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Healthcare Magazine writes an
important news article about Dyna board, the
amazing Healthcare Intelligence Tool
 Need
tens of spread sheets to generate your weekly and monthly reports? With
Emerald, it takes only minutes. Emerald Health Information Systems is a
leading developer of evidence-based decision support software for the
healthcare industry. With experienced health professionals, Emerald developed
effective tools that are easy to deploy and easy to use.
Building on its
reputation in the workload/acuity field, Emerald has developed and deployed
Dynaboard, an advanced Healthcare Intelligence Tool. From business reports
to ad hoc data analysis tools to scorecards and dashboards, Dynaboard will
help users deliver the right information to the right people, fast.
Dynaboard can quickly
find that one piece of critical information that is needed in the sea
of accumulated data. Dynaboard comes ready to use with over 50 standard
key performance indicators that most healthcare providers need and use
on a regular basis.
For the reporting that
is not standardized, Dynaboard can be effi ciently customized to fit a
healthcare provider’s exact needs and wants.
Management asks for a
report showing wait times, by procedure, comparing this quarter with
the last quarter – and they want this by tomorrow? No problem! With
Dynaboard you can quickly find this information and save, share or
forward it using a variety of tools and visual graphs. And, you can do
all of this in a matter of minutes. Better still, such complex
investigations do not require SQL or programming knowledge. Simply drag
and drop the proper data elements and you have the answers immediately.
In a hospital or a
region, wait time is a main stage issue in Ontario and across the
country. Using Dynaboard, wait time data can be linked with health
records. A clinician can then determine the effect of long wait time on
patient length of stay and the interventions provided. This can be insightful
particularly for cases like orthopedic surgeries such as Hips and
Knees. Furthermore, by linking workload data to wait times and health records,
management can relate the workload and case costs impact due to the
increased wait time.
Emerald’s professionals
have worked with over 200 hospitals and healthcare facilities across
North America. The above are examples of what Emerald is developing in
a provincially integrated solution like the one they are currently
implementing across New Brunswick.
Emerald Health Information Systems
IWK Health Centre Goes Live with
Emerald’s Dynamine Workload Decision
Support Software
For Immediate Release
October 17, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario, – Emerald Health Information
Systems announced today that the IWK Health Centre (Halifax, NS) has
successfully implemented Dynamine Workload Decision Support Software in both allied health
and nursing disciplines.
“The transition to Dynamine went smoothly – it is very user friendly,”
said Jacqueline vanNieuwenhuizen, Clinical Development Leader,
Pediatric Medical Unit, IWK Health Centre. “The software offers an
accurate reflection of the work our nurses perform during their shifts.”
“Alterations can be made quickly to allow for
changes in the way care is delivered,” vanNieuwenhuizen added.
“Dynamine easily captures all of the work individual nurses do for
every patient on a unit. This provides valuable insight that helps to
enhance patient outcomes."
Dynamine Workload Decision Support software captures workload and
associated caseload statistics for healthcare facilities. The software
is designed to support full integration within a Hospital Information
System. It offers a comprehensive, easy to use, easy to deploy solution
for workload collection, reporting and decision support.
“Emerald is delighted to build on its success
at the IWK Health Centre and continue working with a dedicated and
forward-thinking team,” said Jean White, Vice President,
Development & Implementation, Emerald Health Information Systems.
About
Emerald Health Information Systems
Emerald
Health Information Systems provides web-based decision support software
solutions for healthcare facilities. Dynaboard™ Hospital Intelligence Tool streamlines the
monitoring and analysis of performance at healthcare facilities in such
fields as financial, wait time, bed utilization and volume indicators.
Dynamine™ workload software,
together with our Dynaworks®
methodology, target patient acuity and staff/unit utilization in
nursing and allied health services. Hospitals, long term healthcare and
mental health facilities are benefiting from Emerald’s intuitive, easy
to use enterprise-wide solutions that cut implementation time by half,
minimize deployment cost and eliminate off unit training. For more
information, visit Emerald Health Information Systems web site at www.emeraldhis.com .
