Butler Health System implements PatientKeeper’s Platform and Physician Portal

PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of Physician Information Technology, announced today that Butler Health System of Butler, Pennsylvania selected PatientKeeper to help its organization meet the meaningful use criteria requirements established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The implementation of PatientKeeper’s Platform and Physician Portal, which is scheduled to roll-out in the first quarter of 2010, will extend physician accessibility and connectivity to over 200 physicians and significantly impact patient quality and care.

Butler Health System’s selection of PatientKeeper came after evaluating the company against many vendors. Butler Health System chose PatientKeeper for its industry leading physician adoption rate, the company’s reputation, the ability to wire together and exchange relevant health information systems and data, and the ease of use of both its mobile and client desktop applications for physicians.

Butler Health System’s goal with PatientKeeper includes improved clinical and documentation workflow for its physicians as well as a foundation for connecting healthcare information systems across their enterprise and managing business continuity. The specific applications purchased include:

• PatientKeeper Platform™ – provides the foundation for the PatientKeeper product suite and delivers the right architecture for integrating information from across the hospital enterprise and the healthcare community.
• PatientKeeper Portal™ – provides a virtual electronic health record for the healthcare community that is both easy to administer and support, highly configurable and is a key component central of health information exchange initiatives.
• PatientKeeper Mobile Clinical Results™ – enables access to a single view of patient clinical information from lab results to clinical notes for physicians – from a web portal or mobile device.
• PatientKeeper Business Continuity™ – provides access to clinical results and other patient information during downtime events, so clinicians are up and running. PatientKeeper Business Continuity also offers a cost advantage of retiring older legacy information systems while also building a longitudinal patient record without interruption.
• PatientKeeper eSignature™ – enables physicians to review, edit and sign chart deficiencies– including transcribed reports, orders and scanned documents from any Web browser.
• PatientKeeper Sign-Out™ – provides a continuity of care tool at patient hand off that facilitates faster discharges, enhances patient safety and aids compliance with Joint Commission national patient safety goals.

“We are looking to PatientKeeper to provide easy access to the information our physicians need to care for their patients whether they are inside or outside the hospital,” said Peter Schogel, director of the program management office at Butler Health System. “As the definitions in the stimulus package have become clearer, we need a software solution that will help us quickly ramp up physician adoption of the systems we already have in place and add additional workflow capabilities required by the upcoming HITECH stimulus package. PatientKeeper is helping us bridge these two simultaneous goals of physician affinity coupled with meeting the meaningful use criteria outlined in ARRA.”

The organization is already so pleased with how the implementation is going that they are anticipating an expansion of the partnership with PatientKeeper to include two additional solutions. Schogel adds “Some of the PatientKeeper technology isn’t configured yet but we can already see patient data in the portal. Seeing it live really shows how impressive the tools are.”

“We are thrilled that Butler Health System selected PatientKeeper to be its partner for automating the physician workflow and exchanging clinical data,” said Paul Brient, CEO of PatientKeeper. “We look forward to working with Butler to help them to achieve meaningful use and, more importantly, to provide technology to their physicians that saves them time and helps them practice medicine more efficiently. ”