California hospital ends year with new software documenting ER operations.(Hospital Purchasing)(Kaweah Delta Health Care )(Brief Article)

Hospital Materials Management, December, 2004

Kaweah Delta Health Care District, a 501-bed hospital in Visalia, Calif., awarded a contract for emergency department documentation and web-based electronic medical record software to The Poseidon Group, Atlanta.

Kaweah will purchase the company's NavigatorWeb Emergency Department Information System under a multi-year agreement. According to Rick Brown, nursing manager at Kaweah, "The functionality that resided in The Poseidon Group's core product was a good match for the needs of our business, and that made them the partner of choice in securing Kaweah Delta's emergency department automation objectives."

Implementation is expected by the end of December. The package includes a status tracking board, nursing module, physician module, coding and...

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