February 13, 2006

The Sullivan Group announces Promptcharts EMT for Nurses

Pioneering Solution Supports Nurses in Taking More Proactive Role in Gathering and Assessing Critical Patient Information.

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. – February 13, 2006 – The Sullivan Group (TSG), a leading provider of risk management solutions for medical professionals, today announced general availability of PromptCharts EM™ for Nurses, the first emergency medical record template system that supports nurses in taking a more proactive role in recognizing clinical indicators for high-risk patient complaints. TSG templates have been proven to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors in the practice of emergency medicine.
PromptCharts EM templates present a completely new concept in emergency medicine documentation: a medical record tool that allows physicians and nurses to provide real-time risk management at the bedside. PromptCharts EM use documentation prompts to guide the practitioner through the key clinical indicators for all high-risk patient complaints. Research has shown that this documentation method reliably results in the highest-quality medical records.
TSG PromptCharts EM for Nurses were designed to help nurses more easily recognize clinical indicators for high-risk patient complaints, and to facilitate coordination between the physician and the nursing team during the patient encounter. With over twenty nursing PromptCharts addressing a variety of high-risk complaints, PromptCharts EM for Nurses offer a number of unique features, including:

• Triage prompts to determine the existence of a “seconds-to-minutes” emergency, accompanied by a directive to alert the charge nurse or emergency physician.
• A section for historical information with key prompts for high-risk diagnoses.
• Prompted primary nursing evaluation.
• Physician/nursing sign-off on vital signs.
• “Change in condition” and “alerted physician” documentation opportunities.
• Disposition prompt for final vital sign evaluation.

“Real-time bedside risk management is an absolute fundamental in the overall cycle of patient safety and medical error reduction,” said Dr. Daniel Sullivan, founder and chief executive officer of TSG. “While most template systems were created with billing and coding in mind, PromptCharts EM were designed to enhance patient safety and prevent errors. PromptCharts EM have already had a significant impact in this regard as a tool for physicians, and we are confident that PromptCharts EM for Nurses will further support hospitals in delivering exceptional levels of documentation while improving patient safety and reducing risk.”

About The Sullivan Group

The Sullivan Group’s patient safety and risk management system combines web-based risk and safety education programs, intelligent medical records for physicians and nurses, and a web-based clinical audit tool to help medical professionals decrease errors and improve patient outcomes. This new paradigm in risk reduction and patient safety has helped hundreds of hospital emergency departments reduce their malpractice claims by more than 40%. The Sullivan Group serves more than 500 hospitals, healthcare organizations, and insurance companies nationwide, including HCA, Premier, and Triad hospitals, and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company. For more information, please visit www.thesullivangroup.com, or call 1-866-Med-Risk.