Henry Ford Hospital to use Organ Transplant Tracking Software

Software can lower administrative costs, reduce potential for errors

Henry Ford Hospital, a 903-bed tertiary care hospital, education and research complex in Detroit, Mich., 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.

Henry Ford Hospital’s Transplant Institute is nationally recognized for heart, lung, kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver and bone marrow transplantation, and has its own organ donor awareness program called LifeShare. It’s the most comprehensive transplant program in metro Detroit, and the survivor rates of its patients meet or exceed the national average.

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.

Henry Ford Hospital is now one of 53 hospitals using OTTR. Those 53 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 Henry Ford Hospital

Henry Ford Hospital is a 903-bed tertiary care hospital, education and research complex in Detroit. The hospital is recognized for its clinical excellence and innovation in the fields of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, organ transplantation, and treatment for prostate, breast and lung cancers. It also is a Level 1 trauma center. Its Transplant Institute has performed many of Michigan’s first-ever transplantation procedures - living-donor liver transplant, split-liver transplant, peripheral blood stem cell transplant, radiofrequency ablation treatment for liver disease. For information visit www.henryford.com.