New Acesis software platform improves patient safety and quality care

Acesis, the enterprise software company focused on healthcare performance improvement, today announced results from its first six months of service for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Hospital Medicine.

In early spring 2009, both parties signed an initial agreement that started the hospital’s use of the Acesis Performance Improvement Platform to automate I-CaRe (Inpatient Case Review), UCSF’s industry-leading medical case review system for assessing physician and system performance. The UCSF clinical team has customized, without assistance from their IT staff, the new Acesis software platform to efficiently streamline I-CaRe for UCSF’s extensive case review process.

Acesis’ Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering supports industry-leading new processes developed by UCSF’s acclaimed pioneers in patient safety: Robert Wachter M.D., Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, and Arpana Vidyarthi, M.D., the Division’s Director of Quality. Dr. Wachter is a globally recognized healthcare figure, known for his leadership in establishing organizational change, creating new models of clinical care, and advocating improved patient safety and quality. Dr. Vidyarthi heads UCSF’s programs to improve patient care in hospital medicine as well as develops programs across specialties to improve care delivered by hospital residents.

“Acesis gives our division at UCSF the ability to systematically assess quality through case review and analyze results effectively and in real time—thus moving from simple assessment into real improvement,” said Dr. Vidyarthi. “Acesis makes it possible for our physicians to thoroughly and efficiently examine individual medical cases thereby turning data into actionable knowledge --- providing us with an effective mechanism to improve and streamline our quality processes and better understand individual and systemic issues that impact quality of care.”

“Hospitals everywhere face the challenge of improving patient safety and quality care,” said Kevin Chesney, CEO of Acesis, “UCSF is playing a major role in designing the solutions. Acesis has innovated a unique approach to data capture and analysis, leveraging best of breed technologies to build a platform for performance improvement, with rapid delivery, unlimited scalability, and reduced upfront investment. Our SaaS platform perfectly meets the needs of today’s healthcare reform requirements, and we’re pleased to team with one of the undisputed leaders to show the nation what can be achieved.”