Press Releases
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February 02, 2012
T-System is only departmental vendor on list ranking top 10 EHRs by number of hospital attestations
DALLAS – Feb 2, 2012 – Forty-two hospitals have successfully attested to Stage 1 Meaningful Use using T-System's certified emergency department information system (EDIS), The T SystemEV®, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A third-party comparative analysis by blogger Brian Ahier posted to the Government Health IT website illustrates that T-System ranks eighth on a list of the top 10 electronic health records (EHR) vendors in terms of facility attestations. The company further distinguished itself by being the only departmental vendor named to the list.
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January 30, 2012
T-System boosts revenue by enabling better care coordination of the patient-handoff process through automated workflow and communication tools
DALLAS – Jan. 30, 2012 – T-System, Inc., today introduced the new T-System Performance™ solution, Care Continuity, a web-based tool that will promote hospital-physician alignment and higher care quality by actively managing patient care transitions and providing an automated way to send and receive patient referrals.
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January 25, 2012
T-System’s emergency department EHR passed all interoperability tests encompassing IT infrastructure and patient care coordination
DALLAS – Jan. 25, 2012 – T-System, Inc. today announced that its emergency department information system (EDIS), The T SystemEV®, successfully verified 36 instances of tests at the 13th annual North America Connectathon in Chicago. Hosted by the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), the Connecathon is the IT industry’s only large-scale interoperability testing event. T-System was one of the few best-of-breed EDIS vendors that participated.
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January 11, 2012
T-System's market expansion will marry emergency department clinical documentation to revenue cycle management for improved financial outcomes
DALLAS – Jan. 11, 2012 – T-System, Inc., the industry leader in clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine, today announced its acquisition of Practice Management Associates (PMA). Based in Williamsburg, Va., PMA is a privately held company that specializes in providing facility coding and professional coding and billing services for emergency departments (EDs). The acquisition signifies 15-year-old T-System's continued growth and investment in technology enabled solutions for emergency care.
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November 29, 2011
New service offering upholds software selection that most efficiently supports both specialty and inpatient care settings
DALLAS – November 29, 2011 – T-System, Inc., the industry leader in clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine, announced today that it has formalized a partnership with Iatric Systems, Inc., a MEDITECH service provider for more than 20 years. The expanded partnership will make it easier for hospitals and health systems to interface the T SystemEV® emergency department (ED) information system with enterprise electronic health record (EHR) software and accelerate the time to deploy those interfaces.
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October 25, 2011
Texas’ largest not-for-profit healthcare organization selects T SystemEV to create a unified patient record spanning acute and ambulatory settings
HOUSTON — Oct. 25, 2011 — Memorial Hermann Healthcare System has selected T-System, Inc.’s emergency department information system (EDIS) T SystemEV® to automate physician documentation across its nine EDs in the Houston metro area. As part of a larger hospital-wide strategy to facilitate data exchange and care coordination, the largest not-for-profit health network in Texas will integrate T SystemEV’s physician documentation with its electronic medical record (EMR) to create a complete longitudinal record containing the most relevant ED and inpatient data for every patient.
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October 24, 2011
Podcast highlights ED trends and growing use of ED-specific EHR solutions to optimize care operations
DALLAS – Oct. 24, 2011 – The survival of hospital emergency departments (EDs) and the necessity of electronic health records (EHRs) to transform care quality in the ED are discussed in a new podcast interview featuring guest interviewee Robert Hitchcock, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., T-System, Inc., vice president and chief medical informatics officer. The interview, moderated by Doris Gilman, editor and publisher of Health Thought Leadership One-to-One, can be downloaded at http://seen-heard.com/blog/?p=1180.
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October 20, 2011
Established executive and former military officer brings extensive healthcare government and business knowledge to company’s group of advisers
DALLAS — Oct. 20, 2011 — T-System, Inc., the industry leader in clinical workflow and documentation solutions for emergency medicine, today named Robert J. Bunker to its Board of Directors. The senior business executive and highly decorated, retired U.S. Air Force Medical Service Corps officer brings more than 30 years of commercial and military healthcare experience to T-System’s Board of Directors.
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October 10, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 10, 2011 – T-System, Inc. will demonstrate how going electronic can be both an easy and efficient way to document patient care in the emergency department (ED) at this week’s American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 2011 Scientific Assembly in San Francisco. To showcase the usability and intuitive design of its solutions, T-System will host a “virtual” ED at booth #1502. Booth visitors will be able to visualize the solutions’ use in a real patient care setting and walk up and try the solutions for themselves.
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September 27, 2011
Winning healthcare organizations demonstrate how ED solutions help meet industry challenges
DALLAS – Sept. 27, 2011 – T-System, Inc. today announced the five winners of its second annual T-System Client Excellence Awards, chosen from more than 1,700 facilities nationwide that have implemented its paper documentation and electronic health record solutions. The award recognizes hospitals that have partnered with T-System most effectively to improve the quality of patient care, operational processes and financial results in the emergency department (ED).
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September 12, 2011
Dr. Robert Hitchcock named to Board of Directors, Janie Schumaker to Task Force Chair
DALLAS – Sept. 12, 2011 – T-System, Inc., the industry leader in clinical workflow and documentation solutions for emergency medicine, is proud to recognize two of its employees who have assumed new leadership roles with the Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA). Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer Robert Hitchcock, M.D., FACEP, was elected to EDPMA’s 19-member Board of Directors, and Center for Performance Excellence Manager Janie Schumaker, R.N., MBA, CEN, CPHQ, was named Chair for the Quality Initiatives Task Force (QITF). Hitchcock and Schumaker will serve EDPMA members for the 2011-2012 year.
