Picis to Feature Hospital Executives in Panel Discussions at HIMSS10 Annual Conference

Focus to be on technology solutions that achieve meaningful use, interoperability and provide a framework for building a high-performance hospital

WAKEFIELD, Mass.— Picis today announced a series of executive panels and roundtables, featuring senior healthcare executives, in Picis booth #941 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition, March 1-4, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. These industry leaders intend to share their strategies and solutions for achieving not just meaningful use but also meaningful results, through the use of interoperable solutions that are essential to their organization’s success. During the exhibition, Picis is also participating in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase, an event designed to show real-world scenarios and workflow demonstrating interoperability between healthcare information systems.

In addition, Picis client Bert Reese, CIO and Vice President of Sentara Healthcare is the featured speaker in a HIMSS Conference Core Education session entitled, “Connect it Yourself: Sentara Designs Interface between Epic and ED.”

Other highlights of Picis’ participation include:

• Picis plans to demonstrate its CareSuite^® high-acuity solutions for the emergency department (ED), operating room (OR) and intensive care unit (ICU), including Picis LYNX™ Revenue Management Solutions, in its booth. This includes the newly-announced Picis ED PulseCheck^® 5.0 with integrated LYNX CareBridge^®, the first high-performance emergency department information system (EDIS) for hospitals. ED PulseCheck 5.0 helps hospital leadership realize the full potential of the ED, and hence the full quality, clinical documentation, operational and financial capabilities of the hospital. This fully ARRA-compliant solution includes Picis ResourceView™, an exceptional communication tool that provides integrated visibility into hospital resources that impact the ED. In addition, ED PulseCheck 5.0 supports integrated charge capture and medical necessity documentation for full, optimal reimbursement of the services a hospital provides.

Executive Panels and Roundtables in Picis Booth #941:

• Is Meaningful Use Enough – What About Meaningful Results?
  Time: Monday, March 1, 2:00 – 2:30 PM
  As the proposed rules defining “meaningful use” of electronic health records near completion, are hospitals leaping into “good enough” all-in-one solutions and sacrificing business performance in the race to get funding? These hospital executives will discuss how they reconciled their choices without compromise, achieving the benefits of house-wide systems and specialized departmental solutions at the same time.
  Michael L. Westcott, MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Information Officer, Alegent Health
  John L. Waller, MD, Director of Medical Informatics & Professor, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
   
• How Progressive Healthcare CIOs Build High Performance Hospitals
  Times: Tuesday, March 2, 11:00 – 11:30 AM
  Wednesday, March 3, 11:00 – 11:30 AM
  Hospital CIOs are challenged to do more with less, maximizing efficiencies while meeting regulatory requirements, generating revenue and keeping patients and staff satisfied. Hear how these executives are meeting these challenges with technology solutions that drive business results.
  Renee Rountree, Vice President, Trauma and Emergency Services, Riverside Health System
  Marian Moran, Chief Information Officer, St. Mary Medical Center
  Darby Dennis, RN, MS, CPHIMS, Division Chief Information Officer, University Hospitals of Cleveland
   
• Achieving Interoperability Without Compromise
  Times: Tuesday, March 2, 3:00 – 3:30 PM
  Wednesday, March 3, 3:00 – 3:30 PM
  When hospital IT systems fail to interoperate properly, patient care can be compromised. The good news is that, with innovations in interoperability, data sharing is now more achievable than ever. Top hospital executives discuss integration strategies designed to achieve a technology vision for their organizations while helping to meet the needs of their patients and clinicians without compromise.
  Larry Grossflam, IT Director – Clinical Support Systems, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
  Dick Taylor, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Providence Health and Services, Oregon Region
  Neil Meehan, DO, Asst. Director of Emergency Department, Lawrence General Hospital
   
• Discussion: Epic to E/Point Integration Benefits to Hospitals
  Times: Monday, March 1, 3:30 – 4:00 PM
  Tuesday, March 2, 10:00 – 10:30 AM
  Tuesday, March 2, 12:30 – 1:00 PM
  A roundtable discussion on the advantages of connecting LYNX E/Point with Epic Corporation’s Software CareConnect.
  Facilitator: Ellen Plunkett, Application Manager, CareConnect ASAP, Texas Health Resources
   
• HIMSS Core Education Session Speaker
  “Connect it Yourself: Sentara Designs Interface between Epic and ED”
  Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
  Description:
  Picis client Bert Reese outlines how he put Sentara's IT department to work and developed a first-of-its-kind interface between Epic and LYNX Medical Systems' emergency department charge capture solution.
  Bert Reese, Chief Information Officer and Vice President, Sentara Healthcare
  
  

HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
Picis is among 73 vendors and organizations that have met the testing requirements for interoperability to participate in the HIMSS 2010 Interoperability Showcase, designed to illustrate how data sharing between systems and healthcare vendors drives improvements in quality and efficiency of healthcare. The Showcase highlights the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Consortium's common framework and Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) interoperability specifications for delivering interoperability across local, regional and national health information exchanges.

Picis will be staging two interoperability scenarios under the Emergency Care themes of emergency encounter with imaging requirement and emergency encounter with imaging distribution. In these scenarios, Picis plans to illustrate its ability to share patient information across multiple care provider systems.

About Picis
Picis is a global provider of innovative information solutions that enable rapid and sustained delivery of clinical, financial and operational results in the acute care areas of the hospital. These high-acuity areas include the emergency department, operating and recovery rooms, and intensive care units. Picis offers the most advanced suite of integrated products focused on these life-critical areas of the hospital where the patients are the most vulnerable, the care process is the most complex and an increasing majority of hospital costs and potential revenue are concentrated. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has licensed systems for use in more than 1,800 hospitals in 19 countries. For more information on Picis, please visit www.picis.com/solutions or to join a discussion on how cost containment and RAC impact emergency physicians or other issues, visit healthcare-exchange.com, Picis’ new blog. Follow Picis on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PicisInc.