King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals has gone live with iMDsoft’s MetaVision suite in its 16-bed pediatric critical care unit. MetaVision meets the workflow requirements of this high-need, data-rich environment through a variety of tailored functionalities. The MetaVision platform integrates seamlessly with the Hospital’s information systems including PACS and labs while complying with the hospital’s overall IT strategy.
See press release. 

Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney, Australia has opened its doors with MetaVision live in its ICU, CCU, OR and PACU. MetaVision supports the continuum of care between the clinical departments. The brand new, 183-bed, facility is Australia’s first and only university private hospital.

The Australian Capital Territory Department of Health has chosen to implement MetaVision in two hospitals. The Canberra Hospital and Calvary Hospital will both implement the system in their ICUs. Using MetaVision's single platform and staging mechanism will enable the hospitals to maintain uniformity in the structure of their data, and to enforce protocols and best practices. Read more

Hospital de Txagorritxu, Vitoria, an innovative healthcare provider in the Basque region of Spain, has implemented MetaVision in their ICU.

Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark, has gone live with MetaVision in its newly-built, state-of-the-art, ICU. The ICU at Gentofte treats many patients from the Hospital's department for invasive cardiology, the second largest department of its kind in Denmark.

 The Royal Hospital for Sick Children of the NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK, has gone live with MetaVision in its Pediatric ICU.

 The University of Maryland Medical Center, a major, innovative teaching hospital in Baltimore, went live this week with MetaVision. The Hospital is implementing MetaVision in its 55-bed OR.

Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Israel’s leading specialist hospital for children and adolescents, has gone live with MetaVision in their 29-bed Pediatric Cardiac ICU. This deployment follows successful implementation of MetaVision in the hospital’s ICU and OR.

Hospitals Van Weel Bethesda and Ruwaard van Putten in the Netherlands went live with MetaVision in their ICUs this week. The hospitals now use MetaVision’s Distributed Database mechanism to cooperate with Maasstad Hospital, with the three hospitals using a single pool of intensivists. This will enable the ICUs of Van Weel Bethesda and Ruwaard van Putten to move from level 1 to level 2, under the Dutch intensive care classification system.

A study recently published in the European Journal of Anaesthesiology shows a dramatic increase in adherence to prophylaxis administration guidelines using MetaVision, at OLVG hospital. Using MetaVision decision support tools, the Hospital was able to increase timely delivery of both dexamethasone and granisetron from 39% to 79%. The study concluded “decision support is effective in improving administration and timing of PONV prophylaxis medication”.
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Sint Franciscus Gasthuis in Rotterdam and Lievensberg Ziekenhuis in Bergen op Zoom have both selected MetaVision for implementation in their ICUs. iMDsoft and ItéMedical cooperated to bring about this solution.

• Royal Sussex hospital has chosen MetaVision for their Neonatal ICU, following successful implementation in two of the Hospital’s other departments.
• West Suffolk Hospital selected MetaVision to replace a Legacy system which was in use in the Hospital for a number of years.
• The Cumberland Infirmary selected MetaVision for implementation in its ICU.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital, consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the number one hospital in the United States, has gone live with the MetaVision Anesthesia Information Management System in 39 operating rooms. MetaVision impacts the OR workflow and documentation processes and will provide powerful decision support tools to improve adherence to internal protocols and regulatory guidelines. Rollouts for the Wilmer Eye Institute and Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center (JHOC) are upcoming, with additional implementations in the pipeline. 
See press release

Weissenfels Klinik of The Asklepios Group, the largest private hospital operator in Europe, has gone live this week with MetaVision in its ICU, intermediate care beds and for remote access and administration. A dedicated interface will enable the hospital to improve revenue capture and financial reporting based on DRG.   

A recent Critical Care article demonstrates how larger ICUs, typically with lower mortality rates, can use MetaVision to support smaller ICUs within their region. Intensivists from OLVG log into the MetaVision system of NKI-AVL, and review the detailed patient records. During a conference call between the two hospitals, the intensivists evaluate and optimize all aspects of the treatment. Telemedicine now enables specialized 24 hour care to NKI-AVL patients, in compliance with national care guidelines. 

