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2005

December 19, 2005

The Continuity of Care Record: A Bird's Eye View of the EMR
Interview with Jeff Sutherland, PatientKeeper CTO
For the Record

"The CCR was designed to address issues raised by the integration of EMR. The goal is to get a standardized definition of EMR, which HL-7 [Health Level Seven] is working on. The CCR is the first standard to be created for the flow of that data."

December 14, 2005

Records Revolution
The Saginaw News

The patient chart as we know it soon will fade into history as hospitals move recordkeeping into the digital age. Your doctor has the potential to carry most of your medical files in his or her pocket - and not on paper. With a mobile device such as a personal digital assistant - a PDA - or even a "smartphone" and new software, physicians can access lab and test results, medication lists, clinical notes, X-ray readings and more at their patients' bedside and well beyond.

Covenant HealthCare in Saginaw has purchased the PatientKeeper wireless software and PDAs for about 200 doctors who sighed up for the system. A trial in August with 12 physicians proved successful and led to the official launch in early October.

"This has the potential to change the way we work because we can access data from any location," said Dr. Brian D. Schroeder, medical director of Covenant's Hospital Medicine Program. "I can pone in orders and check things all before I get to the chart."

December 13, 2005

Improving Patient Safety Through E-Prescribing
Byline By Jennifer Y. Sun, M.D.
Health-IT World

With the increasing complexity of healthcare, safety has become a key issue. Electronic prescribing plays an important role in improving patient safety. Improving safety and quality of care in prescribing lies in the prevention of errors. E-prescribing provides physicians with the ability to access a patient's medication history and drug information references at the point of prescribing.

December, 2005

Paying the Price for Going Wireless
Health Data Management

Michael Russell, M.D., associate CIO at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System is interviewed.

November 14, 2005

Privacy Fear Factor Arises
Modern Healthcare

Jeff Sutherland, PatientKeeper CTO, interviewed on security and electronic medical records.

November 7, 2005

PatientKeeper Looks for Rapid Growth in 2006
Healthcare IT News

The recent announcement that Dallas-based CHRISTUS Health would be rolling out PatientKeeper's mobile technology for 9,000 physicians across 40 hospitals signals even more rapid growth ahead for a company that over the past two years has been landing new business at a record clip. PatientKeeper reported 51 percent growth in 2004 and record sales and product deployment for the first half of 2005 with 19 new contracts and 23 deployments.

October 31, 2005

PatientKeeper Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Industry Innovation and Advancement Award
Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the world-renowned market analyst firm, has honored PatientKeeper®, Inc. with the 2005 Industry Innovation and Advancement of the Year Award. PatientKeeper offers a broad portfolio of mobile applications that support the workflow of physicians and other healthcare professionals.

October 25, 2005

Centricity Goes Mobile
Health Data Management

GE Healthcare Information Technologies introduced a mobile computing platform at the Medical Group Management Association's annual conference, Oct. 23-26 in Nashville, Tenn.

The Centricity Physician Office Mobile software enables physicians to use PDAs and smart phones to access rounding data - such as patient lists and schedules - and capture charges. The Barrington, Ill.-based vendor is using mobile computing technology from PatientKeeper, Inc., Boston.

October 25, 2005

CHRISTUS Health Standardizes on PatientKeeper Across 40 Hospitals to Provide Best-in-Class Mobile Applications to its 9,000 Physicians
Houston Chronicle

An extensive review of the marketplace and a proven track of innovation and success lead to the selection of PatientKeeper.

October 11, 2005

Wireless Devices Are Good For Business, But Create Security Challenges
Information Week

The healthcare industry's use of wireless devices, on the other hand, is well established. Now the introduction of mainstream mobile devices is helping the industry move away from proprietary wireless technology. The Northeast Medical Center Hospital, for example, has rolled out PatientKeeper software on Treo 650 devices, which doctors use to track patients and get lab results.

October 10, 2005

Enhancing Patient Safety with Mobile Computing
Advance for Health Information Executives

IT can enhance patient safety by preventing errors, facilitating a rapid response in critical scenarios and providing feedback about adverse events. Byline by Jennifer Y. Sun, MD, MS, FAAP, PatientKeeper Clinical Product Manager.

