Grand Rapids, MI – May 2, 2012 – Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has appointed Hajo Oltmanns as the new President of Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical decision support (CDS) tools for healthcare.

Hajo will lead the continued development and expansion of CPM’s clinical decision support tools and the engagement of the CPM International Consortium, an organization composed of hundreds of CPM’s client hospitals and health systems.  Hajo is also responsible for the development of Elsevier’s new Order Sets, which is expected to launch in late 2012.

Hajo’s appointment comes as CPM and our other CDS groups work together to transform healthcare,” said Jay Katzen, Managing Director, Elsevier Clinical Decision Support and Payer Solutions.  “Hajo’s experience and understanding of healthcare will help grow this business, empowering our customers to achieve measureable, sustainable success through the implementation of evidence-based CDS and professional practice expertise.”

At Elsevier Health Sciences, Hajo previously served as the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Business Development, focusing on the CDS group.  Hajo joined Elsevier in 2007 and served as a member of the executive strategy team, working across all international businesses units while based in Amsterdam.

Prior to Elsevier, Hajo was a manager at the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, where he focused on strategy, development and customer understanding across several industries, including healthcare.

Originally from Germany, Hajo has an MA from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Grand Rapids, November 15 2011 - Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), the leading global provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services announced that Bonnie Wesorick, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), is this year’s recipient of the Edith Moore Copeland Award for Excellence in Creativity. CPMRC is an Elsevier-owned company that has brought healthcare providers together to co-create and sustain the best places to practice and receive care.

“Bonnie is a true visionary and her creative models, conceptual frameworks and strategies have been ahead of their time, providing future direction in healthcare quality improvement,” said Michael Hansen, Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier Health Sciences. “It’s great to see Bonnie recognized for helping to create the movement toward point of care integration and scope of practice clarity in the clinical setting.”

The Copeland Award is one of six Founder’s awards bestowed by The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) and is one of the highest honors bestowed by STTI. The award celebrates the advancement of nursing through creativity in education, practice and research. Award criteria include demonstrating creative activity in nursing education, practice or research, participating in creative activity that serves as a stimulus for research, practice and education; and fostering creativity in people such as colleagues, students, clients and other health care providers.

Bonnie received the award for creating a Clinical Practice Model (CPM) Framework to help guide advancements in nursing. She soon expanded the Framework to include other disciplines and the entire care team at a time in healthcare when hospital organizations were accustomed to working in silos. With the CPM Framework, core beliefs, principles, theories, and healthcare best practices have all been synthesized into concise models that help clinicians and leaders affect sustainable change across the healthcare organization. Hallmarked at the award ceremony was Bonnie’s leadership and vision for bringing the first evidence-based automated clinical documentation system to healthcare designed to serve patients and clinicians. This transformation leads to positive outcomes for patients and their families, caregivers and the healthcare community at large.

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About CPMRC

The CPM Resource Center (CPMRC) offers content, processes, tools and services that support practice advancement, cultural transformation, infusion of evidence-based care, and interdisciplinary integration at the point of care. CPMRC’s evidence-based products and professional services assist healthcare organizations in creating a healthy work culture and interdisciplinary integration using the CPM Framework™ that supports cultural and professional practice for sustainable healthcare transformation. The International Consortium of over nearly 300 rural, community and university settings connects clinicians and leaders to advance clinical scholarship and research. Practice-Education Partnerships bridge the transition from education to practice in schools of Nursing and Allied Health focusing on interprofessional education (IPE) and interdisciplinary collaborative practice. CPMRC is a business unit of Elsevier. For more information on CPMRC, please visit www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – October 24, 2011 – Elsevier / CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare, announced today the availability of CPM CarePoints Emergency™. The product is a new component of the CPM CarePoints™ collection, a pre-built, implementation-ready solution that provides a framework for evidence-based care and documentation tools across clinical domains.

With more than 125 evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, CPM CarePoints Emergency is organized through utilization of the CPM Framework™ and is designed to integrate evidence-based content into practice in order to support clinical decision-making within an emergency department setting. The solution contains content for the adult and pediatric population, as guidelines range from abdominal pain to upper extremity injury, while content includes information on triage, patient profile, risk screening, primary and secondary clinical assessment and procedure/intervention summaries.

