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Order Optimizer Merging Engine Recognized as Unique, Awarded Patent 

US Patent Office awards US intellectual property protection patent 

June 23, 2011

The US Patent Office announced Tuesday, June 21, 2011 that Order Optimizer’s evidence-based content merging engine is unique and has provided it intellectual property protection through a US Patent. The merging engine allows physicians to utilize a single merged evidence-based order set at the point of care, eliminating duplicate orderables across co-morbidity evidence sources. The merging engine can be utilized directly or integrated into ISV platforms and holds an ONC Stage I Modular EHR certification.

“Merging evidence based order sets provides an intuitive, efficient means for physicians to adopt clinical best practices” states Order Optimizer founder Dr. Philip Sanger. “In this HITECH ACT world, with its pressures to optimize patient throughput while demonstrating meaningful use compliance, doctors need tools designed for the way they act, think, and practice.”

The ability to integrate the merging engine within CPOE platforms allows Order Optimizer partners to enhance their core capabilities in physician-friendly ways. Coupled with Order Optimizer’s cloud-delivered, maintenance-free order set service and clinical content management platforms, the system represents a full suite of easily adopted, high impact solutions for today’s HIE challenges.

Order Optimizer and Prognosis Health Information Systems Form Strategic Alliance Partnership creates advanced CPOE capabilities

May 12, 2010

Order Optimizer, a leading provider of evidence based protocols for CPOE, and Prognosis Health Information Systems, an inpatient CCHIT-certified, web-based enterprise EHR provider, announce their successful closed loop CPOE integration.

Unique integration architecture allows the Prognosis ChartAccess platform to receive continuously updated evidence based content from Order Optimizer. Secure internet communication keeps the platforms synchronized at all times. Prognosis also has licensed the Order Optimizer merging engine, giving ChartAccess users the ability to rapidly create merged evidence based order sets for multiple diagnoses at the point of care.

“Order Optimizer allows us to provide clients evidence based protocols and orders without imposing the heavy authoring and maintenance burden traditional content vendors place on hospitals,” states Prognosis CEO Ramsey Evans. “With Order Optimizer’s merging engine and content, clients can enjoy the unparalleled user experience and deployment flexibility of ChartAccess and know that their HITECH ACT needs are met.”

“ChartAccess is without question the most user-friendly EHR on the market today, and is also the most rapidly deployed,” says Order Optimizer President Robert Weathersby. “The Prognosis-Order Optimizer partnership is a concrete demonstration of how progressive technologies and unwavering focus on provider productivity can address the challenges posed by HITECH ACT compliance, MS adoption, and patient safety. And, with Order Optimizer’s ARRA CPOE certification and ChartAccess’s inpatient EMR CCHIT certification, our customers are assured that their anticipated Stimulus dollars are within reach.”

St. Joseph Hospital – Eureka Goes Live with Order Optimizer

Electronic order entry system successfully deployed at St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka, CA

March 11, 2010

Order Optimizer, a leading provider of inpatient CPOE, Decision Support, and Evidence-Based Protocols, announced deployment of its software at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, California. The go-live date of February 3, 2010, was met successfully after the completion of a short 9-week implementation period. A HITECH Act certified solution, Order Optimizer prepares St. Joseph Hospital to qualify for incentive funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

“We selected Order Optimizer based on its rapid implementation, merged evidence based order sets, and HITECH ACT certification,” says Tory Starr, Regional Director of Performance Improvement and Quality Management for St Joseph Health System–Humboldt County. “You hear software implementation horror stories all the time, but Order Optimizer was live on schedule, with all features and customizations available. Our team is thrilled and we expect to achieve improvements in the quality of care, especially clinical effectiveness measures and ‘meaningful use’ of EHR in 2010.”

“We are excited about our partnership with St. Joseph Hospital and their physicians,” says Robert Weathersby, President of Order Optimizer. “Going live in 9 weeks, fully customized and HITECH ACT ready is a testament to the strong facility partnership and transformation capabilities our platform brings to the market.”

