OB leaders at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, MD., describe PeriGen’s powerful EHR and fetal monitoring/surveillance technologies supporting healthier babies and their mothers in syndicated cable TV program “Today in America”. Hosted by Terry Bradshaw, listen as he speaks on the benefits of labor and delivery systems.

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You are the embodiment of the art and science of nursing as you mother the mothers and baby the babies.  You make the happiest place in the hospital a living canvas of the birth of new families.  Your expert nursing knowledge and skills are the brush strokes of the master piece of bringing new life into the world.  I am truly honored to be counted among you and to share my professional world with you.

Happy Nurses Week!

Vicki A. Lucas, R.N.C., Ph.D.
Chief Nursing Officer
PeriGen, Inc.

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PeriGen Congratulates Banner Health Instituting Successful Care Quality Initiative Reducing Unnecessary Early-term Deliveries by 22 Percent

The Arizona Quality Alliance Award recipient used perinatal electronic health record data to facilitate medical practice change across 19 facilities

PRINCETON, New Jersey ─ April 29, 2013 ─ PeriGen, the global leader in applying real-time clinical decision support to perinatal systems, applauds Banner Health for successfully reducing elective deliveries of babies at less than 39 weeks and earning a Showcase in Excellence Award from the Arizona Quality Alliance. Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the country.

Avoiding unnecessary early-term deliveries is a best practice advocated by obstetrical professional organizations and national quality organizations. Research demonstrates that elective deliveries before 39 weeks increase the risk of newborn respiratory problems and lengths of stay for mothers and babies.

Banner Health used both historical and real-time data gathered from PeriBirth®, PeriGen’s electronic health record (EHR) designed specifically for obstetric (OB) care. The captured data helped the health system establish a baseline and monitor ongoing compliance of the new protocol across 19 hospitals. As a result of this quality initiative, the number of elective deliveries at less than 39 weeks decreased by 22 percent over the first six months, representing more than 2,600 more babies per year being delivered at term.

“We are thrilled to play a part in Banner Health’s success as they pioneer system-wide adherence to a widely endorsed obstetrics best practice,” said PeriGen Chief Executive Officer Matthew Sappern.  “Our company’s mission is to deliver the most medically relevant information at the most relevant time to help clinicians make knowledge-driven decisions. We commend Banner Health for using this information to further its commitment to data-driven, evidence-based practice safeguarding the delivery of healthier infants.”

Implementing Evidence-based Best Practice Enterprise-wide

An organization recognized nationally for using technology to improve care quality, Banner Health leveraged its established system of clinical performance groups (CPGs) to drive this initiative. Once the groups identified elective deliveries before 39 weeks as its target standard, clinicians and staff members developed a process that could be deployed enterprise-wide to evaluate the medical necessity of such a delivery before scheduling a patient for an early induction or cesarean section.

A key step in the protocol’s implementation was to pull several years of historical data from the PeriBirth system into an enterprise data warehouse. From this data, the team was able to pinpoint each hospital’s current and historical rate of elective deliveries before 39 weeks and gaps in documentation. The CPG was able to establish a baseline for measuring future performance and to identify which hospitals would require more education and attention.

As the health system implemented the new protocol, PeriBirth played a key role in helping the CPG track each facility’s and provider’s compliance.

“Data from PeriBirth was hugely instrumental in giving us a true reading of data rates to quickly determine who was following the protocol,” said Barbara LaBranche, MBA, B.S.N., R.N., senior director of clinical informatics at Banner Health Corporate and co-leader of the initiative. “Up until now we’ve relied on coded data four to six weeks after the fact. With our new system, we’re able to give physicians feedback in as near to real time as possible, which is much more effective for prompting practice change. It’s hard to argue with numbers.”

Banner Health has now developed a dashboard for monitoring this perinatal standard. The dashboard extracts data from PeriBirth and its reporting tool nightly to give care providers and administrators near real-time information. The data outcomes enable OB managers to review and compare compliance with quality measures at the system, facility, unit and physician level.

About Banner Health

Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country. The system manages 23 acute-care hospitals, the Banner Health Network and Banner Medical Group, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services including family clinics, home care and hospice services, and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in seven states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. For more information, visit www.bannerhealth.com.

About PeriGen, Inc.

PeriGen, Inc., is an innovative provider of fetal surveillance systems employing patented, pattern-recognition and obstetrics technologies that empower perinatal clinicians to make confident, real-time decisions about the mothers and babies in their care. PeriGen’s customer-centric team of clinicians and technologists builds the most advanced systems available to augment obstetric decision-making and improve communications among the clinical team at the point of care, while supporting data flow between healthcare IT systems.

PeriGen’s unique fetal surveillance products provide dynamic visual cues that direct clinicians to the most essential patient information displayed on the screen. Unlike legacy fetal monitoring devices and software from non-specialist companies, PeriGen Visual Cueing™ provides an instant view of the mother’s and baby’s current status and trends over time to avoid errors, increasing patient safety and reducing risk for clinicians and hospitals. For more information, please visit us at www.PeriGen.com.