About the IWK Health Centre
The
IWK Health Centre, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, provides quality care to women,
children, youth and families in the Maritime Provinces and beyond. In
addition to providing highly specialized (tertiary) care, the Health
Centre also provides primary care services. The IWK is engaged in
leading-edge research; works to promote healthy lifestyles for
families; and supports education opportunities for health professionals
and other learners. For more information, visit www.iwk.nshealth.ca.
Emerald Health Information Systems
Tel: (613) 599-8178
E-mail marketing@emeraldhis.com
Emerald Health
announces the new release of Dynaboard
Hospital Intelligence Tool
Ottawa, Ontario, (August 20th, 2007)
–Emerald Health Information Systems, an emerging leader in performance
management for healthcare, today announced the new release of its DynaboardTM Hospital Intelligence Tool. In
addition to expanding the library of healthcare-centric indicators, the
new release includes enhanced graphic capabilities, summary reports,
ad-hoc reports and collaborative features through the embedded OLAP
tool.
DynaboardTM Hospital Intelligence Tool is an advanced
integrated performance management application designed specifically for
hospitals and healthcare centres. Since its launch early this
year, DynaboardTM has been very well received by executives,
decision support, health records and utilization managers across the
healthcare community due in part to its ease of use, competitive price
and adaptability to the organization's needs.
Unlike mainstream performance management tools that
require expensive customization to suit healthcare, DynaboardTM comes loaded with externally mandated
indicators such as Ontario's
Hospital Service Accountability Agreement (H-SAA) as well as typical
hospital scorecard indicators. Healthcare facilities can easily add
their own internally defined indicators and data sources while
organizing them under different themes and domains. In addition
to the standard embedded reports, an advanced OLAP tool provides
analysts with drill-down capabilities that allow them to draw
correlations between different trends and various measurements to solve
more strategic problems. As part of the annual maintenance and
support program, Emerald offers annual updates and refreshments of all
externally mandated and internally defined indicators.
"With the addition of 07/08 H-SAA and
wait-time indicators and the ability to handle large multi-year
provincial DAD and NACRS data, we are fulfilling our promise to our
clients to provide an integrated, easy to use and ready to deploy performance
management solution that helps hospitals identify valuable insights
that positively influence the organization's financial health, volumes,
wait-time and patient access and outcomes" said Sami Aly,
Emerald's President and CEO.
About Emerald Health
Information Systems
Emerald Health
Information Systems provides web-based decision support software
solutions for healthcare facilities.
Dynaboard™ Hospital Intelligence
Tool streamlines the monitoring and analysis of performance and volume
indicators in healthcare facilities. Dynamine™ workload measurement
software, together with our Dynaworks® methodology, target
patient acuity and staff utilization in nursing and allied health
services. Visit www.emeraldhis.com
Media Contact
Hany Fouda, VP Sales & Marketing
Tel: (613) 599-8178
E-mail info@emeraldhis.com
Hotel Dieu Shaver goes-live with Emerald's
Dynamine Workload Decision Support Software
Ottawa, Ontario, (May 7th, 2007)
–Emerald Health Information Systems announced today that the Hotel Dieu
Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre has successfully implemented
Dynamine Workload Decision Support Software in both allied health
and nursing disciplines.
The Hotel Dieu Shaver, a 137 bed facility located
in St. Catharines - Ontario,
provides complex continuing care to patients in St. Catharines and rehabilitation
services to patients from across the Niagara Region. A team of health care professionals
including physicians, nurses, recreational, occupational and
physiotherapists work together to enhance the quality of life and
promote independence of the patients.
Hotel Dieu Shaver also provides outpatient rehabilitation
services including Audiology and Speech Pathology.
"Dynamine’s intuitive design and
accurate reports significantly reduce the burden of workload data
collection on front line staff and provide valuable insight that helps
to enhance patient outcomes” commented Karen Tribble, Director,
Clinical Services. “Dynamine’s
ease of use allowed us to conduct training without taking nurses
off-unit”.
“Workload Measurement is essential for performance
management, staff utilization accountability and funding” noted Jane
Rufrano, CEO, Hotel Dieu Shaver.
“Employing information technology to measure the level of
activity and productivity is an integral part of our strategy to
provide high quality services to our patients”.
