“The latest major release of eSphere, Version 5, includes a number of significant technical enhancements and improvements which enables Esprit Health to maintain its leading position as a state-of-the-art informatics solution for both its current and future customers” said Frank Pierce, President and CEO of Esprit Health. Included in Version 5 is:

eSphere, the company’s flagship product provides the most advanced, innovative methodology for clinical research data management. It is a complete end-to-end system designed to address 100% of the clinical, research, regulatory and administrative processes and associated costs and provides all of the components necessary for a “true” clinical research data management system.

eSphere, the company’s flagship product provides the most advanced, innovative methodology for clinical research data management. It is a complete end-to-end system designed to address 100% of the clinical, research, regulatory and administrative processes and associated costs and provides all of the components necessary for a “true” clinical research data management system.

“We are very proud to have been selected as the solution for the NIAMS’s Rheumatology Fellowship Program” noted Frank Pierce, CEO and President of Esprit Health. “By selecting eSphere for this program NIAMS will be providing the ultimate tool to capture, access and report information that will help analyze their data, streamline processes, better understand program performance and costs and ultimately produce better outcomes.”

“We are very excited to work with Kathleen Calzone, the Principal Investigator, on this very important project” noted Frank Pierce, CEO and President of Esprit Health.

The eSphere System has been expanded with a full complement of bi-directional HL7 interfaces that allows data to be shared between eSphere and other systems that is virtually seamless. Adding to the HL7 ADT interface previously available to its clients, the new interfaces include:

• Orders: receipt of orders from any HIS including cancellations
• Medications: receipt of medications from any HIS including order completion
• Labs: receipt of lab results from any LIS or HIS, including query and retrieval capability
• Results : sending results from eSphere to any HIS

Through these HL7 interfaces, data from the HIS can be sent to eSphere and data from the eSphere system can be sent directly to the client’s hospital data repository. This eliminates the necessity of scanning or printing eSphere records and attaching it to the patient chart. A real-time flow of patient demographics, ordering, and results information is now benefiting all Esprit Health clients.

In addition to the completion of the full complement of HL7 interfaces, Esprit Health has provided advanced tools to system operators that enable continuous monitoring of all interfaces, review of HL7 message content and full audit trail functionality.

eSphere, the company’s flagship product provides the most advanced, innovative methodology for clinical study management is now integrated with eSphere Online a web-based tool for data collection. Together they form a complete end-to-end system designed to address 100% of the clinical, research, regulatory and administrative processes and associated costs and provides all of the components necessary for a “true” clinical research data management system.

Patients and their families often describe CC physicians and nurses as honorary members of the family. And when a patient dies—either while at the Clinical Center or after leaving treatment—those relationships between CC staff and patients’ families do not end, or at least they shouldn’t, according to the CC Pain and Palliative Care Service (PPCS) team. “Families deserve that connection,” says Dr. Ann Berger, PPCS chief. “That emotional need is not over for the family the day the patient dies—and it shouldn’t be for us either.” As a means of continuing that service and support for families and staff, PPCS recently implemented a bereavement program. “Bereavement is part of palliative care’s mission,” she says.

The eSphere Biospecimen Banking System is a comprehensive system for the collection and archiving of human biospecimens for research. According to Frank Pierce, President of Esprit Health, “Use of the eSphere system enables our clients to collect biospecimens and associated clinical data for molecular-based clinical trials and to enter biomedical research collaborations in which our clients will conduct prospective biospecimen collections for researchers across the country. Adoption of the eSphere system will also enable clients to participate in the growing network of medical institutions across the country that are collecting and sharing high quality biospecimens and clinical data in support of the advancement of molecular medicine.”

“The adoption of this system positions our client institutions squarely in the emerging field of molecular medicine, where diagnosis and treatment are based on disease origin and progression at the molecular level. This system provides the IT and logistical infrastructure to support the growing number of molecular-based clinical trials, while ensuring full privacy and confidentiality for patient donors. We are very enthusiastic about our role in the development of a new generation of diagnostics and therapeutics based on the molecular origins of disease” said Mr. Pierce.

