North Shore-LIJ Health System Selects SIS Anesthesia

ATLANTA, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgical Information Systems ("SIS"), a leader in perioperative information systems, announced that North Shore-LIJ Health System has extended its enterprise agreement with SIS by selecting SIS Anesthesia as its anesthesia documentation solution. The implementation will start at North Shore University Hospital and will continue at the other North Shore-LIJ Health Systems hospitals.

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SIS' anesthesia information management system (AIMS), SIS Anesthesia, will be an integral part of North Shore's current perioperative system, including anesthesia as part of the single perioperative record.  It delivers anesthesia documentation as well as anesthesia business intelligence, enabling hospital surgery and anesthesia documentation to reside on a single database and streamlining and simplifying documentation.  North Shore will also use SIS Perfusion, an application for the documentation of the cardiac bypass procedure.

"As the only specialty anesthesia system featuring a shared database with a perioperative system, SIS Anesthesia supports continuity of care with changes in the perioperative record being reflected in the anesthesia record as well. The seamless integration and improved ease-of-use leads to a higher quality of patient care," said Dr. John Di Capua, Chairman of Anesthesiology at North Shore-LIJ and member of the Board of Directors at North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA).  "This deepens our already outstanding relationship with SIS and enhances interoperability at one of the leading academic hospitals in the nation."

"We continue to see clients recognizing the importance of anesthesia documentation with the increased adoption of SIS Anesthesia," said SIS CEO Ed Daihl. "They appreciate the value of a surgery and anesthesia solution on a single database and a perioperative system that supports the consistency of the clinical narrative."

This integrated enterprise system will result in a seamless flow of information between North Shore's All scripts Sunrise Clinical Manager health information system and SIS Anesthesia. It uses industry-standard practices for the exchange of discrete data thereby ensuring consistency and quality in clinical narrative.  North Shore-LIJ Health System is the nation's second-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system, based on number of beds. The health system was the 2010 recipient of the National Quality Forum's National Quality Healthcare Award, an honor that is presented annually to an outstanding, quality driven healthcare organization.

SIS has been focused on interoperability since its inception and continues to participate in industry-wide events—such as the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) annual conference and the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon—that focus on formulating interoperability standards and regulations.

"SIS' commitment to interoperability ensures our success in building a meaningful electronic health record for our patients," said John Bosco, CIO of the North Shore-LIJ Health System.  "SIS' excellence in integration means that they are better able to support our need for an efficient flow of hospital data."

About North Shore University Hospital

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset is a tertiary care facility that is one of the cornerstones of the health system. It was named the nation's top hospital by AARP's Modern Maturity magazine. The hospital has 812 beds and a staff of approximately 2,700 specialist and subspecialist physicians. It offers the most advanced care in all medical specialties, including open-heart surgery, neurosurgery, urology, and maternal-fetal medicine. The hospital also excels in intensive care for medical, surgical, newborn, and pediatric patients.

About North Shore-LIJ Health System

North Shore-LIJ delivers world-class clinical care at 15 hospitals and about 200 outpatient centers throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and a visionary approach to medical education, highlighted by the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. Its facilities house about 5,600 beds, employ more than 10,000 nurses and have affiliations with more than 9,000 physicians. Its workforce of about 42,000 is the largest on Long Island and the ninth-largest in New York City. www.northshorelij.com

About SIS

Surgical Information Systems ("SIS") provides software solutions that are uniquely designed to add value at every point of the perioperative process. Developed specifically for the complex surgical environment, all SIS solutions – including anesthesia – are architected on a single database and integrate easily with other hospital systems. SIS offers the only surgical scheduling system and the only anesthesia information management system endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA), and a rules-based charging system that has been granted Peer Reviewed status by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). SIS is also the first AIMS provider to be designated as an AQI Preferred Vendor by the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI).

Surgical Information Systems' 5.0.3 release is an ONC-ATCB Modular EHR.  This EHR Module is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.

Surgical Information Systems' 5.0.3 release was certified on November 19, 2010, Certification ID 11192010-6161-8.

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