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PeriGen Announces $6.4 Million in Funding and Strong Market Momentum for PeriCALMPerinatal Solutions in First Quarter of 2013

National Institutes of Health validates company’s perinatal technology

PRINCETON, New Jersey ─ April 3, 2013 ─ Continuing its strong momentum from record earnings in 2012, PeriGen, the global leader in applying real-time clinical decision support to perinatal systems, announced that it received significant industry recognition, raised $6.4 million in funding, achieved record bookings and expanded its senior management team in the first quarter of 2013.

“Our first quarter results illustrate the industry’s recognition that PeriGen solutions are best positioned to enable superior perinatal care and reduce hospital liability risk,” said Matthew Sappern, CEO of PeriGen. “Hospitals increasingly select us as their preferred perinatal vendor because our solutions provide so much more clinically relevant and actionable information than other solutions on the market.”

Labor and delivery is a high-risk service line for hospitals because obstetric injuries to mothers and newborns result in some of the largest malpractice awards. PeriGen’s suite of fetal surveillance solutions targets the most common underlying causes of preventable medical errors to help clinicians improve clinical outcomes. Equipped with evidence-based methods, these solutions deliver real-time decision support in a timely and visually intuitive way to nurses and physicians throughout the OB continuum.

In the first quarter of 2013, PeriGen was recognized for its innovative contributions to perinatal care when experts from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) validated the company’s electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) pattern recognition software, PeriCALM Patterns™. With very high levels of agreement between the NIH clinical experts and the tracing analysis by PeriCALM Patterns, they concluded that “the software can be used to efficiently evaluate stored fetal heart rate data retrospectively, as well as to screen in real time when an expert is not continuously evaluating the fetal heart rate.” This finding was published in January’s American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and was the subject of a commentary by The New York Times reporter Steve Lohr in February.

The company also expanded its clinical leadership in Q1 by appointing Thomas J. Garite, M.D., as Chief Clinical Officer. Dr. Garite is a nationally-respected obstetrics, gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine specialist and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

On the strength of these developments and better than anticipated earnings in 2012, PeriGen secured $6.4 million from private investors for further product development and marketing initiatives. At the same time, PeriGen expanded its market reach through a distribution agreement with leading international system integrator Helix Health Solutions, based in Dubai. In addition, a record number of hospitals ─ including Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., and Taylor Regional Hospital in Hawkinsville, Ga. ─ activated PeriCALM in their labor and delivery departments.

These notable achievements follow on the heels of PeriGen’s most successful year. The company increased revenue by 11 percent and signed a record number of new hospital and health system clients in 2012. Last year’s highlights included:

• The company’s patent portfolio increased by five, bringing the total of issued and awarded patents to 23.
• It began working with Epic to bring a number of shared clients live on its PeriCALM platform interfaced to Epic’s EHR. The company introduced PeriCALM Plus™, the only electronic fetal surveillance system on the market that offers real-time tracing analysis and efficient overviews of significant trends.
• In August, a study tracking the application of PeriCALM Shoulder Screen^TM over a four-year period was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This is the first published report of a method that was associated with both a reduction in shoulder dystocia rates and stable primary cesarean rates. During the study period, the rate of shoulder dystocia fell by 56.8 percent with no change in the primary cesarean delivery rate. This rare but serious complication of childbirth can result in permanent handicaps such as Erb’s palsy.
  • PeriGen and TransRe, a leading healthcare professional liability reinsurer, formed a strategic alliance to promote PeriCALM Shoulder Screen to practicing obstetricians.

Sappern stated, “The trend of vertical integration in healthcare, where organizations own physicians, hospitals and payers, greatly benefits from tools such as PeriCALM that deliver more relevant and usable information in real time to help clinicians make knowledge-driven decisions. With our next-generation technology and financial strength, we are well positioned to accelerate growth and revenue in 2013 and beyond.”

About PeriGen, Inc.

PeriGen, Inc., is an innovative provider of fetal surveillance systems employing patented, pattern-recognition and obstetrics technologies that empower perinatal clinicians to make confident, real-time decisions about the mothers and babies in their care. PeriGen’s customer-centric team of clinicians and technologists builds the most advanced systems available to augment obstetric decision-making and improve communications among the clinical team at the point of care, while supporting data flow between healthcare IT systems.

PeriGen’s unique fetal surveillance products provide dynamic visual cues that direct clinicians to the most essential patient information displayed on the screen. Unlike legacy fetal monitoring devices and software from non-specialist companies, PeriGen Visual Cueing™ provides an instant view of the mother’s and baby’s current status and trends over time to avoid errors, increasing patient safety and reducing risk for clinicians and hospitals. For more information, please visit us at www.PeriGen.com.

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