Sutter Health Selects QPID Health to Optimize Use of Health Record Data

BOSTON, Jan. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- QPID Health, which helps hospitals and medical groups achieve their quality goals with software that generates actionable information from electronic health records, today announced that Sutter Health will implement the Company's software solutions.  

Sutter Health is a leading not-for-profit network with 24 hospitals; 33 ambulatory surgery centers; multiple centers for behavioral health, cancer, cardiac, rehabilitation and trauma care; and a physician network of 5000 members.

Charles Wirth, Chief Executive Officer, Sutter Physician Services, commented: "Our Epic-based electronic health record system contains a wealth of information about our patients and about the care we are providing them. QPID Health's unique ability to query the data base and generate actionable information will help us be more efficient across administrative and clinical areas. We are excited to partner with QPID Health to reduce costs and improve patient care."

Michael J. Doyle, President and CEO of QPID Health, said: "We are proud to be supporting the Sutter Health network, which has been named as ne of the 2015 'Top 50 Great Health Systems to Know' by Becker's Hospital Review, with many of its hospitals cited as top performers in quality by the Joint Commission and the Leapfrog Group. Our software will help Sutter continue its leadership in community-based care." 

About Sutter Health:
Serving patients and their families in more than 100 Northern California cities and towns, Sutter Health doctors, not-for-profit hospitals and other health care service providers share resources and expertise to advance health care quality and access. The Sutter Medical Network includes many of California's top-performing, highest-quality physician organizations as measured annually by the Integrated Healthcare Association. Sutter-affiliated hospitals are regional leaders in cardiac care, women's and children's services, cancer care, orthopedics and advanced patient-safety technology. For more information about the not-for-profit Sutter Health network visit: http://www.sutterhealth.org/

About QPID Health:
QPID Health helps hospitals and medical groups achieve their quality goals with software that generates actionable information from patient records. QPID Health's clinical reasoning software combines advanced natural language processing (NLP), clinical logic, and machine learning to locate and synthesize patient facts in medical records.

With 8500 active users across major integrated delivery networks including Partners HealthCare and Providence Health & Services, Sharp HealthCare and Sutter Health, and over 10 years of use in demanding clinical settings, QPID Health software is clinician proven and scalable. In just the past three years the software has analyzed 318 million clinical documents for 1.6 million unique patients.

For more information about QPID Health, please visit www.qpidhealth.com

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