Avio Becomes First Healthcare Developer To Incorporate Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA.

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1998--

Enables customization, extends functionality

Avio, formerly Visteon, announced today at the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) a first in the healthcare information systems industry: the incorporation of Microsoft(R) Visual Basic(R) for Applications (VBA) into its offering.

Vendors from other industries have integrated VBA into their systems, but Avio is the only healthcare developer to provide its customers with the ability to easily customize applications, improve staff productivity and maximize their technology investment. Avio is presenting its VBA strategy at MS-HUG on Monday, Oct. 12 at 1:30 p.m. in the new product showcase area.

According to David Greenberg, Avio founder and chief technology officer, this agreement continues a long history of industry firsts. "We're pleased to be the first to offer VBA benefits to the healthcare market. Just as we were the first in the industry to gain Microsoft BackOffice Certification, we're now the first to recognize--and deliver--the value of Microsoft VBA to customers," Greenberg said.

VBA enables Avio customers to easily customize, extend and automate applications, both those developed by Avio as well as other VBA-enabled applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. "Access to this technology gives customers tremendous flexibility and power," said John Cooper, Avio vice president of marketing and corporate development. "It lets them customize functions for their specific needs; set up time-saving, intelligent short-cuts; and link Avio with other VBA-enabled applications. By VBA-enabling our applications, we can focus on building and enhancing core functionality while empowering customers to fine-tune them for their specific requirements."

"The best part," Cooper added, "is that we now can offer our customers the ability to customize their solutions without any changes to the model code base. This protects the customers' investment by ensuring that their core applications are always fully supportable and able to be upgraded in the future."

Clinical Manager, the first Avio application to utilize VBA, belongs to the Orlando-based company's comprehensive suite of applications designed specifically for ambulatory healthcare organizations. An electronic medical record (EMR), Clinical Manager allows providers to access, record and update patient records on-line. By reducing paperwork and promoting fast access to clinical guidelines and patient information, the Avio clinical application helps physicians spend more time with patients.

By incorporating VBA into Clinical Manager, Avio dramatically expands customers' ability to fine-tune the application to their unique circumstances. With VBA, customers can tell the software to perform tasks that may only apply to them, or that may only be required for a short time.

Avio plans to incorporate VBA into its entire suite of software products for ambulatory healthcare organizations, which includes Clinical Manager, Business Manager, Patient Manager, Risk Manager and Decision Manager.

Avio, formerly Visteon, was founded in 1991. The company's integrated suite of award-winning applications--Clinical Manager, Business Manager, Patient Manager, Risk Manager and Decision Manager--helps enterprise ambulatory healthcare organizations increase efficiency and effectiveness in a challenging marketplace. Avio's distributed, client-server technology was the healthcare industry's first to earn Microsoft's "designed for BackOffice" logo certification and to incorporate Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and its service offerings include extensive ROI analysis, implementation services and technical support. Visit Avio at www.avio.com or call 1-877-avio-now for more information.