October 10, 2005

A New Physicians Assistant
Wall Street Journal

Anil Dara, chief of staff at Northeast Medical Center Hospital, a 243-bed facility in Humble, Texas, also uses his Treo PDA, from Palm, to educate patients. "We have patient information that is up-to-the-minute in the palm of our hands," says Dr. Dara, who uses software from PatientKeeper Inc.

September 8, 2005

The Drive to Establish the Continuity of Care Record
Health Imaging News

Q&A with Jeff Sutherland, PatientKeeper CTO

September 1, 2005

Integrating Integrated Delivery Systems
Health Data Management

Despite challenges, including vendor standardization and process change, integrated delivery systems are pulling themselves together with I.T. PatientKeeper client, Halifax Community Health System of Daytona Beach, Fla., is interviewed.

September, 2005

Thinking Small
Health IT Strategist

IT Companies Wrestle with How to Approach the Small Physician-Practice Market. Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper founder and VP of marketing and business development is interviewed.

August 23, 2005

Verizon Wireless Has Teamed with PatientKeeper
Wireless Week

Verizon Wireless has teamed with PatientKeeper to make the PatientKeeper Platform accessible to physicians, which will give them secure mobile access to medical system applications. The platform is designed to connect mobile devices with hospital information systems.

August 22, 2005

Questions Surround Smartphone Security
Network World

Carla Maslakowski, vice president and CIO at Northeast Regional Medical Center outside of Houston, discusses the hospital's staff use of the PalmOne Treo 650 Smartphone running the Patientkeeper application to support secure access to patient clinical results.

August 15, 2005

PDAs Clarify Dictation
Advance for Health Information Professionals

To clear up the misconceptions of the personal digital assistant's (PDA's) dictation input technology, professionals in the field offer examples of accuracy, clarity and patient satisfaction. Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper founder and VP of marketing and business development is interviewed.

August 2, 2005

PDA App Can Send Dictated Notes
Mobile Health Data

Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. has enabled physicians to use PDAs to dictate notes and send them via the Internet to AssistMed Inc., Los Angeles for transcription. The transmission capability now is a feature on PatientKeeper's Mobile Dictation hand-held application.

July 26, 2005

PatientKeeper Reports Record Sales and Product Deployments in the First Half of 2005
Forbes

New Contracts, Client Expansions, and Industry Awards Further Establish PatientKeeper's Positoin as the Leader of Mobile Computing for Healthcare.

July 20, 2005

CHRISTUS Health Mobile Healthcare Team Wins 2005 AMDIS Award
Yahoo

The winners of the 2005 AMDIS awards for excellence and achievement in applied medical informatics have learned how to get people to buy into their programs for using health information technology. PatientKeeper client, CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital, is one of the five 2005 winners.

July 20, 2005

Physicians Select Software for Wireless Access to Hospital Patient Information
Wireless Week

University Physicians at Stony Brook (UPSB), the coordinating entity for a faculty practice of 500 physicians in Stony Brook, New York, is implementing PatientKeeper ePrescription, powered by DrFirst, as part of a mobile healthcare initiative. UPSB doctors are using PatientKeeper Charge Capture for charge capture and billing processes.

June 28, 2005

Decision App Finds Home in Library
Mobile Health Data

Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. is enabling access to clinical decision support software from Isabel Healthcare Inc. through its Reference Library application. The Reference Library system is designed to link patient information, including lab results, medication lists and patient notes, to various clinical reference applications.

June, 2005

Up & Comers - Innovation and Growth are All Around
Healthcare Informatics

PatientKeeper: Making It Mobile

The key to overall ongoing growth for PatientKeeper is the combination of capabilities it offers: clinical results, clinical desktop, charge capture, mobile dictation, e-prescribing and decision support, all integrated and in a single solution.

May 23, 2005

Records Vendors Win TEPR Awards
Health Data Management

Six health care software vendors won top awards for product functionality during the recent 2005 Toward an Electronic Patient Record Conference in Salt Lake City. The 6th Annual TEPR Awards followed a two-phase selection process whereby independent judges viewed and scored award applications to select finalists, then judged product demonstrations at the conference.

