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Background

In 2008, Health Monitoring Systems had connected its 300th hosptial to the EpiCenter System.  At the time, this was the largest health information exchange in the country.  While explaining this milestone to Kimberly Lyons-Neel, a hospital executive, lightening struck.  Ms. Lyons-Neel immediately grasped the significance of Health Monitoring Systems’ large health information exchange.  “You know […]

Return on Investment

MediCenter improves medication list accuracy, increases nursing efficiency, and demonstrates clinical significance. The end result is an improvement in operating costs of about $300,000. Improvement in operating costs is due to reductions in nursing time and adverse drug event rate. Hospitals are inherently complex. As a reference, a 250 bed facility with 40,000 emergency department […]

Trial

Health Monitoring Systems launched the MediCenter medication reconciliation service in 2009 with the help and support of over 25 hospitals that provided invaluable guidance in determining the needs of busy emergency department clinicians.  Following our successful initial service launch, we are seeking 10 facilities to demonstrate leadership in defining a workable, efficient model for emergency […]

HMS helps health departments meet PHER funding criteria

Pittsburgh, PA, October 7, 2009 — Health Monitoring Systems helps health departments meet the CDC’s Public Health Emergency Response (PHER) funding criteria through use of its EpiCenter system.

KDKA-TV Sunday Business Page

Pittsburgh, PA, June 7, 2009 — Health Monitoring Systems’ CEO Kevin Hutchison discusses H1N1 with KDKA-CBS’ John Delano and John Manzetti CEO of the Pittsburgh Life Science Greenhouse.

Atlantic County Uses EpiCenter™ to Closely Monitor H1N1

Atlantic County, NJ, May 5, 2009 — The Atlantic County Division of Public Health is using Health Monitoring Systems’ EpiCenter™ software service to closely monitor the H1N1 virus.  The local NBC affiliate reports on the county’s surveillance efforts.

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