Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, today announced the successful implementation of OpenVista, the company's flagship electronic health record (EHR) at the 11-bed Blue Mountain Hospital in Blanding, Utah. Proven to enable meaningful use of health IT by positively impacting patient mortality rates and improving overall clinical outcomes, OpenVista's deployment at Blue Mountain Hospital is a model for how vitally important rural hospitals can improve care by quickly deploying a comprehensive EHR system.
"Blue Mountain is a state-of-the-art facility on the forefront of the healthcare industry's move towards improving care by digitizing medical records," said Lorin MacKay, chief executive officer at Blue Mountain Hospital. "We recognized the value of an EHR system in improving patient care some time ago, and with Medsphere supporting and assisting us, Blue Mountain is proud to now offer the best of technology and medical care to our community."
OpenVista's flexible open source technology enables Medsphere to tailor the solution to the specific and evolving needs of Blue Mountain, which offers crucial medical services to residents of the Four Corners region encompassing sections of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
"Traditionally, EMR implementations take years and require great financial and personnel resources. Medsphere is proud to work with Blue Mountain to demonstrate that health IT can be both affordable and available in months, not years," said Michael J. Doyle, president and CEO of Medsphere. "Every hospital needs to have an EHR. The deployment by Blue Mountain of OpenVista proves that any hospital in the country regardless of size can afford the most widely and successfully deployed EHR in the world."
The implementation of OpenVista at Blue Mountain will give clinicians access to computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and clinical documentation functionality, along with clinical IT support for laboratory, radiology, pharmacy and nutrition services. At Blue Mountain, Medsphere also installed Fidelity Information Service's (FIS) GT.M, the leading open source implementation of MUMPS, enabling significant cost savings and a fully open source technology stack. Medsphere's deployment of OpenVista on GT.M enables benefits for both customers and developers in the Healthcare Open Source Ecosystem.