Mobile applications: PatientKeeper Inc., Boston, Mass.

May 12, 2005

Interview With Paul Brient, President, Chief Executive Officer, PatientKeeper, Inc.
Wall Street Reporter

PatientKeeper®, Inc. provides healthcare professionals with mobile computing solutions that deliver clinical and financial benefits.

May, 2005

Systems Integration: The Electronic Records Linchpin
Health Data Management

Side Bar: Mobility matters, but how much?

Northeast Medical Center Hospital, Humble, Texas, is rolling out a suite of mobile applications from Boston, Mass.-based PatientKeeper Inc. The applications enable physicians to use PDAs or smart phones to access lab and test rusults and other rounding information.

April 26, 2005

Mount Sinai Selects PatientKeeper
Advance for Health Information Professionals

The Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, a center for medical and scientific training, has selected PatientKeeper® as its mobile software platform. A group of 200 physicians in the department of medicine is using PatientKeeper Charge Capture™ to streamline and improve the billing process. The mobile initiative will be funded from the return on investment from this group of physicians.

April 1, 2005

Nursing Goes High-Tech
Advance for Health Information Executives

Mobile Solutions for Physicians Get Nurses Back to Nursing sidebar by Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper founder and VP of marketing and business development. Today's mobile health care software applications are designed to provide physicians with easy access to patient information using devices such as PDAs, smartphones and tablets. Implementing mobile solutions helps to eliminate many of the unnecessary "chart chases," phone calls, and transcription of information that can consume valuable nursing time and lead to costly contract nursing.

April 1, 2005

Mobile Health and Systems Integration
Mobile Health Data

Northeast Medical Center Hospital, Humble, Texas, is rolling out a suite of mobile applications from Brighton, Mass.-based PatientKeeper Inc. The applications enable physicians to use PDAs or smart phones to access lab and test results and other rounding information. The mobile software is interfaced with Northeast Medical's hospital information system.

April, 2005

Mobile Computing and Physician Workflow
Maximizing the Gains of Mobility
Health Management Technology

Mobile technology's workflow improvements for physicians have a downstream effect through entire healthcare systems. Byline article by Paul W. Brient, President and CEO of PatientKeeper.

March 8, 2005

Health Level Seven, Object Manage Group Begin Joint Healthcare Software Services Standardization Work
Object Management Group

The IT specifications consortium Object Management Group (OMG) and Health Level Seven (HL7) are collaborating to build a set of standard healthcare-domain software components and services interface standards to promote open interoperability across health provider organizations and products...to support healthcare IT as part of national initiatives such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Health Information Infrastructure. PatientKeeper is one of growing list of companies and organizations that have formally committed their support and resources in support of this initiative.

March 7, 2005

The Politics of Electronic Records
Health Data Management

At long last, health care information technology takes the Washington stage. But will legislators cry 'Bravo' or leave at intermission? Paul W. Brient, PatientKeeper CEO interviewed.

February 25, 2005

Texas Hospital Adds Mobile Health Care System
iHealthBeat

Northeast Medical Center in Humble, Texas, is implementing a mobile health care system that will provide physicians with "virtually unlimited access" to patient lab results, medication information and billing updates, the Houston Chronicle reports. The PatientKeeper system will allow providers to access patient records via mobile devices, such as personal digital assistants and "smartphones," the Chronicle reports. All patient information is encrypted and password protected.

February 17, 2005

Fast Forward - Handheld Healthcare
CNBC News

CNBC news reports that mobile healthcare solutions save physicians time, improve patient care, and help curb rising healthcare costs. PatientKeeper, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. David Brailer are featured.

February 14, 2005

Dictation on the Go
Heathcare IT News

Doctors at Berkshire Faculty Services, a multi-specialty group practice affiliated with Berkshire Health Systems, are poised to ditch telephone dictation in favor of dictating straight into their PDAs. That makes the group of 42 physicians and 14 nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants part of a growing trend of clinicians turning to mobile dictation as the preferred way to record their patient notes, say industry observers... Berkshire will roll out mobile dictation technology from Boston-based PatientKeeper, ...

