CHESTERFIELD, Mo. – Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) recently completed an integration of an anesthesia information management system, with an EHR where the key linkage is the Unibased award-winning ForSite2020® periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS) at Monongalia General Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia. ForSite2020® ORMS not only functions as the conduit between the various systems, but also retains the relevant and appropriate data in a singular fashion, including registration and billing data, for all parties. The project required the cooperation of all the vendors as well as coordination, on-site testing and evaluation by the Monongalia General team.
Besides the Unibased ForSite2020® ORMS, the ForSite2020® Resource Management System (RMS) played a key role. Other firms and products involved were Draeger Medical Innovian®, Siemens MedSeries4® and Cerner Millennium™. Larry Covington, the Unibased President and CEO, mentioned, "The project was completed quickly, highly cost-effective and a tribute to modern HIT interoperability. EHR ONC-ATCB certification was an important consideration. The entire effort, including analysis and data integration, creating new integration software, documenting work flow, test and quality assurance was accomplished in less than 60 days. The effort was conceived in April 2011 and went live in June. It has been operating flawlessly, 24/7, since."
Steve Carter, Monongalia General Hospital IT Director, agreed, “Monongalia General Hospital committed to be the first hospital to implement Innovian® integrated with Unibased’s ForSite2020® ORMS. The installation of Innovian® with ORMS went smoothly, and is a credit to all parties involved, including the professional users. Monongalia General’s anesthesiologists, surgeons, and nurses are all very pleased with this fully integrated solution.” Terry Morgan, IT Programming & Development Coordinator at Monongalia General Hospital, stated, “This was the most complicated set of interfaces the hospital has ever implemented in that they involved several different systems communicating new and different types of information. Hospital IT staff, as well as staff from Unibased, worked together closely in defining the required data exchange, and implementing the interfaces very well the first time.”
About Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.: Celebrating its 25th year in the healthcare information technology (HIT) industry, and having achieved “Best In KLAS”1 for 8 consecutive years (2003-2010) in the market segments of surgery management and enterprise scheduling, Unibased, an Amerinet supplier, markets various products that are open, scalable, integrated client/server and web-based solutions, designed to meet the unique needs of healthcare organizations and improve the coordination of healthcare services. Unibased ForSite2020® v7.0 received inpatient and outpatient modular EHR ONC-ATCB certification on January 28, 2011. ForSite2020® v7.0 is an integrated solution that provides improved access management processes including physician and consumer portals, physician order tracking, EMPI, registration, scheduling, conflict resolution, and tracking patient resource needs from pre-access through follow-up. ForSite2020® v7.0 monitors the effectiveness of clinical programs, financial productivity and capacity management to improve quality, safety, and efficiency related to the coordination of care. ForSite2020® v7.0 also includes a surgery management module that coordinates surgery procedures and surgeon preferences, pre-admission activity monitoring, tissue tracking, suite utilization, materials management, clinical worker training and certification, perioperative charting, anesthesia management integration, and surgery-based EHR. ForSite2020® v7.0 improves the communication between hospitals and physicians through its physician portal, automated order creation, and business intelligence analytics. ForSite2020® v7.0 impacts the revenue cycle through functions such as validation of patient demographics, patient’s current insurance eligibility checking, assurance of medical necessity compliance and estimation of the patient’s out-of-pocket expense based upon scheduled and ordered services.
Unibased solutions will increase provider sales quickly, through its physician and consumer portals as well as its Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities. They will reduce provider debt associated with patient payments and minimize claim denials associated with inaccuracies and missing documentation. Most importantly, providers realize these benefits within months, not years. All Unibased solutions are supported by integrated automatic data collection processes such as bar coding, facsimile collection and retention, optical and intelligent character recognition, and document image collection and storage – all linked to the appropriate patient and administrative records. Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. is a private corporation founded in 1986, and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. All Unibased products are made and supported in the United States.
