Actuate Addresses Healthcare Industry With iKnowMed OEM Agreement; iKnowMed Aims to Increase Patient Care With the Integration of Actuate Information Delivery Solution.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTU ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri) ACTU Association of Catholic Trade Unionists ACTU Australian Capital Territory Union ), the Information Delivery market leader, today announced a strategic OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement with iKnowMed, the Clinical Knowledge Network. As stated in the agreement, iKnowMed has embedded the Actuate Information Delivery solution within the iKnowMed Reporting Center for physicians wanting to reduce paper charts and improve patient healthcare. iKnowMed's latest Internet breakthrough, the iKnowMed Reporting Center, is a reporting tool that lets practices monitor their clinical and financial performance, and view benchmark reports from the Network as a whole. The Reporting Center, as delivered by the Actuate Information Delivery solution, presents blinded data from the iKnowMed Network, on treatment outcomes including: treatment response, toxicities, treatment regimen selection, relative dose intensity, chemotherapy dosing, population overview and more. This information provides physicians with a window on the practices, protocols and procedures used by hundreds of other iKnowMed participants to assess, treat, and care for their cancer patients. The Actuate reports can be generated and viewed with parameters defined by the user. A clinician can see reports by practice, MD, time period, diagnosis and stage, by population variable and more. iKnowMed selected Actuate because of its security capabilities, its ability to deliver reports over the Web as well as for its scalability. The iKnowMed Reporting Center, through the Actuate reports, will ultimately lead to better decision making of a cancer patients' health. iKnowMed, with the help of Actuate, is striving to improve healthcare by offering the most accurate data possible to the physician and their staff, so they may offer the patient the best facilities and care possible. The information delivered by Actuate will be extracted from the iKnowMed data warehouse and delivered via an IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. web server. iKnowMed will be utilizing the Actuate XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. capabilities in the future as well as integrating Java into The Reporting Center. "We recognized the immense need for Information Delivery capabilities within The Reporting Center in order to allow physicians to better understand their treatment patterns and clinical outcome. With the help of Actuate, we're able to deliver such groundbreaking products that improve healthcare," said Mark Siem, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , iKnowMed. "iKnowMed saw the benefit that Information Delivery would bring to their application and to the doctors using it," said Frank van Veenendaal, Actuate's senior vice president of its e.Business Application Partners business unit. "Actuate is delivering information in the form of charts and graphs enabling doctors and patients to see what medication is working for which cancer. It's great to see the Actuate Information Delivery solution being used in ways that could eventually save lives." Actuate has over 160 OEM customers whose products range from applications for electronic marketplaces to customer relationship management to professional services automation See PSA. . These e-Business leaders and packaged software See software package. vendors choose Actuate because its software represents the latest in Information Delivery technology and its e.Services group enables easy integration with existing application infrastructure, thus speeding time-to-market for new products. Further, Actuate's commitment to industry standards including Java, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. and XML ensures its product will be compatible with today's most prevalent e-Business applications. About iKnowMed Headquartered in Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. , iKnowMed is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. providing a new model for the future of healthcare delivery as an e-resource destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. to advance the practice of medicine by changing the way physicians, patients, and pharmaceutical companies share knowledge at the point of care. To find out more visit the iKnowMed Web site at www.iknowmed.com, email us at marketing@iknowmed.com or call 888-iKnowMed. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies, Internet start-ups and packaged application software vendors. Actuate builds solutions for customer applications including e-CRM, e-Procurement and Net marketplaces. Actuate's Information Delivery solutions make it easy to extract operational data from disparate systems and publish secure, interactive and perfectly formatted content that is seamlessly integrated with the rest of a company's Web site. By instantly delivering personalized content to 100,000s of end users -- without downloads -- companies using Actuate can increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer service. Actuate has over 1,100 direct customers and over 160 OEM partners including American Express, AT&T, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , BMC Software, Chase Manhattan Corporation The Chase Manhattan Corporation was a bank holding company formed as parent of the Chase Manhattan Bank. During its time as the parent company, it was led in succession by David Rockefeller, Willard C. Butcher, and Thomas G. Labrecque. , Clarify, Enron, Lucent Technologies, WorldCom, PeopleSoft and Siebel. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com. Note to Editors: Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. e.Reporting is a trademark of Actuate Corporation. |
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