Vendor:Emergency Care Dictation Services, Inc.

**Emergency Care Dictation Services, Inc.**
Type	Incorporated
Industry	Health informatics
Headquarters	2000 Spring Rd., Suite 200, Oak Brook, Illinois, U.S.
Area served	U.S.
Products	Empower HIS
Website	Empower.MD

Emergency Care Dictation Services, Inc. (doing business as Empower Systems) develops and distributes health informatics and other software solutions to health and social care organizations.

History

Technology and products

Empower HIS

Empower HIS is a hospital information system (HIS) that integrates a laboratory information system (LIS) "designed for the comprehensive functionality and intuitive workflow required by laboratory managers."^[1]

Features

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the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
the feature does not exist for the product.

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Product: Empower HIS
(LIS module)

Experiment, patient, and data management
Sample login and management?
Sample tracking?	Y^[1]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Configurable templates and forms?
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?
Data mining?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability?
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Project and/or task management?
Test, experiment, and/or trial management?
Inventory management?
Document and/or image management?
Patient and case management?
Workflow management?
Specification management?
Customer and physician management?
Billing and revenue management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?	Y^[1]
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[1]
Synoptic reporting?
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode and/or RFID support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?
Modular?	Y^[1]
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[1]
Mobile device integration?
Third-party software integration?	Y^[1]
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[1]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
clinical