“Emerald is delighted to build on its success at
Hotel Dieu Shaver and continue working with a dedicated and forward
thinking team” said Jean White, VP Development & Implementation,
Emerald Health Information Systems.
About Emerald
Health Information Systems
Emerald Health
Information Systems provides web-based decision support software
solutions for healthcare facilities.
Dynaboard™ Hospital Intelligence
Tool streamlines the monitoring and analysis of performance, bed
utilization and volume indicators in healthcare facilities. Dynamine™ workload software,
together with our Dynaworks®
methodology, target patient acuity and staff/unit utilization in
nursing and allied health services.
Hospitals, long term healthcare and mental health facilities are
benefiting from Emerald’s intuitive, easy to use enterprise-wide
solutions that cut implementation time by half, minimize deployment
cost and eliminate off unit training.
For more information, visit Emerald Health Information Systems
web site at www.emeraldhis.com
Media Contact
Hany Fouda, VP Sales & Marketing
Tel: (613) 599-8178
E-mail info@emeraldhis.com
Emerald Health Information
Systems launches Dynaboard
Hospital Intelligence Dashboard
at HIMSS07
Ottawa, Ontario, (February 27th, 2007) – Emerald Health Information
Systems, a leading provider of web-based, easy to use, decision support
solutions for healthcare facilities, today at HIMSS07 announced the
release of Dynaboard™
Accountability Decision Support Dashboard.
“Dynaboard is an easy to use package
that allows monitoring and analysis of performance and volume
indicators in healthcare facilities. It combines both internally
defined and external mandated indicators and present them in an easy to
understand graphical dashboard carefully designed to communicate
complex information quickly” stated Sami Aly, President & CEO,
Emerald Health Information Systems. “Its intuitive design and simple to
use interface allows users to mine, analyze, and interpret data without
custom coding or pervious experience in high-level data analysis.
Dynaboard unites data from different
sources such as DAD, NACRS, Trial Balance, patient satisfaction,
incident reporting and health outcomes so that executives and managers
can see a complete, multi-dimensional view. It offers one, simple
analysis of performance and utilization issues for an at-a-glance
understanding, benchmarking and better decision support. Its web-based
technology allows enterprise-wide deployment with minimum effort.
About Emerald Health Information Systems
Emerald Health
Information Systems provides web-based decision support software
solutions for healthcare facilities.
Dynaboard™ Hospital Intelligence
Tool streamlines the monitoring and analysis of performance, bed
utilization and volume indicators in healthcare facilities. Dynamine™ workload software,
together with our Dynaworks®
methodology, target patient acuity and staff/unit utilization in
nursing and allied health services.
Hospitals, long term healthcare and mental health facilities are
benefiting from Emerald’s intuitive, easy to use enterprise-wide
solutions that cut implementation time by half, minimize deployment
cost and eliminate off unit training.
For more information, visit Emerald Health Information Systems
web site at www.emeraldhis.com
Media Contact
Hany Fouda, VP Sales & Marketing
Tel (613) 599-8178
E-mail info@emeraldhis.com
Soldiers’ Memorial
Hospital goes-live with Dynamine in a record time
Ottawa, Ontario, (February 5th, 2007) – Concluding
a 15-week effort to deploy Dynamine web-based workload software, Emerald Health Information
Systems announced today that the system is now fully operational.
Soldiers' Memorial
Hospital has one of the
highest volumes of admissions in Canada for hospitals under
200 beds. Its outpatient and emergency care visits exceed 75,000 per
year with about 45,000 of those being emergency care visits. The facility
provides a comprehensive range of surgical services and has over 25
outpatient clinics, ranging from Genetic Services to Disability
Assessment Centre.
"Our staff is thrilled with Emerald's
implementation. The software is extremely powerful, met our needs with
minimum configuration and is very easy to use. As a result, we were
able to cut our projected implementation time by half, train staff
while on unit, and go live in a remarkable 15 week period” commented
Bernie D. Schmidt, CEO, Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. “Emerald’s
support in making this a reality has been absolutely appreciated”.
“This successful implementation in a record time
is yet another testament of Emerald’s commitment to provide easy to
use, easy to deploy advanced solutions coupled with exceptional
services” said Jean White, VP Development & Implementation, Emerald
Health Information Systems.
