News: Press Releases: 09-17-2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Microsoft and Microsoft Healthcare Users Group Select Wellogic™ Consult as Finalist in 2001 Industry Solution Awards for Healthcare

Consult Provides an Ergonomic Workspace for Clinicians and Staff that Integrates Patient Information Across Hospitals and Vendor Systems to Improve Efficiency and Quality of Communication

The Microsoft Industry Solution Awards, now in their fifth year, are designed to recognize innovative healthcare solution vendors using Microsoft technology to provide tangible business solutions for healthcare organizations. Participants are tested on a range of measurable business-benefit scenarios and asked by an independent panel of judges to demonstrate that their customer application offers the best features and functionality.

"Wellogic Consult represents incredible innovation that delivers on the vision of the next generation of Microsoft platform technologies," said David Lubinski, general manager Health and Public Sector, Enterprise Sales and Industry Group for Microsoft. "The combination of Microsoft technology and Wellogic's deep healthcare expertise, as represented by Wellogic Consult, offers customers an affordable, flexible and reliable clinical system that is easy to use, integrates well with their existing information systems, and provides a platform for future growth."

Wellogic Consult Version 3 provides an ergonomic workspace for clinicians, nurses, and staff that integrates patient information across hospitals and clinics to improve efficiency, timeliness, and quality of communication. Clinicians communicate with nurses, staff and peers via secure workflow-driven messaging. The workspace offers a single location that clinicians can rely on to efficiently perform their daily tasks, including:

• Ordering tests, procedures and therapies, including prescription writing and clinician-to-clinician consultations;
• Reviewing results and critical value alerts in the context of a patient's electronic medical record;
• Transcribing and signing most types of clinical notes and documentation;
• Responding to clinical rules-driven disease management recommendations;
• Accessing routine scheduling and administrative information.

"We are extremely proud to have been chosen again as finalists for this Microsoft Award," said Wellogic President and CEO Sumit K. Nagpal. "Wellogic has always been recognized for producing elegant applications that truly reflect how clinicians work. We continue that innovation with our flagship product, Wellogic Consult. Some of the strengths that make us unique are our clinical workflow and human factors design, which lets our applications seamlessly blend into the fabric of healthcare organizations, our support for equipment ranging from desktops to handhelds, and our use of advanced technologies that enhance usability while reducing cost."

"Microsoft's technologies, especially .NET, SQL Server, and Exchange, have proven to be invaluable to us in delivering our vision," said Nagpal. "We are honored that Microsoft considers Wellogic Consult to be among the best software solutions available for supporting healthcare."

About Wellogic

Founded in 1992, Wellogicô is a healthcare information technology products and services company providing Lightspeed to eHealthô: advanced Web solutions for healthcare, delivered faster, better, and more cost effectively than our clients often believe is possible. Our flagship clinical application, Wellogic Consult, is built upon the Wellogic Platform for Healthcare, which provides a modern, modular, comprehensive solution to help healthcare organizations quickly integrate and extend their clinical application capabilities. The Wellogic Platform consists of the Synapse Healthcare Integration Engine, the Visage Internet Application Platform, and Embeddable Toolkits for advanced functions like image viewing, protocol driven questionnaires, and rules authoring.

Wellogicís leading-edge technologies, refined development methodology, deep healthcare expertise, and precise project management discipline enable us to rapidly deploy successful solutions focused on bringing vital information to healthcare professionals in a manner consistent with their daily workflow. This approach ensures a minimum of new learning and a maximum benefit to patient care.