Actuate and Canopy Systems Forge Strategic OEM Agreement.Business Editors, High-Tech & 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.--(BW HealthWire)--June 5, 2001 Canopy Systems to Integrate Actuate Information Delivery Solution for Hospitals Aiming to Improve Patient Care Coordination care coordination Managed care 1. The brokering of services for Pts to ensure that needs are met and services are not duplicated by the organizations involved in providing care 2. Through Enhanced Communications 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 Canopy Systems, Inc. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the terms of the agreement, Canopy Systems will embed the Actuate Information Delivery solution within Canopy Systems' flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. line, Canopy(R), enabling hospitals to generate and deliver valuable care coordination information to case managers, physicians, payors, and post-acute providers. Canopy is a Web-based application See Web application. and communications system for utilization, case and disease management, which helps case managers identify, assess, and manage patients in the hospital and across the continuum of care. The Actuate-powered Canopy application leverages the immediacy of the Web to deliver patient information and aggregated monthly statements such as clinical history, discharge planning and denial management reports to hospital management, doctors, patients and third-party administrators. Actuate allows hospitals to eliminate the unnecessary duplication of work and documentation by creating one Web-based report rather than several paper reports. "Actuate's ability to quickly and securely deliver interactive and personalized data to hospital staff, patients and affiliated organizations results in more efficient and effective hospital administration and patient care," said Richard Scoville, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Canopy Systems. "With Actuate, patients have greater insight into their medical treatment and health status, while case managers and physicians can leverage Actuate reports in Canopy to identify industry trends and those treatments that are most effective." The Canopy application is a multi-tier, "thin-client" application written entirely in Java. The Actuate Information Delivery solution was selected by Canopy Systems because of its pure Java content creation and delivery capabilities as well as its ease of use. The Actuate Information Delivery solution will run by itself off an NT server in Canopy's Secure Data Center. "The Canopy application requires a powerful and robust Information Delivery solution with full capabilities for doing aggregated outcomes analysis," said Scoville. "Hospitals can see the improvement in the quality of care they offer their patients as well as the improvement of communications within the healthcare system." Actuate has more than 150 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 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 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. ensures its product will be compatible with today's most prevalent e-Business applications. "Healthcare is an emerging market for Actuate, where there exists an abundance of valuable business data locked in legacy systems and applications, and where the secure delivery of this information improves the medical-support process considerably," said Frank van Veenendaal, senior vice president of Actuate's e.Business Application Partners business unit. About Canopy Systems Canopy Systems, Inc.(TM) (www.canopysystems.com) is the leader in providing Web-based solutions for care coordination. The Canopy(TM) product line utilizes the ASP model to provide utilization, case, and disease management applications across the continuum of care. Canopy Systems, Inc.(TM) is a subsidiary of the Medical Mutual Group of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . 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 1,000 direct customers and over 150 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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