Vigilanz News

January 06, 2012 VigiLanz Corporation, a leading healthcare software technology provider headquartered in Minneapolis and Chicago, today unveiled several powerful new enhancements to its VigiLanz Dynamic Infection Control Monitor (ICM) solution to help hospitals and clinicians meet increased reporting National Safety Healthcare Network (NHSN) requirements in 2012.

The full press release can be found here.

December 19, 2011 VigiLanz Corporation, a leading healthcare software technology provider headquartered in Minneapolis and Chicago, announced today the “2012 SAFE TRANSITION” Program for U.S. hospitals running installations of AICE ® software offered by Becton, Dickinson and Company.

The full press release can be found here.

December 8, 2011 VigiLanz Corporation, a leading health care software technology provider headquartered in Minneapolis and Chicago, today announced it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) to implement its flagship software solution to reduce adverse drug events (ADEs) affecting V.A. patients.

The full press release can be found here.

June 30, 2010: VigiLanz is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Moses Cone Health System to provide it's real-time Dynamic PharmacoVigilance, Dynamic PracticeGuidance and Infection Control solutions to Moses Cone's five hospitals. Moses Cone, established in 1911, is one of the premier full service health care providers in North Carolina, providing care to residents of the Piedmont district.

March 2, 2010:  VigiLanz is pleased to announce that its distribution partner, Quantros Inc, has been selected by the Sisters of Mercy (Mercy) Health System to provide the full suite of VigiLanz real time, clinical decision support solutions in ten of the eighteen Mercy hospitals. The Sisters of Mercy Health System was established in 1986 to serve as the parent corporation of a variety of health care facilities and services sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of the St. Louis Regional Community. Mercy consists of eighteen acute care hospitals, a heart hospital, outpatient care facilities, physician practices, skilled nursing and long-term residential care facilities, clinics, a managed care organization and other health-related services. Mercy is the 9th largest Catholic healthcare system in the U.S., based on net patient service revenue.

March 1, 2010:   VigiLanz Corporation is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Oracle Corporation to become a member of the Oracle Partners Network to provide the Infection Control Module (ICM), Dynamic PharmacoVigilance System (DPV) and the Dynamic Practice Guidance System (DPG) suite of products to work with Oracles newly announced Enterprise Healthcare Analytics (EHA) enterprise solution. We anticipate that EHA with play a significant role in helping VigiLanz further our mission to help clinicians optimize patient care by empowering them with critical and timely information.

February 1, 2010:  VigiLanz Corporation announces that it entered into contracts with The Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas), and two of its affiliate hospitals, Methodist San Jacinto Hospital, and Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, to provide the Dynamic PharmacoVigilance (DPV) and Dynamic PracticeGuidance (DPG) Systems. In addition, San Jacinto has entered into a contract with VigiLanz for its Infection Control Module (ICM). The Methodist Hospital corporation is a nonprofit health care organization based in Houston, Texas. It has extended the world-renowned clinical and service excellence of its founding entity, The Methodist Hospital, through a network of community based hospitals. Affiliated with the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, The Methodist Hospital corporation works closely with local church leaders to bring compassion and spirituality to all of its endeavors and to help meet the health needs of the community it serves.

January 15, 2010:  VigiLanz Corporation announces that it entered into a contract with Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California to license the VigiLanz Dynamic Monitoring Suite (DMS) of clinical decision support solutions. Contra Costa Regional Medical Center is a full service county hospital and offers a complete array of patient-centered health care services delivered in a beautiful facility.