Read the full article here (in Dutch) 

Macquarie University Hospital (MUH) in Sydney, Australia will open in June with MetaVision implemented in all ORs, PACU beds, and its ICU, supporting the continuum of care between the clinical departments. The brand new, state-of-the-art facility will integrate clinical care, education, and research, and chose MetaVision with an aim to deliver better health outcomes for patients and a superior working environment for medical staff.
See press release

A study released this week in Archives of Internal Medicine has shown significant reduction in ICU mortality rates, after implementation of a health IT bundle including MetaVision. Lehigh Valley Hospital ICU’s mortality rates dropped from 21.4% to 14.7% following deployment.

Read more 

Hospital MAZ, of Zaragoza, Spain has gone live this week with MetaVision in 7 intensive care units.

iMDsoft and ItéMedical BV, a leading provider of specialized clinical software applications for critical care environments, have expanded their existing agreement to cover the Flanders region of Belgium. ItéMedical - whose product MediScore is used in over 90 percent of Dutch ICUs - has partnered with iMDsoft since 2004 to promote, implement, and support MetaVision in the Netherlands.

Leading Spanish IT services provider Conasa will leverage its nationwide network of offices and personnel to distribute the MetaVision suite of clinical information systems throughout Spain.
See press release.

iMDsoft has further expanded the scope of its operations in Spain with a new distribution agreement with Dominion, one of the largest technology groups in the country. This partnership will complement Dominion’s existing healthcare IT offerings with iMDsoft's state-of-the-art clinical information systems for the perioperative, critical, and acute care continuum.
See press release.
 

Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark, has selected MetaVision to replace Philips CareVue for implementation in its newly-built, state-of-the-art, ICU. The hospital's department for invasive cardiology is Denmark's second largest, and many of its patients are treated in the ICU. Medidane, iMDsoft's distributor in Denmark, was instrumental in achieving this agreement.
See press release.

MetaVision has been deployed at the Hadassah Medical Organization, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel, in their 13 ICU beds. The iMDsoft system is already in use in their operating rooms.

St. Elisabeth Ziekenhuis, Tilburg, the Netherlands, has gone live with MetaVision in their 16-bed OR and 33-bed PACU. This deployment extends the successful implementation of MetaVision in the hospital’s ICU last year.

Leading industry blog, HIStalk, asked Phyllis Gotlib, CEO, iMDsoft, about the company and its offerings in the context of current US healthcare IT market. Topics discussed included current trends, such as the governmental and regulatory initiatives that increasingly promote CIS adoption. Also addressed are MetaVision's competitive advantages and research that demonstrates improved outcomes for MetaVision client sites.
Read the full interview here.

Asklepios Klinik Weissenfels, Germany, has selected MetaVision for deployment in its ICU and intermediate care beds, and for remote access and administration. iMDsoft and iSOFT cooperated to bring about this solution.

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children of the NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK, has selected MetaVision for their Pediatric ICU, High Dependency Units and 6 remote installations. iMDsoft and Genesys partnered to provide this solution.

Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Germany, a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, has chosen to implement MetaVision in its 59 intermediate care beds. This follows the hospital's successful experience with MetaVision in its ICU and ORs, where the system has already been in action since 2005.

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center (EHMC), NJ, one of the largest voluntary acute care hospitals in the state, has gone live with MetaVision in 14 operating rooms.

iSOFT Health, a leading supplier of software applications for the healthcare sector, will begin distributing the MetaVision Suite in Germany. iMDsoft’s offerings will complement and enhance iSOFT’s range of products with a dedicated solution for perioperative and critical care in that country. iSOFT currently serves customers in 40 countries and is one of the world’s largest healthcare information technology companies.
See press release.

Hospital de Txagorritxu, Vitoria, an innovative healthcare provider in the Basque region of Spain, will implement MetaVision in their ICUs. iMDsoft and Conasa cooperated to bring about this solution.

Ikazia Ziekenhuis of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has deployed MetaVision in their 10-bed ICU.

