Axolotl Corporation Enhances Elysium to Include Electronic Medical Record Functionality; Elysium Improves Patient Care With Web-Based Patient Summaries.

Business Editors/Technology, Health & Medical Writers

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2002

Axolotl Corporation, a leading provider of Web-based applications that connect physicians to the entire healthcare continuum, today announced the release of Elysium Version 6.1. This enhanced version of Elysium provides physicians with integrated Web-based access to Electronic Medical Record functionality at a fraction of other vendors' EMR cost.

With this release, Elysium users can substantially reduce the number of paper documents that circulate throughout the physician office, ensuring secure, accurate and timely patient record keeping. Physicians and their staffs can quickly view a condensed Patient Summary that includes demographic, insurance and clinical information including allergies, prescriptions, and problem lists. All of the patient's results are one click away from this Patient Summary.

Other enhancements for Elysium Transcription users include complete integration with Microsoft Word, enabling users to print transcribed notes within letters and on company letterhead.

For Elysium Prescription Writer users, Elysium now performs drug and allergy interaction checks and records all prescriptions, refills and the dispensing of drug samples. Age related and duplicate warnings now display specific information about the reasons for the warning. Warnings also appear when the Insurance Plan associated with the selected Formulary is not in the patient's insurance list.

"Elysium provides a step by step approach to a full EMR, starting with transcriptions then prescription management and delivery of clinical results. Product enhancements to these three areas make it even easier for physician practices and medical groups to implement EMRs in a cost effective and easy to adopt manner," commented Ray Scott, CEO, Axolotl Corp.

About Axolotl Corporation

Axolotl uses advanced Web-based technology 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, delivers award-winning patient education material to approximately 18 million visitors each month. For more information, visit http://www.axolotl.com.