VISUVISUALMED INCORPORATES PRINT REPOSITORY INTO CLINICAL SYSTEM
VISUALMED INCORPORATES PRINT REPOSITORY INTO CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
Montreal, August 28, 2003 - VisualMED Clinical Systems Corp. (NASDAQ OTCBB: VSMD) announces the integration of a print repository into its state-of-the-art clinical information system.
Bridging the gap between traditional paper based workflow and the entirely electronic workflow of the future, the print repository allows the client hospital to do away with storage of many hundreds of form types, each of which would normally need to be inventoried, sorted, stored, and delivered to the point of care for eventual use.
The print repository is currently being implemented at Physician Hospital in El Paso, TX, where it will be used to replace more than 435 forms used for consents, patient instructions, and discharge instructions.
The VisualMED Enabled Clinical Process
VisualMED is an expert system that enables the physician to make informed diagnoses and therapeutic decisions better and faster. It replaces the paper-based medical record on the hospital ward while integrating information from a variety of traditional sources. It effectively improves the quality of patient care by minimizing the impact of medication and other treatment errors and reducing healthcare costs.
The VisualMED solution compares very favourably against its closest competition in the areas of speed, user-friendliness, time to install and price. In a report commissioned by the Leapfrog Group (www.leapfroggroup.org) on CPOE vendors in the Healthcare Information Technology marketplace, nine clinical decision support criteria were proposed and evaluated by First Consulting Group. The VisualMED Clinical System was found to have rich functionality in 100% of the categories reviewed, a claim that could only be made by an additional two of the thirteen vendors evaluated.
VisualMED Profile
VisualMED Clinical Systems Corporation (www.vmedsys.com) is publicly traded over the counter on Pink Sheets (VSMD). It develops and distributes software solutions for clinical medicine and related areas of the healthcare market and has facilities in Montreal.
The VisualMED clinical systems are actively distributed in Canada and the United States. The company has also signed a distribution deal with Visual Healthcare based in Australia to distribute its Clinical Information System in Australia, New-Zealand and Singapore.
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