LOS ANGELES, CA – August 8, 2008 – The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (ND-DOCR)
announced that it has selected AssistMed, Inc. of Los Angeles, CA to provide its agency-wide electronic medical record (EMR) system.
This decision, following an intense competition, was made on the basis of: evaluating vendor responses to the request for proposal, Web-based and onsite demonstrations of system functionality, and the careful checking of user references.
There were a number of reasons why ND-DOCR selected the AssistMed Magnum EMR System. The Department wanted a
comprehensive solution that would serve both its inpatient and outpatient needs, would interface elegantly with existing administrative systems, and would ideally provide all the requisite functionality in an integrated system without requiring expensive interfaces to third party vendors.
The evaluators were particularly impressed that AssistMed was the only company that demonstrated the integration of NDDOCR’s existing forms into the EMR system, for online access and use. This minimizes training for physicians and nurses, and it enables them to continue using the workflow that is familiar to them.
The ND-DOCR also saw great value in AssistMed’s unique back-end speech recognition solution. By automatically producing
fully formatted and highly accurate drafts, the Department’s transcriptionists will dramatically improve their productivity by editing these drafts rather than transcribing the reports from scratch. This will save considerable cost, since the now more-productive in-house staff will eliminate the need for expensive outsourcing.
Other exclusive features of the AssistMed EMR System that ND-DOCR appreciated include: electronic prescribing and
pharmacy inventory tracking, monitoring inmates’ movements throughout the facilities, flexible bed assignment, and an EMR-integrated dental application. The evaluators were also intrigued by AssistMed’s natural language processing technology, which extracts clinical facts from free text and converts them to codes, for important clinical and administrative purposes.