Unibased integrates EHR, periOperative RMS and anesthesia IMS at Monongalia General Hospital

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) recently completed an integration of an anesthesia information management system, with an EHR where the key linkage is the Unibased award-winning ForSite2020® periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS) at Monongalia General Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia. ForSite2020® ORMS not only functions as the conduit between the various systems, but also retains the relevant and appropriate data in a singular fashion, including registration and billing data, for all parties. The project required the cooperation of all the vendors as well as coordination, on-site testing and evaluation by the Monongalia General team.

Besides the Unibased ForSite2020® ORMS, the ForSite2020® Resource Management System (RMS) played a key role. Other firms and products involved were Draeger Medical Innovian®, Siemens MedSeries4® and Cerner Millennium™. Larry Covington, the Unibased President and CEO, mentioned, "The project was completed quickly, highly cost-effective and a tribute to modern HIT interoperability. EHR ONC-ATCB certification was an important consideration. The entire effort, including analysis and data integration, creating new integration software, documenting work flow, test and quality assurance was accomplished in less than 60 days. The effort was conceived in April 2011 and went live in June. It has been operating flawlessly, 24/7, since."

Steve Carter, Monongalia General Hospital IT Director, agreed, "Monongalia General Hospital committed to be the first hospital to implement Innovian® integrated with Unibased's ForSite2020® ORMS. The installation of Innovian® with ORMS went smoothly, and is a credit to all parties involved, including the professional users. Monongalia General's anesthesiologists, surgeons, and nurses are all very pleased with this fully integrated solution." Terry Morgan, IT Programming & Development Coordinator at Monongalia General Hospital, stated, "This was the most complicated set of interfaces the hospital has ever implemented in that they involved several different systems communicating new and different types of information. Hospital IT staff, as well as staff from Unibased, worked together closely in defining the required data exchange, and implementing the interfaces very well the first time."