DETROIT – Henry Ford Health System is rolling out an enterprise-wide electronic health record system called CarePlus Next Generation (CPNG), developed by Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Reliance Software Systems(RelWare). CPNG is being deployed to more than 12,000 users and more than 1,200 physicians in six hospitals and across 120 clinics at Henry Ford.

"This represents a significant milestone in the history of our health system and an achievement of which we are all very proud," said Henry Ford President and Chief Operating Officer, Robert G. Riney. "CarePlus Next Generation is the foundation upon which we continue to build great value to our organization, our providers and our patients. Riney said the new system would change the way Henry Ford delivers care.

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“We continue to get outstanding response from physicians and clinicians on the ease of use and workflow of our EHR,” said Alicia Brown, president and CEO of RelWare. “Because our state-of-the-art, Web-based patient record is at the beginning of its product lifecycle and the latest in Web technologies, Henry Ford and all our clients will demonstrate ease of growth well into the 21st century."

CPNG interfaces with more than 150 systems to build upon Henry Ford's existing lifetime clinical data repository started almost 20 years ago.

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RelWare's immediate focus, said Brown, is to provide in-house electronic health record systems in SaaS and cloud configurations, particularly to critical access and small hospitals. "It scales up, it scales down,” she said. “Smaller hospitals need their meaningful use reimbursements, and we intend to deliver that.”

RelWare's s offering, known as EXR, has been ONC-ATCB certified as complete inpatient EHR and ambulatory module EHR.