Medworxx
Solutions Inc. ("Medworxx") (TSX VENTURE: MWX),
a leading healthcare patient flow software solutions provider, is
pleased to announce that Community Regional Medical Center has licensed
the Medworxx Patient Flow Platform to improve patient flow and
specifically reduce Emergency Department crowding. Based in Fresno,
California, Community Regional Medical Center is the region's largest
health care provider with over 800 beds (including their behaviour and
extended care facilities) and has one of the nation’s busiest Emergency
Departments with 106,500 patient visits in 20131.
The hospital completed a diagnostic Patient Throughput Review (PTR) led
by Medworxx in February 2015 and decided to invest in the implementation
of the Medworxx solution for daily operational use. This academic and
medical center will implement the Medworxx Clinical Criteria module to
support advanced patient flow work. Medworxx analytics will be used by
the Case Managers and the Command Center team to help monitor, plan and
implement processes to improve patient flow. The Medworxx Clinical
Criteria module will enable the hospital to identify the clinical
appropriateness of each patient’s level of care, each day, and will
provide clinicians with the ability to match patients with the right
level of care, at the right time and in the most appropriate setting.
The Medworxx Patient Flow Platform will interface with their EPIC EHR.
Medworxx combines; unique methodology, process, communication,
technology, and clinical information as a decision support tool for all
levels of an organization. All Medworxx Patient Flow modules are in
real-time, enabling staff to make evidence-based decisions quickly. The
Medworxx Patient Flow Platform provides hospitals with tools to bridge
clinical and operational assessments on daily patient flow – optimal for
health care systems addressing issues of overcapacity, wait times and
care coordination.
“I have extensive experience working with patient flow and case
management solutions in the US marketplace and have not seen a solution
that effectively identifies patient flow barriers in a way that the
Medworxx solution does,” said Mark Kestner MD, Chief Medical Innovation
Officer, Community Regional Medical Center. “We strongly believe that
the Medworxx solution will quickly help us improve care coordination and
bed management and free up bed capacity to improve our ED throughput
challenges. While we will continue to use InterQual for admission
screening our expectation is to use the Medworxx solution for continued
stay reviews.”
“We always believed that there was the opportunity for the Medworxx
Clinical Criteria solution to provide value in the US healthcare system
even though other decision-support criteria solutions have been
implemented in the United States for many years now,” said Dan Matlow,
President and CEO, Medworxx. “We strongly believe our combined
methodology and technology creates an opportunity for US healthcare
providers to change the way they view the use of clinical criteria to
improve patient flow. Having organizations in the US that share our
vision is a large step in our validation of Medworxx being an effective
solution for this important market.”
About Medworxx
Medworxx delivers health information
technology solutions to over 400 hospitals internationally, including
Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France and Australia. Medworxx
helps hospitals meet patient flow challenges and requirements for
compliance and education. Medworxx Clinical Criteria —the flagship
component of Medworxx Patient Flow, which also includes electronic bed
management and independent assessment components—is currently used to
manage 32% of the acute-care beds in Canada as well as acute-care beds
in a rapidly increasing number of Trusts and CCGs in the UK. Founded in
2004, Medworxx Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada, and publicly traded on
the TSX Venture Exchange: MWX.
Visit: www.medworxx.com
1 http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/50-hospitals-with-the-most-er-visits.html
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