October 12, 2006

MEDHOST And The Sullivan Group Partner To Provide Emergency Departments With Integrated Risk Management

MEDHOST’s utilization of The Sullivan Group’s comprehensive risk and safety program will improve hospital patient care, decrease medical lawsuits and improve patient safety

ADDISON, Texas – Oct. 12, 2006 – MEDHOST, provider of the leading Emergency Department Information System (EDIS), today announced its partnership with The Sullivan Group (TSG), whose risk management will aid MEDHOST in revolutionizing patient safety in emergency departments (ED) nationwide.  By combining MEDHOST’s easy-to-use EDIS with TSG’s matrix of commonly missed medical conditions, Customers will see increased accuracy in patient diagnoses, treatments and interventions.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of medical malpractice lawsuits are filed against healthcare facilities and practitioners, many of which could be prevented if emergency care physicians were prompted to examine patients for specific, easily overlooked conditions.  TSG has introduced a new paradigm in medical risk and error reduction through a three-pronged approach that 1) identifies and educates practitioners regarding the causes of medical errors and adverse patient outcomes, 2) builds that critical information into intelligent medical record tools for use real-time during the patient encounter, and 3) provides feedback to the entire healthcare team regarding key risk and safety indicators.  TSG’s groundbreaking bedside risk management platform flags the most common high-risk patient complaints and prompts ED clinicians to check for serious medical conditions when these complaints arise. 

“In the ED, physicians and nurses often work in a chaotic environment and are faced with a wide range of medical complaints and disease entities,” said Dan Sullivan, president and CEO of TSG.  “While these clinicians are all well-trained, it can be easy to overlook a symptom or forget a possible diagnosis in the fast-paced ED environment.  TSG’s risk and safety solutions non-obtrusively assist clinicians to consider the appropriate differential diagnoses, document the relevant exam, follow evidence-based and best practice guidelines, maintain constant awareness of a range of critical physiologic abnormalities, support the ED team process, and provide a broad range of key clinical information and alerts when needed.”

MEDHOST and The Sullivan Group Partner

“Our partnership with TSG allows MEDHOST to revolutionize risk management in the ED,” said Craig Herrod, president and CEO of MEDHOST.  “By embedding TSG’s comprehensive risk management content directly in our intuitive EDIS, we are providing our Customers with seamless clinical decision support, an important step toward changing the way emergency medicine is practiced.”

MEDHOST, provider of the leading EDIS, serves facilities such as Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, the Lifespan Health System of Rhode Island, and the Baylor Healthcare System in Texas.  MEDHOST is the preferred EDIS provider of VHA Inc., a national cooperative serving more than 2,400 not-for-profit healthcare organizations.

About The Sullivan Group
The Sullivan Group’s patient safety and risk management system combines Web-based risk and safety education programs, intelligent medical records for physicians and nurses and a Web-based clinical audit tool to help medical professionals decrease errors and improve patient outcomes.  This new paradigm in risk reduction and patient safety has helped hundreds of hospital emergency departments reduce their malpractice claims by more than 40 percent.  The Sullivan Group serves more than 500 hospitals, healthcare organizations and insurance companies nationwide including HCA, Premier and Triad Hospitals, and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company.

For more information, please visit www.thesullivangroup.com.

About MEDHOST, Inc.
MEDHOST is a software solutions company that provides highly visual, easy-to-use process management technology for the healthcare industry.  The MEDHOST product suite has been adopted by leading institutions throughout the United States and has proven to dramatically improve emergency department processes and increase Customer satisfaction.  MEDHOST was named “#1 Best in KLAS” for Emergency Department Vendors in 2004 and 2005, as detailed in the “Top 20 Year End Best in KLAS” report (published Dec. 15, 2004 and 2005), which measures performance based on Customer evaluations of vendor performance.  Products include real-time patient tracking, clinical documentation, order entry and comprehensive reporting.  MEDHOST is headquartered in Addison, Texas.

Additional information is available at www.medhost.com.

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