MITEM® Corporation Announces
Blue Iris™ - A Clinician-Friendly Application That Enhances, Extends
and Integrates Hospital Information Systems
New release offers out-of-the-box
integration with the
MEDITECH MAGIC system
SAN DIEGO
and MENLO PARK, CA – February 10, 2003 - MITEM Corporation today
announced the release of Blue Iris, a software solution designed to improve
the accessibility of patient and clinical data from hospital information
systems. The product’s rich graphical interface transforms cumbersome
hospital information systems into clinician-friendly applications. The
first public demonstrations of Blue Iris can be seen in the MITEM booth
#4943 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS)
2003 Annual Conference and Exhibition, being held in San Diego, CA, through
February 14.
Blue Iris delivers data from hospital information systems and other
best-of-breed systems such as PACS directly to the desktop or any mobile
computing device. Clinicians can access lab results, patient data, statistics,
analysis, voice recordings and medical images from anywhere with a Web
browser and a secure connection to their organization.
Blue Iris was developed with the close cooperation of Alice Hyde Medical
Center, a long-standing MEDITECH user and reference site. "Alice
Hyde has been working with the development team at MITEM and has been
instrumental in helping us build a product that offers out-of-the-box
integration with MAGIC. We chose to support MAGIC as our first hospital
information system because it has a large and loyal user base that has
been in need of an alternative to the system's cumbersome green screen
interface. Our vast experience with difficult-to-access legacy systems
like Data General made the integration process very straight-forward,"
said Aurel Kleinerman, MD, Ph.D. and CEO of MITEM.
"We are excited to have this product developed against our MAGIC
system here at Alice Hyde Medical Center. We feel that Blue Iris will
help reduce the paperwork burden and create greater efficiencies for
all of our physicians," said John W. Johnson, president and CEO
of Alice Hyde Medical Center.
Blue Iris will enable health care organizations to improve their data
integrity and billing accuracy, reduce clinical errors, and eliminate
many of the manual processes that keep physicians from spending more
time with patients. In addition, Blue Iris helps maintain HIPAA compliancy
by preventing unauthorized access to patient information, displaying
only data that is relevant to a specific query, and displaying data
in real-time, not replicated, so it cannot leave the premises on a mobile
device.
“Blue Iris has been painstakingly designed to match the way physicians
and clinical staff work. Our goal was to create a product that is very
intuitive and easy-to-use. We challenged the team to develop an application
that clinical staff can learn to use within 5 minutes without training
or documentation,” stated Larry White, the vice president in charge
of the Blue Iris development team. This release, designed for physicians,
features a user interface that it is modeled on a SOAP progress note,
the standard format used by physicians to record patient information.
Subsequent Expansion Packs for the Blue Iris Core system will include:
CPOE Pack, Rx Pack, RN Pack, ADT Pack, and Billing Pack. In addition,
the Blue Iris Core system will soon enable real-time updating of hospital
information systems and collaboration between medical professionals.
Features of this release of Blue Iris include:
- Single view of patient information in a True SOAP progress note
format
- Real-time data access
- Dynamic views of data that allow physicians to see ranges of data
from hours or even weeks with the simple click of a button
- Remote access that provides physicians with the ability to access
patient data from anywhere as long as they have a secure connection
to their organization
- Imaging integration that allows physicians to see imaging data,
such as X-rays, in context with the rest of the patient data
About Alice Hyde Medical Center
Alice Hyde Medical Center, located in Malone, New York, is a 76-bed
hospital and a 75-bed long-term care facility that serves northern New
York residents. AHMC offers specialty care including renal dialysis,
lithotripsy services and therapeutic radiology. In addition to providing
primary care services in Malone, AHMC operates primary care services
in NY at locations in Moira, Chateaugay, Fort Covington and St. Regis
Falls. AHMC is a MEDITECH reference site and a member of the Blue Iris
Product Advisory Board. AHMC can be found on the web at www.alicehyde.com
About Blue Iris™
Blue Iris from MITEM Corporation is a software solution that profoundly
increases user productivity by enhancing, extending and integrating
hospital information systems (HIS). Working as a companion application
to a health care organization's existing HIS, Blue Iris automates routine
practices and optimizes the natural workflow of hospital and clinical
staff. By reusing existing systems, Blue Iris can deliver new capabilities
at less than ten-percent of the price of a new system, and can be implemented
in just a few weeks. Blue Iris product information can be found on the
web at www.blueiris.md
Contact:
MITEM Corporation
Andy Nelson
650.323.1500
pr@mitem.com
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