Tuesday, May 5, 2010Pittsburgh TEQ® By Bill Kirchner, Contributing Writer It’s that time of year again and TEQ is ecstatic to provide coverage of the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. This year’s program highlights 18 of the most successful entrepreneurs from Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Upstate New York.
Summary Health Monitoring Systems conducted a pilot study of the MediCenter medication reconciliation system that showed improved medication list accuracy, increased nursing efficiency, and demonstrated clinical significance while offering a potential return on investment of $300,000. Pilot Study Numerous healthcare quality organizations have identified medication administration as an area of improvement for patient safety. The […]
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MediCenter’s straight-forward design makes it simple for hospitals to get going. Our project management team has an easy-to-follow checklist of items for hospitals to review. These items include operational aspects that ensure administrative, legal, and clinical issues are addressed. The IT implementation of the MediCenter service is straightforward as well. In less than a week, Health […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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, 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.