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March 27, 2007
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ExitCare, LLC announces partnership with Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
HMS will incorporate ExitCare's patient education information
February 26, 2008
Nashville, Tenn. – Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.® (HMS) announced today that they have partnered with ExitCare, L.L.C, to bring their patient education information into their over 500 customer facilities nationwide. HMS is one of the nation’s leading information technology systems companies focused on the community hospital marketplace.
“We are very excited about this partnership with ExitCare. By incorporating ExitCare’s patient education documents into HMS clinical applications, we are enhancing our customers’ ability to communicate effectively with their patients to improve compliance and safety,” stated Tom Stephenson, President and Chief Executive Officer of HMS. “It is important that we provide our customers with the best content solutions available. The ExitCare information system will be integrated within our Clinical View and Patient Care Documentation solutions and ready for the market by May 2008.”
“ExitCare, L.L.C. is dedicated to providing best-of-breed patient education and discharge instructions to the medical professional that improves the communication between healthcare providers and their patients,” said Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare, L.L.C. “We are excited to be working with HMS because they are a recognized leader in the community hospital marketplace,” he says. Thompson adds, “The healthcare market wants an integrated solution that will save time as well as provide a comprehensive solution.”
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, L.L.C. is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital’s Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Tagolog, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese. Company plans to add French and Korean in 2008. ExitCare is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information, visit www.exitcare.com, or call Richard Thompson, EVP, at (303) 681-0787 or rickt@exitcare.com.
About HMS
Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.® (HMS) is a Nashville-based healthcare company that develops, sells and supports integrated clinical and financial hospital information systems and services. Founded in 1984, HMS counts among its customers over 600 community hospitals; behavioral, rehabilitation and long-term acute care facilities; and multi-entity healthcare organizations nationwide. With the HMS system, caregivers are able to increase their efficiency in delivering quality care with an emphasis on improving patient safety. For more information, please visit www.hmstn.com or call 800.383.3317.
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Encite, Inc. Announces Partnership with ExitCare, L.L.C. Encite will Incorporate ExitCare's Patient Education Documents
May 7, 2007
Johnstown, PA – Encite, Inc., one of the nation’s leading electronic medical record providers announced today that they have partnered with ExitCare, L.L.C, to bring patient education information to their clients nationwide. “We are very excited about this partnership with ExitCare. By adding ExitCare’s patient education documents into Encite, we are enhancing our physicians’ ability to communicate effectively with their patients, increasing patient satisfaction, improving compliance and reducing exposure to malpractice,” said Ed Horner, President, Encite, Inc.
"ExitCare, L.L.C. is dedicated to providing patient education information that meets our criteria, such as titles authored by physicians, which are peer-reviewed and easy for patients to understand. The ExitCare information also includes color illustrations with the text designed to improve communication between healthcare providers and their patients," said Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare, L.L.C. "Our over 3,000 patient education titles, six different languages and software have been integrated with the Encite Electronic Medical Record (EMR). ExitCare® will help the provider better educate their patients, thereby, providing improved patient care and compliance," he says. Thompson adds, "We are excited to be working with Encite. They are a recognized EMR company that meets the needs of physicians in a solo or small group environment. The Encite EMR is a flexible and intuitive product that physicians have embraced. By adding ExitCare’s educational documents, they are augmenting their EMR with quality, comprehensive patient education material, and we are proud to be an important part of the leading small practice EMR."
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ExitCare, LLC Announces Partnership with First DataBank, Inc.
March 27, 2007
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC, one of the nation’s leading enterprise wide patient education providers announced today that they have partnered with First DataBank, to integrate their drug information into ExitCare’s ExitMeds. “We are very excited about this partnership with First DataBank. By adding First DataBank’s drug information into the ExitMeds product, we are enhancing our customers’ ability to communicate drug information with their patients as well as provide our customers with additional functionality and efficiencies,” stated Roger Jacobi, President, ExitCare, LLC.
“ExitMeds™ is a module that allows users to write prescriptions electronically, perform Medication Reconciliation at discharge, and print drug specific educational monographs. Another prescription related module for the ExitCare Patient Information System includes the Patient Medication Schedule which allows clinicians to create patient friendly medication schedules, with dates and times of when to take each medication. The new First DataBank content also allows users to check for drug to drug, as well as patient allergy to drug interactions,” said Jacobi.
“We are proud to be part of the ExitCare® solution to facilitate, among a variety of clinical decision support tasks, electronic prescribing and medication reconciliation - two of the most pressing patient safety-related issues today,” said Don Nielsen, MD and CEO of First DataBank. “Saving lives and preventing harm to patients by reducing medication ordering errors is one of our primary aims. Together, we can help to meet this goal.”
