ADVISORY/Picis Segment To Be Featured on Business Now Television Program and Businessnow.com.Assignment/News Editors/Health & Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Sunday (Sept. 10) --(BW HealthWire) Picis, a world leader in perioperative perioperative /peri·op·er·a·tive/ (-op´er-ah-tiv) pertaining to the period extending from the time of hospitalization for surgery to the time of discharge. per·i·op·er·a·tive adj. and critical care information systems, today announced it was selected by Building America Television (BATV BATV Bounce Address Tag Validation (email) ) as a feature company for the Sunday, September 10, 2000 airing of Business Now. The segment highlighting Picis will air in Washington, DC on WJLA WJLA Washington DC area television station; JLA comes from founder Joseph L. Allbritton , ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Channel 7 at 10:00 a.m. that day. The segment can be viewed after the initial airing on local stations around the country as well as on Business Now TV's website at www.businessnow.com. Picis was chosen for the segment, because the company offers some of the most innovative healthcare and Internet technologies and is considered one of the companies to watch in the healthcare information industry. BATV director of program development, Laurett Ellsworth said, "Business Now felt that what Picis brings to the medical community is so important and revolutionary that we had to help them tell their story." In the segment, Picis customer, Dr. Keith Candiotti of University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center, explains how Picis' products are beneficial to the anesthesia community by reducing time and cost. "This is another great opportunity for us to gain recognition in the industry and with potential employees in the DC metro area This article is about the music production team. For the article about population centers, see metropolitan area. Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. ," said Todd Cozzens, 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. and president of Picis. "With our recent private placement of $34 million, we are increasing our rate of expansion in all areas of the company and better preparing ourselves for the challenges of maintaining superior performance and rapid growth." He added, "This is an exciting time for the company, as Picis was recently named a finalist for the 2000 Microsoft Industry Solutions Awards." About Picis Picis is a world leader in the development and marketing of software and Internet-based critical care & perioperative information solutions. Picis CareSuite(TM) automates the flow of clinical data from medical devices and information systems as well as organizes caregiver workflow in the critical care and perioperative setting to improve patient outcomes. To be launched later this year, Savent(TM) is a revolutionary new suite of Internet and software-based knowledge tools that allows users to access a national perioperative data warehouse for advanced analysis and research. Picis CareSuite is installed in world-renowned medical facilities such as the Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic: see Mayo, Charles Horace. Mayo Clinic voluntary association of more than 500 physicians in Rochester, Minnesota. [Am. Hist.: EB, 11: 723] See : Medicine , Saint Luke's-Shawnee Mission Health System, the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Medical Center. Picis, with worldwide headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, has sales and technical support staff throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia/Pacific. Picis also has distribution partnerships with IDX Systems IDX Systems Corporation (IDX) was a healthcare software technology company that formerly had headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1969 by Robert Hoehl, Richard Tarrant, and Paul Egerman. Corporation (Nasdaq: IDXC), QuadraMed Corporation (Nasdaq: QMDC), and Siemens Electromedical Systems Division. For more information, visit the Picis web site at www.picis.com. |
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