Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center Signs With ibex Healthdata Systems to Provide Its ibex PulseCheck Emergency Department Patient Tracking and Patient Documentation System

Business Wire,  August 1, 2001  

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ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BW HealthWire)--August 1, 2001

ibex Healthdata Systems, Inc., of Rosemont, IL, the premier provider of innovative Web browser-based emergency department solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced that Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center has selected ibex PulseCheck(R) Emergency Department Information System to integrate and streamline medical and administrative information workflow in its Emergency Department.

More than 35,000 patients are treated annually in the Emergency Department (ED) at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, a nationally renown academic health center located in Chicago. The institution is also a member of VHA, an alliance of 2,200 community-owned healthcare organizations and affiliated physicians. Physicians and hospital administrators were looking for a cost-effective method to improve the quality of patient documentation, streamline processes in the ED, and provide clinicians with better tools to deliver the highest level of patient care. The Emergency Department conducted an extensive search before choosing ibex PulseCheck(R).

"This system finally gives us the power to become more efficient, which not only improves patient care, but also limits our liability exposure through better documentation," said Dino Rumoro, DO, clinical chairman of emergency medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. "We anticipate a marked improvement in billing collections on both the professional and hospital end."

"With ibex PulseCheck(R) in place, patients experience shorter waiting times in the Emergency Department and benefit from faster access to test results," according to ibex President and CEO Mark Crockett, M.D. "The greatest benefits to patients, however, are derived from benefits to medical and administrative personnel, who have better and faster access to information and therefore have more time to spend with patients."

"A key advantage of the ibex PulseCheck(R) system is the seamless interface between the medical and administrative systems, so that the same information does not have to be typed over and over again," said Larry Klein, Rush's information systems manager for the ibex PulseCheck(R) installation. "This not only saves time, but it also helps avoid mistakes that can arise when data is entered numerous times."

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center is an academic health center that includes the 809-bed Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital (including the Rush Children's Hospital) and the 154-bed Johnston R. Bowman Health Center for the Elderly. It is home to the seven Rush Institutes, which draw together patient care and research to address major health problems, offering primary health care services as well as the latest treatments for arthritis and orthopedic problems, cancer, heart disease, mental illness, diseases associated with aging and neurological problems. Integral to the medical center is Rush University, which includes Rush Medical College, the College of nursing, the College of health Sciences, the Graduate College, and a cooperative educational network of 14 liberal arts colleges and universities in six states from Tennessee to Colorado.

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center joins a growing list of nearly 30 institutions that use the ibex PulseCheck(R) system, including academic hospitals, small community hospitals and integrated delivery systems.

ibex Healthdata Systems, Inc., is an approved business partner with VHA Inc. The VHA alliance comprises 26 percent of the nation's community-owned hospitals, including Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.

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