Baptist Heart Institute to use Organ Transplant Tracking Software

Software can lower administrative costs, reduce potential for errors

The Baptist Heart Institute at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Memphis, Tenn., has entered into an agreement to use the Organ Transplant Tracking Record, or OTTR, which is software for tracking the medical history and progress of patients undergoing organ transplantation.

The Baptist Heart Institute is part of the Baptist Memorial Health Care system and the only heart transplant program in the Memphis area.  Since 1985, Baptist’s physicians have performed 233 heart transplants in 226 patients.  Besides exceeding national 1-, 5- and 10-year heart transplant survival rates, the Baptist Heart Institute is able to offer its patients advanced technology to assist the heart when it cannot function properly and allows patients to wait at home for donor hearts. 

OTTR was developed and is marketed by HKS Medical Information Systems to meet the unique clinical and patient management needs of the organ transplant community. OTTR helps reduce the potential for errors in an area of medicine where hundreds of pieces of data, such as blood type, medications, lab reports, test results, and other information are required to provide quality patient care. One of the founders of HKS Medical Information Systems was a transplant surgeon who wanted to eliminate the vast amount of paper charting necessary with transplant patients, who are tracked for life.

The Baptist Heart Institute is now one of 52 hospitals using OTTR. Those 52 hospitals support more than 150 solid transplant programs in the United States and Canada.

“Our software allows transplant teams to track and access hundreds of pieces of vital health care information,” said Doug Perry, President of HKS Medical Information Systems. “That in turn, allows the medical staff to spend more time with the patient and less time with the paperwork.”

About HKS Medical Information Systems

HKS Medical Information Systems, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1993 by Dr. Byers Shaw of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Hubert Hickman and Paul Kenyon, Ph.D., HKS strives to improve the quality of patient care and operational efficiencies for its clients. HKS products include OTTR (Organ Transplant Tracking Record), the market leader in patient tracking software for organ transplant centers, and OTTR-HLA, which is a comprehensive software system to support the patient management, reporting and regulatory needs of the HLA laboratory. Clients using HKS products include Clarian Health Partners, BJC Health System and Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. More information is available at www.hksys.com or 1-800-411-0975.

ABOUT THE BAPTIST HEART INSTITUTE

Opened in 2001, the Baptist Heart Institute combines all cardiovascular services in one location to support high-quality care, research, education and data management.  A surgery addition, cardiac catheterization labs, a pre- and post- cardiac patient staging area, cardiopulmonary transplant unit, cardiovascular recovery/cardiovascular intensive care unit,  two cardiac medicine units and the cardiac intervention unit are all located within the area.  The Baptist Heart Institute is the only facility in the Mid-South that offers the full spectrum of heart care, from noninvasive testing to adult heart transplants.  For more information, please call (901) 226-5000 or visit http://memphis.baptistonline.org.