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Syntegrity is First Step Toward Comprehensive Solution

FALLS CHURCH, Va. and CHICAGO, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC) and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) today announced the launch of the AORN Syntegrity Standardized Perioperative Framework, software content for perioperative care nurses that integrates into electronic health record (EHR) systems and nursing documentation systems. This is the first in a series of AORN offerings designed to improve patient outcomes and enhance operational performance.

Developed by CSC and AORN, Syntegrity includes perioperative standards of care and predefined tables and fields that can be incorporated into existing EHR systems. CSC will provide marketing, sales, distribution and ongoing technology support services.

"Electronic health records have rightly come to the forefront of national policy discussions because they have proven to dramatically improve health delivery and patient care," said David Hampshire, senior partner and managing director of Health Delivery for CSC's Global Healthcare Sector. "This new solution provides a template for how EHRs can become ubiquitous in not only surgical departments, but across the healthcare continuum."

The framework, which allows nurses to capture and identify critical patient care elements throughout all phases of perioperative care, is compatible with any commercially available or internally developed EHR and nursing documentation system. It meets all current interoperability and data standards set by the American National Standards Institute Health Level 7. With this solution, hospitals can save 80 percent of the clinical staff time needed to configure and support EHR perioperative content.

"In our aim to get Syntegrity in as many hospitals as possible, inter
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