February 1, 2005

PatientKeeper Mobilizes GE Healthcare
Mobile Health Data

GE Healthcare will incorporate mobile technology from Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. and market it as Centricity Physician Office Mobile software. The new partnership represents an integration of GE Healthcare's Centricity electronic records system and PatientKeeper's mobile software.

Centricity Physician Office Mobile will be officially unveiled at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference and Exhibition, Feb. 13-17 in Dallas. The integrated system is designed to give physicians mobile access to medical records, clinical decision support applications and charge capture tools. Charge capture will be the first PatientKeeper function in Centricity Mobile, with other tools to be added over time.

February, 2005

Wireless Attractions
Healthcare Informatics

The devices sell themselves when introduced in a physician-friendly package. CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital, CorpusChristi, TX installed PatientKeeper across three hospital campuses. Dr. Darrick Nelson offers insight into a successful rollout of mobile healthcare.

January 24, 2005

Information Technology for Healing Hands
Mass High Tech

When Paul Brient was 16, he wrote a simple software program for physician-practice management. Now, more than two decades later, he is still developing tools for use by medical professionals. The company he leads, PatientKeeper, Inc., is on the cutting edge of providing software products for mobile medical computing.

January 17, 2005

Business Comes First
Survey says more docs are using PDAs, Web for professional purposes.
Modern Physician

Joseph Bonventre, M.D., says this year's Modern Physician/PricewaterhouseCoopers IT survey results regarding PDA and Internet usage reflect the changes that have occurred in just six years in medicine. For one thing, tens of thousands of tech-savvy young doctors have entered the profession.

Six years ago, Bonventre helped found PatientKeeper, a healthcare IT company based in Brighton, Mass. It develops clinical software products for PDAs and wireless computers, including tools for prescription writing, dictation, charge capture and results reporting. He remains on its medical advisory board.

January 12, 2005

Physicians Mobilize Siemens System
Mobile Health Data

A Kansas City, Kan.-based group practice has implemented mobile software from Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. at its main hospital facility. Kansas University Physicians Inc. is using the PatientKeeper Platform to offer its physicians mobile access to the INVISION health care information system from Malvern, Pa.-based Siemens Medical Solutions, an application used throughout the University of Kansas Hospital.

January 12, 2005

PatientKeeper Adds Kansas Physicians Group to Client Rolls
Mass High Tech

PatientKeeper, a Boston-based provider of mobile computing systems for health care, has been chosen by Kansas University Physicians Inc., the largest multi-specialty group practice in Kansas, to supply its PatientKeeper Platform at the University of Kansas Hospital. The installation will directly integrate PatientKeeper's portfolio of mobile applications to Siemens' Invision health care information system. No financial details of the deal were disclosed.

January 3, 2005

The Power of Mobiilty
For the Record

Healthcare organzations that provice their physicians with PDA dictation systems may reap a king's ransom. Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper VP of Marketing and Business Development discusses PatientKeeper Mobile Dictation™.

January 3, 2005

Businesses see bright signs for the year to come
Paul W. Brient, PatientKeeper Inc., Boston
Boston Business Journal

As we look ahead to 2005, we see continued growth in the health care sector, particularly in the area of health care technology. The outlook for anyone participating in health care, especially in health care IT, is very positive and health care will continue to be a major driver of the regional economy in 2005. Being in Boston, at the crossroads of health care and technology, is a terrific competitive advantage for PatientKeeper, and that should help us continue our record growth in 2005.

January 1, 2005

Wireless by Design
Health Management Technology

Three separate and dramatically different organizations made the decision to shed hard wires - and, in some cases, paper. All are at various stages in their wireless evolution, and all have been challenged to get their arms around a range of devices, individual work styles, implementations and platforms.

Most physicians at Duke University Health System (DUHS) in Durham, N.C., already have and use personal digital assistants (PDAs). When DUHS began rolling out a wireless application specifically designed for clinicians with PDAs, the project's success was almost guaranteed.