“CarePoints Emergency strategically serves healthcare organizations and professionals as they manage patients and document processes in the emergency department, all of which are necessary to achieve meaningful care goals,” said Diane Hanson, RN, BSM, MM, Executive Vice President and General Manager of CPM. “With this comprehensive solution, healthcare professionals can continue to work towards overall improvement of quality of care, data interoperability and seamless longitudinal care coordination for patients.”

CarePoint Emergency can be integrated with other “CarePoints” within the CPM CarePoints solution –inpatient, pediatrics, obstetrics and critical care – to provide a key benefit of a comprehensive, seamless workflow between departments and care venues. When integrated, the overall solution offers clinical decision support, advancing the use of health information technology, making meaningful the risk screening, planning, recording and tracking of recommended care steps and monitoring a patient’s condition meaningful.

Other key benefits include:

• Potential reduction in re-admission rates
• Improvement in quality of care and patient safety
• Strategic decision making regarding a patient’s admittance
• Seamless transition of care and interoperability
• Support of standardization and consistency of care between departments

For more information about CPM CarePoints Emergency and CPM CarePoints, including purchasing information, visit http://www.cpmrc.com/solutions/cpm-carepoints/

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About Elsevier CPM Resource Center

For more than 25 years, Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM) has been offering evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines, care planning and documentation at the point of care.  Based on the CPM Framework™, these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and tested/validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In addition, the company offers Practice Transformation services to assist organizations with clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR implementation and adoption.  CPM is a business unit of Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of science and health information.  For more information, visit www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to provide more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – September 12, 2011 – Elsevier / CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare, announced today that it will integrate its evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and documentation solution into the electronic medical record (EMR) system at Medcenter One, a non-profit integrated health system located in central and western North Dakota. CPM CarePoints, a pre-built, ready-to-implement clinical decision support solution, will be optimally designed and deployed within Medcenter One’s McKesson EMR.

“As we fully utilize our EMR system we wanted to ensure that we had high quality, clinical documentation and clinical practice guidelines built right into the system,” said Jan Kamphuis, Medcenter One’s chief nursing officer. “We already have a relationship with CPM, and we knew that evidence-based clinical content organized to support professional practice would be an even greater value to the overall organization if it was integrated into our EHR and available electronically throughout our health system.”

An industry-proven solution that can be integrated into any EHR system, CPM CarePoints provides an all-inclusive framework for implementing evidence-based care and documentation tools for nursing and allied health professionals. CPM CarePoints offers several functions, including automated electronic documentation and tools that make planning, assessing, recording and tracking recommended care steps efficient and evidence-based. Organizations can be assured they are meeting the most current quality standards and regulations to ensure compliance and improve patient outcomes.

“Through use of evidence-based medicine that is integrated seamlessly within the EMR, we will move  Medcenter One closer toward meaningful use of health information technology and meaningful care of patients,” said Diane Hanson, executive vice president and general manager for CPM. “Our solution is designed as an interdisciplinary patient care tool, so clinicians can utilize the applications for care coordination, communication and as a source of care guidance in the scope of clinical responsibility.”

CPM CarePoints can be easily built into any existing EHR system, so hospitals such as Medcenter One are able to work with CPM directly to guarantee the highest quality content and optimal electronic care planning and clinical documentation solution for their organization.

For more information about CPM CarePoints, visit: http://www.cpmrc.com/solutions/cpm-carepoints/

About Medcenter One

Medcenter One is a non-profit, integrated health system that consists of a 232-bed hospital in Bismarck, N.D., a multi-specialty clinic, a college of nursing, six primary care clinics, three occupational health clinics, three kidney dialysis centers, four long-term care facilities and a comprehensive group of ancillary health services in western and central North Dakota. Key accreditations and quality awards include: Joint Commission, American College of Surgeons Level II Emergency and Trauma Center and Magnet Recognition Program®.

About Elsevier CPM Resource Center

For more than 25 years, Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM) has been offering evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines, care planning and documentation at the point of care.  Based on the CPM Framework™, these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and tested/validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In addition, the company offers Practice Transformation services to assist organizations with clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR implementation and adoption.  CPM is a business unit of Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of science and health information.  For more information, visit www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to provide more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – July 19, 2011 –Elsevier / CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare, announced today a contract with Providence Health & Services, a not-for-profit health system committed to providing services to communities across five states—Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington—to provide evidence-based clinical content software.