The Johns Hopkins Health System went live with MetaVision in 16 of its operating rooms. This marks the first stage of a hospital-wide implementation that is planned to encompass all of their ORs. MetaVision will provide powerful decision support tools and will streamline the OR workflow and documentation processes. The Johns Hopkins Health System is consistently ranked as the premier hospital in the United States and chose MetaVision after an extensive, multiyear search process.

Accelerating its expansion worldwide, iMDsoft saw 37 deployments of MetaVision completed during 2009. These go-lives were spread over 11 countries and in 7 languages. MetaVision was implemented for the first time in Luxembourg, while there were additional installations in Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the UK, and the US.
See press release.

The Royal Sussex County Hospital, part of the 1,140-bed Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, which provides healthcare services to a local population of 460,000, will extend the use of MetaVision to their 21-bed NICU. MetaVision was deployed in the cardiothoracic ORs and ICUs at Royal Sussex in February 2009. iMDsoft and its partner, Fukuda Denshi UK, cooperated to deliver this solution.

Ruwaard van Putten Ziekenhuis, Spijkenisse, and Van Weel-Bethesda Ziekenhuis, Dirksland, the Netherlands, have selected to jointly implement MetaVision in their ICUs. Together with the Maasstad Hospital, which already has MetaVision installed in their 16-bed ICU, the hospitals will use MetaVision's innovative staging mechanism to share the same application, thereby ensuring data standardization across ICUs in all three institutions. iMDsoft and ItéMedical partnered on this solution.

Following its implementation of MV-OR, one of the largest non-university hospitals in the Netherlands, with 700 beds, Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden (MCL), the Netherlands, will deploy MetaVision in 30 Intensive and Medium Care beds. iMDsoft and ItéMedical cooperated to bring about this solution.

Healthcare IT News reports that Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital are deploying iMDsoft’s MetaVision to transition from paper to electronic medical records in their intensive and general care environments. This will help push the hospitals closer to Stage 7, the top level of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, whereby institutions operate in a truly paperless environment. The final goal is enabling acute care documentation across the board for inpatient services. This project is a continuation of the current successful deployment of MetaVision as MGH’s Anesthesia Information Management system.
Read the article.

Hospital MAZ, Zaragoza, Spain, will implement MetaVision in its ICU. iMDsoft and Sinapsis cooperated to bring about this solution.

Ziekenhuis De Tjongerschans, Heerenveen, went live with MetaVision in their 8-bed ICU and Nij Smellinghe, Drachten, went live with 6 beds in their ICU.
The two hospitals implemented MetaVision concurrently and in close cooperation with our existing customer, Antonius Ziekenhuis, Sneek. The project is part of a larger effort to advance cooperation between the three ICU departments.

The 24 ICU beds at the Centre Hospitalier Hôpital Saint-Jean, Perpignan, France, have gone live with MetaVision.

Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) continued their roll out of MetaVision with go-lives in the operating and recovery rooms of Hôpital Municipal, and the ICU, operating and recovery rooms of the Clinique d'Eich.

MVexpress, the out-of-the-box anesthesia information management system from iMDsoft, is now available to the European healthcare market. MVexpress is designed to be implemented rapidly with minimal dedicated resources. It has been configured to suit national requirements and regulations and is initially available for European customers in France and Germany.
See press release.
 

• Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, a hospital specializing in orthopedics, went live in all of their 6 operating rooms and 11 pre-op beds.
• Waterlandziekenhuis (WLZ), Purmerend, went live with 9 beds, covering their entire ICU department. This go-live concludes the joint implementation project of WLZ and the neighboring Zaans Medisch Centrum in Zaandam, which went live earlier this year.
• Ziekenhuis Sint Jansdal in Harderwijk went live with 10 ICU beds. This covers their entire ICU and Medium Care departments.

MetaVision was recently spotlighted in a video news report by Detroit local news channel, Local 4, about its use in the intensive care unit at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. The segment demonstrates how MetaVision is used to improve care by remotely tracking patients in the ICU.
See the video.
 

