Presbyterian Healthcare Services Implements DocSite's Decision Support, Patient Tracking and Data Warehouse Applications for Quality Improvement

DocSite, LLC. announced today that Presbyterian Healthcare Services has implemented PatientPlanner™ and PopulationPlanner™ applications from its ConnectHealth™ suite of web-care tools. PatientPlanner provides Presbyterian’s physicians an integrated point-of-care tool for the management of chronic conditions, complex disease states and preventive services. PopulationPlanner provides data warehouse and connectivity functionality necessary to integrate disparate data sources for reporting purposes and connectivity to state-wide quality initiatives.

Winchester, MA (PRWEB) December 8, 2005 -- DocSite, LLC. announced today that Presbyterian Healthcare Services has implemented PatientPlanner™ and PopulationPlanner™ applications from its ConnectHealth™ suite of web-care tools. PatientPlanner provides Presbyterian’s physicians an integrated point-of-care tool for the management of chronic conditions, complex disease states and preventive services. PopulationPlanner provides data warehouse and connectivity functionality necessary to integrate disparate data sources for reporting purposes and connectivity to state-wide quality initiatives. With Presbyterian, DocSite’s physician users of PatientPlanner now exceed 10,000 nationally, and for the first time implements a full lab results module.

Dr. Mike Nelson, Medical Director of Quality Improvement at Presbyterian, comments, “rave reviews from the staff and docs. We are having trouble keeping up with the spread and the ways people want to use it “. For DocSite, “it is a privilege to work with the excellent team at Presbyterian to offer a simple to deploy, cost-effective, scalable tool that lets providers efficiently improve care with minimal impact on current workflow” stated Terry Hardcastle, President of DocSite.

About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Presbyterian serves to improve the health of individuals, families and communities. Presbyterian Healthcare Services was founded in New Mexico in 1908, and is the state’s only private, not-for-profit healthcare organization. As New Mexico’s largest provider of healthcare, Presbyterian includes seven hospitals, the state’s largest health plan, a strong and growing medical group, as well as home healthcare, outpatient centers, ground ambulance services and more. Presbyterian employs more than 8,000 people throughout New Mexico.

About DocSite

DocSite offers a portfolio of low cost products focused on improving the quality of care. Products include proprietary point-of-care tools for patient management and physician integration in disease and case management, data warehouse and connectivity, eRX, EMR and CCR among others. DocSite’s products were designed to minimize the impact on physician workflow and allow use regardless of IT readiness – they work in current paper offices and migrate to fully paperless implementations in a prudent, economically sensible manner.

DocSite customers include physician practices, health plans and integrated delivery networks focused on quality improvement and related initiatives such as pay-for performance. DocSite can be reached at 781-721-0005, or www.docsite.com.

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