Bluegate Wins IT Contract with Northwest Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.HOUSTON -- Expanding into a new market segment, Bluegate Corp. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :BGAT) announced today that it has signed an outsourced healthcare IT services agreement with Northwest Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region. It is a recognized international surgical specialty.
Beginning in January 2006, Bluegate will provide all IT outsourcing for NWOMS's six practices throughout Texas, including: --Full enterprise management for servers, storage equipment, backup equipment, desktops, notebooks, printers, switches, routers and firewalls. --Anti-virus services management and removal of spyware, viruses and harmful software --Quarterly network health check-ups --Custom Programming --IT policy and procedure planning --Mandating and enforcing IT standards --Proactive enterprise monitoring services managed 24X7 These services are designed for healthcare organizations that want to adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. best IT practices of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, , technology and business relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. patches, locking down of desktops, roaming profiles and auditing. In addition, Bluegate will be assisting NWOMS in deploying Kodak's PenCharts electronic medical record (EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. ) system in all of its practices. NWOMS is a comprehensive, high-profile practice that utilizes extensive imaging applications and is a national reference site for the Kodak PracticeWorks system. The practice provides a complete range of dental and related surgery services including dental implants, jaw surgery, removal of teeth and treatment of temporomandibular joint dysfunction temporomandibular joint dysfunction n. Impaired functioning of the temporomandibular articulation of the jaw. temporomandibular joint dysfunction , traumatic injuries, oral diseases and snoring/sleep apnea. "Based on Bluegate's excellent reputation supporting hospital systems and large medical practices, we believed they could best provide the IT services needed to support our growth and adoption of EMR," said Donna Kotsios, NWOMS Executive Director. "We've been impressed with Bluegate's proactive management of our systems, thorough familiarity with our practice management system and initial recommendations for network support. We're confident that Bluegate's competence in managing our healthcare IT network and security will enable us to focus our resources on growing our business and seamlessly integrating new technologies that enable us to provide the best care possible to our patients." Don Corley, VP of Sales for Bluegate, said that the agreement with Northwest Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery marks the expansion of Bluegate's client base to include oral surgeons and dual-licensed D.D.S D.S Drainage Structure (flood protection) .-M.D.s for the first time. Corley stated, "We are continuing to execute our business strategy by expanding our Texas client base and providing the highest quality turnkey healthcare IT solutions and services to healthcare providers who are on the leading edge of electronic medical record use." "Our contract with NWOMS is yet another example of rapid adoption by healthcare providers of Bluegate's outsourced healthcare IT services," said Manfred Sternberg, Bluegate CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Additionally, the continued customer expansion momentum in our revenue pipeline and the build-out of the Houston market remains consistent with key elements of our previously announced business strategy and 2006 financial guidance." About Bluegate Bluegate Corp. is an industry leader of outsourced healthcare IT solutions. It provides IT consulting through its professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. division and HIPAA-compliant, turnkey managed security services and interoperability solutions across its Medical Grade Networks(TM) to hospitals, physicians, other healthcare facilities, RHIOs, HCOs and third-party solution providers. Bluegate is publicly traded on the over the counter bulletin board under the ticker BGAT. For information, visit www.bluegate.com or call 713-686-1100. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. This press release may contain "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of fact, included in this release and without limitation statements regarding potential future plans and objectives of the Company, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion