AirStrip Awarded Group Purchasing Agreement with Premier.Top healthcare purchasing network enters arrangement with remote healthcare surveillance innovator to increase availability of AirStrip OB[TM] SAN ANTONIO San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. -- AirStrip Technologies[TM], L.P., a leader in the field of remote healthcare surveillance, today announced it has signed an agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners L.P., the group purchasing unit of Premier Inc., one of the nation's largest healthcare purchasing networks. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The centerpiece of the agreement is AirStrip's signature product, AirStrip OB, which is now in use in nearly 100 hospitals across the U.S. AirStrip OB delivers vital patient waveform The shape of a signal. See wavelength, sine wave and square wave. data - including fetal heartbeat and maternal contraction patterns - in virtual real-time directly from the hospital labor and delivery unit to a doctor's smart phone from anywhere the doctor gets a cell-phone connection. This application can improve patient safety, giving the physician the ability to closely monitor his or her patients 24/7, even without being bedside. Premier serves more than 2,100 U.S. hospitals and 58,000-plus other healthcare sites. Its services include providing group contracting for hospital products and services, consulting solutions, and insurance management. Nearly 200 not-for-profit hospitals and health systems own the Premier alliance. "The core purpose of Premier is to improve the health of communities, and we see great alignment with our AirStrip Technologies remote healthcare surveillance solution to help deliver measureable improvements in care throughout the Premier membership," AirStrip co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Cameron Powell said. The AirStrip platform works in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with existing in-hospital patient monitoring systems, securely sending that data directly to the doctor's mobile device - while protecting that information with the strictest security solutions and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, compliance standards. The hospital is required to acquire an AirStrip server, and the AirStrip application is provided to doctors on a subscription basis. Subscriptions are purchased by the hospital for the physicians. News of the agreement with Premier comes soon after AirStrip Technologies received an opportunity to present its current and in-development applications for the iPhone as part of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC WWDC World Wide Developers Conference (Apple) WWDC Wyoming Water Development Commission WWDC West Wiltshire District Council (UK) WWDC Water-World Diving Center (Taiwan) ), one of the most closely-watched tech conferences in the world. While at the WWDC, AirStrip's co-founders, Dr. Powell and Trey Moore, took to the stage at Apple's invitation to present a live demo of the forthcoming AirStrip CRITICAL CARE[TM] application for the iPhone. AirStrip Technologies will seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. ) clearance for the CRITICAL CARE application this year. A free demo version 1. demo version - An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. of AirStrip OB on the iPhone can be downloaded at the Apple App Store. AirStrip OB is also available for use on the BlackBerry blackberry, name for several species of thorny plants of the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae (rose family). See bramble. blackberry and a variety of Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. smart phones. About AirStrip Technologies, L.P. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. , AirStrip Technologies has designed and built a platform that securely delivers critical patient information, including waveform data, from hospital systems to a doctor or nurse's smart phone, laptop or desktop. The platform, which is completely reusable, scalable and data independent, can be employed throughout the healthcare enterprise. It is one of the only systems able to deliver most types of healthcare data direct from hospital monitoring systems. The AirStrip platform, including the proprietary waveform engine, offers extraordinary value in any industry in which remote surveillance of monitoring systems is required. Visit www.airstriptech.com for more information. About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality recipient The Premier healthcare alliance is more than 2,100 U.S. hospitals and 58,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to improve healthcare quality and affordability. Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Premier has offices in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=5992474&lang=en |
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