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ACS MIDAS+ and Curaspan integrate Care Management and discharge activities to improve patient care and efficiency
MIDAS+ Press Releases - Source: ACS MIDAS+
Integration Supports “Best of Breed” Quality Improvement Solutions Strategy
Hollywood, CA, April 24, 2006 – ACS® MIDAS+™, a business unit of ACS Healthcare Solutions, and Curaspan, a leading provider of electronic patient discharge solutions, announced today the availability of an integrated solution combining Curaspan’s eDischarge® planning product with the ACS MIDAS+ Care Management product.
eDischarge is a web-based discharge solution that automates the paper- and phone-intensive process of placing patients in post acute care settings. Hundreds of hospital and post acute providers rely on eDischarge for 100% web-enabled referrals and placements. eDischarge customers include leading hospitals such as New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Sentara Health System, and Carilion.
This integration will give discharge planners immediate access to all the information collected in the MIDAS+ Care Management application during the patient’s stay and transfer the required information directly to eDischarge. Today, over 700 hospitals nation-wide license the MIDAS+ Care Management product to meet the workflow and reporting needs surrounding Resource Utilization, Case Management, Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Improvement.
“We are excited to offer MIDAS+ Care Management customers seamless workflow with eDischarge,” says Jim DeWeese, Senior Vice President of ACS MIDAS+, a division of ACS Healthcare Solutions. “We are seeing significant interest from our customers who wish to extend MIDAS+’s capabilities to electronic discharge planning. eDischarge’s high degree of customer satisfaction and proven ROI matches perfectly with the MIDAS+ philosophy and validates our approach in assisting healthcare organizations in their on-going efforts to improve utilization and quality of care.”
“Integrating with MIDAS+ Care Management is a key piece of our connectivity strategy,” said Tom Ferry, CEO of Curaspan. “By providing HL-7 based integration between eDischarge and MIDAS+ customers can protect and extend their investment in these best of breed solutions.”
This announcement was made at the 13th Annual NICM Clinical Case Management Conference & 7th Annual ACMA Meeting.
About ACS Healthcare Solutions
ACS Healthcare Solutions, a business unit of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., comprises 2,200 experienced professionals providing healthcare information technology services and solutions to its array of consulting, outsourcing, and provider clients. For more information on the ACS MIDAS+ products visit http://www.midasplus.com.
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Fortune 500 company with more than 50,000 people supporting client operations in nearly 100 countries, provides business process and IT outsourcing solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. Visit ACS on the Internet at http://www.acs-inc.com.
About Curaspan
CuraSpan, Inc. is a healthcare solutions company that helps hospitals and post acute care networks increase their patient throughput, reduce length of stay, and maximize and patient and clinician satisfaction.
eDischarge is a Process Management Solution that accelerates the discharge planning process. By eliminating the time-consuming tasks associated with matching patients with providers, healthcare professionals are able to improve workflow bottlenecks, manage network providers effectively, and simplify the processes associated with discharging patients.
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"In our quest to improve operational efficiencies, effectiveness and patient satisfaction, deploying technologies that optimize workflow processes and improve communications is paramount. MIDAS+ BedReady has provided us with a complete suite of capacity management tools, resulting in better service to patients and physicians. The added benefit of the integration between MIDAS+ BedReady and MIDAS+ Care Management gives us an end-to-end patient throughput solution, increasing satisfaction for patients, and financial performance for the organization."
Avery Cloud
Chief Information Officer,
New Hanover Health Network,
Wilmington, NC
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