PHYSICIAN COMMUNITY AT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER
ECSTATIC ABOUT PATIENTKEEPER PORTAL AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Award-Winning Software Provides
Organization with Important Competitive Advantage
Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Boston, Mass – May 18, 2006
– Mercy Medical Center, the leading healthcare provider in
Eastern Iowa, and PatientKeeper®, the leading developer of
physician information systems, today announced that physicians
are saving time, enhancing patient care and service, and
improving job satisfaction with software from PatientKeeper. The
physician community is ecstatic about the success of the
PatientKeeper portal and mobile applications, and benefits accrue
to the entire organization. Mercy Medical Center has consistently
earned national recognition for excellence and quality in patient
care with skilled professionals working with the latest advances
in medical technology.
“PatientKeeper has been very well adopted, leading to
increased physician satisfaction and enhanced patient care and
service,” said A. Jim Tinker, president & CEO of Mercy
Medical Center. “Giving our physicians an advantage has
given the entire organization an important competitive advantage
as well.”
Physicians at Mercy Medical Center have enthusiastically
embraced PatientKeeper Physician Portal™ and PatientKeeper
Mobile Clinical Results™ . They now access their
patients’ complete medical records using PDAs, Smartphones,
tablets, or any computer with a Web browser. The convenience,
robustness, and ease of use of PatientKeeper have allowed
physicians to focus on providing the highest quality of care
rather than wrestling with information technology.
“When physicians have the proper tools for easy and
timely access to clinical information, the community is the real
winner,” said Jeff Cash, CIO and vice president at Mercy
Medical Center. “Patients receive the best health care
possible, and the organization remains efficient and
competitive.”
Orthopaedic surgeon Sandeep Munjal, MD was one of the first
area physicians to utilize the PatientKeeper technology.
“It is very, very helpful. Even if you’re out of town
you can access patient data,” said Dr. Munjal. “It
has changed my routine. I can have patient information from home
or anywhere I like. I don’t have to call nurses for lab
results or other information I need.”
MercyCare family physician Marc Wilkinson, MD uses a cell
phone as his PDA for PatientKeeper. “It allows me to check
the status of my patients in a more timely manner and it makes
rounds at the hospital easier. I no longer have to search for
patient charts or find a free computer terminal,” said Dr.
Wilkinson.
Only PatientKeeper is designed to support physicians
throughout their entire day, across all settings of care.
Applications allow physicians to access their patients’
electronic records, write prescriptions, enter charges for
services, document patient encounters, place orders, and securely
send messages to other caregivers – all in a single
integrated environment. Mercy Medical Center is using
PatientKeeper Physician Portal and PatientKeeper Mobile Clinical
Results to enhance patient care and improve physician
satisfaction.
- PatientKeeper Physician Portal provides a comprehensive,
longitudinal view of a patient’s entire medical history
from any Web browser
- PatientKeeper Mobile Clinical Results delivers access to
essential patient clinical information – anytime, anywhere
with PDAs and Smartphones
Mercy Medical Center is one of over sixty MEDITECH hospitals
that have selected PatientKeeper as their physician information
system in just the last six months. In addition to MEDITECH,
PatientKeeper has integrated to all major hospital information
systems and electronic medial records (EMRs), including Cerner,
Eclipsys, Epic, GE Healthcare/IDX, McKesson, QuadraMed, and
Siemens.
“We are pleased Mercy Medical Center and their
physicians have embraced PatientKeeper,” said Paul W.
Brient, PatientKeeper CEO and president. “PatientKeeper has
a long track record of innovation and success with MEDITECH
clients. We can provide all the benefits of direct integration
and a fully redundant MEDITECH downtime solution, giving users
uninterrupted access to patient information and clinical data
even when the MEDITECH system is down.”
About Mercy Medical Center
Mercy Medical Center is a fully accredited, not-for-profit
healthcare organization serving Eastern Iowa offering
state-of-the-art technology and services. When the Sisters of
Mercy founded Mercy Hospital in 1900, they intended it to be not
only "the peer of the best" but also a place of service to the
sick and the poor. This vision of care and concern in the midst
of high technology is the Sister's heritage. Today, The Mercy
Touch® is embodied in the nurse who delays her dinner break
to help the young mom close to delivering a child; in the
housekeeper who holds the hand of an agitated patient while her
coworker vacuums; in the volunteer who helps someone out of the
elevator and directs a visitor. The Mercy organization exists to
improve the health and wellness of the community it serves, and
strives to promote excellence in all aspects of its service.
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.
For more information, visit www.patientkeeper.com or call 617-987-0300.
Contact:
Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper, shau@patientkeeper.com, (617)
987-0304
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