For the sixth successive year, iMDsoft has been listed on Deloitte's prestigious 2009 Israel Technology Fast 50 Program. Deloitte annually awards Israel’s 50 fastest-growing high-tech companies. iMDsoft is proud to be among them once again.

Gelre Ziekenhuizen, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, have implemented MetaVision across their entire perioperative and critical care environment, including ORs, PACUs, medium care units, and ICUs at both their Apeldoorn and Zutphen locations. The hospitals have achieved a complete data continuum via MetaVision.

iMDsoft and Codonics, a leading provider of image distribution solutions for the medical industry, have announced an agreement that will complement iMDsoft’s anesthesia solution with an innovative syringe labeling system. The system can be fully integrated with the MetaVision Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS). The integrated solution helps ensure compliance with drug safety guidelines, while improving workflow, efficiency, and accuracy.
See press release.
 

Amphia Ziekenhuis, Breda, the Netherlands, which specializes in women's health and pediatric care, has implemented MetaVision in its 32-bed General ICU.

iMDsoft now offers an out-of-the-box anesthesia information management system that incorporates a decade of experience in the anesthesia environment. MVexpress is designed to be implemented rapidly with minimal dedicated resources, resulting in reduced total cost of ownership. MVexpress is upgradeable to iMDsofts fully configurable solution, MV-OR.
See press release. 

MetaVision has been implemented throughout BJC HealthCare of St. Louis, MO, one of America’s largest nonprofit health care organizations. All pre-op and post-op beds for nursing documentation are now live with MetaVision. The Center for Preoperative Assessment and Planning (CPAP) is the final go-live. Thousands of patients visit CPAP in preparation for surgery at BJC.

Sydney Adventist Hospital, New South Wales’s largest single-campus private hospital, has chosen MetaVision for its Intensive Care and Coronary Care units. This will mark the first MetaVision implementation in Australia.
See press release.
 

MetaVision has gone live at Saint Vincent Hospital, a Vanguard Health Systems hospital, located in Worcester, MA. The 348-bed acute care hospital has deployed MetaVision in its 37-bed Intensive Care Unit. MetaVision replaced a system from another major vendor.

iMDsoft and Clinical Measurements Inc.(CMI) of Florida have entered a regional distributorship agreement. iMDsoft will leverage CMI’s expertise to expand its presence in Florida and to enable regional hospitals and medical centers to benefit from the MetaVision Suite of products. This partnership will complement CMI’s existing offerings, which include physiological monitoring, anesthesia, and clinical information products for all hospital environments.

iMDsoft announces a joint distribution agreement with AES of Washington state, a provider of custom medical equipment and services to the medical community. iMDsoft welcomes this opportunity to further strengthen its presence in the Western US and to offer its proven MetaVision Suite to AES’ customer base.

The roll-out of MetaVision continues across BJC HealthCare of St. Louis, MO, one of America’s largest nonprofit health care organizations. MetaVision went live in the nurse pre-op and post-op local sedation (hybrid) room and in the offsite Remote/ECT site.

BJC HealthCare continues to roll out MetaVision across its hospital complex with this latest implementation in its L&D unit. BJC HealthCare, one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, serves the greater St. Louis region.

St. Louis, MO-based BJC HealthCare’s Center for Advanced Medicine went live with MetaVision for nursing documentation in their 35-bed pre-op and PACU locations. This go-live continues the roll out of MetaVision across the hospital, one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the midwest United States.

Ikazia Ziekenhuis of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has chosen MetaVision for its 10 ICU beds.
iMDsoft and ITéMedical cooperated on the agreement.
 

The 8-bed Cardio-Surgery ICU at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Israel, has implemented MetaVision.

Sint-Franciskusziekenhuis, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, has gone live with MetaVision in their 9-bed ICU.

The 6-bed Medical ICU of VJZ (Virga Jesseziekenhuis), Hasselt, Belgium, has gone live with MetaVision. The MICU joins the hospital’s OR and ICU as the third department to implement the iMDsoft solution.

Three prize winners have recently been chosen to receive the iMDsoft Excellence Award for 2009.

