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Press Release Teaching Hospital Study Reveals Dramatic Increases in Medical Resident Training Compliance Results of study conducted with Oregon Health and Science University residents illustrate how web-based VerinformRM™ boosts completed evaluations Medinfo conference participants learn about a residency management solution that dramatically increases resident evaluation rates, which helps drive ACGME compliance for medical teaching institutions. Portland, Ore. (October 14, 2004) Verinform Systems, Inc., in conjunction with three prominent medical academics, provided participants at this year's Medinfo conference in San Francisco with a study that showed a dramatic increase in evaluation completion rates driven by a web-based residency management system using e-mail reminders. Higher evaluation completion rates ease the path to certification by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Veriform performed the study with Drs. Thomas Lincoln, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California and a senior scientist at the RAND Corporation, Thomas Cooney, vice-chair for education and professor at OHSU, and Donald Girard, associate dean for graduate medical education and professor at OHSU. The study compared evaluation completion rates for OHSU's internal medicine residents under an earlier DOS-based system without e-mail reminders with the rates under Verinform's web-based system with e-mail reminders. Most completion rates, such as attending physicians evaluating residents, jumped by over 50%. And, because VerinformRM operates institution-wide, it eliminates the traditional need for administrators to manually track evaluations from different programs and locations. Medinfo, held every three years by the International Medical Informatics Association, is the world's most prestigious international congress for medical and health informatics. This year's conference was hosted by the American Medical Informatics Association in San Francisco on September 7-11. The AMIA's 3200 members include physicians, nurses, computer and information scientists, biomedical engineers, and academic researchers and educators. "Medinfo was the perfect opportunity for us to talk with informatics experts about the study results documenting the impact of VerinformRM," said Dina Dickerson, Chief Executive Officer of Verinform. "These are the people who understand the challenges posed by capturing data from physicians, and who therefore recognize the possibilities provided by a web-based system with automated reminders that assures completion of evaluations or other required data." About Verinform |
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