CliniComp Celebrates 30th Anniversary As Pioneer Of The Health IT Industry

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CliniComp, Intl., a global provider of hospital-wide clinical documentation systems and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solutions, is celebrating its 30^th anniversary with an enviable record of near perfect reliability despite massive technological changes in acute-care medicine, and being tested by some of the greatest disasters in recent history.

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Clients of Essentris^® EMR, CliniComp's complete inpatient clinical information system (CIS), include commercial hospitals, integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers and other acute care providers in seven countries on three continents. Two years ago, CliniComp completed enterprise-wide installations at all 59 Department of Defense (DoD) hospital institutions worldwide, with installations averaging 60 days per site.  At a 1,000-bed medical center in Texas, the enterprise-wide CliniComp system installation replaced a failed system in the record time of 30 days.

"Over the past 30 years we have seen first-hand how drastically the health IT industry has changed and expect even more radical changes in the next few decades," said Chris Haudenschild, founder and CEO of CliniComp, Intl. "We started in the intensive care market because it was the most technologically demanding, most complicated, most data driven area in medicine. Frankly, because no one else was capable of creating a system with the reliability, performance and adaptability the ICU demands. While times have changed and the market has matured, we have maintained our clear vision, relentlessness and technical dominance."

From the beginning, Haudenschild, who founded the company as a one man start-up and continues his day-to-day leadership of the company, made an audacious promise: no planned or unplanned downtime. Little did he know, the system would be tested – and his promise validated – by a string of disasters:

• DURING 9/11 – Essentris^® remained fully functional at a customer hospital – three miles from Ground Zero – even though all the power went out throughout Lower Manhattan.  No loss of operation or data.
• DURING THE JAPANESE TSUNAMI – Essentris installations at 4 DoD hospitals in Japan affected by the March 2011 tsunami remained functional with no loss of data. Additionally, within hours, CliniComp, Intl. successfully engineered a way to securely transfer patient data to a hospital in the United States in case patients needed to be evacuated. No loss of operation or data.
• DURING THE GREAT BLACKOUT OF 2011 – When California experienced its largest power outage in California history, Essentris' on-site battery backup made it the only hospital system that remained operable at Naval Medical Center San Diego.  When CliniComp's 20-year-veteran field service engineer Dennis Bosse entered the facility's pitch-black data center, there was only one light blinking – the green power light of the Essentris system. No loss of operation or data.
• DURING HURRICANE SANDY – In October 2012, a New York City hospital's Essentris system remained fully functional and experienced no loss of operation or data, even though the hospital was inundated with 10 million gallons of seawater.  The system was finally shut down when the hospital was evacuated, but the system was up-and-running when the staff and patients returned about a month later. No loss of operation or data.

"We at CliniComp want to express our sincere appreciation to our loyal customers who reaffirm our strong commitment and high standards to providing high quality solutions that make a profound difference in patient care and the work lives of our diverse clinician users," Haudenschild continued. "We owe our success to forward-thinking clinicians, healthcare executives and others who fully understood the need for high performance, redundant architecture with no downtime." 

Not one to rest on his laurels, Haudenschild is ready for the challenges of the coming decades. The CliniComp EMR and clinical documentation solutions quickly acclimate to any structural change without losing the meaning of the data it holds and analyzes. Essentris goes beyond basic EMR functionality and delivers industry leading documentation, reporting and patient surveillance capabilities. Today, the CliniComp Essentris EMR has Stage 1 Meaningful Use certification, and is anticipating certification for Stage 2 in the coming days.

Ever the visionary, Haudenschild has given himself one more EMR challenge: to create for all hospitals of the world a single integrated, accessible database that transcends language, individual systems, and clinical differences. "That's a worthy, paradigm-changing goal that is within our grasp," said Haudenschild. 

About CliniComp, Intl.
CliniComp, Intl., (CCI), is a global provider of hospital-wide clinical documentation systems and electronic medical record (EMR) software and solutions for commercial and federal healthcare facilities worldwide, including both the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs hospitals. As a leading healthcare integration technology provider since 1983, CCI provides uncompromised performance and adaptability to change, while improving the efficiency and safety of healthcare providers' highest-acuity workflows. With virtually no downtime for three decades, the CCI Essentris^® complete inpatient EMR offers industry- leading reliability for acute, critical, emergency and perinatal care while supporting all classes of devices such as PCs, tablets and smartphones. These patient-centric, cost-effective and trustworthy system architecture benefits extend throughout a healthcare system, effectively providing an integrated health record that seamlessly works across disparate sites. Certified for Meaningful Use, CliniComp supports customers 24/7 in seven countries, across three continents.  For more information, visit www.clinicomp.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/clinicompintl.

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