The Department of Defense will deploy inpatient clinical documentation technology in 36 additional military treatment facilities under a new contract with a San Diego-based technology company.
The DoD tapped CliniComp, a San Diego-based global provider of enterprise-wide clinical documentation systems specializing in high-acuity documentation and surveillance. The financial terms of the contract were not revealed.
CliniComp will deploy its Essentris technology, more than doubling its current installations for the DoD. The technology will be rolled out for the Military Health System across the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The Essentris deployment is expected to be completed within 18-24 months. CliniComp is currently completing an initial installation under this contract in each of the Army, Navy, and Air Force health services to meet a Sept. 30 Congressional mandate.
"This is the first time an integrated delivery network this large has standardized – throughout all clinical areas – on one clinical system," said Alan Portela, CliniComp's chief operating officer.
Portela says his company's clinical documentation system delivers 100 percent uptime for complex hospital and health system environments such as those that exist within high-acuity care areas.
CliniComp's Essentris system is a multidisciplinary suite made up of intelligent, inpatient clinical documentation, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and decision support tools for hospitals with both low and high acute care specialties and complex environments including military treatment facilities, academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks.
The CliniComp system streamlines clinical workflows and simplifies access to unified patient data. Through this data integration, the technology contributes toward building a true longitudinal patient health record, according to the company.
"With CliniComp's commitment to providing secure access to vital patient data across the MHS' complete care continuum, this award moves the DoD one step closer to realizing a comprehensive approach in the care delivery for our wounded warriors," said Portela.
The Essentris suite supports more than 57 percent of military health system inpatient beds as the inpatient solution for AHLTA and has supported patient care at healthcare systems such as VA North Texas Health Care System, UCLA Health System and Tenet Healthcare.
