A Medical Device Daily

QuadraMed (Reston, Virginia) said that Sibley Memorial Hospital (Washington) selected QuadraMed’s Computerized Patient Record (QCPR) as part of its initiative to build a longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) to further drive its patient safety and care delivery.

Lorraine Fordham, Sibley’s CIO, said, “Our nurses and physicians are very pleased with the advanced functionality of the applications, which allow us to easily access important clinical data and customize the solution to accommodate an individual’s workflow needs.”

Sibley said the selection of QuadraMed’s enterprise-wide computer-based patient record system would leverage its previous investment in QuadraMed’s solutions while also contributing to its goal of vendor consolidation to integrate and streamline data flow within the enterprise. Additionally, QCPR met the hospital’s functionality requirements including computerized physician order entry, clinical decision support tools and electronic medication administration. Sibley, which is upgrading from QuadraMed’s Affinity to QCPR, plans to integrate that solution with QuadraMed’s Patient Registration, Revenue Cycle Management and Electronic Document Management applications.

According to QuadraMed’s president/CEO, Keith Hagen, “Sibley is the first healthcare system in the country to select QCPR since QuadraMed completed its acquisition of the CPR business and assets from Misys.”

In other agreements:

• Hemo Concepts (Old Bridge, New Jersey) said it has signed an agreement with St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (Houston) to implement the company’s Integrated Blood Conservation Program at the Texas Heart Institute (Houston).

The program uses an evidence-based outcomes process, combining on-site training, accredited on-line continuing medical education, and patient outcomes data analysis to promote appropriate donor blood utilization in hospitals. With patents pending, the company’s e-BOS (Evidence-Based Outcomes System) System uses web-based tools to shorten the educational process, allowing physicians and nurses to quickly reduce their reliance on donor blood transfusions in patient care.

• Nonlinear Dynamics (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England), a developer of analysis solutions for proteomics, biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics, reported it has signed an agreement with UVP (Upland, California). The agreement covers the promotion and supply of Nonlinear’s SameSpots analysis software through UVP’s direct sales force and worldwide distributor network.

The agreement follows the recent release of the BioSpectrum 800 imaging system from UVP which is an alternative to slower 2D laser scanner systems. It has been developed specifically to support the image capture requirements of 2D gel electrophoresis and Difference Gel Electrophoresis applications with a high resolution 8.3 mega pixel image capture capability.

• PatientKeeper (Boston), a provider of physician information systems, said the PatientKeeper Physician Information System has been selected for use by Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville).

The PatientKeeper solution will provide physicians with a unified, physician-centric portal to view their patient information by connecting disparate healthcare information systems across the enterprise and making that information available via Web browsers and Smartphones. The system is designed to make it easier and more efficient for physicians to access clinical information, to better support physicians’ daily work flows, and to extend the useful life of existing clinical systems.

• Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC, St. Louis) said it has signed a new affiliate agreement to partner with Amerinet (St. Louis) a national healthcare group purchasing organization.

As an affiliate partner, LLUMC has agreed to use exclusively Amerinet’s national portfolio of product and service contracts and Total Spend Management business intelligence solutions to assist in managing the facility’s combined annual spend of $150 million.

Additionally, Amerinet will jointly fund a full-time facility contract manager to ensure optimization of contracting services on the $1.5 billion in new construction and renovations LLUMC has planned for the next 10 years.

• Premier Purchasing Partners (Charlotte, North Carolina) reported a new agreement for emergency department information systems has been awarded to Wellsoft (Somerset, New Jersey).

The new Premier category includes software, services, consulting, peripherals, hardware, interfaces, and implementation of information systems associated with the storage, retrieval and processing of patient and healthcare system data in for emergency departments.

The 35-month agreement, effective Jan. 15, 2008, is available to acute care and continuum of care members of the Premier alliance.

• Zotec Partners, (Indianapolis) a solutions firm providing medical billing services and licensed software to hospital-based physician specialty practices across the U.S., is reporting that Utah Imaging Associates (UIA; West Valley, Utah) has selected them as their exclusive partner for their outsourced accounts receivable management. In addition, UIA will also utilize Zotec Partners’ Radiology Information Systems (RIS) software solution. UIA is a group of board certified radiologists delivering diagnostic and interventional imaging services along the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state of Utah.