PatientKeeper's user community grows more than 60% in the last 12 months

PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading developer of physician information systems, reported continued growth in the first half of 2009. This growth was driven by new customers including Pennsylvania’s Butler Health System, North Carolina’s Catawba Valley Medical Center and Michigan’s Oakwood Healthcare System and by existing customers adopting new products.

PatientKeeper’s high rate of physician adoption and satisfaction played a key role in the selection of PatientKeeper’s physician portal at Catawba Valley Medical Center, a 258-bed hospital in Hickory, North Carolina. In addition to providing physicians with a unified view of information across all of Catawba’s inpatient systems, Catawba has plans to connect community physicians’ practices to PatientKeeper using the PatientKeeper Physician Practice Connector™. This will provide their physicians with a complete longitudinal medical record across inpatient and outpatient care settings.

“PatientKeeper’s solutions will provide our physicians with streamlined access to a breadth of clinical and financial information, enhancing their ability to deliver the highest quality of care wherever they may be — inside or outside of the hospital,” said Jerry Reardon, CIO of Catawba Valley Medical Center. “We believe this extended capability for data exchange will help us to meet the interoperability requirements of the ARRA stimulus package.”

In the last 12 months, PatientKeeper’s user community has grown by more than 60%. This growth can be attributed to PatientKeeper’s effectiveness at presenting a unified view of patient information for physicians, integration with existing clinical systems and best-in-class physician workflow applications.

Looking ahead, PatientKeeper is seeing significant increases in demand for its products as hospitals look to PatientKeeper to help meet the ARRA Meaningful Use requirements. Consequently, PatientKeeper has increased total staff by 23 percent in the past year and is planning another 20-30 percent increase in staff over the next 6 months. The vast majority of this expansion is focused on research and development, professional services and support.

“We’re thrilled with the continued demand from both new and existing customers and the pace at which physicians are embracing our system”, said Paul Brient, PatientKeeper president and CEO. “PatientKeeper’s solutions connect healthcare communities so physicians can access and act on patient information wherever they practice patient care. Access to a complete set of clinical data wherever it resides provides significant value to our clients today and positions them to achieve true meaningful use.”