The ECDS EmpowER System is a state-of-the-art documentation program created by clinically practicing, board certified emergency medicine physicians, along with the input of over 200 collective minds.

This program merges technology and medicine in order to create electronic ED charts that are legible, complete, government compliant, and error-proof. EmpowER prompts the physician to be HCFA/CMS compliant, electronically codes for physician and hospital services, and has a proven track record to decrease malpractice liability. EmpowER is the only emergency department information system to be recognized by JCAHO as a success story and role model in the 2002 publication "Accreditation Issues for Emergency Departments."  

The program is dynamic and flexible, with the capacity to be easily and quickly customized to each clinician and emergency department. The EmpowER System was created to be an inexpensive alternative to costly transcription/oral dictation. The program does not use templates but instead employs the physician's own words to describe the patient's history, physical exam, diagnostic tests and medical orders.  

These are just some of the benefits included in the EmpowER System:


  COMPREHENSIVE solution
     • ECDS philosophy is “all physicians and all nurses on the system 24/7”
     • No incomplete or separate modules
     • The way your ED functions remains unchanged

  “Ridiculously USER-FRIENDLY”
     • Training of physicians and nurses in 1 hour
     • Immediate use by agency nurses

  STRUCTURED fields
     • Without structured fields, you cannot analyze data
     • Administrators have more than 100,000 OPI/QA studies at your fingertips

  MANDATORY Risk Management
     • If it’s voluntary, it doesn’t get done
     • Drug Allergy and Drug-to-Drug Interaction Detection

  EmpowER is the only EDIS highlighted in a JCAHO publication
     • Chapter 9, “Accreditation Issues in the Emergency Department,” 2002
     • 100% government compliant

  Syndromic Surveillance System: BioAlert
     • Real-time communication system currently implemented in Chicago
     • Identifies potential community epidemics and bioterrorist attacks
     • Developed jointly with NYU Downtown Hospital (“the 9/11 hospital”)

  STABLE, FAST Microsoft platform
     • Sequel Server on back end, Access on front end
     • Web-enabled
     • Fastest system on the market

  OPEN Architecture
     • Your hospital owns the program and can manage it as much or as little as it wants
     • No licensing fees!

  NON-template-based chart
     • Looks and feels like a traditionally transcribed chart for happy PCPs and Specialists

  INTERFACES with any hospital mainframe
     o Complete, simple and reasonably priced interface

  COMPETITIVE Pricing
     • Return on Investment (ROI) scenario provided
     • Dramatically improved Physician and Facility Level of Service
     • Customized payment plans available

  AUTOMATIC Coding
     o Captures lost charges
     o Codes at point of care for Physician and Facility Level of Service
     o 99% accuracy in accordance with CMS rules/regulation

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