The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York Purchases Organ Transplant Tracking Software

Software can lower administrative costs, reduce potential for errors

OMAHA ( Neb. )-The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has entered into an agreement with HKS Medical Information Systems to purchase OTTR, the Organ Transplant Tracking Record. OTTR is the leading software in the industry for tracking the medical history and progress of patients undergoing organ transplantation. OTTR was developed by HKS to meet the unique clinical and patient management needs of the transplant community. The OTTR software is currently being used by more than 90 different transplant programs in the United States and Canada.

Established in 1852, Mount Sinai is a 1,171-bed tertiary-care facility that is an internationally recognized leader in organ transplantation. Mount Sinai has one of the largest and most diverse organ transplant programs in the United States, encompassing heart, lung, combined heart-lung, both live and cadaveric donor kidney and liver, small-bowel and combination transplants.

The OTTR software helps reduce the potential for errors in an area of medicine where hundreds of pieces of data, such as blood type, medications, lab reports, test results, and other information are required to provide quality patient care. One of the founders of the software company was a transplant surgeon who wanted to eliminate the vast amount of paper charting necessary with transplant patients so more time could be spent providing patient care.

"No software provides patient care, only people provide care," said Doug Perry, President of HKS Medical Information Systems. "But our software can provide quick access to information which lowers the administrative costs for our clients and allows the medical team to spend more time focused on patient care, not paperwork."

About HKS Medical Information Systems

HKS Medical Information Systems, Inc. is a private company headquartered in Omaha , Nebraska . Founded in 1993 by Dr. Byers Shaw of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Hubert Hickman and Paul Kenyon Ph.D., HKS products improve the quality of patient care and operational efficiencies for its clients. Products include OTTR, the market leader in patient tracking software for organ transplant centers and OTTR-HLA, which is a comprehensive software system to support the patient management, reporting and regulatory needs of the HLA laboratory. HKS Medical Information Systems was named by Inc Magazine as one of 2003's fastest growing private businesses.