The winning projects demonstrate how MetaVision and its decision support capabilities can enhance patient safety in the critical care and the postoperative environment, improve the quality of prescription and record of administration and help achieve more complete and accurate documentation.
See the Grants page for further details.  

Nij Smellinghe Drachten in the Netherlands has chosen MetaVision for its ICU. They will implement MetaVision in close cooperation with two other iMDsoft customers, De Tjongerschans, Heerenveen, and Antonius Ziekenhuis, Sneek. All three hospitals are in close proximity to one another and are planning to synchronize their MetaVision installations in order to further the cooperation between their ICUs.
iMDsoft and ItéMedical cooperated to provide the solution.  

One of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the Midwest United States, BJC HealthCare has gone live with MetaVision in the 15 operating rooms in their Center for Advanced Medicine. This go-live continues the roll out of MetaVision across the hospital

Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel, a member of Clalit Health Services, has implemented MetaVision in their 20-bed NICU.

The 24-bed ICU at St. Elisabeth Ziekenhuis, Tilburg, the Netherlands, has gone live with MetaVision. This is part of a more extensive undertaking, which will go-live in their OR later this year.

MetaVision, including myMV, iMDsoft’s web-based communications platform, was chosen by Sint Maartinskliniek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, for their 6 ORs and 12 PACUs.
iMDsoft and ITéMedical cooperated on the agreement.
 

The ICU at Zaans Medisch Centrum, Zaandam, has gone live with MetaVision as part of a joint project with the ICU at Waterland Ziekenhuis Purmerend, which is expected to go live later this year.

Medisch Spectrum Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, has gone live with MetaVision for an additional 22 beds in its GICU.

The 34-bed Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Israel, has gone live with MetaVision.

A 605-bed hospital in Ede, the Netherlands, Ziekenhuis Gelderse Vallei, has gone live with MetaVision in their 37-bed operating rooms, holding and recovery rooms. The choice of MetaVision replaces a system from another major vendor.

The brand-new West Chester Medical Center of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC), Cincinnati, OH, opened their doors with MetaVision live in their 7 ORs.

Two hospitals in the Netherlands select MetaVision:

• Ziekenhuis Sint Jansdal, Harderwijk, has chosen MetaVision for its 10 ICU beds.
• Ziekenhuis De Tjongerschans, Heerenveen, selected MetaVision for its 8 ICU beds.

iMDsoft and ItéMedical cooperated on the agreement.

The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD, has selected MetaVision for their 55 operating rooms. The Shock Trauma Center, the only trauma hospital in the US, is considered to be one of the best worldwide.

BJC HealthCare, one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, serving the greater St. Louis region, across Missouri and southern Illinois, has gone live with MetaVision in the Orthopedic Center as the hospital begins the roll out of MetaVision in 59 operating rooms, 15 ambulatory beds and for its 102 pre/post operative beds.

iMDsoft makes its début in Portugal with an agreement with the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes in Beja to install MetaVision in their ICU, operating rooms, pre-op, induction and recovery rooms. iMDsoft and SpaceMedical of Portugal cooperated to provide the solution.

Holmes Hospital of the University Hospital (UCMC) in Cincinnati, Ohio, has gone live with MetaVision in 5 ORs.

When the 300-bed Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, opened its doors on March 15, iMDsoft’s MetaVision went live on its 12 Adult ICU and 7 NICU beds. 12 additional Adult beds will be added this summer.

MetaVision Suite 2009, the latest version of the company's flagship clinical information system, features innovations in cross-department dataflow, fluid and medication management, system customization, and interoperability that help hospitals provide the best possible care for their patients.

MetaVision Suite 2009’s key innovations include:

• A single, continuous patient record across multiple departments
• Powerful fluid and medication plan management tools
• Summary view of patient progress
• Easy customization management
• Advanced interoperability

See press release. 

Diakonessenhuis, Utrecht, the Netherlands, has gone live with MetaVision, bringing the iMDsoft solution to their 11-bed ICU ward. iMDsoft replaces an existing system.

