, N.J., December 3, 2009 - EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of interoperable emergency department (ED) information management systems for hospitals, today announced the appointment of A.J. Sultan as Director of Technology. In this capacity, Sultan is responsible for planning, designing and directing data and telecommunication infrastructure services at EDIMS, and providing guidance for client sites.
"After an extensive search, I am delighted to welcome A.J. to our team," said Shane Hade, CEO of EDIMS, "His broad technical expertise and understanding of infrastructure services will be a great asset in ensuring our internal systems operate smoothly and in supporting efforts to educate and help our hospital clients deploy and leverage EDIMS' solutions to their maximum potential."
"I am excited to join EDIMS and to be at the forefront of the movement to support hospitals and doctors in delivering better and safer patient care by leveraging emergency department information systems," said Sultan. "I look forward to assisting EDIMS' clients in accomplishing their healthcare IT mission, and optimizing their investment in EDIMS."
Before joining EDIMS, Sultan was director of network operations at Alexander Gallo Holdings LLC (AGH) after the Atlanta-based court reporting and litigation support services company acquired The Hobart West Group Inc., where he was director of information technology. After the acquisition, Sultan integrated IT personnel from multiple companies AGH had acquired into one technology unit and oversaw network, server, telecommunication and data center services.
Sultan was also the director of network services at System Arts Inc., New York, N.Y.; network service manager at Avanti of New York Inc., Smithtown, N.Y.; and network administrator at Doctors Offcenters Inc., Hauppauge, NY.
For photo of A.J. Sultan please click here
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 EDIMS.net.
Livingston, N.J., December 1, 2009 - EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of interoperable emergency department (ED) information management systems for hospitals, announced today that its full-suite electronic medical record (EMR) New Jersey hospital clients received top rankings in the sixth annual report on hospital quality, the New Jersey 2009 Hospital Performance Report published by the Department of Health and Senior Services. Additionally, the three hospitals, Clara Maass Medical Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Saint Barnabas Medical Center, were ranked in the top 10 percent of all NJ hospitals for heart attack treatment and heart failure treatment.
The report ranks all 72 New Jersey general acute care hospitals in four areas: heart attack treatment, heart failure treatment, pneumonia treatment and surgical care improvement. Clara Maass Medical Center was one of only 2 hospitals to achieve a 100% score for pneumonia treatment, while both Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Saint Barnabas Medical Center were in the 10 percent for surgical care.
John Fontanetta, M.D., FACAP, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Clara Maass Medical Center, Belleville, N.J., attributes a large part of his emergency department's cardiac success to the EDIMS EMR. One example of cardiac care improvement since the adoption of EDIMS is with a key treatment for heart attack patients, percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), that must be performed within 90-minutes of presentation.
According to Dr. Fontanetta, "When we began doing emergency PCIs four years ago, it took, on-average, 140 minutes. Once we adopted the full EDIMS EMR suite, our average time significantly improved. Today a balloon-and a stent, if appropriate-is inserted into the patient's artery in an average of 55 minutes and sometimes as little as 40 minutes. There are so many steps involved in this process that meeting the 90-minute standard is essentially impossible without an EMR."
Clara Maass is one of only four N.J. hospitals to achieve 100 percent for PCI compliance. Clara Maass was number one in the state for cardiac care. "We are thrilled that our New Jersey clients were recognized as top hospitals in the state," said Shane Hade, CEO of EDIMS. "Considering that a large percentage of all cardiac care takes place in the emergency department, the report's results are a true reflection of how EDIMS plays an essential role in achieving high quality, efficient patient care."
EDIMS' intuitive nursing and physician documentation systems are designed to follow
clinicians' workflow while providing advanced clinical decision support to improve care. These
platforms, coupled with automated order entry, dramatically improve the accurate capture of
the care provided, which in turn improves compliance, reduces denials, and reduces the time
and effort involved in billing.
About EDIMS LLC
Guided by a team of over 350 practicing emergency department (ED) professionals, EDIMS LLC
supports the delivery of high-acuity evidence-based 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 nationwide, 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 Emergency
Medical Associates (EMA). For more information, visit EDIMS.net.
Livingston, N.J., November 17, 2009 - EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of interoperable emergency department (ED) information management systems for hospitals, announced today that 22 of its client EDs in New York and New Jersey are reporting daily on the progress of the H1N1 flu pandemic to their state health departments. Sixteen hospitals in central and northern New Jersey, as well as five hospitals in southern New York State and one facility in New York City, are generating the daily reports from EDIMS' WEB Emergency Analysis & Reporting System (WEBeMARS).
The WEBeMARS reports show the total number of patients presenting with flu-like symptoms in each county served by the hospitals using EDIMS. In addition, the program breaks down these patients into those with respiratory systems and those with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. The report also shows how many patients have cold symptoms and how many have fever/flu symptoms.
The EDs that use EDIMS have long reported data to state health departments on a host of disease syndromes, including H1N1 influenza. They use the WEBeMARS analytic program and data warehouse to track disease syndromes. This approach allows them to pick up not only disease outbreaks but also bioterrorism attacks, should any occur.
Until recently, the ED reports were made on a monthly basis. EDIMS' decision to shift to daily reporting for swine flu was motivated by the classification of the disease as a pandemic and their observance of significant increases in patients presenting with flu-like symptoms. ED departments that use EDIMS employ the WEBeMARS reports to anticipate the patient volume increases caused by pandemic spikes.
"We are doing everything we can to support our hospital partners in combating this dangerous disease and to ensure that everyone who contracts it receives optimal care in the EDs that use our EHR," commented Shane Hade, CEO of EDIMS. "Our daily reports to state health departments help the authorities predict the spread of H1N1 and take appropriate steps for management of this pandemic."
