Rescentris Releases Version 4.5 of CERF, the ?Bio-IT Award? Winning Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) Software System for Biology and General R&D

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

Rescentris, Inc. today announced the release of Version 4.5 of its leading Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software product CERF to its global customer base. CERF is a scalable, cross-platform ELN used by organizations to replace paper-based lab recordkeeping and enable controlled access and sharing of research knowledge.

ELNs improve research productivity and quality by helping scientists find information and protocols needed to plan the right experiments, then capture and organize all of their data. User adoption can be a major challenge to the success of enterprise lab informatics solutions. CERF 4.5 was developed to be the easiest full-featured ELN to deploy and use.

CERF is the only enterprise ELN providing native Windows and Mac OSX clients, because users often need the full power and flexibility of an integrated desktop environment. CERF 4.5 offers fewer clicks for common and batch functions and a streamlined user interface to make it easier to organize and navigate through multiple projects and experiments. Real-time collaboration and communication was extended with new messaging technologies, so users can more easily work together ? even on the same page.

CERF 4.5 provides new mobility option ?Email-To-CERF? to post notes, images and data securely from any device, plus an updated web browser ELN client. Data visualization was extended to create and edit even more scientific content inline in the notebook, including a free-hand sketching tool, audio entries and annotations, tables, mindmaps, and screenshots, as well as greater Microsoft Office integration. Workflows were simplified for multiple authors on experiments and notebook pages, and publishing to PDF or to Microsoft Word format was extended. New social tagging, user editable taxonomies, and metadata features were added to annotate and quickly find information using CERF?s rich search tools.

Version 4.5 updated the CERF Server (PC/Mac) for MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle databases. Distributed Data Management extends management of data and images of any size securely outside the relational database to maintain system performance. The new SDIMS module supports structured data and standardized forms, including experiments, samples, and task management (as semantic data in RDF format). CERF 4.5 also features enhancements for patent protection, regulatory compliance and monitoring.

The extensions and updates were all deployed within CERF?s modular and flexible semantic infrastructure that enables plug-and-play upgrades and the ability to control what features are available. See http://rescentris.com/cerf-software/cerf-4-5-updates/ for more information.

?This release was driven by our users in diverse disciplines at over 100 customer sites?, said Jeff Spitzner, Rescentris? President. ?They chose CERF because it has the feature set users want and is easy to deploy, maintain, and upgrade. Now, as ELNs are becoming mainstream applications, it is vital that they are easy to use, match the way scientists work today, and remain fast and responsive even as data volumes increase. CERF is a critical tool to help our customers make efficient and effective use of their knowledge in order to compete successfully in the global research and development community.?

About Rescentris

Rescentris, Inc. provides CERF enterprise software to help organizations protect their R&D investments and increase collaboration and efficiency. The company serves a global base of commercial, academic, government and nonprofit research labs in biology and multidiscipline research areas. CERF combines Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and scientific content management for a complete paperless lab solution with data secured on servers hosted behind firewalls or in cloud-based SaaS systems. See http://www.rescentris.com.

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BayScribe Announces Successful Deployment of Clinical Documentation System at Oroville Hospital

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) January 11, 2012

BayScribe announced the successful deployment of the BayScribe Clinical Documentation System (CDS) at Oroville Hospital in Oroville, CA, providing dictation, transcription and structured, coded data solutions, including ICD-9/10 via IMO.

Oroville Hospital is a 154-bed acute care hospital that was at the end of the useful life of their dictation and transcription platform and felt that it was time for more than just a newer model or version, especially as the demands on interoperable documentation continue to increase. ?Instead of replacing the old platform with a new single-purpose system, we decided we needed more functionality including receiving patients reports complete with discrete data, and we felt BayScribe was the best option?, stated Amy Czahor, RHIT, and HIM Director at Oroville. ?We are working closely with BayScribe to create Case Management, CDI and Quality tools that directly benefit our facility, our users ? custom tools we need to improve efficiency and reimbursement? concluded Mrs. Czahor.

Another key element of the selection criteria was BayScribe?s ability to convert historical reports from the prior system and import them into BayScribe so all of the reports would be searchable and viewable in a single location. Both Mrs. Czahor and Dr. Narrinder Singh, CMIO at Oroville, were emphatic that the new system contained all of the historical transcriptions ? just over 700,000 reports, spanning seven years. ?We needed to ensure that we could search for all transcriptions in a single system so as to not create additional work for the physicians?, commented Dr. Singh. In addition to converting and importing all of the historical reports, BayScribe also customized some of the Search functionality to reduce the amount of training required for the physicians.

Oroville is considered a thought leader and an innovator having become the first WorldVistA implementation to attain Meaningful Use certification last summer. The long-term plan is to have the providers dictations transcribed and converted into discrete data that populates key fields directly in WorldVistA. The Oroville providers document with a high degree of detail, and BayScribe will provide the mechanism to complete the documentation lifecycle through to WorldVistA.

?The integration of BayScribe at Oroville is a big step forward in accomplishing our vision of retaining the clinical narrative as a key component of patient documentation in the era of Meaningful Use. Physicians truly don?t have to point-and-click for structured data to be generated?, said Steven Bonney, Vice President of Business Development at BayScribe. ?We are excited about the opportunity to work with such a progressive facility.?

The Oroville transcriptionists have adapted well to the BayScribe platform, with productivity increases noted in just two weeks. Overflow transcription services are also being provided by the BayScribe American Transcription Network, which gives Oroville the control of in-house of transcription and the ability to meet unexpected workload demands with ease.

About BayScribe:

Established in 1999, BayScribe provides Clinical Documentation Solutions ? Dictation, Digital Ink, Speech Recognition, Transcription, Structured/Encoded Data extraction & Document Distribution ? for anywhere, anytime access of Clinical Reports with unparalleled performance and reliability. Every month, more than one hundred thousand clinicians in over 400 healthcare facilities rely on the BayScribe platform. BayScribe recently entered into a partnership with Verizon to deliver the entire Structured Data product suite.

For more information visit the company website at: http://www.BayScribe.com. BayScribe, Inc. | 10800 Sikes Place, Suite 300 | Charlotte, NC 28277 T: 704-847-0501 - info(at)bayscribe(dot)com .

About Oroville Hospital:

Oroville Hospital is dedicated to always providing the finest personalized healthcare to Oroville and the surrounding foothill and valley communities by offering a medical home, with a wide range of integrated services from prevention through treatment to wellness.

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