Alphabetical List of Vendors

Cerner * Coastal Healthcare Consulting * CPSI * Dairyland Health Systems * Eclipsys * Epic Systems * First Data Bank * Forward Advantage * Healthcare Information Consultants, LLC * Innovative Consulting Group * IntraNexus * McKesson * MDBuyline * Misys * Picis * QuadraMed * Validus * VISICU

 

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MDBuyline

 

McKesson Provider Technologies automates healthcare delivery processes with numerous clinical, financial and administrative applications. Our portfolio of access management, revenue cycle and resource management solutions helps organizations increase cash flow, maximize use of resources, and standardize, measure and monitor key performance indicators. McKesson’s clinical solutions help to improve quality, safety and efficiency with point-of-care documentation, order management, clinical decision support, diagnostic imaging and secure access to the complete electronic health record (EHR), including data, documents and medical images. Automation solutions support hospitals' unique dispensing, inventory management and medication administration initiatives ensuring accuracy through bar code scanning. We service home care agencies with a complete solution, including telehealth and remote monitoring capabilities. And the use of our analytics facilitates regulatory compliance and helps organizations to improve performance.

McKesson reaches 20% of all U.S. physicians, offering a complete solution for physician practices including practice management and EHR software, revenue cycle outsourcing and connectivity services. We also provide outsourced billing and collection services as well as supplies and services.

RelayHealth is an intelligent network that streamlines clinical, financial and administrative communication between patients, providers, payors, pharmacies and financial institutions -- accelerating the delivery of high-quality care and improved financial performance.

Contact: Diane Dukes, diane.dukes@mckesson.com, 404-338-3581
  MISYS
  EPIC

MD Buyline: The Leader in Healthcare Technology and Information Services Since 1983

Imagine having access to the most comprehensive information database on medical capital and informatics at your fingertips. For 25 years, MD Buyline has leveled the playing field for hospitals and medical technology vendors. MD Buyline members have unlimited online access to the tools and services that empower them to make sound technology and financial decisions. Executives, Clinical Managers, Materials, Purchasing, and Engineering personnel can quickly download database reports on medical capital and informatics purchases, discounts, user feedback and vendors.

Consider the advantages of having a team of analysts available to provide expert reports on medical technology products, pricing and performance. Members can request consultations and conference calls with MD Buyline Clinical Analysts on specific topics, or when they need advice on larger projects such as strategic alliance agreements, capital budget reviews, and technology forecasting. Live, instructor-led, online training sessions are also available to members at no charge.

Find out what over 3,300 healthcare facilities and 35,000 members already know: that MD Buyline is the authority on healthcare market intelligence.

http://www.mdbuyline.com
  QUADRAMED
 

Health Care Information Consultants, LLC (HCIC), was founded in 1990 to provide information management consulting services. We are celebrating our 18th year of service to the healthcare industry.

During this time, HCIC has assisted virtually hundreds of healthcare clients in a variety of technology and related issues. We focus on projects relating to the use of information technology within the healthcare environment, including:

  • strategy development,
  • organizational assessment,
  • systems planning, and
  • technology integration into the process of delivering high quality care.

We combine our extensive years of experience and industry leadership with a focus on the your unique business issues, respect for your mission, and an overriding commitment to your success. All engagements include participation by our principals and senior-level consultants. Our expertise is in understanding the dynamics of complex health care organizations, developing strategies for achieving organizational objectives and managing the implementation of those strategies.

HCIC consultants have the experience and credibility to interact with all levels of the organization: executive, management, users, and technical staff.

First DataBank, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, drives patient safety and healthcare quality by providing drug databases that are used within information systems that touch every aspect of healthcare. For 30 years, we have partnered with system developers to integrate and optimize our drug information to improve user workflow and enhance clinical decision making by those entrusted with treating patients at the point-of-need. Together with our development partners, First DataBank helps reduce the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events, which promises to lower healthcare costs and improve patient care.

First DataBank supports thousands of drug knowledge base implementations – ranging from pharmacy dispensing and claims processing to emerging applications including computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic health records, electronic medical records, electronic prescribing, medication reconciliation, disease management and electronic medication administration records (EMAR).

First DataBank’s National Drug Data File (NDDF™) Plus, OrderView Med Knowledge Base™ (both U.S.-based) and other drug databases for Canada (International Drug Data File™-Canada) and the United Kingdom (Multilex Drug Data File™) provide drug vocabulary and clinical decision-support content that are key components in these mission-critical, real-world installations.

For more information about First DataBank, call 800-633-3453 or visit www.firstdatabank.com.
  Cerner

VISICU, Inc. (NASDAQ:  EICU) is a healthcare information technology and clinical solutions company focused on transforming the delivery of critical care through its eICU® Program. 