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare®, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital’s Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Tagolog and Vietnamese. ExitCare® is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
About First DataBank, Inc.
First DataBank, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is the leading provider of context-relevant, integrated drug information. For over 25 years we’ve partnered with information system developers throughout the healthcare continuum to make drug content relevant from the perspectives of multiple end users, and executable at the point of need. We have successfully delivered proven drug knowledge bases for integration into a wide range of applications, with particular expertise in clinical decision support within the workflow. Together with our development partners, First DataBank helps reduce the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events, which promises to lower healthcare costs and improve patient care.
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ExitCare Announces Content Enhancement Relationship with The Sullivan Group, Leading Risk Management Group
Risk Reduction Overlay to Fortify Patient Discharge Instruction System
September 13, 2006
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC, developers of the ExitCare Patient Education System, today announces its partnership with The Sullivan Group (TSG), a leading provider of risk management solutions for medical professionals. In doing so The Sullivan Group will provide further expertise in Emergency Medicine Risk and Safety to ExitCare, which TSG considers to be the flagship company in patient discharge information.
This partnership represents a completely new concept in emergency medicine risk management. ExitCare provides a comprehensive library of patient discharge instructions that reduces risks while educating and reminding patients to extend this continuum of care into their home environment. Further risk reduction is realized by potentially fewer returns to the ED by better educating the patient upon discharge.
"The ExitCare product offering of ExitCare with 'TSG fortified' risk reduction will allow patients to become better educated about potential outcomes of their ailment, courses of treatment, and potential adverse outcomes." Dr. Daniel Sullivan, founder and chief executive officer of TSG says, "It is clear that by using these instructions we are reducing even further the risk of an unfortunate event. This increased level of care will expand on the continuum of care to the home environment."
Rick Redalen, MD, Chief Executive Officer of ExitCare, states, "My goal is to empower physicians and patients with consumer friendly patient education information that will improve patient care and reduce bad outcomes. By working with The Sullivan Group, we are taking our commitment to a new and higher level. TSG will review each of our high-risk topics to ensure they meet the highest standards of risk management. Also, we will add additional language to our patient education material to improve even further on our patient and family education on the signs and symptoms of their medical condition. I am very excited to include this new dimension of consumer health information that will further empower patients." Dr. Redalen further adds, "We chose The Sullivan Group as a part of our continued commitment to build an even better patient information system. The addition of risk fortification from Dan Sullivan and The Sullivan Group allows us to even further differentiate ExitCare in the marketplace."
About The Sullivan Group
Dr. Daniel Sullivan, founder and chief executive officer of TSG, is renowned in the American health care system for his ideas on patient safety, empowerment, and risk reduction. The Sullivan Group's patient safety and risk management system combines web-based risk and safety education programs, intelligent medical records for physicians and nurses, and a web-based clinical audit tool to help medical professionals decrease errors and improve patient outcomes. This new paradigm in risk reduction and patient safety has helped hundreds of hospital emergency departments reduce their malpractice claims by more than 40%. The Sullivan Group serves more than 500 hospitals, healthcare organizations and insurance companies nationwide, including HCA, Premier, Triad Hospitals, and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company. For more information, please visit www.thesullivangroup.com, or call 1-866-Med-Risk.
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare®, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital's Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Tagolog, and Vietnamese. ExitCare® is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
Contacts:
Jeff Johnson
The Sullivan Group
630-268-1188
jjohnson@thesullivangroup.com
Richard Thompson
ExitCare, LLC
303-681-0787
rickt@exitcare.com
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ExitCare, LLC Announces
Dr. Earl Showerman Joining its Editorial Team
March 13, 2006
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC, one of the nation’s leading electronic patient education publishers, announced today that Dr. Earl Showerman, former president of Epic Software Systems, Inc., has been recruited to be a contributing editor. “We are very excited to have Dr. Showerman join our editorial team. He brings over twenty years of experience specific to authoring and reviewing patient education content to the team,” said Dr. Rick Redalen, CEO, CMO, of ExitCare, LLC. "His initial responsibilities will include the enhancement of the company’s Editorial Guidelines, the recruitment of an Editor-In-Chief to focus on the needs of the Emergency Department as well as in-patient and ambulatory care services, and the selection of additional medical professionals on the editorial board of reviewers. This is very important to support the enterprise-wide patient education needs of today’s healthcare institutions.”
Earl Showerman graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Medical School, and received post-graduate training at the University of Washington. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians in 1984. For over 25 years, he practiced emergency medicine at Providence Medford Medical Center where he also served stints as ED medical director, EMS Supervising Physician, and Medical Advisor to the Center for Health Promotion. In 1986, he helped develop the Emergency Patient Instruction Compiler, an aftercare instruction software that would ultimately be installed at over 400 hospitals and clinics.
