Jefferson Regional Medical Center, New York University Langone Medical Center Receive President's Awards for Excellence at 2008 Eclipsys Executive Forum

Eclipsys Corporation®, (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today announced the winners of the 2008 President’s Award, the highest honor Eclipsys bestows upon its clients to recognize their outstanding achievements in healthcare information technology and healthcare delivery. Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC), Pine Bluff, AR, received the Community Healthcare Organization Award, and New York University Langone Medical Center, New York City, received the Academic Healthcare Organization Award.

JRMC and NYU Langone Medical Center received the awards at the 2008 Eclipsys Executive Forum, held recently in Naples, FL. With the award, Eclipsys will make a donation to a charity of choice on behalf of each organization.

JRMC Nets Significant Quality, Safety Improvements with Eclipsys Solutions

To support the medical center’s second century of service, Jefferson Regional Medical Center uses Sunrise Clinical Manager™ as the foundation for its electronic medical record (EMR) strategy. With the goal of creating an integrated EMR for each patient, improving patient safety and enhancing the effectiveness of all its care teams, JRMC has routinely partnered with Eclipsys to become an early adopter of Eclipsys clinical information technology, beginning with its 2003 implementation and continuing with the latest versions of Clinical Manager’s advanced Sunrise Acute Care™ module.

Building upon its successes, the medical center has subsequently activated and/or planned to activate other integrated Clinical Manager modules to support an enterprise strategy of entering information once and having it available across the care continuum. This includes Sunrise Emergency Care™, Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting™, Sunrise Medication Management™ and Sunrise Ambulatory Care™. JRMC has documented improvements in care quality, patient safety, operational efficiency, compliance and revenue enhancement, including:

• 97-percent compliance with Joint Commission national safety goals in 2007
• A reduction of length of stay in both critical care and general inpatient venues through improved access to complete patient information for utilization review department and case managers
• 96.3-percent improvement (in dollars) in charging, as well as reduced denials from Arkansas Medicaid through improved nursing documentation
• Reduced Emergency Department total thru-put time to 2 hours and 34 minutes ― well below the national average
• By enhancing documentation, JRMC has improved Medicaid quality measures, resulting in $500,000 in pay-for-performance incentives

After ‘Big-Bang’ Activation, NYU Langone Medical Center Improves Medication Reconciliation, Satisfaction, Service

NYU Langone Medical Center, widely recognized as the first hospital in the world to achieve 100-percent adoption computerized physician order entry (CPOE) more than a quarter century ago, has continued to distinguish itself as a technology leader through its numerous successes with large-scale system implementation and downstream improvements in quality and operational performance.

Last year, in one of the largest big-bang system conversions in industry history, more than 5,000 users and 725 active inpatients were converted from a legacy system to Sunrise Clinical Manager in less than 36 hours, without disruption to operations, safety, quality and revenue. A highlight among the team's accomplishments was a successful unannounced Joint Commission survey within 48 hours of the system activation. As a result, a number of NYU implementation strategies have been adopted by other healthcare organizations as best practices.

Through constant observation and optimization of systems, NYU Langone Medical Center has realized numerous improvements in quality and operational performance, including:

• A 30-percent increase in patient-satisfaction scores and a 43-percent improvement in “left without being seen” rates in its Emergency Department, through automated ED triage and tracking
• Improvement in compliance rates by over 100 percent for enterprise-wide medication reconciliation, a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal
• 80-percent reduction of unsigned physician orders within first year of system activation
• Near-elimination of handwriting illegibility by achieving 80 percent utilization of electronic progress notes for acute care
• 100-percent compliance with complex and exacting New York State reporting requirements for Neonatal Intensive Care through automated reporting linked to comprehensive electronic physician documentation

NYU Langone Medical Center also has increased physician adoption and usage through the implementation of a single-sign-on strategy and has developed a hybrid medical record, eliminating the needless printing and filing of clinical documents.

“Today we honor Jefferson Regional Medical Center and New York University Langone Medical Center for their demonstrated ability to achieve measurable outcome improvement to better serve their communities,” said R. Andrew Eckert, Eclipsys president and chief executive officer. “Each of these medical centers benefits from a strong organization-wide commitment to maximizing the value of health information technology, resulting in impressive outcomes achievements. We are proud to be partner to Jefferson Regional Medical Center and NYU Langone Medical Center — and all of our clients — as they lead the way in using innovative technology to tackle real healthcare challenges and achieve real outcomes.”

About Jefferson Regional Medical Center

Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) is a 471-bed acute care hospital and Level II Trauma Center in Pine Bluff, AR. It is not-for-profit, private regional hospital, licensed by the Arkansas State Health Department and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. From primary care to a full range of specialties, JRMC has brought together physicians from the nation's finest medical schools to care for the people of South Arkansas. For more information, see www.jrmc.org.

About New York University Langone Medical Center

NYU Langone Medical Center, one of the nation’s premier centers of excellence in healthcare, scientific research and medical education, consists of Tisch Hospital, the Hospital for Joint Diseases, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine as well as the New York University School of Medicine. Tisch Hospital, an acute-care general hospital of 704 beds, contains important treatment and diagnostic units and is a focus for a wide spectrum of regional patient care programs. NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases specializes in orthopedic surgery, rheumatology and molecular medicine, rehabilitation medicine, and neurology. The Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine is the world’s first facilities devoted entirely to rehabilitation medicine. For details, visit www.med.nyu.edu.

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced integrated clinical, revenue cycle and access management software, clinical content and professional services that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial, operational and client-satisfaction outcomes. For more information, see www.eclipsys.com or email info@eclipsys.com.

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