Avio Takes Top Honors At 1998 Annual Microsoft Healthcare Users Group Forum.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998-- Receives Microsoft's Industry Solutions Award (ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. ) for Healthcare for Avio's Clinical Manager Avio (formerly Visteon Corporation), an established provider of information technology for ambulatory healthcare organizations, took home Microsoft Corp.'s and Microsoft(R) Healthcare Users Group's (MS-HUG MS-HUG Microsoft Healthcare Users Group ) annual Industry Solution Award in the Ambulatory Care ambulatory care n. Medical care provided to outpatients. ambulatory care, n the health services provided on an outpatient basis to those who can visit a health care facility and return home the same day. (Clinical/Patient Information Systems) category Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1998. The award is one of seven presented at a special ceremony by John D. Carpenter Jr., worldwide healthcare industry manager at Microsoft. Avio was a finalist in two categories--Ambulatory Care, Clinical/Patient Information Systems and Managed Care. "We are pleased that two of Avio's products were finalists and recognized as innovative healthcare solutions," said David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. , Chief Technology Officer at Avio. "We have forged a good working relationship with Microsoft and we were the first Healthcare IT vendor to receive Microsoft BackOffice See BackOffice. (R) certification. We are honored that our Clinical Manager was singled out to receive one of this year's distinguished ISA awards." Category winners were selected from approximately 75 entries, 22 of which made it to the final round. The ISA awards are designed to recognize innovative healthcare solution vendors using Microsoft technology--specifically the Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) Server operating system See network operating system. and the BackOffice(R) family of products--to provide tangible business solutions for healthcare organizations. Participants were tested on a range of measurable business-benefit scenarios and asked by an independent panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
"Today more than 400 healthcare applications are available for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT," Carpenter said. "These ISA winners represent some of the most innovative solutions being developed on Microsoft architecture to benefit the healthcare industry." Clinical Manager, Avio's award-winning product, is a computerized patient record that is an integral component of the company's integrated practice management and risk management systems. Clinical Manager automates the clinical data collection/storage and provides secure access to patient medical information throughout the enterprise. ISA Category Descriptions Following are seven ISA categories specific to health care: -- Acute Care (Administrative/Financial Systems). -- Acute Care (Clinical/Patient Information Systems). -- Ambulatory Care (Administrative/Financial Systems). -- Ambulatory Care (Clinical/Patient Information Systems). -- Managed Care. -- Other (Administrative/Financial Systems). -- Other (Clinical/Patient Information Systems). Types of Healthcare Systems Administrative/Financial Systems include appointment scheduling; patient admissions, discharges or transfers; patient registration; staffing or scheduling; medical staff credentials; practice management or patient billing; insurance claims processing; accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying or accounts payable; costing; contract management; and materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, . Clinical/Patient Information Systems include physician support, nursing support, patient care information systems, results reporting, access to medical research data, and information shared between hospitals and physicians. Other examples of Clinical/Patient Information Systems are medical records or charts, care plans, transcription, patient histories, web sites for posting medical images and voice notes, Internet consultations between physicians, record security, online preoperative pre·op·er·a·tive adj. Preceding a surgical operation. preoperative preceding an operation. preoperative care the preparation of a patient before operation. evaluation through post-operative recovery, and ICU ICU intensive care unit. ICU abbr. intensive care unit ICU see intensive care unit. ICU . Areas of Specialty -- Acute Care includes hospitals and other healthcare organizations that provide acute care or critical care. -- Ambulatory Care includes group practices, individual practitioners and clinics. -- Managed Care includes payer systems, insurance companies and health maintenance organizations. -- Other includes home health care, long-term care long-term care (LTC), n the provision of medical, social, and personal care services on a recurring or continuing basis to persons with chronic physical or mental disorders. , and dental and other miscellaneous healthcare organizations. Award Winners Selection Committee Three finalists in each of seven categories were selected by a preliminary judging panel of industry executives. These finalists then demonstrated their solutions at the MS-HUG conference. The winners were chosen after the judges viewed their solutions on site. About MS-HUG With headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich., the independent, nonprofit Microsoft Healthcare Users Group is the leading healthcare industry forum for exchanging ideas, promoting learning and sharing solutions for information systems using Microsoft technologies. MS-HUG works to provide industry leadership, drive appropriate standards and develop associated requirements in support of healthcare solutions. The diverse membership of MS-HUG is unified by a shared interest in implementing vendor- and user-developed software based on Microsoft technology to improve quality and efficiency in health care. About Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT and BackOffice are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. About Avio 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 its service offerings include extensive ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). analysis, implementation services and technical support. Visit Avio at www.avio.com or call 1-877-avio-now for more information. |
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