Lahey Clinic Selects Eclipsys to Create Enterprise-Wide Electronic Medical Records

Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today announced that Lahey Clinic (Burlington, MA), a physician-led, nonprofit healthcare organization consistently ranked among the nation’s best, has signed a strategic agreement to implement a wide-range of Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise™ clinical solutions to create an enterprise-wide electronic medical record (EMR). The EMR project involves Lahey Clinic’s two acute care medical centers and will establish an interoperable platform to leverage a prior investment in an ambulatory EMR solution for Lahey’s outpatient settings. By implementing an integrated inpatient-ambulatory EMR, Lahey Clinic will create a seamless flow of patient information across facilities to support continuity of care and enhanced clinical decision making in the physician office, clinic and hospital care settings.

Superior Clinical Solutions; Shared Vision for System Interoperability

"We sought a partner that could provide superior clinical solutions, clinical content, and a shared vision for interoperability,” said Sandy Kurtz, MD, chief operating officer, Lahey Clinic. "Eclipsys demonstrated to us that they would be the best partner to collaborate with us in utilizing technology to support high quality and safe patient care across our campus, as well as enhancing our institution’s acclaimed high acuity service areas. In addition, Eclipsys’ willingness and technical capability to leverage existing Lahey technology solutions was attractive to us. We look forward to a successful implementation and fully taking advantage of this opportunity for significant clinical and operational benefits.”

Lahey Clinic will implement Eclipsys’ Sunrise Acute Care™, Sunrise Pharmacy™ and Knowledge-Based Charting™ solutions to establish an EMR with clinical decision support. All of these solutions reside on the Eclipsys XA extended architecture™, an open and flexible technology platform that enables healthcare providers to share information securely among disparate systems both inside and outside of the organization. In combination, the new clinical solutions will provide Lahey Clinic clinicians with fully integrated clinical workflows to help improve clinical outcomes and turnaround time. New tools include e-prescribing and orders reconciliation capabilities, along with a shared enterprise-wide view of the patient’s latest administered medications, lab and test results. To further support medication safety, Knowledge-Based Medication Administration ™, a bar-coded medication administration system, will be used to support nurses in validating the five rights of medication administration (right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, and right time).

The Eclipsys computerized physician order entry solution (CPOE) will be deployed in a staged rollout. Eclipsys leads the industry in CPOE adoption. In the United States, one in four medical orders placed daily by clinicians is performed using an Eclipsys system. The solution’s high adoption rates and speed are based on embedded complex algorithms that transcend fundamental order entry to automatically interpret and recalculate new order protocols in real time based on any updates to the patient condition. With more than 30 years of experience, Eclipsys has leveraged the input of thousands of physicians for evidence-based order sets and frequently used protocols to achieve unmatched, continuous evolution in its CPOE capabilities. The result is an intuitive, easy-to-adopt solution with highly complex clinical decision support capabilities that will provide workflows tailored to how Lahey Clinic physicians practice medicine and support fully automating even the most complex order sets and medication ordering, including the exacting protocols, long-range medication schedules and complicated treatment plans commonplace in oncology and pediatric care environments.

The Lahey Clinic EMR decision coincides with the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which is designed to offer incentives to hospitals and providers for "Meaningful Use of an Electronic Health Record” to lower the costs and complexity associated with the nation’s healthcare system. An implementation timeline has been developed to support Lahey Clinic in meeting the stimulus package qualification/payment deadlines.

Enhanced Operational Efficiency Clinical Outcomes, Financial Performance

To further realize the benefits of its enterprise-wide EMR technology initiative, Lahey Clinic will begin implementing the Eclipsys Performance Management™ solution suite to achieve rapid and sustainable improvements in operational efficiency, clinical outcomes and financial performance. The solution suite offers award-winning decision support, clinical analytics, and the newly acquired patient flow solution, Sunrise Patient Flow™. Easy to install, with rapid return on investment and minimal up-front expense, these solutions will give Lahey Clinic management tools to gather, analyze and display enterprise-wide information in near real-time to support improved clinical quality, cost-efficiency and patient satisfaction while patients are still in the facility. Lahey Clinic has purchased Sunrise Clinical Analytics™, Sunrise EPSi™ with EPSi Analytics™ and retains an option to purchase Sunrise Patient Flow™.

"Lahey Clinic began its process looking for a technology solution partner who could help them meet the challenges of today’s highly competitive and heavily regulated healthcare environment. We are honored to have this nationally recognized healthcare institution select Eclipsys as the best partner to assist them in meeting their goals,” said Jay Deady, Eclipsys’ executive vice president of Client Solutions. "Eclipsys has a strong track record of supporting its clients in attaining IT adoption through our open platform. Moreover, we are proud of our professional services teams’ capability to execute on time and on budget implementations while achieving industry-leading clinician adoption, which takes on even more importance with the new stimulus package. Providers will be required to demonstrate meaningful use of EMRs, a requirement that directly aligns with our corporate culture and track record as The Outcomes Company. Our focus is not to simply implement new technology. Our primary goal is to help healthcare organizations move beyond mere solution go-lives to achieve rapid and meaningful outcomes from their investment in Eclipsys solutions.”

About Lahey Clinic

Lahey Clinic, a physician-led, nonprofit group practice, is world-renowned for innovative technology, pioneering medical treatment, and leading-edge research. At Lahey Clinic, more than 430 physicians and 4,400 nurses, therapists, and other support staff work together to provide compassionate care and superior patient outcomes. The Clinic's multidisciplinary approach allows access for patients to physicians from several medical specialties, who cooperate to develop personalized treatment plans for each patient. A teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine, the Clinic provides quality health care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty, from primary care to cancer diagnosis and treatment to kidney and liver transplantation. The Clinic maintains residency and fellowship programs for more than 130 new physicians in multiple subspecialties. As a research center, Lahey Clinic offers patients access to clinical trials of new therapies for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and cataracts. Research programs at Lahey Clinic encompass more than 200 clinical trial protocols and participation in numerous national and international studies. For more information, see www.lahey.org.

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced integrated clinical, revenue cycle and performance management software, clinical content and professional services that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes. For more information, see www.eclipsys.com or email info@eclipsys.com.

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