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Emergency department systems
Kingston hospitals opt for Wellsoft ED
software
KINGSTON, Ont. – Wellsoft Corp., of
Somerset, N.J., announced that Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel
Dieu Hospital (HDH) have selected its Emergency Department Information
System (EDIS). KGH’s Emergency Department is southeastern Ontario’s
regional trauma center and sees about 47,000 patients each year. Hotel
Dieu Hospital’s Urgent Care Centre sees about 50,000 patients each year.
KGH and HDH will jointly implement Wellsoft EDIS since the Emergency
Department at KGH and Urgent Care Centre at HDH share hospital
information systems, physicians and information technology support.
Wellsoft EDIS for KGH and HDH will support CTAS and CEDIS requirements.
Wellsoft EDIS features will include Patient Tracking, Registration
Tracking, Order Entry & Results Reporting, Medication Reconciliation,
Triage and Nursing Documentation, Physician Documentation, Patient
Aftercare/Disposition Summaries and Prescriptions. HL7 Interfaces to
hospital wide and ancillary systems include ADT, Bi-directional
Laboratory and Radiology Orders and Inbound Laboratory and Radiology
Results.
With Wellsoft EDIS, KGH and HDH will satisfy their critical emergency
and urgent care needs:
• Meet provincially mandated ED wait time targets.
• Align with other systems, such as ER/ALC reporting and referral
• Provide better patient management to create capacity and enhance
patient safety
• Support better reporting with accurate and comprehensive documentation
• Provide information access – information about patient care in one ED
to be accessible by the other
Dr. John Santmann, President of Wellsoft Corporation, commented, “We are
excited to work with both Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu
Hospital to introduce cutting edge, state of the art software that will
help streamline ED workflow and improve patient care. We look forward to
helping KGH and HDH realize their EDIS goals.”
About Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital
Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) are
members of the South East Local Health Integration Network (SE LHIN),
one of 14 LHINs in the province of Ontario.
KGH is a 456-bed research and teaching hospital. As southeastern
Ontario’s leading centre for complex-acute and specialty care, KGH
serves almost 500,000 regional residents through its Kingston facility
and 24 regional satellites and affiliate sites. Fully affiliated with
Queen’s University, KGH is home to 2,400 health-care students and 160
health researchers. To learn more, visit
www.kgh.on.ca.
Hotel Dieu Hospital is the ambulatory care teaching hospital for
Kingston and Southeastern Ontario, providing expert care to more than
500,000 people in the region. Our specialized services include
outpatient pediatrics, ophthalmology, diabetes education, breast
assessment, day surgery, urgent care and mental health
programs. Affiliated with Queen’s University, we are partners within
Kingston’s university hospitals, delivering quality health care, leading
innovative research and training the health care professionals of
tomorrow. To learn more about us, visit
www.hoteldieu.com
About Wellsoft Corporation
Wellsoft 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.
Posted July 15, 2010
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