Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Emory Healthcare, Memorial Hermann Health System, and University of Maryland Medical System Award PatientKeeper Multi-year Contracts
Top institutions standardize on PatientKeeper's mobilizer platform to empower physicians with advanced mobile and wireless Technology
HIMSS Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 28, 2002 - PatientKeeper, Inc. announced today that Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Emory Healthcare, Memorial Hermann Health System, and University of Maryland Medical System have awarded PatientKeeper with multi-year contracts. These top institutions will standardize on PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform to empower their physicians with advanced mobile and wireless technology. The aggregate value of these contracts is nearly $4 million over the term of the contracts.
The decision to select PatientKeeper was the result of Mobilizer Platform's ability to utilize an open architecture that has set the standard in providing interoperability, context management, security, and enterprise management, while embracing a wide selection of handheld devices (Palm OS and Pocket PC) and wireless and non-wireless transports (802.11, Bluetooth, WWAN, network cradles, infrared, etc.). Mobilizer Platform deliver the richest set of independently-authored mobile healthcare applications available today. Over 45,000 clinicians and a growing developer community have already embraced PatientKeeper's technology.
"The Mobilizer Platform represents innovative technology that addresses both the realities of today and possibilities of tomorrow," says Dr. Sajjad Yacoob, Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. "PatientKeeper helps us address the organic growth of mobile applications with features like: single sign-on, centralized administration, and a common patient list. Meanwhile, the open architecture and software development kits (SDKs) will allow us to integrate best-of-breed application from chosen vendors going forward."
"After an extensive evaluation of the mobile healthcare marketplace, Emory Healthcare selected PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform because of its ability to integrate with legacy systems, host third-party developed applications, offer support for both Pocket PC and Palm OS devices, and provide enterprise security controls," says Dedra Cantrell, Interim CIO at Emory Healthcare. "Physician ease of use and adoption were also key selection criteria."
"PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform allows us the opportunity to provide round lists, labs, meds, and radiology reports on PDAs to our physicians without forcing us to invent and maintain the integration software to tie these solutions together," says David Bradshaw, Memorial Hermann Health System's CIO. "We plan to use the Mobilizer SDKs for some of our own smaller development needs."
"The simplicity of PatientKeeper earned high marks as we evaluated various systems to mobilize patient information," says Michael N. Minear, senior vice president and chief information officer of the University of Maryland Medical System. "PatientKeeper's point and tap interface, plus its easy ability to adapt to our legacy systems will put information our physicians need right where they want in the palm of their hand."
"PatientKeeper is uniquely positioned to offer healthcare institutions an open platform that can support current and future mobile computing needs across an entire enterprise," says Gary F. Foster, PatientKeeper's president and chief executive officer. "For example, clinicians can access multiple vendors' applications from a common patient list. Information, like patient context or drug reference data, can be shared between applications."
About Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Founded in 1901, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has been treating the most seriously ill and injured children in Los Angelesfor more than a century. It is acknowledged throughout the United States and around the world for its leadership in pediatric and adolescent health as well as one of America's premier teaching hospitals and as a national leader in pediatric research. Since 1990,U.S. News & World Report has named Childrens Hospital Los Angeles one of the top pediatric facilities in the nation and its panel of board-certified pediatricians has ranked the hospital the best on the West Coast.To learn more, visit: www.ChildrensHospitalLA.org. Emory Healthcare offers a comprehensive health care system which applies to patient care the new knowledge, advanced technologies, and innovation in health care that result from Emory's widely regarded university-based health care system.
Memorial Hermann Health System
Memorial Hermann, a not-for-profit health care system, provides quality, comprehensive programs and services for a person's whole life. Through its 11 hospitals located in the Texas Medical Center and the greater Houston area, Memorial Hermann offers the convenience of health care in neighborhoods where people live and work, as well as easy access to the resources and technology of a university-affiliated teaching hospital. Memorial Hermann takes a holistic approach to health care, offering programs and services that address the physical, social, psychological and spiritual aspects of well being. Employees, volunteers and medical staff partners take pride in delivering care with compassion and respect.
University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System is a private, not-for-profit regional health care system including an academic medical center, two community hospitals, three specialty hospitals, and a network of primary and specialty care sites across Maryland. The University of Maryland Medical Center, the largest hospital in the System, trains more than half of Maryland's practicing physicians and is a national referral center for trauma, cancer care, neurocare, cardiac care, women's and children's health care and physical rehabilitation. It also has the world's largest kidney transplant program. With gross patient revenues of $1 billion dollars, the six-hospital system has more than 10,000 full and part-time employees and 1591 licensed beds and bassinets.
About PatientKeeper
PatientKeeper, Inc. utilizes an open, mobile platform to empower healthcare providers to capitalize on the potential of mobile technology to save lives, time, and money. PatientKeeper integrates disparate mobile applications, disparate mobile devices, disparate mobile initiatives, and disparate hospital information systems. PatientKeeper is currently used by leading hospitals, premier HIS companies, and over 45,000 clinicians. PatientKeeper is committed to an open architecture and universal platform for mobile healthcare computing, enabling independently authored applications to be integrated seamlessly on one handheld device. PatientKeeper offers a range of mobile computing solutions including PatientKeeper Personal; ChargeKeeper², for capturing billing; and LabKeeper², for reviewing lab results. PatientKeeper's strategic partners include Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Certicom (NASDAQ: CERT; TSE: CIC) and Symbol Technologies (NYSE: SBL). PatientKeeper, Inc. is a privately held company. To learn more about PatientKeeper, please visit the company's Web site at www.patientkeeper.com.
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