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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wellogic and PatientKeeper Collaborate to Bring Advanced Mobile Healthcare Platform to Hospitals
Cambridge, MA—April 16, 2002— Wellogic and PatientKeeper today announced that the two companies are collaborating to bring an advanced mobile platform to hospitals. PatientKeeper has contracted with Wellogic to utilize its clinical results browser, master patient index and clinical data repository with the PatientKeeper Platform. Offered for inpatient settings in small to medium-sized domestic and international hospitals, this tightly integrated solution will allow clinicians to securely access a wide range of clinical information from a variety of devices and locations.
"PatientKeeper is the recognized leader in providing a software platform that enables healthcare institutions to deploy mobile computing devices throughout their enterprises. By integrating with the Wellogic Platform, PatientKeeper will be able to address the needs of new market segments," said Sumit Nagpal, President and CEO of Wellogic. "Our platforms are superbly complementary, both in features and technology. It is natural for us to integrate our award-winning clinical suite with PatientKeeper's mobile capabilities to provide maximum flexibility for clinicians as they care for their patients."
"Wellogic has a long history of building advanced, open, standards-based information systems for healthcare," said Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D., chief technology officer of PatientKeeper, Inc. "Wellogic's clinical software and small-footprint design will allow us to configure our PatientKeeper Platform as a highly cost effective solution for hospitals. This solution will provide these users with more options for accessing patient information."
About Wellogic
WellogicÆ provides advanced healthcare application platforms and development consulting services to clients and business partners that include the nation's leading hospitals and healthcare information technology providers. Wellogic solutions enable clinicians to make safer, more effective patient care decisions by securely integrating clinical information across multiple systems; by providing clinical decision support at the point of care -from simple alerts to complex disease management recommendations; and by being straightforward to implement, use, and maintain.
Wellogic builds its products, and frequently its custom solutions, upon the Wellogic Platform for Healthcare, a suite of open, standards-based, modular applications that provide a front-to-back foundation for clinical information systems. This open architecture allows independently developed applications to be seamlessly integrated into a single desktop environment. Wellogic is a privately held company, celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2002.
About PatientKeeper
PatientKeeper, Inc. provides healthcare professionals with mobile computing solutions that help improve patient care and curb rising costs. The PatientKeeper Platform easily integrates with existing systems and securely delivers patient information to clinicians' mobile devices. PatientKeeper and our partners have created a portfolio of mobile applications that supports a wide spectrum of tasks, including rounding support, clinical results and charge capture. Leading healthcare institutions and vendors have already standardized on the PatientKeeper Platform. For more information, visit our web site at www.patientkeeper.com or call 617-987-0300.
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