Eclipsys
Corporation® (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, announced today
that Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center (Bronx Lebanon), the largest
voluntary, not-for-profit healthcare system in south and central Bronx,
NY, has quickly expanded its use of integrated clinical components of
Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise™ suite of solutions. In addition to a
seamless “big bang” activation of Sunrise
Emergency Care™ within its emergency department (ED), Bronx Lebanon
has recently completed a successful, six-month accelerated activation of
Eclipsys’ Sunrise
Ambulatory Care™ solution within a 40-doctor multispecialty
practice. The ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) implementation
is the first step in a plan to roll out ambulatory EHRs to all 27 of
Bronx Lebanon’s outpatient practice clinics in 2010. Both activations
build upon the healthcare system’s use of Eclipsys’ access management
and industry-leading computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solutions
within its acute care environments.
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A Scalable Template for Full Ambulatory EHR Rollout
“Because Eclipsys’ CPOE solution is integrated with Sunrise Ambulatory
Care, we were able to utilize applications, such as orders, immunization
manager and wellness manager, which are embedded in the structured notes
of our ambulatory EHR,” said Eliot Heller, M.D., chief medical
informatics officer, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. “Amazingly, we
completed the launch with only two IT staff dedicated to the project
because of the expertise and planning assistance we received from our
Eclipsys team. I believe we deployed the outpatient EHR faster than any
of the other healthcare systems in our area.”
Added Heller, “This launch also has given us a scalable template for
deploying an EHR solution in our remaining 27 ambulatory care practices.”
Bronx Lebanon utilized Eclipsys’ speed to value methodology to deploy
Sunrise Ambulatory Care. The ambulatory EHR solution provides outpatient
physicians with clinical decision support, web-based practice management
and medical billing support and embedded connectivity to streamline
healthcare data exchange with pharmacies and payers. This functionality
not only increases operational efficiency, but also will help providers
demonstrate meaningful use, a key requirement for hospitals that seek to
qualify for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus funds.
Sunrise Ambulatory Care v 5.0 is Surescripts certified for Prescription
Benefit and Prescription History services and Prescription Routing with
retail pharmacy.
ED Activation Eliminates Documentation Redundancies; Seamless to
End-User Community
Bronx Lebanon further leveraged its Eclipsys’ technology platform with
its recent “big bang” activation of electronic physician documentation
of patient care in the emergency room setting. Steven Anderman, chief
operating officer, stated, “Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, the
combination of careful resource planning, physician leadership and
execution, as well as strong Eclipsys support resulted in a very
successful EHR implementation, with no loss of operational productivity
and minimal problems in our busy ED.”
The activation, which involved 60 physicians, builds upon ED nurses’ use
of Sunrise Emergency Care, as well as Eclipsys’ electronic tracking
board. Now that both physicians and nurses are utilizing the same
system, the hospital has significantly eliminated documentation
redundancy among the care team for improved speed and accuracy of care
notes and orders.
“The Eclipsys support people were instrumental in the ED activation
going so smoothly,” said Thomas Boyd, M.D., assistant medical director,
ER, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. “They demonstrated strong knowledge
of the applications and took the time to familiarize themselves with the
specifics of what we wanted to achieve at Bronx Lebanon. From a benefits
perspective, the Eclipsys solutions have provided our emergency
physicians with a visible measure of increased charting accuracy and
workflow efficiency. Laboratory and radiology results and past medical
history are all automatically pulled into the chart. We’re no longer
rewriting radiology interpretation, so rather than slowing work down as
was feared, the new technology is providing us with data that is a great
benefit to performing admission diagnosis and assessments.”
The ED activation was another large implementation for Bronx Lebanon to
bring it to an almost 100 percent electronic world. In 2010, it will
complete rolling out the EHR solution to most of the remaining 27 Bronx
Lebanon practices, followed by a dedicated rollout of Eclipsys’ clinical
documentation solution within inpatient settings at its two main
hospitals. Once the IT projects are completed, the health system will
have enabled bi-directional, enterprise-wide information sharing and
access to patient records from any location.
“Our market leadership in CPOE provides health systems with a solid
foundation for EHR deployment,” said Jay Deady, Eclipsys’ executive vice
president of Client Solutions. “In combination with our speed to value
methodology, we can enable any health system, regardless of size or
resource constraints, to quickly deploy Eclipsys technologies for
improved clinical, operational and financial outcomes.”