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Press Release UW doctors-in-training
receive technology aid in effort to limit duty hours Oregon-based Verinform provides graduate medical education staff at the University of Washington with software solution to medical resident training requirements. In partial response to new mandates from the national accrediting body for graduate medical education, the University of Washington’s Graduate Medical Education department has adopted a software solution to aid the university in the scheduling and training of medical residents. The system was created by Portland, Oregon-based Verinform Systems, Inc., a two-year old provider of enterprise software applications for academic hospitals, clinical environments and governmental public health agencies. Terms of Verinform’s contract with the University of Washington (UW) to install its VerinformRM™ Graduate Medical Education and Residency Management System in all University clinical training programs as well as the University’s Graduate Medical Education department are not being disclosed. New requirements limiting work hours for medical residents to an average of 80 per week were made official in July by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The new rules have put pressure on residency coordinators and physicians in residency programs nationwide to develop new systems for scheduling and training doctors. VerinformRM is a web-based system that serves the data management and reporting needs of residency training programs and Graduate Medical Education Departments. It is comprehensive and integrated, allowing an academic hospital to shave thousands of hours from scheduling and reporting tasks while achieving high rates of compliance with reporting obligations. “Demands have steadily increased for more detailed information capture and management in recent years. The new requirement by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to keep and report time-keeping details for all resident duty hours is an institution-wide compliance imperative; VerinformRM provides the institution-wide answer,” said Dr. John Gienapp, Director, Office of Graduate Medical Education Program Assessment and Development at UW. “Medical education professionals at UW and throughout the nation need a comprehensive tool to track resident activities in a way that does not add additional burdens,” said Verinform CEO and Founder Dina Dickerson. “Verinform’s software was created by professionals with many years of experience in creating and deploying software in hospital environments. It is a seasoned solution to a very important challenge: making sure residents are learning what they need to learn to save lives, while also helping teaching institutions function more efficiently.” About Verinform |
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