Axolotl Announces Agreement With HealthBridge Clinical Messaging.Business Editors/Health and Medical Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2000 Rollout to Commence Immediately for 5,000 Healthcare Professionals in Greater Cincinnati Axolotl axolotl (ăk`səlŏt'əl), a salamander, Siredon mexicanum, found in certain lakes in the region of Mexico City, which reaches reproductive maturity without losing its larval characteristics. Corporation, a leading provider of multimedia e-health solutions, and Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge, a not-for-profit healthcare organization owned and operated by the Cincinnati healthcare community, announced today the signing of an agreement whereby Axolotl's Web-based clinical messaging suite of products will be made available to 5,000 healthcare professionals in Greater Cincinnati over HealthBridge's secure network. Implementation of Axolotl's Elysium-brand products, including results delivery, lab ordering, and prescription writing, will commence immediately at Mercy Health Partners Mercy Health Partners (MHP) is a health care system with locations throughout northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan.[1] Hospitals Six hospitals are owned and operated by MHP: Mercy Hospital of Defiance, Mercy Hospital of Tiffin, Mercy Hospital of , an integrated healthcare delivery network with more than 85 care delivery sites in southwest Ohio. "We examined the community's needs in great detail and reviewed the products currently available," said Robert Steffel, Executive Director for HealthBridge. "Elysium addresses our high priority needs today and provides a firm basis on which to deliver additional clinical automation in the future. This will translate into significant cost savings and quality improvements for the Cincinnati healthcare community." Elysium Clinical Messaging products will leverage HealthBridge's existing network infrastructure to deliver clinical information from hospitals, labs, and other community providers to physician offices. Using standard Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
"Elysium will enhance communication with our affiliated physicians and help us achieve our goals of physician integration and service improvement throughout the Mercy network," stated Raymond Pierangeli, Chief Information Officer for Mercy Health Partners. "Axolotl's successful deployment of Elysium Clinical Messaging to physician offices across the country has paved the way in serving large communities of healthcare providers," commented Ray Scott Ray Scott may refer to:
The Elysium suite of products harnesses the Internet, e-mail, and powerful automation tools to link physicians, clinics, labs, and hospitals. Elysium Intelligent Ordering provides comprehensive Web-based ordering of lab tests with interactive forms that incorporate medical necessity rules, automatic Advanced Beneficiary Notice advanced beneficiary notice Managed care A document signed by a Pt accepting responsibility for paying for a test or diagnostic service which the Pt's primary care thinks is appropriate, which Medicare may not under Medicare's 'reasonable and necessary' standard, (ABN ABN Advance beneficiary notice, see there ) generation, labeling, and alerts. Elysium Prescription Writer allows physicians to quickly and easily automate two critical procedures--prescription writing and refill refill noun A second allotment of a prescription agent obtained from a pharmacy, which is allowed by the original prescription verb Pharmacology To obtain more of a particular drug, after the initially prescribed amount of the agent has been used or management. Physicians and their staffs use standard Web browsers to access clinical results and manage order entry and prescription writing with their healthcare partners. Executives from Axolotl and HealthBridge will discuss their agreement at the media briefing in Room 320, Lobby D at the annual HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention in Dallas today at 10:00 am. About Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge is a not-for-profit, grassroots initiative, owned and operated by the Cincinnati healthcare community. The mission of HealthBridge is to create a collaborative network of organizations and technology to improve the quality and efficiency of Greater Cincinnati's healthcare delivery. HealthBridge provides secure and rapid access to patient history records, insurance coverage guidelines and limitations, medical reference materials, and physician directories. About Axolotl Axolotl Corporation is a leading provider of multimedia e-health solutions designed to increase the efficiency of physician offices and enhance the physician-patient relationship physician-patient relationship Medical malpractice A formal or inferred relationship between a physician and a Pt, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a Pt; the establishment of a PPR is 'automatic' in . Axolotl's Professional Division provides Web-based clinical messaging products, known as Elysium, for secure clinical communication between physicians, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. centers, and medical groups. AccentHealth, the Media Division of Axolotl, provides healthy lifestyle television programming, produced by CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , to approximately 20 million patients per month. This information is expanded and enhanced on the www.accenthealth.com consumer Web site that delivers a broad database of health topics, tools, and communities to waiting room network visitors and health-conscious consumers daily. Through a strategic alliance with Gilat Satellite Networks Gilat Satellite Networks is a publicly-traded Israeli company (NASDAQ: GILT. TASE) Gilat designs, develops and markets satellite and hybrid networking products, services and solutions to operators in 85 countries. , Inc., Axolotl has the exclusive right to distribute Gilat's two-way broadband satellite communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. in the healthcare market. Statements in this press release concerning the Company's business outlook or future economic performance, anticipated profitability, revenues, expenses or other financial items, and service offering growth, together with other statements that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " as that term is defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Any forward-looking statements are estimates, reflecting the best judgment of the party making such statements based upon currently available information and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. |
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