Ziekenhuis Gelderse Vallei, a 605-bed hospital in Ede, the Netherlands, has chosen MetaVision for its operating rooms, holding and recovery rooms, intensive care unit, medium care unit and a trauma room in the emergency room. The choice of MetaVision replaces a system from another major vendor. iMDsoft and ItéMedical cooperated on the agreement.

iMDsoft has entered into a marketing and sales collaboration with Unibased Systems Architecture to provide the most comprehensive perioperative information system available to hospitals in North America.
See press release.

In an effort to enhance interoperability between MetaVision and various healthcare provider systems as well as personal health records (PHR), iMDsoft now supports the HL7 Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standard. The CCD contains a patient summary and the core data set of the most relevant administrative, demographic, and clinical information facts about a patient's. This will allow physicians to send patient information from MetaVision to personal health records without loss of meaning, ultimately resulting in improved patient care.

 Two UK hospitals have implemented iMDsoft's MetaVision:

• The Christie Hospital in Manchester, UK, has gone live with MetaVision in its general ICU.
• The Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, United Kingdom, went live with MetaVision in its cardiothoracic ORs and ICUs. The system has been operational in the hospital's general ICU since 2002.

Following the success of its initial installation last year, Maasstad Ziekenhuis (formerly known as MCRZ, Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is expanding its MetaVision installation to cover all beds in its general ICU.

Sint-Franciskusziekenhuis, Zolder, Belgium, has selected MetaVision for installation in its general ICU.

The Edith Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, with over 650 beds and serving a population of nearly half a million people, has chosen MetaVision from iMDsoft for implementation in its general ICU.

A number of sites in the Netherlands have recently chosen MetaVision:

• Amphia Ziekenhuis, Breda, the Netherlands, which specializes in women's health and pediatric care, will implement iMDsoft's solution for its ICU.
•  In light of the success of MetaVision in its cardiothoracic ICUs and ORs, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, is expanding its MetaVision installation into its general ICU.
• Zaans Medisch Centrum and Waterland Ziekenhuis Purmerend, the Netherlands, are merging their general ICUs and are set to install MetaVision together to facilitate standardization of their critical data.

iMDsoft and ItéMedical partnered to deliver these solutions.

MetaVision was chosen by the Hadassah Medical Organization, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel, for their ICU. The iMDsoft system is already in use in their operating rooms.

Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Petah Tikva, Israel, has selected MetaVision for its operating rooms and PACUs.

Gelre Ziekenhuizen, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, has chosen MetaVision for implementation across its entire perioperative and critical care environment, including ORs, PACUs, medium care units, and ICUs. The implementation process should be completed during Q3 2009, at which time the hospital will achieve a complete data continuum via MetaVision. The solution was provided in cooperation with ItéMedical, iMDsoft's distributor in the Netherlands.

The 18-bed general ICU of the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg has gone live MV-ICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units.

Partners HealthCare has selected iMDsoft's MetaVision as the acute care and perioperative clinical information platform for its two academic medical centers, Brigham & Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital, both ranked among America's ten best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
See press release

Saint Vincent Hospital, a Vanguard Health Systems hospital, located in Worcester, MA, has signed a cooperative agreement with iMDsoft. The 348-bed acute care hospital will deploy MetaVision in its 37-bed Intensive Care Unit. The choice of MetaVision replaces a system from another major vendor.

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, New Jersey, has chosen iMDsoft's MetaVision clinical information system and will be using a phased rollout to install it across its entire perioperative and critical care environment, including ORs, PACUs, and ICUs.

iMDsoft announced another deal in the Netherlands as St. Elisabeth Hospital Tilburg opted for MetaVision as its clinical information system of choice for the entire critical care and perioperative continuum. iMDsoft and ItéMedical cooperated to provide the solution.
See press release

iMDsoft has once again listed on Deloitte's prestigious Israel Technology Fast 50, which lists the fastest-growing high-tech companies in Israel. This year's appearance, the fifth in successive years, is iMDsoft's sixth in total.

Diakonessenhuis Utrecht, The Netherlands, has chosen MetaVision for implementation in its ICU. Go-live is scheduled for Q1 2009. iMDsoft and ItéMedical cooperated to provide this solution.

iMDsoft has been named the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2008 North American Healthcare Innovation Award for its MetaVision application for critical care. An industry-wide survey by Frost & Sullivan's analysts resulted in iMDsoft receiving the number one ranking in its field.
See press release.

