MICROMEDEX Will Deliver Clinical Content to Patientkeeper's Users and Developer Community
MICROMEDEX and PatientKeeper Unveil mobileMICROMEDEX for PatientKeeper's Platform
Greenwood Village, Colo. and Brighton, Mass. January 30, 2002 - At the 2002 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, which opened this week, MICROMEDEX, a part of The Thomson Corporation (TSE:TOC), and PatientKeeper, Inc. unveiled mobileMICROMEDEX for PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform (Booth #752). MICROMEDEX will deliver clinical content to PatientKeeper's users and developer community.
By porting to PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform, mobileMICROMEDEX is integrated with the world's most widely used hand-held patient management solution. PatientKeeper's users can access MICROMEDEX content in conjunction with other mobile healthcare applications, while maintaining a patient-centric workflow. In the future, PatientKeeper's developer community can create mobile applications that take advantage of MICROMEDEX content and decision-support functionality.
"With mobileMICROMEDEX, healthcare facilities can ensure their doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinicians are using the same reliable information on their handheld devices that they already have on their computers," says Rick Noble, Chief Operating Officer for Thomson Healthcare/MICROMEDEX. "Porting to PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform, will allow mobileMICROMEDEX to be integrated with other mobile healthcare applications in the future."
"PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform ensures our users will continue to have access to best-of-breed applications - such as mobileMICROMEDEX," says Stephen S. Hau, PatientKeeper's founder and vice president of platform. " Our developer community is eager to create a new portfolio of rich, decision support applications for hand-held devices that take advantage of MICROMEDEX content."
The mobileMICROMEDEX² for PatientKeeper's Mobilizer Platform will be available later this year and includes the following content drug, acute care, alternative medicine, toxicology and drug-drug interaction information.
MICROMEDEX
MICROMEDEX has been providing knowledge-based information for healthcare, safety, and the environment since 1974. Today, MICROMEDEX is relied upon in over 9,000 facilities in more than 92 countries. MICROMEDEX is a division of The Thomson Corporation. For more information, call (800) 525-9083 or visit the web site at: www.micromedex.com. The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2000 revenues of approximately US$6 billion, is a leading global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges.
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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Stephen S. Hau
PatientKeeper
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Jackie Reed
MICROMEDEX
(303) 486-6535
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