Largest Kentucky Healthcare System Selects Patientkeeper As Its Physician Information System
Award-Winning Software Delivers Immediate Competitive Advantage to Norton Healthcare, While Providing Financial ROI and Infrastructure for Future Expansion
Boston, Mass. and Louisville, Ky. – September 26, 2006 – PatientKeeper®, Inc. today announced that Norton Healthcare, Kentucky’s largest healthcare system with more than 50 locations in the Louisville market, has selected PatientKeeper as its physician information system. PatientKeeper will help to deliver an immediate competitive advantage to the organization, while providing the financial ROI and data-sharing infrastructure to support future expansion. Rated one of the 100 top integrated healthcare delivery systems by Verispan, Norton Healthcare can now provide its 1,900 physicians with a broad range of software products from PatientKeeper that integrate with their existing systems.
"After an extensive review of the marketplace, we selected PatientKeeper for its track record of success and innovation," said Steve Hester, M.D., chief medical information officer at Norton Healthcare. "With PatientKeeper, we are giving our physicians an information system that provides mobile access to information and the tools to enhance patient safety and care."
Only PatientKeeper is designed to support a physician throughout the entire day, across all settings of care. PatientKeeper’s applications allow physicians to access their patients' electronic records, write prescriptions, enter charges for services, document patient encounters, and securely send messages to other caregivers – all in a single, integrated environment. PatientKeeper supports any tablet or PC running a Web browser as well as Palm OS® and Windows Mobile® devices. Physicians at Norton Healthcare will use:
- PatientKeeper Physician Portal™ to see a comprehensive view of a patient’s entire medical history from any Web browser
- PatientKeeper Mobile Clinical Results™ to access patient information – anytime, anywhere with PDAs and Smartphones
- PatientKeeper Charge Capture™ to quickly and easily record charges for services they deliver – at the point of care, in the office, or anywhere in between
- PatientKeeper eSignature™ to sign clinical notes and orders – anytime, anywhere – from a handheld PDA, laptop, wireless tablet, or desktop PC
- PatientKeeper Tasks™ to streamline patient hand-off and sign-out by ensuring that no tasks are missed in the process
PatientKeeper will also serve as a MEDITECH Downtime Solution, giving physicians uninterrupted access to patient information even when the MEDITECH system is down.
"We are proud to welcome Norton Healthcare as a partner and will work closely to address its current and future needs," said Paul W. Brient, president and CEO of PatientKeeper, Inc. "We look forward to expanding our partnership to find innovative ways to help Norton Healthcare continue to provide its physicians with the best tools possible."
PatientKeeper's physician information system has consistently garnered increased market share because of its innovative, integrated applications, in addition to direct and HL7 integration options for MEDITECH customers. In fact, since the beginning of the year, more than 80 MEDITECH hospitals have selected PatientKeeper as their physician information system, including some of MEDITECH's largest customers such as CHRISTUS Health System, a 42-hospital organization. PatientKeeper has also integrated to all major hospital information systems and electronic medial records (EMRs), including Cerner, Eclipsys, Epic, GE Healthcare/IDX, McKesson, QuadraMed, Siemens, and others.
About Norton Healthcare
For more than a century, Norton Healthcare's faith heritage has guided its mission to provide quality health care to all those served. Today, Norton Healthcare is the Louisville area's leading hospital and health care system (45 percent market share) and third largest private employer. The not-for-profit system – the largest in Kentucky and rated one of the top 100 integrated health care delivery systems in the country – includes four hospitals in Louisville, eight Norton Immediate Care Centers, 9,400 employees, 200 employed medical providers at more than 50 locations, and 1,900 total physicians on its medical staff. Norton Healthcare serves the greater Louisville metro area, including Southern Indiana, and patients throughout Kentucky.
About PatientKeeper
PatientKeeper®, Inc. provides physicians with software that delivers clinical and financial benefits. Only PatientKeeper is designed to support a physician through the entire day. At any time, anywhere, physicians can access their patients' electronic records, write prescriptions, enter charges, dictate notes, document encounters, place orders, or send secure messages to other caregivers – all in a single integrated environment. PatientKeeper has been recognized with the 2006 Microsoft Healthcare User Group (MS-HUG) Award, 2006 and 2005 AMDIS (Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems) Awards for clients' successes, 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Industry Innovation and Advancement, and other industry awards. For more information, visit www.patientkeeper.com or call 617-987-0300.
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