SALT LAKE CITY, February 20, 2008 – TheraDoc is pleased to announce the recent addition of three new integrated delivery networks (IDN) and multi-hospital provider organizations to its clientele. Emory Healthcare, WellSpan Health, and Kootenai Health, have selected TheraDoc to provide enhanced decision support capabilities within their hospitals to improve quality of care.
"Our patients will benefit from the integration of consistent, timely, and comparable patient information across the enterprise of our network," said Dr. James Steinberg, Infectious Disease Physician at Emory Healthcare.
The TheraDoc solutions soon to be implemented will enable clinicians to view current and historical patient information in the context of emerging care decisions. By providing instant access to information from across their network and compare this with best practice guidelines, clinicians can more rapidly assess patient conditions, resulting in better patient care decisions.
"We have gotten used to the fact that information is now everywhere. Our solutions provide access to the right information at the right time and in an easy-to-use format, which allows caregivers to more rapidly respond to the needs of their patients," said Stan Pestotnik, President and co-founder of TheraDoc. "We are delighted to work with leading provider organizations and to be part of their ongoing efforts to continue improving the quality of patient care at their facilities and across the country."
The three IDNs and multi-hospital provider organizations join an ever increasing list of hospitals across the country implementing TheraDoc software. Current existing clients include:
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA; Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, FL; Franciscan Health Systems, Tacoma, WA; PeaceHealth, Bellevue, WA; Lifespan, Providence, RI., and North Shore Long Island Jewish, NY., as well as an increasing number of VA Medical Centers across the country.
TheraDoc provides hospital organizations with automated real-time surveillance as well as reliable, efficient, individualized patient care management guidance. These capabilities along with its flexible, user-friendly benchmarking and reporting tools give organizations the information, and knowledge required to produce better financial outcomes and most importantly, superior care.
TheraDoc's current software offering includes tools for infection control, antimicrobial stewardship, adverse drug events, critical care, intervention tracking, rounds information retrieval and display and customized alerts building and execution.
About Emory HealthCare
Since 1905, Emory Healthcare has been at the forefront of medicine, putting cutting-edge interventional research and technology into lifesaving action. As the largest, most comprehensive health care system in Georgia, Emory Healthcare has 1,184 licensed patient beds, 9,000 employees and more than 20 health centers located throughout Metro Atlanta. For more information, please visit www.emoryhealthcare.org.
About WellSpan
WellSpan Health is an integrated health system serving the greater Adams-York County region. As a community-based, not-for-profit organization, WellSpan is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the people it serves. For more information, please visit www.wellspan.org.
About Kootenai Health
KMC exists to meet the healthcare needs of North Idaho through service excellence, community leadership and compassionate care. Since 1966, KMC's mission has remained steadfast: To operate a not-for-profit system that uses all revenue over expenses to improve the health of the community through patient care, education, research, and community service. For more information, please visit www.kmc.org.
About TheraDoc
TheraDoc is a clinical informatics company dedicated to improving the quality, efficiency and safety of patient care through enhanced clinical decision making. It provides innovative, best-in-class solutions that improve clinical and financial outcomes at a range of provider and payer organizations, including some of the most-respected healthcare institutions in the country. With clinical transparency, TheraDoc's technologies seamlessly place mission-critical knowledge at the clinician's fingertips, helping them to confidently manage multiple processes of care across multiple conditions and diseases. The company's strict adherence to medical informatics standards enables connectivity and interoperability with any hospital's disparate health information systems.
Founded in 1999, TheraDoc designs, develops and supports a suite of clinical decisions support technologies utilizing inference engines that enable its real-time solutions. TheraDoc's founders and core medical informatics team are internationally recognized for their pioneering and continuing work in medical expert systems. Their experience in clinical decision support design and development spans two decades. On the Net: www.theradoc.com.