Contact: John Uphold, MD, FACEP, Chief Executive Officer Touch Medix®, LLC
Phone: (877) 4 TCHMDX (877) 482-4639 Fax: (818) 449-4839
Touch Medix™® Integrates PEPID™ – Touch Medix™, a leading developer in emergency department information systems software products, integrates PEPID ED, the first choice of emergency physicians for point-of-care reference, into their Touch ED® software product line.
Woodland Hills, California, October 1, 2007 - Touch Medix®, LLC, announces the integration of their Touch ED software product line and PEPID, LLC, products. Touch ED is an emergency department information system (EDIS) that provides the ability to efficiently and easily create and manage patient charts. Touch ED provides one hundred percent use of emergency department documentation for nursing, physicians and other healthcare roles. PEPID ED software is written in a concise and quickly assimilated format, allowing instant access to critical medical and pharmacological information including diagnosis, treatment and disposition. With PEPID ED you can find the answers you need in seconds. Favorably reviewed in JAMA, PEPID ED helps you to work more efficiently and reduce the risk of error in busy emergency departments.
As explained by John Uphold, MD, FACEP and Chief Executive Officer of Touch Medix®, “Touch Medix® is aligning its company and products with those that encompass all facets of healthcare. The integration of PEPID creates an enhanced Touch ED product offering medico-legal, medication databases and decision support content of the highest caliber.”
Touch Medix® developed Touch ED, covering all areas of managing patient care in the emergency department. Touch ED provides multiple input modalities using touch screen, voice-to-text, and traditional transcription. When searching records Touch ED allows quick re-use of previous records, in other words, “clone” records forward. Touch ED gives emergency departments the ability to create and generate reports immediately and easily, an absolutely crucial feature in an ED system. The adaptability of the system allows multimedia to be added to charts including but not limited to pictures, EKGs and insurance cards. Touch ED also integrates into existing hospital enterprise systems.
PEPID Knowledge Base for Healthcare Enterprise Applications - Medical information, drug databases and clinical tools created for online, wireless and mobile wireless devices, and standalone PDAs. PKB is designed for enterprise use including: Physician Dashboards, Nursing Stations, EDIS Systems, EMR’s and Hospital Decision Support Systems. Entire organizations benefit by eliminating time wasted by clinicians looking for answers elsewhere, higher clinical productivity and better workflow, higher clinician job satisfaction, reduced errors and adverse drug events and improved patient outcomes and satisfaction. PEPID PKB content is SNOMED CT compatible to ensure interoperability, enhance the sharing of electronic health information, and improve patient safety. PEPID PKB is the answer to clinical questions at the point of care.
Touch Medix®, LLC, located in Woodland Hills, California, is a physician-led company that develops innovative medical software products that are intuitive, fast, efficient, easy-to-learn and easy-to-modify documentation solutions for physicians, nurses and other practitioners. One hundred percent use of your documentation to effectively treat illness and preserve health is a measure of our success; nothing less.
For additional information on Touch Medix®, LLC and Touch ED visit http://www.touchmedix.com or email sales@touchmedix.com or call 877-4 TCHMDX (877-482-4639). For more about PEPID, LLC, visit http://www.pepid.com.
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