September 4, 2009:   VigiLanz Corporation has entered into contracts with Orlando Health, Inc., a group of seven hospitals in Orlando, Florida; and Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California, to license the VigiLanz product suite, consisting of the Dynamic PharmacoVigilance (DPV) system, the Dynamic PracticeGuidance (DPG) system, and the VigiLanz Infection Control Monitor (ICM). These clinical decision support solutions were developed by VigiLanz in response to the growing need of hospitals for real time, automated solutions to proactively monitor patients. They identify and prevent adverse drug events, support adherence to clinical best practices, and identify, control and eliminate infectious risks in hospitals. VigiLanz is pleased to be acknowledged on both coasts by these well respected health care institutions, as providing the best, most cost effective solutions in the market for these CDSS needs. We look forward to long and productive partnerships said David Goldsteen, MD, VigiLanz CEO. About VigiLanz Corporation: Founded in 2001, VigiLanz Corporation is a closely held company located in Minneapolis and Chicago. About Orlando Health: Established in 1918, Orlando Health is a nationally recognized, community-based family of facilities dedicated to serving the needs of the Orlando, Florida region with compassion and spirituality. About Contra Costa Regional Medical Center: CCRMC is a full service county hospital, offering a complete array of patient-centered health care services in its state of the art, modern facility.

June 9, 2008: Hospitals use VigiLanz software for compliance with Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal 3E for anticoagulation therapy safety: Software anticipates and prevents adverse drug events and helps with Goal 3E implementation. Read more.

September 2007:  Brigham & Womens research team (Andrew C. Seger, Ashish K. Jha, and David W. Bates) publish original research article in Drug Safety evaluating Adverse Drug Event detection and ROI results experienced using the Vigilanz real-time monitoring and alerting application.

Fall 2007:  Come visit us in booth 204 at the AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium in Chicago, November 10-14. We will be demonstrating our latest product enhancements including our latest intervention tracking and reporting features, as well as our newest module, DPMine™, that puts the power of a sophisticated data mining tool in to the hands of the clinician.

August 2007:  Vigilanz incorporates patient charting in to the Dynamic Monitoring™ System. One screen provides a 360 degree real-time view of all patient data (pharmacy, lab, microbiology ADT, OR, etc.). One screen to go to for all patient clinicals from all EMR vendor sources sent to VigiLanz.

July 2007:  Vigilanz announces the release of the fourth module in the Dynamic Monitoring™ System suite, DP Mine™. This intuitive query tool enables the clinician and researcher, without any programming background, to create and run both simple and complex queries on the wealth of clinical data stored in the Electronic Medical Record. Sources data from a broad range of clinical systems (pharmacy, lab, microbiology, ADT, OR, etc.), regardless of vendor source.

May 2007:  Vigilanz enhances Intervention Monitoring and Reporting capabilities in the Dynamic Monitoring™ System. In addition to automatically logging all system generated interventions and associated outcomes, VigiLanz now also offers the ability to directly enter intervention data. One place to record and report on all interventions, including tracking of device days for ventilators and catheters. System automatically assigns cost savings by category of intervention and tracks actual labor costs associated with each intervention. Easy to use reporting tools are provided to analyze all intervention and outcome data or this same data can also easily be exported to other reporting tools if preferred.

February 2007:  Come visit us at the HIMSS 2007 annual Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans February 25th to March 1st.  We will be demonstrating our solution in the booth of our business partner eVergance (booth # 2577).

January 2007:  The Concord campus of the John Muir Health System in Concord, CA goes live on the Dynamic Monitoring™ System.

December 2006:  VigiLanz participates at the 41st ASHP mid-year clinical meeting held December 3-7, 2006 in Anaheim, CA.

June 2006:  VigiLanz announces that the first phase of development of the Dynamic PracticeGuidance™ System has been completed and that they are on track for a 1st Quarter 2007 product release.

November 2005:  HCPro visits with the Vigilanz customers to learn more about the benefits of using the Dynamic PharmacoMonitoring™ System.

July 2005:  VigiLanz announces that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the US Patent and Trade Office on its Dynamic PharmacoVigilance patent, incorporating 33 key claims.

April 2003:  Vigilanz Founder David Klass, in collaboration with David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Gordon D. Schiff, MD, Josh Peterson, MD and Gaurav Shah, MD, publish groundbreaking article "Linking Laboratory and Pharmacy, Opportunities for Reducing Errors and Improving Care".