Thomson Healthcare Announces Enhancements to Order Sets Solution
27 February 2008 - 1:59AM
PR Newswire (US)
New Titles, New Capabilities, and New Architecture Position
Solution as Market Leader STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 26
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Healthcare (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC)
today announced the latest update to its Order Sets Solution, which
now includes: -- The most comprehensive library of evidence-based
order sets in the market. -- Tools to create, edit, and maintain
large order set libraries and export updated content for
paper-based and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems.
-- Design architecture tailored for CPOE integration. -- Clinical
consulting to support implementation and user adoption. "We
selected the Order Sets Solution from Thomson Healthcare because of
the combination of unparalleled editorial quality, the flexibility
of its design architecture, and the strength of its clinical
consulting services," said Dennis DeMasie, chief information
officer at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois. "The new
solution builds on our continued commitment to deliver the highest
quality, clinically consistent care to our patients." The enhanced
Order Sets Solution gives hospitals access to 888 titles for 220
medical conditions. They can acquire the entire library, or bundles
that include Starter Packs of the most common conditions, a
Performance Measures Pack that focuses on the Center for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) core measure conditions, and tailored
packs for emergency and pediatric departments. "Thomson Healthcare
is dedicated to providing our customers with the highest quality
evidence-based referential content and the tools necessary to
deploy and maintain their systems," said Terry Cameron, executive
vice president, Thomson Healthcare. "Hospitals are choosing Order
Sets from Thomson Healthcare because of the strength of our
editorial process and the flexibility of our solutions. This
combination ensures ongoing success in terms of local control over
clinical policy, flexibility in system integration, ease of
managing a large content set, and strong clinical consulting and
implementation support." The Order Sets Solution combines four
critical elements for implementation, adoption and ongoing
maintenance: market-leading evidence- based content; a powerful
knowledge management tool for creating, editing, and updating order
set content; a flexible design architecture that delivers maximum
flexibility when integrating with CPOE systems; and clinical
consulting services to support the hospitals' user adoption,
governance, and implementation processes. About Thomson Healthcare
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support
solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry
improve clinical and business performance. Thomson Healthcare
products and services help clinicians, hospitals, employers, health
plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies understand
healthcare markets, access medical and drug information, manage
costs, and improve the quality of healthcare. Thomson Healthcare is
a part of The Thomson Corporation, a provider of value-added
information, software tools and applications to professionals in
the fields of healthcare, law, tax, accounting, scientific
research, and financial services. The Corporation's common shares
are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC;
TSX: TOC). For more information, visit
http://www.thomsonhealthcare.com/. DATASOURCE: Thomson Healthcare
CONTACT: Media, D. Nikki Wheeler of Thomson Healthcare,
+1-303-486-9031, Web site: http://www.thomsonhealthcare.com/
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