Morristown Memorial Hospital And Overlook Hospital Adopt Obstetrical Care System

New Jersey Business, Jun 01, 2007

Two Atlantic Health System hospitals - Morristown Memorial Hospital and Summit-based Overlook Hospital - adopt the new Intelligent Patient Record for Obstetrics (IPROB(TM)) system, developed by E&C Medical Intelligence, which is designed to prevent medical errors and improve patient outcomes in obstetrical (OB) care.

IPROB(TM) contains a knowledge base of more than 6,500 best practice guidelines and rules in OB, which enables it to recognize the specific clinical situation of a patient in realtime, and proactively support physicians and nurses in their patient-care decisions and documentation by offering prompts, reminders, suggestions and alerts appropriate to specific clinical situations.

The system's powerful inference engine continuously analyzes current patient data against its extensive clinical knowledge base to offer clinicians appropriate choices of decisions, diagnoses, documentation and risk management pathways for the current specific clinical situation. This assures the best care is provided to the patient, while generating the most efficient documentation.

"Our system was not designed to tell clinicians how to practice medicine; in most instances, they know it very well," says Eyal Ephrat, M.D., CEO of E&C Medical Intelligence. "However, stress, overwork and multitasking can lead to human error, which often results from the failure to see the entire clinical picture, and getting 'blinded' to factors critical to providing appropriate care. As a real-time intelligence system that understands the clinical situation, IPROB(TM) becomes a valuable tool to assure that mistakes are effectively being prevented and that proper care is, in fact, being made."