NEWS

Date: 11-2-09
Contact: Matthew Orr
(920) 319-4211

Due partially to some new requirements by the federal government, there is a shortage of nurses and available training programs that are backlogged all across the United States. A company in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin has developed a new program that will help speed that training up.

Calling the program “…a major advance in updating nurses’ training,” Matthew Orr, president of Infosys Consulting, today said that the company has developed a “…web-based simulation of the typical features of an EMR (Electronic Medical Record) program for SimEMR.”

SimEMR is a company involved in the training of nurses.

Orr said that the federal government has mandated that all hospitals in the United States implement EMR computer systems by 2012. In one of the biggest changes in nurses’ training in years, nursing schools must teach new students how to use the EMR programs before they are on the job.

“Other companies also provide simulation programs for schools that train nurses,” he said, “so our program is not the only one."

“Unlike those programs, however, Infosys’ program is web-based and runs on our computers. It does not require the schools to invest in expensive computers and related computer software.

“This means,” Orr said, “that our program is far, far less expensive than the competition.”

Infosys’ program is a complete EMR program that follows a patient from “Admitting” all the way through “Discharge” and also brings the future nurses up to speed quickly. “A possible spinoff of the program is that we may be revising it for actual use in hospitals, as well as in nursing schools,” he said. “We’re really excited about that.” Infosys, a technology consulting firm, provides a diverse list of services that includes telephone systems, custom programming, system integration and network cabling.