PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) has a signed a new contract with Eclipsys Corporation that supports UPHS' ongoing objective to create an electronic longitudinal medical record for each patient accessing the health system.
"UPHS is one of the most respected health systems in the country,” said R. Andrew Eckert, Eclipsys' president and chief executive officer. “This represents the largest renewal and expansion contract signed in our company's history,"
The current agreement between UPHS and Boca Raton, Fla.-based Eclipsys has the latter providing high-acuity clinical information software to UPHS, as well as additional products.
For instance, UPHS will add Sunrise Pharmacy and Knowledge-Based Medication Administration to its existing implementation of Eclipsys' Knowledge-Based CPOE system. Eclipsys says that UPHS will then have automated end-to-end medication management workflows.
Eclipsys officials declined to release financial terms of the deal.
UPHS contends that the longitudinal EHR will facilitate improved patient care, more accurate outcomes reporting and serve as a foundation for the development of an institutional data repository to allow UPHS researchers easy access to all patient data.
The new contract will see Eclipsys implement their evidence-based content and Zynx Health's evidence-based order sets to help UPHS standardize on proven care delivery processes across its inpatient facilities, which includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
According to Eclipsys, UPHS will also engage the vendor's professional services to help make sure all new implementations are delivered on-time and on-budget and to help the health system achieve high adoption rates for all Eclipsys products.
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