Healthcare is an inherently mobile environment – equipment and people are in constant motion. Awarepoint Real-time Awareness Solutions help hospitals map their mobile equipment, patient and staff resources throughout the enterprise; monitor usage and interaction; measure utilization and efficiency; and provide data for process improvement. Awarepoint addresses cost reduction and quality of care in hospitals by focusing on efficiency of the highest cost items in healthcare: equipment resources and people. Awarepoint solutions assist hospital administrators in managing multi-million-dollar budgets, meeting aggressive quality and safety targets, recruiting and retaining employees and driving staff, patient and surgeon satisfaction. Equipment recall notice required a hospital to immediately locate and apply warning labels to nearly 200 IV pumps. Such recalls often require enormous staff time and several weeks. With Awarepoint, staff located and labeled all pumps within 48 hours of recall, using 1/2 the staff typically required.

Before LifeMOD, the method of developing a new joint replacement system was to manufacture the physical prototype of the proposed design, then surgically implant it in a cadaver specimen. This process would usually take about two or three months. Also before LifeMOD, orthopedic surgeries such as spinal fusion, disk replacement, knee replacement, were performed with very little pre-operative information. Now, LifeModeler provides a human simulation program, LifeMOD, to the orthopedic manufactures to eliminate the traditional cadaver-based design cycle. LifeMOD is a virtual human model, complete with all bones, joints and muscles, which can walk, dance, and golf or virtually perform any human activity. The same technology is also being used by surgeons to create a LifeMOD computer model of the patient before surgery. LifeMOD is currently being relied on as the major product design system for the top 6 orthopedic manufacturers for knee and spinal orthopedic devices.

Studies show improved patient outcomes and decreased lengths of stay for patients in intensive care units (ICU) managed by critical care physicians. Yet, due to a current and worsening shortage in the specialty, it’s difficult to impossible for some hospitals to have these physicians on-site 24 hours a day. In 2006, a group of independent hospitals joined together to find a solution to the critical care physician shortage, leveraging their combined resources to enhance care for their communities. Maryland eCare now connects physicians, nurses and patients via voice, camera and data feeds, enabling hospitals to provide the highest level of specialized care around the clock. The eCare program is designed to help reduce patient complications and improve outcomes in the ICU while enhancing the work environment for health care providers. The immediate benefit has been overwhelming satisfaction from both physicians and nurses who feel the eCare program enhances the quality of care provided and improves their quality of life.

Fewer than 6% of doctors in the US have adopted complete Electronic Health Record systems in their practices according to the latest 2009 CDC reports. EHR use has been shown to improve the quality, efficiency and safety of medical care. This dismal technology adoption rate is largely due to a market for EHR systems dominated by bulky, difficult legacy technology costing $50,000 or more per physician. Practice Fusion provides a free, web-based Electronic Health Record system to any physician in the US. They eliminate the cost barriers to adoption by providing the EHR system for free with unlimited free support. They eliminate the technology barriers to adoption by making the EHR system web-based and accessible from any internet-connected computer. Practice Fusion includes charting, scheduling, e-prescribing, lab integrations, reporting, billing, secure messaging and an integrated Personal Health Record for patients. Practice Fusion has over 25,000 users and over 1 million patients utilizing the free EHR system.

In the event of a user’s unavailability in the clinical/hospital facility due to his personal reason, providing alternate user access is a major issue. For example, if a person working in the emergency room was sick, getting an alternate user to access his or her files is problematic. In response to this problem, Sajix has created emergency user access functionality within HIS. Sajix creates emergency users with approvers and monitors for these users. They then assign these emergency users to users who will be handling the breakglass functionality. This functionality will allow them to handle the breakglass situation in a quick manner. At the same time, Sajix can track all the activities/changes performed by the user during the breakglass situation. They then report to the monitors to check whether the user has not deviated from the breakglass functionality. This will save a lot of time, and will better the monitoring functionality of HIS.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that in a few years 90 percent of physicians will be using a comprehensive EHR system. Unfortunately, EHR solutions are often costly and can initially be a financial burden to the practice, and many practices face logistical challenges when they move from paper to electronic records. Sequel Systems offers a unique solution and implementation strategy where users are steadily acclimated to new processes while the technology itself is customized to meet the unique needs and workflow of the practice. SequelMed EHR is a fully integrated solution that combines the power of practice management, document management and medical records solutions. This helps capture and manage health records information, automate and streamline the practice’s workflow, and monitor patient activity. By implementing Sequel Systems’ EHR Solution, Allergy, Asthma and Immunology of Rochester (AAIR) has seen has seen a total 2009 savings of more than $110,000.

51% of the 1.8 billion prescriptions dispensed annually in the U.S. are not taken as they are prescribed. By itself, in the U.S., not taking medications correctly results in 125,000 unnecessary deaths and 1,000,000 hospitalizations. TabSafe was founded to develop a simple, innovative technology-based solution to assist with personal medication management and to combat the very complex problem of non-adherence. TabSafe uses patented and proven technologies to improve medication adherence and the overall wellness of the Company’s customers. TabSafe stores medications releasing them for users according to a prescribed schedule. The system also uniquely accommodates “as needed” medications and, therefore, can be used in managing pain medications or other medicines that shouldn’t be taken too frequently. The TabSafe system is the only personal medication management system that creates the closed-loop connectivity between user, physician, and pharmacist allowing for real-time adjustments to medication regimens.

Revenue Cycle Management is one of those overloaded terms that many vendors use, but can mean as little as submitting a claim. While traditional billing software has attempted to improve billing operations through incremental enhancements, there is a limit to its effectiveness, especially since it does not address changes to process and resource management. XIFIN’s revolutionary approach to process optimization is very different – taking a holistic view of laboratory billing, including workflow design and automation, deep integration with third party technologies, and expert services and consulting. XIFIN billing system doesn’t just improve upon an already broken process, it provides an entirely new framework for your laboratory's revenue cycle management. Because the XIFIN billing system was designed as a web-based application, laboratories are no longer required to maintain the expensive IT hardware and software infrastructure necessary to run a secure, enterprise-class laboratory billing system.