Recent News: Leading Hospitals Turn to PatientKeeper to Improve Safety and Efficiency of Physician Hand-Off Process

VCU Medical Center, CHRISTUS Health, and Mercy Medical Center Implementing PatientKeeper Sign-Out

Boston, MA, February 26, 2009 -- PatientKeeper, Inc., the leading developer of physician information systems, announced today the implementation of PatientKeeper Sign-OutTM at its customer sites. Leading healthcare facilities, including: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCU); Mercy Medical Center of Cedar Rapids, IA; and Dallas-based CHRISTUS Health, which serves communities in more than 60 cities in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, New Mexico, Utah and Mexico, are among the organizations implementing PatientKeeper Sign-Out.

PatientKeeper Sign-Out improves communication between physicians at the transition of care to streamline patient handoff and sign-out and to simplify discharge planning, and provides a standard process as specified by requirement 2E of the Joint Commission 2008 National Patient Safety Goals. Hospital organizations are increasingly turning to PatientKeeper for a formal mechanism to manage the handoff process so covering physicians know, at a glance, tasks that need to be done and how to prioritize patient needs.

"The safety of our patients is paramount to everything we do as an organization," said Alistair Erskine, VCU chief medical information officer. "Our implementation of Sign-Out is helping us to coordinate smooth communication about patient status between shifts, adding simplicity to our care management processes that will positively impact patient care."

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