SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Skylight Healthcare Systems announced today that Rick Holbrook, Chief Technology Officer, Skylight Healthcare Systems, and Jim Cramer, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Scottsdale Healthcare, will be presenting an educational session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference to be held February 25-March 1st in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Product Pavilion Session entitled "Satisfaction, Efficiency and Patient Care -- Beyond Entertainment," will present how implementation of cutting edge interactive patient systems enables powerful new integration capabilities in the inpatient setting.
Mr. Holbrook will provide an in-depth overview of interactive patient system architecture in his "Beyond the Basics" segment -- outlining core functionality to consider to meet both immediate and anticipated needs. Mr. Cramer speaks from an early-adopter perspective, outlining his hospital's journey in integrating interactive patient system technology, reporting measurable customer success and the flexibility and adaptability of the platform and service. The session will end with an outline of a current integration project underway -- Scottsdale Healthcare is piloting an interactive, on-demand room service system with Skylight Healthcare Systems and Computrition.
"The ACCESS Interactive Patient System has dramatically increased Scottsdale Healthcare's capacity to deliver a state-of-the-art, personalized patient experience at our facilities," said Jim Cramer. "The truly expandable, scalable architecture allows us access to the latest content, data and technology advances, with confidence that our system can handle both the increased utilization demands and higher bandwidth applications."
HIMSS Annual Conference attendees and media partners are invited to join us:
Session ID: PPS52 Session Date: 2/28/2007 Session Time: 11:15AM-12:00PM Session Location: General, Booth: #6553
About HIMSS
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. HIMSS represents more than 20,000 individual members and over 300 corporate members that collectively represent organizations employing millions of people. For more information, visit HIMSS Conference site: http://www.himss07.org/.
About Skylight Healthcare Systems
San Diego-based Skylight Healthcare Systems is the one of the fastest growing interactive patient communication system providers in the nation. Skylight's ACCESS(sm) Interactive Patient System is a patient room communication, education and entertainment network designed to provide an efficient platform for communicating hospital information, automating guest service requests, and recreating the comforts of home with hotel-like amenities. The ACCESS(sm) system's services include customized hospital content, including Intelligent Integration(sm) Pathways; health education on demand; real-time patient survey applications; interactive, two-way communications; dietary menu services and more. State-of-the-art digital entertainment and communication services include feature film rentals, premium cable TV, music, high-speed Internet, e-mail access and interactive games. For more information about Skylight Healthcare Systems, please visit: www.skylight.com
About Scottsdale Healthcare
Scottsdale Healthcare is committed to being the healthcare provider of choice for the Northeast Valley. Led by a community-based board of directors, Scottsdale Healthcare's mission is to identify and meet the healthcare needs of our community and to meet or exceed our patients' expectations of service. A nonprofit organization, Scottsdale Healthcare was founded in 1962 as City Hospital of Scottsdale. Today we serve the entire Northeast Valley and beyond through our three campuses, two hospitals, outpatient centers, home health services and a wide range of community health education and outreach programs. For more information, visit www.shc.org.