AACC Selects Atomz Publish Professional to Manage Online Content for www.LabTestsOnline.org.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2001 Leading Non-Profit Dedicated to Education of Laboratory Testing Outsources its Content Management System to Atomz Atomz, the leading developer of hosted applications for building better Web sites, today announced that the AACC AACC American Association of Community Colleges (formerly American Association of Junior Colleges) AACC American Association for Clinical Chemistry AACC American Association of Cereal Chemists AACC Anne Arundel Community College (American Association American Association refers to one of the following professional baseball leagues:
Lab Tests Online is a Web site designed to help patients and caregivers gain more control over the management of their health care by providing credible, authoritative lab testing information from the laboratory professionals who do the testing. The Web site offers health care consumers the most up-to-date information on a comprehensive array of clinical lab tests like HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. , PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. , sickle sick·le v. 1. To cut with a sickle. 2. To deform a red blood cell into an abnormal crescent shape. 3. To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells. cell and dozens of other tests. With Atomz Publish, AACC personnel are able to quickly and easily update the Web site with new information on clinical lab tests without relying on an internal IT staff. "Our mission is to provide knowledge about critical lab tests to the public so they are informed when they make decisions about their healthcare," said George Linzer, Executive Producer for Lab Tests Online. "Seven months ago, I was given a mandate to create the Lab Tests Online Web site without building an IT infrastructure. With the help of Atomz, we have been able to launch an information-rich Web site with no IT staff to maintain or manage the site. Atomz hosts and manages all of their solutions, which cut our costs significantly and allowed us to focus on what is really important -- providing laboratory information to consumers." About Atomz Publish Professional Designed for high-performance, content-rich Web sites, Atomz Publish Professional is the Internet's only Web native, fully outsourced content management system. Atomz Publish is a cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. solution for enterprises that desire dynamic, up-to-the-minute online content that is easy for users to create, manage and update. Business users, who typically are forced to wait to get content pushed to the Web site, can now be given control over tasks like publishing breaking news, updating a job listing, or changing content on any page of the site without having to know any HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. or Web coding. Atomz Publish is quick to deploy and eliminates the typical IT efforts associated with installing and maintaining a complex, server-based content management system. "We have great faith in organizations like the AACC, and we are pleased that our technology is able to support their efforts," said Steve Kusmer, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Atomz. "We've always designed our products so that companies can spend the majority of their time and money focused on core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the is up-to-date, easily accessible information, and we are pleased that organizations such as Lab Tests Online can deliver on the promise of the Internet with the help of Atomz Publish Professional." About AACC AACC (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) is an international scientific/medical society of clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists and others involved with clinical laboratory medicine, science and related disciplines. Founded in 1948, the society has 11,000 members; a staff of over 50 manages the Association's Washington, D.C., office. AACC members are committed to educating the public on the value of laboratory testing through the creation of Lab Tests Online (http://www.labtestsonline.org), a Web site designed to help patients and caregivers gain more control over the management of their health care by providing credible, authoritative lab testing information from the laboratory professionals who do the testing. A non-commercial lab testing site supported by the clinical laboratory community, the site offers health care consumers the most up-to-date information on a comprehensive array of clinical lab tests like HIV, PSA, cholesterol and dozens more. This health site is jointly produced by five professional societies: American Association for Clinical Chemistry, American Clinical Laboratory Association, American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, American Society for Microbiology The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is a scientific organization, based in the United States although with over 43,000 members throughout the world. It is the largest single life science professional organization and its members include those whose interests encompass basic and Clinical Laboratory Management Association. About Atomz Atomz is the leading provider of award-winning outsourced Web content solutions. The Atomz products help companies efficiently deploy and manage Web site content for improved customer satisfaction and retention. Unparalleled technical excellence and dedication to customer satisfaction have made Atomz a favorite among Web professionals. Atomz services are used by over 47,000 leading Web sites including such sites as Africana.com (an AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time-Warner site), Cobalt Networks Cobalt Networks was a maker of low-cost servers based on Linux. Founded in 1996 in Mountain View, California under the name Cobalt Microserver, the company pioneered easy to use server appliances featuring secure web user interfaces for Internet service providers (ISPs) (a Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Company), The Bank of Canada Bank of Canada Canada's central bank, established under the Bank of Canada Act (1934). It was founded during the Great Depression to regulate credit and currency. The Bank acts as the Canadian government's fiscal agent and has the sole right to issue paper money. , Fujitsu Software Corporation, Hewlett-Packard (HP's Developer Resource), Macromedia, and Palm. The company offers two services, Atomz Search, the leading hosted site search engine, and Atomz Publish, a powerful hosted content management system for professional and corporate Web sites. Atomz investors include New Enterprise Associates, Sofinnova Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, and other private investors. Media Metrix, the leading Internet and digital media audience measurement company, reports that Atomz is one of the top 175 most visited sites in the world (SOURCE: Media Metrix Inc., Top 500 Report, March 2001). For more information call Atomz at 650/244-1400 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.atomz.com. Note to Editors: Atomz is a trademark of Avivo Corporation. Any other marks used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of the manufacturers or marketers of the products with which the marks are associated. |
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