NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CredenceHealth, a provider of real-time clinical intelligence for hospitals and health plans, announced today that OhioHealth, an 8-hospital, 2000+bed, not-for-profit hospital system in Columbus, Ohio, has selected CredenceHealth for its latest real-time clinical surveillance initiative.

OhioHealth has been recognized as a leader in healthcare quality by multiple healthcare ratings organizations. Its Riverside Methodist Hospital has received the National Research Corporation’s Patients’ Favorite Award every year since 1996. OhioHealth was also named by Thomson Reuters as a Top 10 National Healthcare System based on its clinical quality and efficiency. OhioHealth’s dedication to innovation and the improvement of patient care at every level led to the selection of CredenceHealth as a partner in OhioHealth’s real-time clinical surveillance initiative.

“We strive to provide the best care possible to our patients. We are constantly searching for innovations which can help us fulfill that mission. Clinical quality and safety are the pillars of the OhioHealth hospitals and we wanted to find a partner who can help us advance our ability to proactively exceed quality measures of care. We selected CredenceHealth as a partner that can work with us to further deliver on our quality mission by imbedding alerts directly into the current tools and workflow of our clinicians,” says Michael Krouse, Chief Information Officer of OhioHealth.

Justin Lanning, President and CEO of CredenceHealth noted, “OhioHealth’s vision and drive for efficient effective quality care are apparent throughout the entire organization. Our team is excited about partnering with OhioHealth to provide our innovative real-time clinically focused solutions.”

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ABOUT CREDENCEHEALTH, INC. – Nashville based CredenceHealth automates concurrent Core Measure compliance and identifies emerging complications via a unique Clinical Intelligence Engine. CredenceHealth’s web-based infrastructure delivers meaningful and actionable clinical intelligence in real-time-while patients are still in the hospital—utilizing evidence-based medical research through ongoing review of medical journals and published best practice standards (e.g. CMS, IHI, CDC, The Joint Commission, etc.). Intuitive user-defined views provide healthcare professionals with relevant clinical information on multiple patients in a single glance, allowing them to focus on caring for patients and prompt interventions rather than searching for data within traditional hospital information systems.

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CredenceHealth
Daniel Blair, 615-712-2218
daniel.blair@credencehealth.md

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