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Axolotl Corp. Announces Agreement With East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System.


Business Editors/High-Tech, Health & Medical Writers

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2002

Elysium Intelligent Ordering and Clinical Messaging System Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently.

Mail User Agent
 

to be Deployed to 1700 Affiliated Physicians

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.  Corp., a leading provider of Web-based applications that connect physicians to the entire healthcare continuum, today announced an agreement with East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System. Under the terms of the agreement, Axolotl will provide Web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application.  Elysium Intelligent Ordering and Elysium Clinical Messaging for ordering and results delivery to over 1700 affiliated physicians and their support staffs throughout Texas and Louisiana.

"We are replacing our existing `store and forward' results delivery system with Web-based ordering and results delivery. Axolotl provides an easy to use, off the shelf technology that far exceeded the capabilities of the other products we looked at," said Paula Anthony, Chief Information Officer for ETMC ETMC East Texas Medical Center  Regional Healthcare System. "Axolotl understood the magnitude and complexity of our environment and set up a well-planned approach to replacing our existing system and expanding our current services."

"We are pleased that ETMC chose Elysium as a means of providing secure communications, linking members of their healthcare organization through a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. ," said Ray Scott Ray Scott may refer to:
  • Ray Scott (sportscaster) (1920–1998), American
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, Axolotl's Chief Executive Officer.

About East Texas Medical Center

The East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System, a not-for-profit regional healthcare system based in Tyler, Texas Tyler is the county seat of Smith County in East Texas, United States. The city is named for President John Tyler in recognition of his support for Texas's admission to the United States. , began in 1951 with the vision of bringing high-quality medical service to where East Texans need it most: close to home. ETMC has grown to include 13 hospitals, more than 40 clinics, 3 helicopters, numerous outpatient rehabilitation centers, 24-hour emergency centers, home health offices and other regional partnerships. ETMC is also the second largest rural EMS provider in the nation and home to the first and only Level I Trauma Center In the United States, a Level I trauma center provides the highest level of surgical care to trauma patients.

A Level I trauma center is required to have a certain number of surgeons and anesthesiologists on duty 24 hours a day at the hospital, an education program,
 in East Texas. In addition ETMC operates one of the largest hospital based reference labs in the state.

About Axolotl Corporation

Axolotl uses advanced communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems
engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry
 to connect physicians to the entire healthcare continuum. The company provides physicians and their staffs with integrated clinical and administrative applications and patient education programs to streamline workflow, increase efficiency, and improve the quality of care. Thousands of healthcare professionals nationwide use the Elysium suite of Web-based applications to reduce costs and increase the time they have available for treating patients. Axolotl's AccentHealth Waiting Room Television Network, produced in conjunction with 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.
, delivers award-winning patient education material to approximately 18 million visitors each month. For more information, visit http://www.axolotl.com.

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" 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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