Eclipsys Sunrise ED Manager Activated at New York University Medical Center

Eclipsys Corporation, today announced that New York University (NYU) Medical Center, New York, NY, has activated the company's Sunrise ED Manager in the medical center's Emergency Department in midtown Manhattan. The Level II trauma center treats approximately 35,000 patients each year.

Sunrise ED Manager supports Emergency Department clinicians who must make decisions quickly and keep track of several patients in varying stages of care. By providing the right clinical information at the point of care at the right time in the patient's course of treatment, Sunrise ED Manager facilitates optimum workflow, efficiency and accuracy in the unpredictable Emergency Department. In addition, by automating functions such as registration, triage, patient tracking, physician orders, documentation and prescription writing, the system helps Emergency Departments streamline workflows and improve patient outcomes.

"We're proud to be a part of NYU Medical Center's successful deployment of Sunrise ED Manager and to continue our long partnership with this prestigious healthcare provider," said R. Andrew Eckert, Eclipsys president and chief executive officer. "NYU Medical Center shares the Eclipsys Vision of Health(TM) in which information is always available to clinicians across the organization -- including the fast-paced Emergency Department -- enabling the best possible decisions and patient outcomes."

"Eclipsys has been a terrific partner," said Pravene Nath, MD, senior director of Information Technology and assistant professor of Emergency Medicine for NYU Medical Center. "We never felt that the success or failure of the project was ours alone. We have always believed that it was a shared effort and we are happy that it has become a shared success." One of the key features of Sunrise ED Manager is an electronic ED Display Board, which replaces the traditional "white board" on which clinicians would manually track a patient's location and status. Because tracking information is displayed on large-screen monitors, NYU's ED staff can now track patient location, status and result availability at a glance, which reduces response time and improves outcomes. Driven by a highly configurable rules engine, Sunrise ED Manager enables NYU's ED clinicians to create color-coded alerts and custom-configured columns.

NYU Medical Center is a long-time user of Eclipsys clinical solutions, having first implemented the company's heritage Eclipsys 7000(TM) system in the early 1980s. Using the E7000(TM), NYU Medical Center has been widely recognized as the first hospital in the world to achieve 100-percent computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The hospital is now in the process of installing Eclipsys' latest-generation solution, Sunrise Clinical Manager(TM).

Because Clinical Manager and ED Manager are integrated components of the Sunrise(TM) advanced clinical suite and share a common architecture and clinical data repository, they support continuity of care across the organization. As a result, inpatient clinicians are able to see all orders, results, treatments, and triage notes entered on the patient's ED record, eliminating the need to re-order already completed tests or make new clinical observations for the patient's record. This level of integration eliminates duplication and unnecessary actions, allowing healthcare organizations to improve clinical operations and care delivery.