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ED Physicians Adopt Wellsoft and Speech Recognition Integration

Somerset, NJ – February 23, 2010 – Wellsoft Corporation announced today that Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania is successfully using Dragon® Medical software from Nuance Communications, Inc. to navigate and dictate within Wellsoft EDIS.

Wellsoft EDIS provides complete information management for the Emergency Department (ED) with the most comprehensive range of features and functionality for improving workflow and increasing patient satisfaction. In addition to integration with Dragon Medical, Wellsoft EDIS seamlessly integrates with HL7 compliant hospital wide and departmental systems such as laboratory, radiology, and hospital billing systems. Wellsoft’s integration capabilities combined with its core functions of patient tracking, clinical documentation, order entry and medication management will promote continuity of care by allowing all caregivers and staff throughout the facility authorized access to relevant information.

Saves Time and Makes Doctors Happy at Memorial Hospital

Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania, a 150-bed hospital serving over 40,000 ED patients each year, enhanced their Wellsoft EDIS implementation recently with Wellsoft Physician Documentation and Dragon Medical 10. This replaces costly dictation. Immediate benefits included a significant reduction in the time spent documenting care – before many doctors spent multiple hours after shift, dictating patient information, now, all documentation is completed in real time – no more extra hours spent.

Dr. Greg Smolin, Medical Director at Memorial said, “The ability to add documentation in real time is not only a time saver, but enhances communication and accuracy about each patient’s condition among providers while the patient is in the ED, rather than after discharge. Dragon Medical 10, in conjunction with Wellsoft physician documentation templates, gives us the tools to efficiently add detailed physician notes to the medical record and enhances the HPI and medical decision making content of our documentation. The extremely functional interface of Wellsoft and Dragon is an excellent solution to our EMR needs.”

About Dragon Medical from Nuance Communications, Inc.

Dragon Medical effectively allows physicians to dictate patient information and findings directly into EHRs to generate both the critical narrative components of the note along with required structured elements. Dragon Medical works with most windows-based EHRs. Today, Dragon Medical is used by more than 150,000 caregivers in hospitals and physician practices across private, public and government settings. To learn more about Nuance’s medical speech recognition solutions and how they contribute to improved safety, quality and efficiency of care as part of EHR meaningful use, please visit: www.nuance.com/healthcare/.

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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