University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, Announces Plans to Implement Eclipsys Sunrise Advanced Clinical Solutions

Eclipsys Corporation and University Hospitals Health System (UHHS), Cleveland, the leading healthcare delivery system in northeast Ohio with more than 150 locations, today announced that the health system plans to contract for the Eclipsys Sunrise clinical information suite. Consistently ranked among America's best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, UHHS plans to deploy Eclipsys' advanced clinical solutions as part of a strategic initiative to improve patient care, patient satisfaction and clinical workflow.

The Eclipsys Sunrise advanced clinical suite helps healthcare organizations save time, costs and lives by supporting best practices across the enterprise and the continuum of care on a single, integrated technology platform. As a result, the many individuals involved in a patient's care can share information seamlessly. This includes the Eclipsys integrated medication management solution, which provides the physician, pharmacist and nurse with a shared solution to ensure the safe management of a patient's medication therapy. Using integrated Sunrise solutions, information handoffs between providers, departments, shifts and facilities can be completed efficiently and accurately.

An interdisciplinary team of UHHS physicians, nurses and senior management recommended Eclipsys after an extensive analysis of other clinical information solutions. UHHS plans to contract for and deploy: Sunrise Clinical Manager(TM), the award-winning foundation of the integrated Sunrise clinical suite; Eclipsys Medication Management Solutions(TM), an end-to-end medication management solution including the new Sunrise Medication Manager(TM) pharmacy system; Sunrise Ambulatory Care Manager(TM) and Sunrise ED Manager(TM), designed for the unique information needs of the fast-paced ambulatory and Emergency Department environments; Sunrise Clinical Manager with Critical Care Solutions(TM) for the information-intensive critical care environment; and Sunrise Discovery(TM), a leading-edge healthcare business intelligence solution.

Along with the Sunrise clinical suite's advanced capabilities and embedded best-practice clinical content, UHHS also saw considerable advantages in the solutions' open, XA(TM) extended architecture. This enables any healthcare organization to quickly and easily extend and integrate Eclipsys solutions to communicate with other clinical, non-clinical and legacy systems.

"Eclipsys is looking forward to expanding its long-standing relationship with University Hospitals Health System by providing a fully integrated electronic medical record across the entire UHHS enterprise," said R. Andrew Eckert, Eclipsys president and chief executive officer. "With evidence-based content integrated into the Sunrise clinical suite and uniquely delivered at the point of care and broadly across the enterprise wherever decisions are made impacting patient care, Eclipsys will help UHHS achieve its patient outcomes, satisfaction and research objectives, while continuing to save more lives."

UHHS has utilized the Eclipsys Sunrise Decision Support Manager(TM) management information system for many years, as well as the company's heritage Eclipsys 7000(TM) clinical information system at its University Hospitals of Cleveland flagship facility.

Improving Patient Access, Satisfaction and Care Quality Throughout the Region

"After a comprehensive review and analysis, UHHS has determined that implementing electronic health record technology throughout our health system will help us achieve our strategic objectives of advancing clinical quality and enhancing patient satisfaction," said Thomas F. Zenty III, president and chief executive officer of University Hospitals Health System. "The new system will also enable UHHS to improve patient access and achieve greater operational efficiencies system-wide. We look forward to finalizing our contract with Eclipsys and moving into the implementation phase of this important effort." Nathan Levitan, MD, UHHS chief medical officer, said that "We look forward to our electronic health record solution. Eclipsys has a proven reputation with many major healthcare institutions and we see great benefit in leveraging Eclipsys' experience deploying clinical systems in the academic, community hospital, ambulatory, and primary care settings. The EHR will further enhance the already excellent care at UHHS