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Wellsoft’s Medication Verification and Exchange integrates with Design Clinical’s MedsTracker Somerset, NJ – February 4, 2010 - Wellsoft Corporation announced today that its Medication Verification & Exchange feature has been successfully integrated with MedsTracker® from Design Clinicals, Inc. at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, New Jersey. CentraState Medical Center, which serves 60,000 ED patients each year in its 285-bed hospital, has been a Wellsoft EDIS client since 2004. CentraState Medical Center added Wellsoft EDIS Medication & Verification Exchange features and interfaces in December, 2009 completing integration with CentraState’s MedsTracker electronic medication reconciliation platform. Wellsoft’s Medication Verification & Exchange feature allows for bi-directional exchange and synchronization of codified home medication and prescription information across the hospital enterprise as well as medications administered in the emergency department. Wellsoft currently supports information exchange with First Data Bank, RxNorm, and Elsevier’s Gold Standard Clinical Pharmacology and plans to support other content providers, such as NDC, MicroMedex and Cerner® Multum. 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. Wellsoft works closely with its clients to gain a mutual understanding of goals to develop a feature expansion roadmap for each client. Indranil Ganguly, FHIMSS, CHCIO, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at CentraState Health Care System stated, “Wellsoft met our integration needs for managing patient medication information at CentraState. The use of HL7 messages to provide real-time medication verification between Wellsoft EDIS and our hospital-wide medication information repository is helping CentraState maintain patient safety.” “Our goal is to provide a product that enhances medication safety and that also supports clinician workflow,” explained founder and designer CEO Dewey Howell, MD, PhD. “Working with Wellsoft to meet the integration goals of CentraState further establishes the flexibility of MedsTracker to meet our clients’ specific needs to ensure the highest levels of patient safety.” “Integration with MedsTracker gives our clients another option for managing patient medication information,” said Dr. John Santmann, President of Wellsoft. “Integration between the Emergency Department and other hospital and ancillary systems enables our clients to improve patient outcomes.” About Design ClinicalsDesign Clinicals, Inc. is a healthcare information technology company dedicated to providing leading-edge tools to improve the delivery of patient care. Founded in 2005 by practicing physicians and hospital IT professionals, Design Clinicals offers innovative, intuitive software solutions that enhance communications, improve workflow, increase patient safety and ensure regulatory compliance. Products are highly adaptive, able to integrate with virtually any hospital information system, with proven, superior clinician adoption rates. For more information, visit www.DesignClinicals.com. About Wellsoft CorporationWellsoft Corporation, developer and provider of the industry-leading EDIS since 1988 is CCHIT® certified and consistently ranked the top EDIS by KLAS (2006-2009) and MD Buyline. Wellsoft provides complete information management for the Emergency Department. With installations in the U.S. and Canada, Wellsoft hospital clients, combined, server over 3 million 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. For Further InformationContact Denise Helfand
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