Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Partners With CGI to Deliver an Electronic Health Record
February 14 2012 - 8:36AM
Marketwired
CGI Group Inc. (TSX:GIB.A)(NYSE:GIB), a leading provider of
information technology and business process services, and
Toronto-based Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Sunnybrook) today
announced the launch of CGI's Sovera Health Information Management
(HIM)(TM) System (Sovera), an enterprise clinical content manaement
solution that strengthens Sunnybrook's position as a leader in the
provisioning of groundbreaking healthcare in Canada.
"CGI has been a trusted advisor and partner on our journey to
delivering patient health records electronically and eliminating
paper files," said Sam Marafioti, Vice-President, Corporate
Strategy & Development CIO, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
"Through the use of Sovera, our clinical productivity has been
enhanced, while continuing to deliver quality care to our patients
and ensuring patient safety. We now have a flexible framework that
can be leveraged in the future to share information and automate
other functions within our health system."
"Sunnybrook is well-known for its innovation and its strategic
vision to invent the future of patient care," said Hitesh Seth,
Sector Vice-President, CGI. "Leveraging industry-leading
technology, Sovera supports Sunnybrook's vision, allowing its
physicians and medical professionals to focus on patient care,
while reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and creating a
paperless environment for the hospital."
Sunnybrook's vision for building the future of healthcare has
moved the health system to an electronic patient record (EPR) that
allows the health records for the over 2.5 million patients
registered at Sunnybrook to be securely accessed by medical staff
and health data records analysts at anytime through a web-based
browser. Sunnybrook partnered with CGI to deliver this critical
phase in its vision to ensure that all patient clinical
information, hospital stay and clinic visit information, as well as
test results are also available through Sunnybrook's EPR.
CGI's Sovera solution is used to scan paper-based patient
charts, integrate the information with patient clinical information
in other systems and automate the workflow to ensure the chart is
complete and available online to Sunnybrook clinicians and
administrative staff. Patients may also request a copy of their
medical record in electronic format using Sovera's Release of
Information (ROI) solution through Sunnybrook's Health Data Records
department.
Sovera, CGI's market leading enterprise clinical and content
management system used by 200,000+ licensed health professionals in
more than 250 hospitals across North America, is a complete digital
records management system that automates health information
workflow processes including: medical coding, chart review,
analysis and completion, and records release. Sovera provides
secure, instant online access to patient information that increases
the productivity of medical professionals and enhances patient
care.
Integrated by CGI into Sunnybrooks' existing health information
system, Sovera will manage Sunnybrook's millions of patient records
and images of scanned paper charts, so that past and present
clinical and diagnostic information can be accessed, reviewed and
signed off upon by the physician and the health data records
community. Health data record analysts can now evaluate charts and
effectively communicate online to physicians regarding their chart
deficiencies. Physicians will no longer have to wait for paper
based documents to be delivered to review and sign charts; they
will be able to view the scanned images from wherever they are
providing critical care to patients when it matters the most.
Built on a proven flexible and extensible enterprise content
management platform, CGI's Sovera enables unstructured content
(scanned paper documents, email, photographs, etc) to be tightly
integrated with structured information in the systems of record to
present information when and where needed to automate processes
throughout the enterprise - such as Health Records, Accounts
Payable, Contracts, Employee Health Services, Human Resources,
Patient Admission and Medical Affairs.
CGI provides a full suite of health IT solutions that reduce
operating costs, advance the quality of care, and promote health
with an emphasis on enterprise content management (ECM), health
information exchange (HIE), chronic disease management, diagnostic
imaging, SAP for health, quality and operational efficiency
improvements. As a trusted health IT services partner, governments,
provincial ministries, hospitals, health systems, HIE organizations
and health insurers rely on CGI's health solutions and services to
achieve success. Website: www.cgi.com/health
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest
independent information technology and business process services
firms in the world. CGI and its affiliated companies employ
approximately 31,000 professionals. CGI provides end-to-end IT and
business process services to clients worldwide from offices and
centres of excellence in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia
Pacific. As at December 31, 2011, CGI's annualized revenue was
approximately $4.1 billion and its order backlog was approximately
$13.6 billion. CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the
NYSE (GIB) and are included in both the Dow Jones Sustainability
Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Website: www.cgi.com.
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Contacts: Carolyn Rouse Director, Media Relations,
CGIcarolyn.rouse@cgi.com 416-304-7323
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