The eSphere Biospecimen Banking System is an integrated system for biorepository operations at one or multiple geographic sites. As the network of eSphere system users expands, resources are easily shared across organizations, while ensuring high quality biospecimens and data at all sites.

eSphere, the company’s flagship product provides the most advanced, innovative methodology for clinical study management is now integrated with eSphere Online a web-based tool for data collection. Together they form a complete end-to-end system designed to address 100% of the clinical, research, regulatory and administrative processes and associated costs and provides all of the components necessary for a “true” clinical research data management system.

eSphere, the company’s flagship product provides the most advanced, innovative methodology for clinical study management. It is a complete end-to-end system designed to address 100% of the clinical, research, regulatory and administrative processes and associated costs and provides all of the components necessary for a “true” clinical research data management system.

“We are very proud to have been selected as the solution for the Clinical Endocrinology Branch’s study on chronic sleep deprivation as a risk factor for metabolic syndrome and obesity noted Frank Pierce, CEO and President of Esprit Health. “By selecting eSphere for their system, the NIDDK will be giving its Principal and Associate Investigators, Research Nurses, and Administrators access to information that will help analyze clinical trial data, increase efficiencies, better understand resource utilization and costs and ultimately produce better outcomes.”

Obesity and chronic sleep deprivation have both become increasingly pervasive medical problems in recent years. The prevalence of adult obesity has doubled over the past 30 years and continues to increase. In addition, industrial societies attach an economic value to maximizing the waking period to the longest tolerable limit by sleeping as little as possible. Average sleep time has decreased over the last century by 2 hours. Chronically sleeping less has been associated with increased weight, endocrine and metabolic health risks including glucose intolerance, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. The possibility that the current epidemic of obesity and metabolic health risks may be partially related to insufficient sleep is now being recognized. The objective of this proof-of-concept controlled trial is to investigate the impact of increasing sleep time in chronically sleep-deprived, obese subjects.

The eSphere BioSpecimen Bank system will manage this repository of bio-specimens and make them available for research. It meets researchers’ needs to store samples, link and review relevant clinical data, monitor daily operations and extract data sets for research and analyses. eSphere includes the capability to model workflow processes for the procurement, cataloging inventory management and retrieval of bio-specimens and pathology data. Furthermore, the database manages the process for linking and recording consents and facilitates electronic sharing of data to support collaborative efforts of different internal departments at The University of Chicago and externally with other institutions. Esprit Health created the solution, the only technology of its kind to respond to the unique workflow and data capture needs of the biospecimen resource center.

"The selection of eSphere by the NIH Physical Disabilities Branch adds yet another group at the NIH that has decided to use eSphere to meet the growing demands for clinical research data management," noted Frank Pierce, CEO and President of Esprit Health.  "The unparalleled success of our work at the NIH over the past seven years has established our reputation as the premier system of its kind. The secret to our success is our collaborative on-site implementation approach – implementation and consulting services that are clearly unique in the industry. Focused on achieving the maximum benefits for our customer in the most efficient timeframe, this approach provides the full rewards associated with the use of our system and a quick return on investment. This simply means that our customers can publish results sooner."

"The selection of eSphere by UMMC underscores the momentum that we are now experiencing in the market," noted Frank Pierce, CEO and President of Esprit Health.  "The strategy of using best-of-breed systems is more appealing than ever to customers."

Fast Access to Your Data – eSphere Data Export

·         Quick data export: data can be instantly exported to tab delimited, comma separated values, XML and XLS (Excel), SPSS, and SAS formats too reduce the time required to generate detailed statistical analyses and share information.

eSphere, the company’s flagship product provides the most advanced, innovative methodology for clinical study management.  It is a complete end-to-end system designed to address 100% of the clinical, research, regulatory and administrative processes and associated costs and provides all of the components necessary for a “true” clinical research data management system.