Zynx Health's clinical support solution receives US patent

Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued United States Patent 7,822,626 covering their "extensive suite of tools that facilitate and enhance the capability within a healthcare institution to establish and maintain an evidence-based best practice approach to providing patient care."

“As a mission-driven company focused on measurably improving the quality, safety and efficiency of care, this patent represents a great milestone and underscores our innovative and entrepreneurial culture”

This patent covers Zynx Health's system for customizing, reviewing and exporting clinical content to the point of care within a healthcare institution's electronic system. Notably, the patent comprises:

• An authoring environment that allows for reviewing and exporting the clinical content structure of order sets and plans of care
• A vocabulary transformation engine for automatically converting the clinical content structure of order sets and plans of care into a standard terminology structure
• A custom export engine for converting the standard structure into an export structure in a particular vendor system format

"As a mission-driven company focused on measurably improving the quality, safety and efficiency of care, this patent represents a great milestone and underscores our innovative and entrepreneurial culture," said Scott Weingarten, the president and CEO of Zynx Health. "With over 1,800 United States hospitals using our suite of tools to customize, manage and deploy evidence-based clinical content, we are confident our patented technology will help even more healthcare institutions provide evidence-based care."

Hospitals using Zynx Health solutions have achieved statistically significant improvements in financial outcomes such as lower costs per case and in clinical outcomes such as reduced mortality, decreased hospital length of stay and improved adherence to quality metrics.

"Zynx Health's patented technology is being used today by hospitals to become meaningful users of their electronic health record systems," added Weingarten. "We feel this technology will be a key component for hospitals as they plan to transition into accountable care organizations."