EDIMS, which was developed by ED clinicians, also provides guidelines and the latest recommendations
for H1N1 screening and treatment to all of its customers through its clinical decision support tools.
Owned by Alpha Physician Resources, an ED practice management company, EDIMS is keeping all of APR's
employed physicians apprised of the pandemic's course and of the strategies required to contain it.
EDIMS-equipped EDs see over one million patients per year.
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 EDIMS.net.
Livingston, N.J., Oct. 30, 2009 - 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, New Jersey, 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,
New York and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and fellowship in Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx, New York.
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 EDIMS.net.
ACEP 2009 Scientific Assembly
Livingston, N.J., Oct. 6, 2009 - EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of interoperable emergency
department (ED) information management systems, announced today that it has enhanced its EDIMS patient
documentation, patient tracking and charge capture systems to provide clinicians with immediate access
to information on potentially life-threatening drug interactions, as well as crucial information
pertaining to a patient's medical background. Additionally, the new release, EDIMS version 2.6,
provides greater functionality by allowing emergency teams to include more comprehensive documentation
in the patient's electronic health record (EHR).
"Clearly, a primary benefit of our new EDIMS release is that it gives clinicians as much information as possible during emergency treatment. This not only ensures the highest level of care, it improves ED workflow, decreases patient risk and increases the accuracy of patient documentation," said Shane Hade, chief executive officer of EDIMS. "EDIMS continues to be the most flexible and comprehensive solution for the ever-changing environment inherent in emergency departments, while allowing staff to more fully document the patient encounter."
EDIMS will be showcasing its new software release at the 2009 American College of Emergency Physicians
(ACEP) Scientific Assembly in Boston, Mass. Oct. 5-8, 2009. For a demonstration of the technology,
stop by booth #534 during exhibiting hours.
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About EDIMS LLC
For over 20 years EDIMS LLC has pioneered emergency department information systems. From triage through
disposition, EDIMS workflow documentation creates an accurate and complete electronic medical record,
enabling dramatic improvements in operations, regulatory compliance, charge capture, and risk management.
Supported by 350 practicing emergency medicine professionals, EDIMS clinical decision support includes
750 medical best-practice templates and 250 order sets, to further support clinician productivity and
support improved patient outcomes. In use at 39 hospitals and long-term care facilities nationwide,
with over 12 million documented patient records, EDIMS cares for emergency departments. For more
information, visit EDIMS.net.
Livingston, N.J., Sept. 22, 2009 - EDIMS LLC, a leading provider of interoperable emergency department (ED) information management systems for hospitals, announced today that LibertyHealth, a two-hospital health system in northern New Jersey, has launched EDIMS' nursing documentation and charge capture systems to help improve care quality and streamline operations. With the addition of these components, LibertyHealth, which implemented EDIMS' computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and physician documentation module last March, now has a complete electronic health record (EHR) in its emergency departments.
The EDs at LibertyHealth's Jersey City Medical Center and Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus receive a combined total of more than 100,000 patient visits per year. With so much pressure on these EDs, LibertyHealth needed an information system that would speed up nursing documentation and ensure compliance with regulations. EDIMS meets both of these needs in numerous areas. For example, the electronic main grid features numerous alerts, so nurses can see the status of their patients and potential bottlenecks in a glance. And, EDIMS provides a single-view order screen that includes everything a nurse needs to process orders without switching to other screens.
"Our ED nurses played an essential role in choosing the nursing documentation module to add to LibertyHealth's other successful EDIMS platforms," Joe Scott, president and CEO of LibertyHealth, noted. "They picked EDIMS because it is the most nurse-friendly system on the market and the most straightforward system for capturing charges. In fact, when we saw how the EDIMS system automatically populated the billing system through the nurse documentation, we were sold."
"In light of the national movement toward automating healthcare records, our goal was to have a complete EHR to facilitate a more productive ED," Scott added. "The EDIMS' system allows for seamless and intuitive electronic communication between the physicians and nurses which is a key component to providing optimal patient care. And, the initial success of EDIMS in our facilities has more than met our expectations."
"We are delighted that LibertyHealth chose EDIMS nursing documentation and charge capture systems,"
commented Shane Hade, chief executive officer of EDIMS. "Our customizable EHR, designed specifically
for emergency departments, has been shown to improve operational efficiency and to support improvements
in the quality of care. Because nurses handle so much of the work in EDs, the ability to document what
they do quickly and efficiently is the key to making EDs safer for patients and more financially
sustainable for hospitals."
About EDIMS LLC
EDIMS LLC delivers high acuity best practices to hospitals through its interoperable ED information
management systems. Its electronic health record (EHR) solutions, designed to support clinicians'
workflow and provide clinical decision support, are being used at 39 hospitals and long-term care
facilities nationwide. The EDIMS system's ability to provide comprehensive computer physician order
entry (CPOE), real-time charge capture and the ability to fully document ED patient encounters helps
EDs increase reimbursement and enhance patient care while reducing the amount of time and effort
involved in billing. For more information, visit EDIMS.net.
About LibertyHealth
LibertyHealth, the leading healthcare system in Hudson County, NJ, includes hospitals in Jersey City
and Secaucus, as well as several outpatient facilities for rehabilitation and behavioral health care.
Jersey City Medical Center, which has 330 beds, is a level 1 trauma center and operates the county's
only open-heart surgery program as well as a regional perinatal center. Its emergency department
receives 85,000 visits a year. Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, a 230-bed community
hospital, treats 20,000 patients in its ED each year.
