NOA consultants selected to provide activation support of Eclipsys Sunrise Acute Care™ and Sunrise Pharmacy™ implementations at UAMS

May 2008 – NOA’s Andrea Walker, RN, Kevin Rogers, RN, Jeanie Eckmann, MT (ASCP), Brenda Rollins, Abraham Gilbert and Rod Walker of NEGLEY of OTT & ASSOCIATES, INC. were selected by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas (UAMS) to provide staff augmentation via activation support during the recent implementation for Eclipsys Sunrise Acute Care™ and Sunrise Pharmacy™ at UAMS.

Subsequent to achieving advanced configuration certification from Eclipsys Corporation on the Sunrise Acute Care CPR system, NOA has been engaged to participate in multiple activations as consultant resources.  UAMS activation included orders / results and pharmacy applications on a pilot unit and then escalated deployment to the entire organization thereafter in a big-bang approach, which was a huge success.

Congratulations to UAMS and Eclipsys for a successful activation and continued success at demonstrating quality of care through leveraging advanced clinical integration of information via automation with a CPR system.

“The staff augmentation engagement at UAMS is an example of how NOA’s product expertise and best-demonstrated-practices approach can be leveraged for the benefit of customers and ultimately for the benefit of patients receiving care. UAMS did an outstanding job preparing for this event and their success is largely due to the forethought and thoroughness of I.T. leadership in getting ready for such a significant implementation.”
 
said Rod Walker, NOA Partner & COO.

 

The University of Arkansas of Medical Sciences (UAMS) is a teaching hospital which is part of the University of Arkansas system.  Following are other points of interest about UAMS:

  • Approximately 330 beds – including NICU

  • Almost 9,600 employees

  • Nearly 1,150 physicians

  • More than 690 resident physicians

  • About 2,320 Students

  • Six academic colleges:

    • Medicine

    • Pharmacy

    • Nursing

    • Health Related Professions

    • Public Health

    • Graduate School

  • Affiliates

    • Arkansas Children’s Hospital

    • VA Medical Center

  • Centers of Excellence

    • Cancer Treatment

    • Ophthalmology

    • Orthopedics

    • Neurosurgery

    • Pediatrics

    • Geriatrics

    • Services of bone marrow transplantation, skull base surgery, hip and knee joint replacement and laser surgery

  • On Campus Institutes

    • Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

    • Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute

    • Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging

    • Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy

    • Psychiatric Research Institute

    • Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute

 

NEGLEY, OTT & ASSOCIATES, INC. is a clinical systems consulting company with certification on multiple CPR systems and is rapidly moving forward towards aligning with Eclipsys Corporation, (NASDAQ: ECLP) as a business partner for implementation consulting and support with the Sunrise Clinical Manager product line. The business partner agreement between NOA and Eclipsys represents a strategic initiative which will leverage NOA’s clinical system expertise in improving care delivery workflow processes by using best demonstrated practices.

 

About Negley, Ott & Associates, Inc.
NOA was formed in 1992 by IS professionals with a desire to provide hospital information system and clinical professionals with best demonstrated practices in conjunction with implementing clinical software systems that focus on patient care.  The issues, personalities, opportunities, challenges and solutions required by clinical system implementations require the ability to meld sensitivity to clinical processes with the realities of computing and patient care delivery.  To date, NOA has provided services to over 60 hospitals installing clinical systems using an approach that stresses both outcomes and knowledge transfer. Supporting so many users, both during and after their installation, gives NOA the opportunity to understand the issues that make clinical systems work, and those that don't.

 

About Eclipsys   
 

Eclipsys is known as The Outcomes Company® for its ability to help customers improve clinical, financial, operational and client-satisfaction outcomes

Eclipsys helps healthcare organizations improve patient safety and quality, financial health, operational efficiency and customer and staff satisfaction through innovative information software and service solutions. Sunrise Clinical Manager™ is an integrated, enterprise-wide electronic medical record solution spanning the acute, critical care, emergency, clinic and physician office environments that provides immediate, secure access to patients’ complete records, streamlines care processes and improves the quality and cost-efficiency of care. It features a state-of-the-art workflow engine, embedded best-practice content presented within context, and sophisticated computerized physician order entry and interdisciplinary clinical documentation capabilities.
 
For more information, visit http://www.eclipsys.com or e-mail info@eclipsys.com.

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