AEGIS SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES medKM, A NEW MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Aegis Software is announcing a new affiliated company called medKM, LLC. medKM is a web-based knowledge mangement system marketed to the healthcare industry. The medKM system helps hospital staff find policy and protocol information quickly and also streamlines the process of policy authoring and collaboration.
(PRWEB) July 13, 2001
Aegis Software Inc., an IT consulting firm that services the New York Financial Industry, announced today the launch of their new affiliated company medKM, LLC. medKM offers a web-based Knowledge Management solution to be marketed exclusively to the Healthcare Industry for the purpose of managing hospital policies, training and inservicing.
MedKM was founded by Dr. Jason Adelman to increase the impact of hospital policies, protocols and clinical pathways by giving doctors and nurses an easy and quick portal to access hospital information. medKM is accessed through a secured Internet connection and browser, and boasts features such as: fast 30 second-or-less referencing; policy authoring, collaboration and publishing; policy training and inservicing to ensure employee compliance; and a management and tracking system for defining user roles, granting policy approval rights and scheduling and coordinating inservicing and training curriculum.
“medKM’s value is most appreciated in the common 3 AM emergency,” Adelman says. “As an emergency room doctor, I know that a system that can deliver critical policies and clinical information in less than 30 seconds can make all the difference in realizing a desired outcome.”
As a complement to medKM’s referencing feature, the system also gives employees the opportunity to be trained and inserviced on new and existing policies. According to Dr. Adelman, “This is especially important when it comes to preparing hospital staff for Joint Commission, new HIPAA regulations and Board of Health reviews.”
Streamlined policy authoring and collaboration is another of medKM’s major features. “Because medKM works asynchronously over the Internet, the elapsed time to update policy can be considerably shortened by precluding the need for rounds of committee meetings. When problems are identified, the elapsed time spanning identification of the problem, issuing new policy or revising existing policy, informing the hospital staff, and educating them in the underlying reasoning, is shortened from many months to a few weeks,” says Adelman, who expects to have a fully-functioning demo available in September.
MedKM can deliver its solution using a hospitalÂ’s internal systems, or as an Application Service Provider (ASP) via the Internet. The ASP solution does not require IT staff support, and will function using standard Windows Software and Browsers.
MedKM is Aegis SoftwareÂ’s second spin-off company this year. Aetrex, LLC was announced early this year to market a sophisticated trading platform to their financial clients. Aegis Software Inc. is currently ranked 104th in the Inc. 500Â’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. For more information on Aegis Software, call (212) 268-3100 or visit www. aegisoft. com. For more information on medKM, contact Dr. Jason Adelman at (212) 651-9477.
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