About Emerald
Health Information Systems
Emerald Health
Information Systems provides web-based decision support software solutions
for healthcare facilities. Dynaboard™ Hospital Intelligence
Tool streamlines the monitoring and analysis of performance, bed
utilization and volume indicators in healthcare facilities. Dynamine™ workload software,
together with our Dynaworks®
methodology, target patient acuity and staff/unit utilization in
nursing and allied health services.
Hospitals, long term healthcare and mental health facilities are
benefiting from Emerald’s intuitive, easy to use enterprise-wide
solutions that cut implementation time by half, minimize deployment
cost and eliminate off unit training.
For more information, visit Emerald Health Information Systems
web site at www.emeraldhis.com
Media Contact
Hany Fouda, VP Sales & Marketing
Tel (613) 599-8178
E-mail info@emeraldhis.com
North York General
Hospital Selects Emerald Health Information systems’ Workload Decision
Support solution
Ottawa, Ontario - North York General Hospital –
(Toronto, Ontario), a multi-site community teaching hospital, has
selected Emerald Health Information Systems’ Dynamine software solution to meet its requirements for enhanced
workload measurement data collection and strong managerial decision support.
Dynamine will be utilized by all inpatient and outpatient areas
and will be interfaced with the Cerner Hospital Information System
(HIS) and the Kronos Scheduling software. In recognition of the
strength that Emerald offers through its Dynaworks workload methodology expertise, the hospital has also
contracted Emerald for a review of its workload standards.
North York General Hospital conducted a full RFP to select a replacement for their
outdated and soon to be unsupported legacy system. The Emerald solution
was reviewed by front-line users, managers, IT staff and decision
support personnel. It was chosen over competitor solutions for several
key reasons. Susan Kwolek, Vice- President, Quality and Corporate
Performance, explains that the Emerald solution provides: “Timely,
accurate reports that better capture the utilization of the hospital’s
resources, enabling us to make workload decisions such as staffing
requirements when patients are waiting for beds.” Christine Reynolds,
Resource Nurse, Post Anaesthetic Care Unit adds, “Dynamine is a very user friendly system. From a nursing
perspective, this is a more accurate measurement tool that will allow
us to retrieve data quickly for decision making.”
Emerald’s software solution and workload knowledge
was identified as leading edge in the support of the hospital’s
strategic priorities. Dynamine not only provides the strongest support for improved
decision making and resource allocation available, it also provides the
foundation for alignment of clinical activities, resource utilization
and patient outcomes. Dynamine will also support the longer term requirements of the
hospital – its capability of supporting documentation-derived workload
is ready and waiting now to integrate with the Hospital’s Information
System when the decision is made to implement an Electronic Health
Record.
“We are delighted with the hospital’s decision to
work with Emerald. The hospital was seeking a long-term relationship
with a partner, rather than just the purchase of a software program
from a vendor” says Jean White, Emerald’s Vice President of Development
& Implementation. “This fits well with Emerald’s client-centric
focus in its product development, implementation and support services,
so we are truly members of the North York
General Hospital’s
implementation team”. Working collaboratively from a contract signed
mid-August, the hospital and Emerald are well on their way to
completion of a 15-week fast tracked implementation process that is a
standard feature of Emerald’s emphasis on minimizing internal support
time and eliminating off-unit training.
About Emerald
Health Information Systems
Emerald Health
Information Systems provides web-based decision support software
solutions for healthcare facilities.
Dynaboard™ Hospital Intelligence
Tool streamlines the monitoring and analysis of performance, bed
utilization and volume indicators in healthcare facilities. Dynamine™ workload software,
together with our Dynaworks®
methodology, target patient acuity and staff/unit utilization in
nursing and allied health services.
Hospitals, long term healthcare and mental health facilities are
benefiting from Emerald’s intuitive, easy to use enterprise-wide
solutions that cut implementation time by half, minimize deployment
cost and eliminate off unit training.
For more information, visit Emerald Health Information Systems
web site at www.emeraldhis.com
Media Contact
Hany Fouda, VP Sales & Marketing
Tel (613) 599-8178
E-mail info@emeraldhis.com
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