MTuitive Software and Mentat Systems announce partnership
MTuitiveÂ’s technology combined with MentatÂ’s medical management expertise ensures compliance with clinical protocols for emergency services.
OSTERVILLE, MA (PRWEB) August 7, 2004
mTuitive, Inc., a leader in clinical data entry and knowledge-based decision support, and Mentat Systems, Inc., a leader in all aspects of emergency service clinical management, announced today that they have partnered to develop and deliver structured protocols for emergency medicine. The results of the combined effort provide clinicians an easy to use format for executing and documenting clinical protocols in compliance with governing standards of practice in emergency medicine.
MTuitive, Inc. is the developer of the first mobile knowledge delivery and structured data capture application optimized for use on the Tablet PC. mTuitive partners with leading subject matter experts in the field of clinical medicine who provide protocols for standards of care, best practices and expert guidance. The mTuitive Authoring Environment enables its team of knowledge engineers to import and extend the expertise provided by its partners to rapidly develop knowledge based, decision support applications to force compliance with best practices or standard protocols at the point of patient treatment.
Under the terms of the partnership, Mentat will license the mTuitive development suite to computerize and automate compliance with emergence service protocols for triage and assessment of patients by both paramedics and EMTs in the field and hospital staff in the emergency department. “The computer is becoming as much a part of the practice of medicine as the stethoscope due to the simple fact that it has a bigger and more reliable memory,” declared Dr. Thomas when asked about the value of the relationship. The firms will share in the future revenue stream and jointly market the product.
Mentat, founded by Dr. Donald Thomas, one of the leading experts in the field of emergency medicine, works closely with its clients, to effectively improve operational efficiency while reducing overall costs. The most unique aspect of the ways that Mentat approaches problems is based upon understanding and modification of the interaction layers that dominate the relationships within healthcare organizations. Without a thorough reworking of aberrations rooted in these layers only cosmetic changes are initiated, making permanent solutions impossible. Through years of experience Mentat has refined its DPI methodology, which stands for Diagnosis, Prescription and Implementation. mTuitive will allow Mentat to implement the Mentat solution quickly to ensure immediate impact.
“We chose mTuitive because it is so easy for clinicians to use, yet powerful enough to provide all of the information a clinician needs to make decisions,” comments Dr. Donald Thomas, CEO of Mentat Systems. “We believe that mTuitive has many uses for us to deliver clinical protocols and ensure the best level of care possible for our client hospitals.”
Applications are custom designed using mTuitive’s Authoring Environment™ technology, which enables the rapid creation of unique, easy-to-use forms for any protocol. Each checklist is imported into a user-friendly “decision tree” application, complete with data validation and error checking tools, and accompanied by the guidance of context-sensitive reference materials. This solution integrates with existing medical information systems, improving data storage and reporting with higher quality, real-time input. Additional benefits include the flexibility to apply local modifications, distinguish between essential data elements and suggested guidelines, and apply coding at the point of entry.
About mTuitive, Inc.:
Experts in medicine, human factors and healthcare software founded mTuitive. The mTuitive mission is to bring the power of computers—quality assurance, labor savings and knowledge access—to healthcare workers in a way that enhances, rather than disrupts, their ability to provide quality care. For more information, contact: John Murphy, mTuitive, Inc., 683 Main St., Osterville, MA 02655; Tel: 508-420-6500; Fax: 508-420-3258; E-mail: info@mtuitive. com; http://www. mtuitive. com/ (http://www. mtuitive. com/).
About Mentat Systems, Inc.:
Mentat was founded in 1991 to address medical management problems that were rampant in the heath care industry at the time: Increased governmental regulations, increased liability, more complex procedures and the publicÂ’s increased disenchantment with perceived decreases in quality of care combined into an unpleasantly unstable mess that administrators had to handle daily. Mentat develops, renegotiates and rearranges structures and the relationships that underlie conflicts and stresses that characterizes most modern healthcare environments and/or practices through the three step process of Diagnosis, Prescription and Implementation (DPI). For more information, contact: Donald Thomas, M. D., Menat Systems, Inc., 2840 Alton Drive, St. Petersburg Beach, FL 33706; Tel: 727-363-3072; E-mail: mentatd@attglobal. net; www. mentatsystemsinc. com.
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