GEMMS RELEASES REVOLUTIONARY NEW VERSION OF ECIS

Indianapolis,Indiana (March 5, 2001) – Gateway Electronic Medical Management Systems (GEMMS), the developer of the nation’s first fully integrated, cardiology-specific electronic clinical information system (ECIS), today announced the release of the latest version of GEMMS ECIS called ECIS 2001 featuring several significant enhancements. GEMMS ECIS 2001 will provide physicians with new applications, new features and new integration modules.

One of the most exciting new features within ECIS 2001 is the new clinical decision trees. ECIS 2001 now offers several problem-focused history of present illnesses including: chest pain, syncope, return PTCA, return CABG and medication follow up. With a few clicks of a pen, physicians can now easily develop a comprehensive problem focused history of present illness.

GEMMS has also developed two new seamless data acquisition interfaces within the new version of ECIS 2001. Each allows the clinician access to digitized data from different cardiology diagnostic testing equipment.

The Cardio Control interface allows a physician or technician the ability to record an ECG or complete stress test, review an existing test, do the interpretation and print a hardcopy from a laptop, desktop or wirelessly through a pen-top.

With ECIS 2001 access to a variety of digital imaging formats and systems including DICOM images are now available to the physician with just one simple point and click. Through a seamless interface with the ProSolv Vascular Digital Image Management System, GEMMS customers who have purchased the
the ProSolv system can now be launched from within ECIS 2001 and review echo’s, nuclear studies, peripheral vascular and coronary cine studies from a variety of manufacturers systems.

Other new features include:

• GEMMS Transcriber System (GTS): This system integrates with Microsoft Word/Microsoft Office 2000. The integration allows the document specialist to have the full functionality of Microsoft Word while working in ECIS 2001. GTS provides the ability to edit existing unsigned documents, develop new documents, incorporate existing documents to create a completely new one and create multiple referring physician letters. This system included direct access to the ECIS 2001 Wireless Dictation files and offers footswitch control of file playback, speed and repeating.
• Wireless Dictation: ECIS 2001 will now allow physicians to dictate a patient note through the wireless network using their pen-top computers, allowing physicians to dictate more complex diagnostic, treatment or plan instructions at the point of care. The wave file is stored directly in the patient’s record, dated and time stamped. The document specialist can access the dictation via the GEMMS GTS program or through the ECIS 2001 program and transcribe the dictation and added it to the office encounter document.
• Digital Picture ID: ECIS 2001 now has the capability to take and store digital patient pictures. This feature allows a practice to add the personal touch of walking over to a patient in the waiting room and addressing them by their name before escorting them back to the exam room.
• New Clinical Reporting Abilities: ECIS 2001 includes new lab charting and clinical analysis reports.

"Our emphasis continues to focus on automating every possible clinical and management function of a practice to reduce and eliminate manually entered data, streamlining a practice’s workflow and increasing overall revenues," said Rodger Pinto, PhD., President and CEO of GEMMS. "This new version of ECIS takes another step closer to our goal."

Gateway Electronic Medical Management Systems
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Gateway Electronic Medical Management Systems (GEMMS) designs, implements and supports medical information solutions specifically created for ambulatory cardiology practices. It is the nation's first provider of electronic clinical information systems for cardiology practices. The first ECIS system was installed in 1997 at Nasser, Smith & Pinkerton Cardiology in Indianapolis, with national product marketing and installations beginning in 1999.

 

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