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August 02, 2011
New clinical decision support increases accuracy and safety of medication ordering and dispensing for adult and pediatric patients in emergency departments
DALLAS – August 2, 2011 – T-System, Inc., the industry leader in clinical workflow and documentation solutions for emergency medicine, today announced that it will incorporate content from PEPID™, the top developer of clinical decision support for healthcare professionals, into its emergency department (ED) information system, T SystemEV®, in order to improve the accuracy and safety of patient care for adult and pediatric ED patients. T SystemEV along with the integrated content will provide extensive drug and clinical data at the point of care to help ED providers make accurate decisions and prevent errors.
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June 28, 2011
With 43 percent market share and growing, T-System proves its staying power
DALLAS – June 28, 2011 – This week T-System, Inc. will recognize its 15-year anniversary as the industry’s leading provider of clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine. The company credits its remarkable performance to its dedicated leadership, extraordinarily loyal client base, and the continuous market demand for patient-centric solutions designed specifically for the emergency department (ED). T-System is the nation’s first company to develop a structured template system for ED documentation that is based on patients’ chief complaints.
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June 27, 2011
With nearly half of a hospital’s revenue coming from the emergency department (ED), T-System helps optimize ED performance to improve financial health
DALLAS - June 27, 2011 - Beginning today at booth #229, T-System, Inc., will demonstrate how the right blend of technology and services in the emergency department (ED) can dramatically increase hospital revenue at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s 2011 ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference in Orlando. Armed with statistics, case studies and references that illustrate the critical value of an ED’s performance to a hospital’s bottom line, T-System will present a compelling business case for ED optimization as the healthcare environment undergoes transformative change.
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June 13, 2011
Web-based module from T-System will provide hospital with critical information about patient flow, staffing and resources
DALLAS - June 13, 2011 - Duncan Regional Hospital in southwestern Oklahoma has taken a new approach to manage its patient throughput (the average length of stay) in the emergency department (ED). It will soon implement T SystemEV® STAT, an intelligent engine that helps hospitals operate at maximum efficiency by anticipating staffing and care management needs as well as potential bottlenecks that can disrupt workflow. Offered by T-System, Inc., the industry leader in clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine, T SystemEV STAT will go live at the 167-bed hospital this summer.
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June 09, 2011
Emergency medical professionals have instant access to critical data at high-performance motor sports event to improve driver, crew and fan safety
DALLAS – June 9, 2011 – Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), the official medical provider to Pocono Raceway, this weekend begins using T-System’s DigitalShareTM documentation system to support emergency medical response and on-scene emergency health care for the “5-Hour Energy 500” Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. Sixty providers will be electronically capturing patient care documentation, managing resources and analyzing captured data for post-event risk management. T-System is the industry leader in clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine.
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June 06, 2011
T-Sheets will enable Texas emergency medical teams to uniformly chart patient encounters to deliver higher quality care during a crisis
DALLAS – June 6, 2011 – T-Sheets will enable Texas emergency medical teams to uniformly chart patient encounters to deliver higher quality care during a crisis.
With the recent onslaught of tornados touching down in Texas and hurricane season now underway, the Texas Disaster Medical System (TDMS) is gearing up for its busiest time of year by implementing a new system for patient documentation. TDMS has been working closely with T-System, Inc., the industry leader in clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine, which will provide its T-Sheets® paper documentation solution as a free public service.
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May 31, 2011
ED information system supports fast and accurate diagnoses with integrated decision support
DALLAS – May 31, 2011– As part of a commitment to continuously enhance its solutions, T-System, Inc. today announced it will integrate diagnosis decision support from Isabel Healthcare with its T SystemEV® emergency department information system to assist physicians in determining an early and accurate diagnosis. T-System is the industry leader in clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine with solutions in 1,700 U.S. hospitals. |
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April 11, 2011
DALLAS – April 11, 2011 – In a recent poll conducted by Modern Healthcare magazine, readers were asked to vote for the next head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), replacing the outgoing ONC Chief, Dr. David Blumenthal. T-System’s Chief Medical Information Officer, Dr. Robert Hitchcock, placed third in a wide-ranging and prestigious group of nominees that included Jessica Kahn, the technical director for health information technology for Medicaid at the CMS, and Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Halamka also is known for his well-respected blog, "Life of a Healthcare CIO" and often writes for Health Affairs and the Health Care Blog. Of the 24 nominees in the poll, Dr. Hitchcock garnered 103 votes out of the 736 ballots that were casted.
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April 04, 2011
T SystemEV’s clinical integration abilities supports a connected healthcare system to demonstrate Meaningful Use
DALLAS – April 4, 2011 – Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. in Louisville, Ky., has selected T SystemEV®, the industry’s leading emergency department information system, for use in all five of its acute-care hospitals’ EDs to improve safety and quality of patient care, increase efficiencies, and optimize reimbursement. Kentucky’s largest not-for-profit healthcare system will use the ONC-ATCB-certified solution from T-System, Inc. to integrate and exchange ED clinical data enterprise-wide and as a part of meeting Meaningful Use criteria to qualify for government incentives.
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