Johns Hopkins - rated by U.S. News & World Report as the nation’s number one hospital for the 18th consecutive year - has executed a comprehensive agreement with iMDsoft to implement MetaVision across its entire perioperative continuum.
See press release.

iMDsoft has announced the signing of a huge multi-site framework agreement with Helse Sør-Øst RHF (South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority) to provide integrated clinical data management services to the Health Trusts and related hospitals in southeast Norway. iMDsoft and ErgoGroup AS allied on this deal.
See press release.

Teams from the University Hospital of Regensburg and VU Medical Center have been declared winners of the iMDsoft Research Grants, offered to studies measuring the impact of MetaVision on hospital patient safety, care quality, and financial performance.
See the Awards page for further details.

The following sites have recently gone live with the MetaVision Suite:

• Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in its general ICU. Following this successful implementation, the hospital is currently considering expanding MetaVision to cover all its ICU beds.
• HagaZiekenhuis (Haga Teaching Hospital), Den Haag, the Netherlands, in its general ICU.
• Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel, in its perioperative environment. The implementation of MVOR reflects the Medical Center's drive to build a continuum of care across the critical care environment - MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, was implemented at the hospital in June of 2004.
• Klinikum der Universität Regensburg, Germany, an expansion of its existing installation of MVICU. The MetaVision Suite has now been in use in the hospital for some five years.
• The Clinique et Maternité Sainte-Elisabeth (CMSE), Namur, Belgium, a three-hundred bed general hospital, has selected MVICU for its general ICU. This marks iMDsoft's first deal in Francophone Belgium.
• The Christie Hospital in Manchester, UK, one of Europe's leading centers for the treatment of cancer, has chosen iMDsoft's MVICU for implementation in its intensive care environment.
   

The Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel, has gone live with MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, in its general ICU. This is the first stage in a process that will result in MetaVision being implemented throughout the hospital's intensive care and perioperative environments: MVOR is set to go live in the OR there early in Q4 this year.

The Sana Klinikum Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, a teaching hospital of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a member of the Sana group, has gone live with MVICU in its ICU. This is the first stage in a rollout that will see additional ICU beds implemented early in Q3 2008 and OR and recovery rooms going live by the end of the year.

On Thursday, June 12, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, Allentown, PA, and iMDsoft will be exhibiting together at the National Health IT Week 2008 Technology Showcase, sponsored by the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare. National Health IT Week, taking place in Washington, DC, USA, is the leading annual forum where public and private organizations meet to advance adoption of health information technology to transform healthcare in the US.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Boston, MA, USA, consistently ranked as one of America’s top hospitals, has selected MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, to replace an existing critical care system in all seven of its medical and neonatal ICUs.
See press release.

As part of its commitment to promoting research, iMDsoft is pleased to announce the iMDsoft Research Grants. These will be offered to studies measuring the impact of MetaVision on hospital patient safety, care quality, and financial performance.

Further details and guidelines may be at http://www.imd-soft.com/grants/guidelines.htm. The application form itself is available at http://www.imd-soft.com/grants/.
 

iMDsoft client Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN) has been named one of the winners of the 2008 AMDIS Awards, presented for excellence and achievement in applied medical informatics. The award is in recognition of its use of the MetaVision Suite to enhance patient safety, care quality, and process improvement initiatives including implementing and measuring compliance with best-practice guidelines.
See press release.

US Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited iMDsoft client Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN) in Allentown, PA, to discuss healthcare and technology. The visit included, among other things, a presentation on LVHHN’s Advanced ICU and MVcentral.
 

Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France, part of the Hospices Civils de Lyon group, has gone live with MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, in its general ICU.

HagaZiekenhuis (Haga Teaching Hospital), Den Haag, the Netherlands, has chosen MetaVision for implementation in its ICUs and ORs. The institution is one of the largest general hospitals in the Netherlands, with over over 3,500 staff, including 210 medical specialists. iMDsoft and ItéMedical allied on the sale.

