Remedy Informatics Deploys Bariatric Surgery Registries At Two Leading California-based Medical Facilities Specializing in Bariatric Surgery
SALT LAKE CITY, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Remedy Informatics, the leading provider of registries for healthcare organizations around the world, announced that Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital and Clovis Community Medical Center, both part of the Community Medical Centers network in central California, successfully deployed Remedy Obesity(TM), Remedy's innovative clinical informatics product designed to improve the delivery of care and outcomes for bariatric surgical patients.
"These two hospitals are excellent examples of patient-centric healthcare providers who are committed to continual improvement," said Gary Kennedy, Founder and CEO of Remedy Informatics. "Remedy Obesity will give both Clovis Community and Fresno Heart & Surgical a competitive advantage because of the unprecedented perspective they will gain from their data. Whether it's to benchmark therapeutic effectiveness or interrogate their data in pursuit of groundbreaking discoveries, they will have the tools to analyze and visualize as-of-yet-undetected patterns in their data. Their clinicians, researchers and administrators will derive valuable insights that will ultimately benefit their patients and the entire field of bariatrics through their novel research."
Built on Remedy's powerful Mosaic(TM) Platform, Remedy Obesity enables Fresno Hospital & Clovis Medical Center the capability to analyze their data to significantly improve the delivery of care and outcomes for bariatric patients. With Remedy Obesity, bariatric centers can:
- Participate in national benchmarking programs through the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
- Manage data assets at the enterprise level
- Aggregate, map and harmonize data from disparate sources (e.g., EHRs and clinical labs)
- Interrogate complex patient cohorts rapidly and with relative ease
- Access pre-built dashboards, reports and scorecards
- Drill down and filter the data in real time through the dashboards
- Identify statistically significant patterns and isolate outliers through visualization tools
- Implement collaborative performance improvement programs
"Our goal with deploying Remedy's bariatric surgery product is to improve our use of data to develop more effective therapies and improve outcomes for our patients," said Kelvin Higa, M.D., F.A.C.S, internationally renowned program director for minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital. "What impresses us most about Remedy Informatics' bariatric product is the pre-built, yet customizable reports and forms, and the powerful visualization tools that allow us to see and interact with our data."
The Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital and Clovis Community Medical Center are both Accredited Bariatric Surgery Centers in the American College of Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network. Both are facilities within Community Medical Centers, which is the largest and most comprehensive hospital system in the San Joaquin Valley with a history of serving central California dating back to 1897. Fresno Heart & Surgical has also been designated a Center of Excellence by the ASMBS and is recognized by Healthgrades® as being in the nation's top five percent for consistently delivering exceptional care, as rated by patients.
For information about Remedy Obesity or Remedy's leading registry technology, or to request a demonstration, please visit our website, www.remedyinformatics.com.
About Remedy Informatics
Founded in 2003, Remedy Informatics is a leading provider of registry-based oncology, cardiovascular and other informatics software products for life sciences research and healthcare delivery. The company, whose mission is to tangibly, measurably and permanently transform life sciences research and healthcare delivery around the world, serves a wide range of leading life sciences, translational research and healthcare institutions globally, including the Cleveland Clinic's Bariatric & Metabolic Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Baylor Health Care System and many more. Built on the innovative Mosaic(TM) Platform, all of Remedy's products are fully configurable and user-friendly. For more information visit: www.remedyinformatics.com.
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