T-System Partners with EvidenceCare to Make Clinical Decision Support Accessible for Emergency Physicians
Leader in emergency care technology industry announces new partnership
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–T-System, Inc., an industry leader in emergency care solutions and documentation, today announced a three-year agreement with EvidenceCare, a clinical decision support tool for healthcare providers. This integration will make the EvidenceCare tool available to clinicians in more than 500 emergency departments nationwide.
T-System Executive Vice president and General Manager, Documentation, Dr. Robert Hitchcock, M.D., FACEP noted innovations such as T-System’s partnership with EvidenceCare allows organizations to drive efficiencies and compliance for its customers.
“T-System is committed to advancing care delivery and financial outcomes for episodic care,” said Hitchcock. “As an emergency physician, I experienced first-hand the difficulties clinicians face when it comes to accessible and actionable clinical decision support. By integrating the EvidenceCare tool into our offerings, T-System will now be able to deliver patient-specific content to the provider at the point of care, enhancing workflow and ensuring compliance.”
With this complete integration within T-System, EvidenceCare’s enterprise version enables clinicians to access the tool directly while providing care at the bedside. EvidenceCare is finalizing content and accreditation to embed the ability to reference Appropriate Use Criteria for Advanced Imaging within its protocols to help T-System customers meet CMS’s current and expanding Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) mandates.
“This is a pivotal relationship for our organization,” said Dr. Brian Fengler, co-founder and CEO, EvidenceCare. “It continues to validate our product at the enterprise level and within the emergency medicine and urgent care communities. Delivering the most complete and relevant content to providers when they need it most, at the point of care, is what we do. Doing that through T-System is a key way for us to deliver on that promise.”
About EvidenceCare
Nashville-based EvidenceCare is a clinical decision support content platform designed by emergency physician Dr. Brian Fengler. EvidenceCare provides clinicians with access to patient-specific, evidence-based treatment recommendations at the bedside and within their workflow. The tool’s Enterprise version integrates within providers’ EHR workflows to improve the quality of care and reduce care variation. Launched in July 2016, the company’s proprietary content publishing platform delivers protocols authored by industry-leading experts and the most-respected associations to healthcare clinicians worldwide. To learn more, visit www.evidence.care.
About T-System
T-System is a healthcare IT company that advances care delivery and financial outcomes for episodic care. Specializing in emergency department documentation since 1996, T-System has since expanded its focus to include the development of innovative solutions for the rapidly expanding episode-based care market, including hospital-based emergency departments (EDs), freestanding emergency centers and urgent care centers. Through clinically-driven services and documentation solutions as well as charge capture and coding solutions, T-System solves clinical, financial and operational challenges for our clients. About 26 percent of the nation’s hospital-based EDs, freestanding emergency centers and urgent care centers use T-System to improve the clinical encounter, including the documentation of the patient visit as well as the downstream outcomes related to that event. For additional information about T-System, please visit www.tsystem.com.
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Lauren Bialkowski
Allison+Partners for T-System
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