Universitair Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), the Netherlands, has continued its rollout of MVICU into its pediatric and neonatal ICUs. MetaVision has been operating in the hospital's adult ICU since November of last year.

Akershus University Hospital (AHUS), Oslo, Norway, has commenced the MetaVision rollout at its new site with go-lives in its day surgery and post-op department; additional go-lives in the central operation department and neonatal ICU are in the pipeline. AHUS has been using MetaVision in its existing general ICU since 2000, and that implementation will also be transferred to the new site in Q4 2008. A recent Norwegian-language article on the hospital's website discusses these developments and AHUS's very positive experience with MetaVision over the years.

University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, ranked by US News & World Report as one of America’s Best Hospitals, has chosen MVOR, iMDsoft's anesthesia information management system, for its operating rooms. The system offers comprehensive support for the hospital's existing workflows, and is a fully integrated solution that promotes the hospital's mission: providing high quality, affordable health care through best clinical practices and resource utilization.
See press release.

St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, has expanded use of MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, into its PACU department, an additional step in the process of using MetaVision to establish a full continuum of care throughout its perioperative environment.

The March 2008 edition of Anesthesia & Analgesia features a study undertaken in the anesthesiology departments of OLVG and AMC, Amsterdam, which concludes that the electronic decision support offered by MetaVision increases guidelines adherence for the prescription of PONV prophylaxis in high-risk PONV patients.
See abstract.

The Elkerliek Hospital, Helmond, the Netherlands, has gone live with MetaVision in its general ICU, the second phase of a stepwise implementation that will enable it to achieve a complete data continuum in its critical care environment via MetaVision. The hospital's OR has been using MVOR since September of last year.

The Academic Hospital, University of Amsterdam (AMC), the Netherlands, one of Holland's top reference hospitals, has gone live with MVOR, iMDsoft's solution for the perioperative arena, in its OR polyclinic and recovery rooms. MetaVision has been operational at AMC since early 2002.

Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheba, Israel, has gone live with MVICU in its medical and pediatric ICUs, thereby completing the multi-unit stepwise implementation it commenced in Q1 2007, which had already covered its general, neuro, and cardiothoracic ICUs.

The St. Barbara Klinik in Heessen-Hamm, Germany, has implemented MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, in its surgical ICU. This follows the ongoing success of the implementations of MetaVision in multiple St. Franziskus Stiftung hospitals.

iMDsoft has announced a joint distribution agreement with ErgoGroup AS, a leading Nordic information technology services company. This partnership expands iMDsoft ’s presence in Scandinavia and support for the MetaVision Suite of clinical information systems through ErgoGroup’s operations, consulting services, and network of local offices in Norway and Sweden.
See press release.

After a successful initial pilot and implementations in its anesthesia ICU in 2003 and 2007, the Klinikum der Universität Regensburg, Germany, has chosen to further expand its installation of MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, to cover its internal, cardiothoracic, and neurosurgical ICUs.

Harry Lukens, senior vice president and CIO at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Allentown, PA, is featured in Healthcare Informatics' January cover story honoring the 2008 Innovator Award winners. While discussing his philosophy of IT leadership, he describes his implementation of iMDsoft's MVcentral to create an advanced ICU: “This system and the way we deployed it has saved lives.”
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iMDsoft has become a Citrix Global Alliance partner. This marks the first step in MetaVision becoming a fully Certified Citrix system.

Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel, has gone live with MVICU, iMDsoft's solution for intensive care units, in its Neonatal ICU. The go-live in Kaplan Medical Center is the first implementation in the overall agreement with Clalit Health Services - Israel's largest HMO - to install MVICU in all neonatal units.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, has partnered with iMDsoft to deploy the MetaVision anesthesia information management system (MVOR) across 66 operating rooms (ORs) and 102 preoperative and post-anesthesia care units (PACU) beds. iMDsoft's clinical decision support and analysis tools coupled with its 100 percent implementation success rate were key factors in Barnes-Jewish Hospital's selection of MetaVision.
See press release.