Providence Health & Services selected CPM as the vendor of choice for evidence-based interdisciplinary professional practice workflow support, including clinical documentation, care planning and clinical practice guidelines for nurses and interdisciplinary clinicians in order to improve overall patient care and patient experience. CPM’s evidence-based content seamlessly interfaces with health information technology platforms.

Providence Health & Services plans to validate and begin using the CPM clinical content this year to support clinical scholarship within their organization. CPM’s products will be delivered within Providence Health & Services’ future acute care EHR (Electronic Health Record) system, which will begin rolling out in 2012. The organization’s Clinical Practice Transformation Team (CPTT) will engage in reviewing and validating the interdisciplinary content for use in an acute care setting, and consultants from CPM’s Transformation Services team will also work with the teams to create consistent practice adoption throughout all areas.

The adoption of CPM’s products will help Providence Health & Services to further achieve its organization’s goals, including maintaining the highest clinical standards possible, reducing variation in care delivery and empowering clinicians to practice with the best point-of-care resources. Additionally, the combination of the EHR platform and CPM’s product will also support Providence Health & Services’ acute care ministries to achieve advances in care in order to achieve nursing excellence.

With more than 25 years of experience, CPM embraces the concept of providing a culture and professional practice framework that consists of evidence-based clinical care solutions to assist in the practice transformation of hospitals. Essentially, solutions are offered to not only help standardize care across the continuum but provide superior support to point-of-care providers throughout the transition to ensure seamless adoption by the interdisciplinary team and that appropriate systems are in place to meet the goals and objectives of the facility. 

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About Providence Health & Services

Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic health care ministry committed to providing for the needs of the communities it serves – especially for those who are the poor and vulnerable. Providence’s comprehensive scope of services includes 27 hospitals, numerous non-acute care facilities and physician clinics, a health plan, a liberal arts university, a high school, 52,000 employees and many other health, housing and educational services. The health system spans five states – Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington – with its system office located in Renton, Washington. Providence Health & Services continues a tradition of caring that the Sisters of Providence began more than 155 years ago.

About Elsevier CPM Resource Center

For more than 25 years, Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM) has been offering evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines, care planning and documentation at the point of care.  Based on the CPM Framework™, these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and tested/validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In addition, the company offers Practice Transformation services to assist organizations with clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR implementation and adoption.  CPM is a business unit of Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of science and health information.  For more information, visit www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

The Helen Henry Excellence of Care Award was established by CPM Resource Center’s Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Bonnie Wesorick, RN, MSN, in honor of her mother, Helen Henry, to recognize nurse healers working at the bedside.

Congratulations to the 2011 Award recipients!

Juanita E. Hernandez, BSN, RN, CMSRN
Tracey L. Johnson, RN, BSN, CMSRN, CPAT
Patricia L. Stevens, RN, BSN, CPAN
Jeanette White, RN, MSN

For more information on the Helen Henry Award, please visit Sigma Theta Tau.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Dec. 9, 2010 – The 19^th International Conference (Jan. 19-22, 2011) of the CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company and leader in assisting healthcare organizations improve practice at the point of care, will focus on transformational leadership and feature advice from many business leaders, including Dee Hock, founder and CEO emeritus, Visa, Inc.

“The essence of transformation, real innovation and hope for healthcare will be brought to life by our conference presenters through stories, tools and methodologies,” said Bonnie Wesorick, MSN, RN, DPNAP, FAAN, CPMRC founder and chairman emeritus, CPMRC.  “We will have the opportunity to learn from people who have transformed their industries.  Attendees will gain an insight on what transformation entails, the challenges that can occur and the overall outcome.”

Hock has received several recognitions, notably from Money magazine, as one of the eight individuals who changed the way people lived in the previous quarter century.  Hock’s video presentation will be part of Wesorick’s keynote session The Essence of Transformation, the Real Innovation and Hope for Healthcare: Lessons From a Transformation Sage, on Tuesday, Jan. 20.  In the presentation, Hock speaks with Wesorick about the overall journey, providing insights from his book One From Many.

The conference will also feature other keynote addresses including Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, appointed member of the U.S National Health Information Technology Police Committee; David Brailer, MD, Ph.D, former National Health Information Technology Coordinator and Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, DPNAP, CPRMC Executive Vice President and Chief Professional Practice Officer.

