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December 8, 2003
UHS’ Spring Valley Hospital Opens Doors Fully Wired and
Wireless
with Opus Healthcare Solutions’ Web-based Clinical Solutions
Las
Vegas Four-Hospital System Launches Aggressive
Implementation Schedule to Accelerate Strategic Benefits
AUSTIN,
TEXAS, December 8, 2003 — Opus Healthcare
Solutions, Inc., a provider of advanced Web-based clinical
data management software, today announced that Spring Valley
Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, a brand new 176-bed
hospital, went live with six Opus Healthcare clinical products
on October 2, 2003. This is the first phase of an aggressive
clinical software launch for the entire four-hospital Valley
Health System, including a total of over 1,100 beds, by May
2004. The Valley Health System is owned and operated by Universal
Health Services, Inc.
“With the opening of Spring Valley
we decided that we wanted to move forward with as many leading-edge
clinical technologies as possible,” explains Mary Siero, System
IS Director for The Valley Health System. “It was easy
to accomplish our aggressive goals because Opus Healthcare’s
products are so easy for clinicians to learn. The successful
launch at Spring Valley has given us the confidence to proceed
with installations in our other three hospitals.
”By
equipping its hospitals with advanced Web-based software
systems, The Valley Health System is aiming to accomplish
several strategic business goals, including clinical data
access across facilities, lifetime storage of patients’ medical
records, and improved staff recruitment and retention. “The
executives and IS teams at all four hospitals collectively
chose Opus Healthcare as our primary clinical software vendor,
because we believe the technology will help us meet our critical
business goals,” explains Siero.
Spring Valley Hospital’s
new technologies include the latest versions of six Opus
Healthcare products: OpusOM® (Order Management), OpusMD®
(Physician Web Access), OpusClinDoc® (Clinical Documentation), OpusLinks
(Interface Engine), OpusLab® (Laboratory) and OpusCDR™
(Clinical Data Repository).The Valley Health System supported
the installations with a state-of-the-art infrastructure,
including wireless technology, personal computers, and printers.
Its parent company, Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS),
connects to the local network infrastructure over its sophisticated
Wide Area Network (WAN), with its servers providing highly
secure data storage in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
“UHS’ established WAN is one of the primary
reasons we could move so rapidly with this installation,” explains
Tim Rhoads, Opus Healthcare’s President and CEO. “This
is much more than just a successful technology installation
story; it’s the story of success at many levels, including
thorough clinical staff training, superb project management,
excellent corporate support, and dedication to a long-term
strategic Web-based vision.
”An important part of The
Valley Health System’s long-term
vision is to provide easy-to-use electronic physician order
entry over the Web. “Physicians’ willingness
to use the system is essential in meeting this goal,” explains
Siero. “Since the launch of OpusOM® in Spring
Valley we’ve seen an increase in their interest in
our technological capabilities, which is encouraging and
very important in our competitive healthcare arena.
”The next hospital
to go-live will be Valley Hospital Medical Center, the largest
facility in UHS’ Valley Health
System, with 400 beds, in January 2004. Next will be 200-bed
Summerlin Hospital Medical Center and quickly following will
be 346-bed Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center. Unlike
Spring Valley Hospital, which is a newly opened facility,
the other three are established hospitals that have been
using a combination of paper and mainframe-based clinical
systems.
“To facilitate our aggressive launch schedule,
we’re
currently conducting comprehensive training programs,” explains
Siero. “Our training strategy includes first helping
our clinicians become comfortable with PC-based technology.
Then we’re training them on how to use Opus Healthcare
Web-based applications. Our plan is working, because with
the first hospital go-live we experienced no spike in calls
to our IS support department. And our next installation’s
clinician training program is right on schedule.”
About Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. delivers sophisticated, easy-to-use,
and highly adaptable Web-based clinical applications to
today’s cost-conscious and patient-focused hospital
systems and integrated health networks. The comprehensive
enterprise-ready OpusClinicalSuite® includes
clinical documentation, order management, clinical data
repository, physician Web access, laboratory data management,
anatomic pathology management, and more — all built
on an efficient, flexible, and secure Web architecture,
and capable of sharing this important clinical data through
an integrated HL7/XML interface engine.
About Universal Health Services, Inc.
Universal Health Services, Inc., (NYSE: UHS) is one of
the nation’s largest hospital management companies.
It is a leading operator of acute care hospitals, behavioral
health centers, ambulatory surgery centers, and radiation
oncology centers across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and France.
It acts as the advisor to Universal Health Realty Income
Trust, a real estate investment trust (NYSE: UHT). Learn
more at www.uhsinc.com
Contact Information
For more information, contact Jessica Taylor.
jtaylor@opushealthcare.com or
(512) 336-7200.
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