Deployment of Industry-Leading CPOE Solution to Expand Use of
Clinical Technologies; Will Utilize Company’s Accelerated Implementation
Methodology to Be Well-Positioned for ARRA Funding
Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today
announced that St. Barnabas Hospital (St. Barnabas), located in Bronx,
NY, has selected Eclipsys’ computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
solution as a foundation to establishing an electronic health record
(EHR) in its acute care environments. The technology initiative builds
on St. Barnabas’ highly successful use of Eclipsys’ clinical technology
at all three of its ambulatory care centers, and is part of an effort to
align with the requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA), which provides incentives to healthcare providers for
achieving “meaningful use” of EHR technology by 2011.
Plans call for St. Barnabas to utilize Eclipsys’ “speed to value”
implementation approach to accelerate the EHR activation to help meet
the specified ARRA timeline requirements and maximize stimulus payment
opportunities. Eclipsys’ repeatable implementation methodology leverages
the company’s rich client knowledge to provide more than 1,000 suggested
design decisions to help reduce deployment cycle time and enable
clients to focus on value-added activities during the implementation.
“Our strategic imperative is to take advantage of enabling technology to
help our clinical staff to improve care quality and efficiency,
especially given our high patient volume,” said Noah Caldwell, chief
information officer, St. Barnabas Hospital. “Eclipsys’ CPOE solution
promises to help improve both the speed and accuracy of physician orders
within our hospital, and we believe it is fundamental to the achievement
of ‘meaningful use’ of EHRs, which will deliver the dual benefit of ARRA
funding and improved care coordination and clinical decision support
across our care environments. We look forward to getting this
accelerated implementation underway.”
St. Barnabas has achieved 100 percent physician adoption of Eclipsys’
Sunrise Ambulatory Care™ solution within its ambulatory care centers,
which see nearly 400,000 patient visits annually. In combination with
other components of the company’s integrated suite of clinical
solutions, the deployment of Eclipsys’ CPOE solution, Sunrise Acute
Care™, will support St. Barnabas in establishing an enterprise-wide EHR
that will encompass the emergency department and hospital pharmacy for
improved medication management workflows.
“We are pleased that St.