In addition, more than 60 member presentations and educational workshops, covering a wide range of topics including practice, education, technology adoption, physician and team engagement, evidence-based tools and outcomes will be presented. Attendees will be able to actively network and engage with other professionals and key decision makers to discuss healthcare topics and trends, from professional practice to culture transformation.

CPMRC’s 19th International Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco, Calif. For more information about the conference, including registration, please visit: http://www.cpmrc.com/consortium/conference.

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About CPMRC

The CPM Resource Center (CPMRC) offers content, processes, tools and services that support practice advancement, cultural transformation, infusion of evidence-based care, and interdisciplinary integration at the point of care. CPMRC’s evidence-based products and professional services assist healthcare organizations in creating a healthy work culture and interdisciplinary integration using the CPM Framework™ that supports cultural and professional practice for sustainable healthcare transformation.  The International Consortium of over nearly 300 rural, community and university settings connects clinicians and leaders to advance clinical scholarship and research. Practice-Education Partnerships bridge the transition from education to practice in schools of Nursing and Allied Health focusing on interprofessional education (IPE) and interdisciplinary collaborative practice. CPMRC is a business unit of Elsevier.  For more information on CPMRC, please visit www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

Current ANI membership organizations include:

• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
• ANIA-CARING
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
• Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness (CNC)
• Central Savannah River Area Clinical Informatics Network (CSRA – CIN)
• Cerner Nursing Advisory Board
• Connecticut Healthcare Informatics Network (CHIN)
• CPM Resource Center International Consortium
• Croatia Nursing Informatics Association (CroNIA)
• Delaware Valley Nursing Computer Network (DVNCN)
• Health Informatics of New Jersey (HINJ)
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• Informatics Nurses From Ohio (INFO)
• MEDITECH Nurse Informatics program
• Midwest Nursing Research Society – NI Research Section (MNRS)
• Minnesota Nursing Informatics Group (MINING)
• NANDA International
• New England Nursing Informatics Consortium (NENIC)
• North Carolina State Nurses Association Council on NI (NCNA CONI)
• Omaha System
• Puget Sound Nursing Informatics (PSNI)
• SNOMED CT Nursing Working Group
• South Carolina Informatics Nursing Network (SCINN)
• Surgical Informations Systems
• Taiwan Nursing Informatics Association (TNIA)
• Utah Nursing Informatics Network (UNIN)

Related Organizations: American Nurses Association & American Nurses Credentialing Center

ANI, cosponsored by AMIA & HIMSS, represents more than 5,000 nurse informaticists and brings together over 25 distinct nursing informatics groups globally. ANI crosses academia, practice, industry, and nursing specialty boundaries and works in collaboration with the nearly 3.1 million nurses in practice today.

 For more information on ANI, please visit: : http://www.allianceni.org/

Grand Rapids, MI – Sept. 1, 2010 – CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company and leader in assisting healthcare organizations improve practice at the point of care, today announced that its 19th International Conference will take place Jan. 19-22, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco. The conference will highlight the innovations and substantial progress healthcare professionals are making in bridging evidence-based clinical content, partnerships and technology for a healthy integrated healthcare system.

“The essence of transformation and the real innovation and hope for healthcare will be brought to life by our conference presenters, the leaders who have deeply studied and implemented major sustainable change within their organizations,” said Diane Hanson, RN, BSN, MM, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CPMRC. “Powerful stories, new tools and methodologies will be shared to deepen insights and accelerate healthcare transformation outcomes.”

Executive leaders, clinicians, researchers, educators and innovators will be able to network and actively engage with key decision makers and discuss professional practice, culture transformation, and meaningful health information technology adoption in a dynamic conference community, representing nearly 300 healthcare settings.

The 19th International Conference will include keynote addresses by:

• Bonnie Wesorick, MSN, RN, DPNAP, FAAN, CPMRC Founder and Chairman Emeritus: “The Essence of Transformation, the Real Innovation and Hope for Healthcare: Lessons Learned from Dee Hock, a Transformation Sage”
• Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, appointed member of the U.S. National Health Information Technology Policy Committee: “Innovation and Collaboration”
• David Brailer, MD, PhD, known as the first “health information czar” and former National Health Information Technology Coordinator: “Innovation and Healthcare Transformation”
• Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, DPNAP, CPMRC Executive Vice President and Chief Professional Practice Officer: “Call for Innovation” and “National, Regional and Local Healthcare Transformation: It’s All Connected”

In addition, attendees can look forward to more than 60 member presentations and educational workshops covering a wide range of topics related to practice, education, technology adoption, physician and team engagement, evidence-based tools and outcomes. New at the 2011 conference is the Innovation Jamboree, an opportunity for attendees to share and test innovations about healthcare, culture, professional practice and technology.

