Increased Efficiency & Patient Satisfaction Key Drivers
Somerset, NJ – July 6, 2009 – Wellsoft Corporation is pleased to announce that Boca Raton Community Hospital in Boca Raton, Florida selected its Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) in May, 2009. Serving over 43,000 patients each year in its Emergency Department, Boca Raton Community Hospital provides healthcare to South Florida residents.
The selection of Wellsoft EDIS will enable Boca Raton Community Hospital to realize its goals of building efficiencies into the Emergency Department process to track and treat patients, improve communications among caregivers, enhance patient safety and capture relevant data for subsequent quality and reporting requirements.
“After a long and thorough vetting process, we concluded that the Wellsoft EMR was the best product on the market to meet our needs,” says Evan Goldstein, M.D., Emergency Department physician. “We are excited to be partnering with the industry leader.”
Wellsoft EDIS will automate processes in the ED resulting in increased efficiency in patient throughput. Patient tracking, nurse and physician documentation, order entry, results and other functionality such as Clinical Decision Support and Image Capture will help reduce waiting time, length of stay and elopements. Automatic Charge Capture will help ensure appropriate billing. Wellsoft’s support of HL7 standard will enable seamless integration with the hospital wide and other departmental systems at Boca Raton Community Hospital.
"We are pleased to be selected to help Boca Raton Community Hospital realize their goals,” said Wellsoft President John Santmann, MD. “Wellsoft EDIS will deliver a leading edge healthcare solution that will positively impact patient care by decreasing patient wait time, improving communication and providing instant access to patient information.”
About Boca Raton Community Hospital
Serving the community since 1967, Boca Raton Community Hospital is a 400-bed not-for-profit health care organization with more than 700 primary and specialty physicians on staff who provide preventative and acute hospital care. Areas of expertise include cancer, cardiovascular disease and surgery, minimally invasive surgery, orthopedics and women’s health, all of which offer state-of-the-art diagnostic and imaging capabilities. For more information please visit www.brch.com.
About Wellsoft Corporation
Wellsoft Corporation, developer and provider of the industry-leading EDIS since 1988 is ONC-ATCB and CCHIT Certified for Meaningful Use and consistently ranked the #1 EDIS by KLAS (2006-2010 ) and MD Buyline. Wellsoft provides complete information management for the Emergency Department. With installations in the U.S. and Canada, Wellsoft hospital clients combined serve over 3,000,000 ED patients each year. Wellsoft is recognized for providing the most complete functionality and most configurable product in the marketplace. Wellsoft works closely with each client to develop real solutions for their Emergency Department, supplying expert, personal assistance. Providing custom solutions for enterprise-wide or single hospital implementations, Wellsoft is the specialist in Emergency Department systems. For more information please visit www.wellsoft.com.
* Wellsoft EDIS v11, an EHR Module, is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by CCHIT®, an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable certification criteria for Hospitals adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments. Wellsoft EDIS v11 (certification # CC-1112-527400-1) was certified on September 23, 2010 and meets the following certification criteria in addition to Security (170.302(o), 170.302(p) , 170.302(q), 170.302(r) , 170.302(s), 170.302(t) and Privacy (170.302(u), 170.302(v); 170.302(a) Drug-Drug/Drug-Allergy Checks, 170.302(b) Drug-Formulary Checks, 170.302(c) Problem List, 170.302(d) Medication List, 170.302(e) Allergy List, 170.302(g) Smoking Status, 170.302(j) Medication Reconciliation, 170.306(a) CPOE, 170.306(b) Record Demographics, 170.306(c) Clinical Decision Support, 170.306(h) Advance Directives. Additional software used in testing included Oracle 10g or 11g.
For Further Information
Contact Denise Helfand
VP, Sales & Marketing
Wellsoft Corporation
27 Worlds Fair Dr.
Somerset, New Jersey 08873
dhelfand@wellsoft.com
toll free: 800-597-9909
FAX: 732-507-7199
www.wellsoft.com
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