About St. Joseph Hospital:

St. Joseph Hospital (SJH) is a 146-bed full-service acute care facility located in Eureka, California. Founded in 1920, SJH is part of St. Joseph Health System, an integrated healthcare delivery organization based in Orange, California that provides a broad range of medical services within three geographic regions–Northern California, Southern California and West Texas/Eastern New Mexico. Together with Redwood Memorial Hospital (Fortuna, Calif.), St. Joseph Hospital employs more than 1,200 and provides comprehensive health care services to the greater Humboldt County region. Visitwww.stjosepheureka.org for more information.

Order Optimizer achieves ARRA 2011 Preliminary Hospital Certification from CCHIT

December 22, 2009

Order Optimizer, a leading provider of inpatient CPOE, Decision Support, and Evidence-Based Protocols, is the first inpatient system certified by CCHIT as meeting the Preliminary ARRA 2011 standards for CPOE, and Decision Support.

Order Optimizer v. 3.01 has been inspected by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology and is Preliminary ARRA 2011 certified to meet the proposed Federal standards supporting the achievement of twelve of the 2011 Meaningful Use Objectives for hospitals under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Complete information is available here.

“This CCHIT milestone solidifies our position as frontrunners in the fast changing landscape of government-inspired healthcare overhaul” states Order Optimizer President, Robert Weathersby. “Being first to certify in these key clinical areas means hospital systems can feel safe in choosing Order Optimizer to meet the high bar set by the ONC. When coupled with our seven week implementation, unique maintenance free merged evidence-based protocols, and award-winning SaaS technology, we represent a high-impact, low risk alternative to traditional enterprise CPOE.”

JPS Health Network selects Order Optimizer for clinical decision support and order set management

September 8, 2009

JPS Health Network (JPS), a Fort Worth, Texas-based healthcare system, has selected Order Optimizer to provide its evidence-based order set and clinical decision support platform. In support of the facility’s top clinical priority for 2009, Order Optimizer was selected from a field of vendors for its renowned usability, extensive protocol library, and rapid implementation.

Dr. Judi Binderman, interim chief medical information officer noted, “having looked at a number of order entry systems, it was clear Order Optimizer knows how physicians work and think. Equally important, the rapid, seven week implementation means we will be live with a fully customized order entry solution in Q4 of this year – much more quickly than we thought possible.”

Order Optimizer leverages its advanced, patent pending technologies and the power of the secure internet to provide merged evidence-based protocols and clinical decision support to the point of care, “anywhere.” This flexibility allows physicians to practice consistent, high quality medicine inside and outside the hospital walls, around the clock. Additionally, Order Optimizer helps hospitals meet the 2011 requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA) HITECH program enabling facilities to generate at least 10% of orders electronically, achieve electronic prescribing for all order types including medications, implement drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug-formulary checks, record vital signs, maintain lists of current problems, active medications, and medication allergies, and incorporate laboratory test results into the ordering process.

“We are pleased to partner with JPS to fulfill their top clinical priority – giving busy doctors ease of access to merged evidence-based protocols and clinical decision support at the point of care. Order Optimizer positions JPS to meet its ARRA “meaningful use” milestones, without implementation risk or capital expenditures. Web-based delivery, and continuously updated protocols are the right answer to the very difficult topic of computerized order entry,” states Order Optimizer President, Robert Weathersby.

Order Optimizer Achieves Record-Setting ROI

June 30, 2009

Order Optimizer, a leading provider of advanced clinical decision support software, today announced preliminary results of an ongoing pilot program with a prestigious regional healthcare system. After three months of intensive use by the facility’s Hospitalist team, Average Cost Per Admission was reduced by $256, and its Average Pharmacy Cost Per Admission by $68. This improvement took place even as its Case Mix Index increased by .04 over the study’s baseline.

“Objective assessment of the financial benefits obtained through the rapid deployment of evidence based protocols is one of the brass rings in today’s healthcare arena – rapid ROI without risk” states Order Optimizer President Robert Weathersby. This facility deployed Order Optimizer in a fully personalized manner in seven weeks, and began driving this ROI immediately. This shows real improvements in cost and quality of care can be achieved quickly, even in today’s capital constrained environment.”

March 16, 2009

Order Optimizer Selected as Finalist in the MS-HUGS Healthcare Innovation Awards.  Click here to read the pdf.