“The passing of ARRA and Healthcare Reform calls for new innovations. We need innovation in bettering health professions education, in achieving clinical integration across the continuum of care, in accelerating HIT adoption, and perhaps most importantly, in achieving meaningful use criteria moving forward,” said Dr. Delaney. “Participants will learn the latest innovative efforts that are required for sustainable healthcare transformation and ways of achieving greater quality of care.”

Attendees will include members of diverse rural, community, academic and health system hospitals and healthcare organizations that are active members of the CPMRC International Consortium, as well as others interested in creating the best places to give and receive healthcare.

For more information about the 19th International Conference, please visit http://www.cpmrc.com/consortium/conference/.

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About CPMRC
For more than 25 years, the CPM Resource Center has been offering evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines, care planning and documentation at the point of care. Based on the CPM Framework™, these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and tested/validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In addition, the company offers Practice Transformation services to assist organizations with clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR implementation and adoption. CPMRC is a business unit of Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of science and health information. For more information, visit www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

Reston, VA and Grand Rapids, MI – August 16, 2010 – QuadraMed, a leading provider of healthcare technologies and services, and the CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company and leader in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, today announced their partnership to provide QuadraMed’s clients with nursing and allied health clinical documentation, care planning, and clinical practice guidelines, as well as transformation services.

CPMRC brings evidence-based clinical content products and practice transformation services that assist healthcare organizations in creating a healthy work culture and interdisciplinary integration. The partnership will enable meaningful clinician workflow based on evidence-based best practices, which will accelerate documentation processes and help improve the quality of care. With QuadraMed’s integrated Computerized-Patient Record (QCPR) solutions, health systems will no longer need to develop their own content from scratch, which will enable nurses and allied health professionals to bring evidence-based information to the patient directly at the point of care.

As a result of this partnership, QuadraMed clients will be able to join the CPMRC International Consortium, a voluntary organization made up of hundreds of hospitals, health systems, and educational institutions. Through CPMRC’s interdisciplinary content, the integrated solution will also enhance the education of clinicians on the use of health information technology, which will help them meet meaningful-use requirements.

“We are excited to offer an integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution with evidence-based content,” said Duncan W. James, QuadraMed’s Chief Executive Officer. “The partnership with CPM Resource Center will allow clinicians to review and implement proven best practices to improve patient safety, enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the care process and build true interdisciplinary, evidence-based care.”

CPMRC’s Clinical Practice Models embrace the concept of providing a complete solution to assist healthcare organizations with practice transformation and the transition to electronic health records.

Their integrated solutions help standardize care, while ensuring seamless adoption by the clinical team.

“By bringing evidence-based practices together with QuadraMed’s EHR technology, we are committed to providing the most relevant clinical-decision support aligned with meaningful-use criteria,” said Diane Hanson, RN, BSM, MM, Executive Vice President and General Manager for CPMRC. “Our ability to provide integrated transformation services and help health systems achieve meaningful use will lead to enhanced quality of care for QuadraMed’s client organizations.”

About QuadraMed Corporation
QuadraMed® is a leading provider of award-winning healthcare technologies and services that help turn quality care into positive financial outcomes. QuadraMed provides proven, flexible solutions that help make our clients successful by streamlining processes, ensuring compliance and helping healthcare professionals improve the quality of patient care. Behind the Company’s products and services is a staff of 600 professionals who support clients at over 2,000 healthcare provider facilities. For more information about QuadraMed, visit http://www.quadramed.com.

About CPMRC
For more than 25 years, the CPM Resource Center has been offering evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines, care planning and documentation at the point of care. Based on the CPM Framework™, these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and tested/validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In addition, the company offers Practice Transformation services to assist organizations with clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR implementation and adoption. CPMRC is a business unit of Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of science and health information. For more information, visit www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

QuadraMed and QuadraMed Computerized Patient Record (QCPR) are trademarks of QuadraMed Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.