CLAREMONT, N.H., July 30, 2013 -- New Hampshire-based Red River, a leading information technology (IT) services provider, announced a partnership today between Red River Healthcare and EXTENSION, INC., developer of a next generation alarm safety platform for healthcare enabling collaborative communication among caregivers and patients. Red River will work with EXTENSION to address these gaps found among clinical staff in healthcare settings, which will ultimately benefit both caregivers and patients.
"EXTENSION is a leader in implementing effective strategies to better the healthcare and IT industry, and we're proud to work with them," said Charlie Franco, director of Red River Healthcare. "Together we will address the need for more unified communication between staff and IT systems in the healthcare space. Patients rely on clinical staff to provide them with the best care possible, and our solutions and partnership help prevent miscommunications and eliminate wasted time to make that goal a reality."
EXTENSION manages the alarms generated by all of the events occurring in a hospital, including nurse call alerts, patient monitoring and STAT order notifications, and EHR tasks, and applies intelligence to provide clinical context to recipients to enable improved event response workflows. EXTENSION's clinical process experts work with the relevant hospital stakeholders to determine the appropriate solution configurations and provide support to ensure an effective user experience and workflow.
"Red River has consistently been a reliable partner with us on projects in transforming healthcare models for federal clients," said EXTENSION vice president of product management and marketing, Brian McAlpine. "We are experts in reducing the background noise that crowds busy hospitals and in introducing strategies that reduce communication barriers and improve patient safety. Together with Red River's IT expertise, we look forward to keeping that partnership strong and delivering advanced communications to healthcare facilities."
About Red River
Founded on the core values of hard work, honesty and integrity, Red River is a leading provider of IT hardware integration, maintenance and support services. The company's technology expertise and mission-critical experience help customers optimize their business processes and maximize the value of their IT investments. Red River has developed a remarkable reputation for providing IT products and hardware-related services to government, healthcare and enterprise organizations. By combining an uncommon work ethic with exceptional service, Red River delivers performance beyond expectations to its customers, partners and suppliers. Follow Red River on Twitter at @ThinkRed. For more information please call 800‐769‐3060 or visit www.redriver.com .