Through remote monitoring technology and clinical intelligence, experienced critical care resources are leveraged to provide coverage and early intervention for safer, more effective patient care.

Currently more than 180 hospitals serving over 250,000 patients annually have partnered with VISICU to implement eICU programs.    

Coastal Healthcare Consulting, Inc. (Coastal) is a premier provider of healthcare information systems consulting with a proven track record of performance over the last eleven years. Coastal’s hard-working, client-focused professionals have the information, expertise and solutions to ensure successful completion of projects for healthcare facilities. Coastal specializes in providing project management and implementation services, including tailoring, testing, training and go-live, to an entire healthcare facility or to a single department. Coastal was named “Best in KLAS” for Clinical Implementation - Supportive for 2005, 2006 and 2007 by KLAS Enterprises, LLC.

For more information, please visit www.coastalhealthcare.com.

IntraNexus has been a leader in delivering healthcare system solutions for over 15 years, providing integrated products linking healthcare with technology.

SAPPHIRE ® Web, the only true web-based HIS, employs the latest secure technology and offers modules that include a fully integrated EHR, CPOE, Clinical Documentation, Patient Scheduling, Patient Access and Patient Financials. SAPPHIRE Web provides an open platform solution that includes a combined inpatient and outpatient relational database. When combined with SAPPHIRE Ascend, the IntraNexus state-of-the-art Pharmacy component, patient care is enhanced through the use of patient/medication bar code scanning and integrated eMAR.

To receive more information or schedule a demo, please call 757-437-9125!

Leverage the latest Browser technology today. Here. There. Anywhere. IntraNexus.

www.intranexus.com
  CPSI
  DAIRYLAND

Innovative Consulting Group (ICG) provides healthcare IT consulting services to hospitals and healthcare systems. Our highly trained consultants specialize in data center consolidation, application implementation, systems integration, and revenue cycle management services. Our staff averages over 15 years in healthcare information technology, with extensive experience in the following areas:

  • Siemens INVISION® ICO & RCO
  • McKesson STAR®, Horizon® & Pathways®
  • Cerner Millenium® & Classic®
  • Integration Analysis, Design and Engine Build
  • Project Management
  • Interim Executive Leadership

ICG has the technical expertise you need for everything from complete system implementation to smaller re-engineering projects. With rates among the most competitive in the industry, ICG can bring your project in on time and within budget.

www.InnovativeCG.com

  FORWARD ADVANTAGE
  VALIDUS

Picis
Delivering Results in High Acuity Care

Picis provides comprehensive information systems that automate clinical documentation and business practices in the emergency department, operating rooms, post-anesthesia care units and intensive care units. A leader in high-acuity automation, Picis CareSuite ® software and services help healthcare organizations increase efficiency, enhance patient care and promote patient safety by providing clinicians up-to-date clinical information at the point of care across the entire high-acuity spectrum. Picis software and services can also help transform your business and provide immediate, measurable revenues and savings.

Picis offers the most advanced suite of products, and proven interoperability within 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 are incurred. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has licensed systems for use in more than 1,300 hospitals in 19 countries. Clients include HCA; Health Management Associates, Inc.; the Mayo Clinic; MedStar Health; the Methodist Hospital in Houston; Mt. Sinai Medical Center; the National Health Service of the United Kingdom; NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System; Stanford University Medical Center; Sutter Health; and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. For more information, visit www.picis.com or contact us at
781 557 3000.

Eclipsys is a leading provider of information solutions that help hospitals and health systems achieve measurable, sustainable, portable, improved outcomes. Eclipsys has become known as The Outcomes Company for the measurable and sustainable value in improved care quality, safety, satisfaction and cost-efficiency our clients achieve using our solutions. Eclipsys delivers workflow and knowledge support to smooth “handoffs” between physicians, nurses, managers and other members of the healthcare team. Eclipsys helps bring them the pertinent evidence-based content and patient-specific information they need — anytime, anywhere, on virtually any computer device — to make the best possible decisions for each patient.

For over three decades, hundreds of highly respected academic and community hospitals have trusted Eclipsys to deliver information support as they care for their sickest — highest-acuity — patients. Today’s Eclipsys solutions build on our expertise in this most complex level of care. Additionally, Eclipsys solutions extend far beyond the “four walls” of the hospital to connect providers, patients and communities in a continuum of care never before achievable. This not only provides unparalleled clinical and satisfaction outcomes, but financial as well, helping eliminate waste and maximize revenue. For more information, please visit www.eclipsys.com or email info@eclipsys.com.
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