“I am gratified to be included in the development team dedicated to enhancing patient health literacy. ExitCare provides instruction content in numerous languages and includes superb anatomic color graphics. This is a great opportunity to help educate millions of patients using peer-reviewed, evidence-based content, coupled with attractive instructional graphics, and translated into more languages than any other medical software available today.”
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, L.L.C. is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare®. ExitCare is a consumer healthcare information company which provides enterprise wide patient education solutions. It meets the needs of office-based physicians, the hospital’s Emergency Department, and hospital in-patient needs. Commonly used topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese, and there are plans to add French and Tagolog in 2006. ExitCare is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
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MediNotes Corporation Announces Partnership
with ExitCare, LLC MediNotes will Incorporate
ExitCare's Patient Education Documents
February 6, 2006
West Des Moines , IA, and Lake Elmo, MN - MediNotes Corporation, one of the nation’s leading electronic medical record providers announced today that they have partnered with ExitCare, LLC, to bring their patient education tool ExitCare® into their over 3,400 client sites nationwide. “We are very excited about this partnership with ExitCare. By adding ExitCare’s patient education documents into MediNotes e, we are enhancing our physicians’ ability to communicate effectively with their patients,” stated Don Schoen, CEO and President, MediNotes Corporation.
"ExitCare, LLC. is dedicated to providing valuable products that improve communication between healthcare providers and their patients," said Richard Thompson, EVP of ExitCare, LLC. "Our 1,600 plus patient education titles have been tagged to ICD-9 or CPT or both codes to facilitate integration with the MediNotes Electronic Medical Record (EMR). ExitCare will help the provider better educate their patients, therefore, providing improved patient care and compliance," he says. Thompson adds, "We are excited to be working with MediNotes. They are a recognized EMR company that meets the needs of physicians in a solo or small group environment. By adding ExitCare’s educational documents, they are augmenting their EMR with quality, comprehensive patient education material, and we are proud to be an important part of the leading small practice EMR."
About ExitCare, LLC
ExitCare, LLC is a privately held company formed in 1996 to create ExitCare, a consumer healthcare information company providing enterprise wide patient education solutions, meeting the needs of the office-based physician to the hospital’s Emergency Department and in-patient needs. Common topics have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese. Company plans to add French and Tagolog in 2006. ExitCare is installed in hundreds of patient care sites nationwide. For more information call 800-694-6669.
About MediNotes Corporation
MediNotes Corporation is a leader in electronic health record solutions for primary care and specialty medical practices and currently serves more than 3,400 installed sites and more than 9,000 users nationwide. The company’s dedicated employees are driven to create technology solutions that are proven, powerful and provide doctors with peace of mind. The enhancements of MediNotes e are based on the needs and suggestions of our users as well as the competitive EMR landscape. For more information, visit www.medinotes.com, or call Lana Overturf in the Marketing Department at 515-327-8850, ext 238.
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ExitCare, LLC Announces
Acquisition of EPIC Software Systems Inc.
January 10, 2006
Lake Elmo, MN – ExitCare, LLC today announced the acquisition of EPIC Software Systems, Inc., an Oregon Corporation, and one of the first companies in the healthcare discharge instruction market. EPIC is an acronym for Emergency Patient Instruction Compiler.
EPIC Software Systems provides Emergency Departments and clinics with over 600 patient education titles in both English and Spanish. The company installed its first customer site in 1986. Currently, the company has over 400 sites using their discharge instructions.
“EPIC Software Systems has always been recognized as one of the leading companies in the discharge instruction market. They have an excellent reputation in the marketplace which reflects their commitment to excellence and the vision of their founder, Earl Showerman, M.D.,” said Rick Redalen, M.D., CEO of ExitCare. “I am very happy to announce that Dr. Showerman will assume the role of Contributing Editor at ExitCare, and key EPIC Software Systems personnel will become part of the ExitCare team.”
ExitCare provides an enterprise wide solution to patient education, meeting the needs of Emergency Departments, hospital in-patient, and ambulatory care, to include integration with office-based physician Electronic Health Records or Electronic Medical Records. The ExitCare ExitCare common titles have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Portuguese. The text has been augmented by color graphics to facilitate understanding by the layperson. ExitCare will add the EPIC Software System’s titles to its current repository of over 1,600 titles.
“We are excited to become part of ExitCare, one of the most innovative and dynamic sources of consumer health information,” said Earl Showerman, M.D., EPIC Software Systems’ president. “As part of the ExitCare family we will be able to offer our customers enhanced patient education software with new content, superb graphics, and other features, including prescription writing. I look forward to joining the ExitCare editorial team.”
For more information call 800-694-6669.
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