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Patient Care Technology Systems Receives Blue Diamond Award for Technology Innovation |
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[03/20/07]
Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS) announced that it was recognized with the prestigious Blue Diamond Award from Information Technology Charlotte, part of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, in the category of Best IT Innovation. PCTS was given this honor for its pioneering work in developing and implementing automatic patient and asset tracking software for healthcare providers throughout the United States .
"We are very pleased to receive this recognition of the innovation that our automatic tracking software represents," said Tony Marsico, CEO of PCTS. "We share this recognition with our customers who continue to demonstrate the efficiency and safety advantages of managing their emergency and surgical services departments with real-time patient and asset tracking. To receive this award from the Charlotte technology community is especially gratifying."
PCTS provides intelligent workflow automation solutions for high acuity and enterprise-wide needs. The company developed the first and most widely implemented software for tracking patients in emergency departments. The software utilizes real-time location data, communicated by infrared, RFID, ultra-wideband or Wi-Fi tags associated with patients, staff and mobile medical equipment, to identify location and movement. The tags communicate to ceiling-mounted sensors placed wherever location information needs to be identified. The company's software utilizes business process intelligence to identify patient care milestones based on the location data and the measurement of interactions between patients, caregivers and assets. The progression of each patient's care is automatically entered into the software without requiring busy caregivers to enter information manually which is unlike all other forms of patient tracking.
Real-time patient information is shared via thin client workstations throughout a department and is presented in a variety of user and department-level views including a customized map view of the department. Emergency department caregivers can manage their workflows more efficiently by having complete and timely status of the care progression of all their patients which can include the status of orders and the receipt of results based on interfaces with ancillary systems for the laboratory and radiology departments. Surgical department caregivers use the software as a centralized communication portal which can integrate information from surgery scheduling, nurse call and wireless telephony systems. Department management can retrospectively analyze patient flow and department resource utilization through the over 130 reports that are part of the tracking software.
Today, PCTS automatic tracking solutions, which are marketed under the Amelior brand name, support workflow needs in the emergency and surgical services departments, outpatient services as well as enterprise-wide asset tracking needs. PCTS solutions have automatically tracked over 2.5 million patient encounters to date. The company recently integrated the automatic tracking module within its electronic emergency department documentation solution, Amelior ED, to combine the efficiencies of automatic tracking with the clinical charting, decision support and disposition management functionalities of their ED information system.
About the Blue Diamond Awards
Information Technology Charlotte, a council of the Charlotte Chamber, sponsors the Blue Diamond Awards. This year's event marks the 19th anniversary of this program which recognizes the accomplishments of Charlotte-area leaders in both using and producing technology-based solutions. The Blue Diamond Awards, named after the most rare and valuable of gems, are given once a year to recognize contributions made by Charlotte area individuals and companies in the field of information technology for innovation, customer services, growth and community contributions. The Charlotte Chamber is one of the largest chambers of commerce in the United States . For more information, please visit
>http://www.bluediamondawards.com/.
About Patient Care Technology Systems
Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc., provides hospitals with intelligent workflow solutions to improve patient flow and to reduce the risk of medical errors. The company's Amelior software suite includes Amelior ED, a comprehensive emergency department information system, and automatic patient and asset tracking software to meet emergency department, surgical and enterprise level needs of healthcare facilities. Amelior automatic tracking software is compatible with all leading locating hardware including infrared, RFID, ultra-wideband and Wi-Fi. PCTS customers have been recognized nationally for improvements in efficiency and clinical excellence. For more information, visit www.pcts.com.
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