- Baldridge Award Winner Builds on Results of Pinpoint Quality(R)/Pinpoint Compliance(R)
MEDai, Inc., an Elsevier company and leading provider of advancedhealthcare solutions including hospital outcomes analysis and award-winningpredictive analytics, has announced that Sharp HealthCare, a 1,700-bed,seven-facility system serving the San Diego area, has selected the company'sPinpoint Review(TM) product. The solution is designed to alert providers topatients at risk for developing hospital acquired conditions or at risk forreadmission.
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Sharp will use Pinpoint Review to support quality improvement and TheSharp Experience, a sweeping performance improvement initiative launched in2001. Pinpoint Review will provide Sharp with near-time triggers for coremeasures, hospital/system-wide surveillance of safety risks, physicianperformance reporting and forecasts of readmissions.
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"Sharp's selection of Pinpoint Review is based on our personal experiencewith the prebuilt measures of clinical performance and ease of use foundwithin two other MEDai tools, Pinpoint Quality and Pinpoint Compliance," saidNancy G. Pratt, RN, MS, Sharp's Senior Vice-President of ClinicalEffectiveness. "Collectively, these tools offer Sharp near-time access toclinical data for performance improvement, while Pinpoint Review, inparticular, addresses readmissions and new and emerging clinical measures ofcare."
For the past nine years, Sharp has relied on MEDai's Pinpoint Quality toreduce urinary tract infection rates, reduce blood utilization, and monitorquality outcomes across diseases. MEDai's solutions also assisted Sharp inbeing recognized with the coveted Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award in2007.
"MEDai is pleased that Sharp has selected Pinpoint Review to focus on thelikelihood of its patients developing complications or requiringreadmission," said Swati Abbott, President of MEDai. "Sharp is taking animportant step in preventing situations that can increase mortality rates,boost healthcare costs, compromise patient care quality and safety, andresult in lower reimbursement."
Pinpoint Review is the latest addition to a suite of MEDai-developedtools, which includes Pinpoint Quality and Pinpoint Compliance. PinpointQuality's retrospective analysis helps hospitals and physicians identifyareas for improvement, facilitating improved performance, outcomes, patientsatisfaction, efficiency and cost savings. Pinpoint Compliance provides atime-saving, Web-based solution for organizations to collect, report andsubmit data to the Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies, allowinghospitals to participate in accreditation, quality improvement and complianceinitiatives. Pinpoint Review adds real-time decision support, including theapplication of alerts and predictive models to patient data while patientsare still in the hospital.
About Sharp HealthCare
Sharp HealthCare, a not-for-profit integrated regional health caredelivery system based in San Diego, includes four acute-care hospitals, threespecialty hospitals and two medical groups: Sharp Rees-Stealy and SharpCommunity Medical Group. Sharp was named a recipient of the 2007 MalcolmBaldrige National Quality Award (http://www.sharp.com/en/choose-sharp/baldrige/index.cfm) and was the firsthealth care system to be named a gold-level award recipient by the CaliforniaCouncil for Excellence (CCE) for the California Awards for PerformanceExcellence (CAPE) program, the state-level affiliate of the Baldrige Award,in 2006.
About MEDai
MEDai, Inc. is a leading health information company offering award-winning solutions for improvement of healthcare delivery. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, payors and care management organizations are able to predictpatients at risk, identify cost drivers for their high-risk population,forecast future health plan costs, evaluate patient patterns over time andimprove outcomes. For more information on MEDai, visit http://www.medai.com.Its parent company, Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific,technical and medical information products and services with more than 7,000employees in over 70 offices across 24 countries.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical andmedical information products and services. The company works in partnershipwith the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000journals, including The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com) and Cell(http://www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including majorreference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions includeScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (http://www.scopus.com),Reaxys (http://www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com) andNursing Consult (http://www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance theproductivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite(http://www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (http://www.medai.com),which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes morecost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier(http://www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is partof Reed Elsevier Group PLC (http://www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leadingpublisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed ElsevierPLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam),REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).Media Contact: Christopher Capot KNB Communications +1-212-505-2441 +1-203-379-8019 (mobile) [email protected]
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