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.
Contacts:
Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper, shau@patientkeeper.com, (617)
987-0304
Amanda Griffith, Schwartz Communications, patientkeeper@schwartz-pr.com,
(781) 684-6269
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