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COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CHOOSES PHAMIS LASTWORD SYSTEM.


SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1995-- PHAMIS PHAMIS Public Health Automated Medical Information Systems , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

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: PHAM), Seattle-based developer of the LASTWORD healthcare information system, announced that it has signed a major contract to install its PHAMIS-LASTWORD system throughout Community Hospitals of Central California Central California can refer to one of several divisions or regions of the U.S state of California:
  • The state is sometimes described as being in three main sections: Northern California (the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Valley northward), Southern California (south
, the leading regional healthcare provider in Central California. Community Hospitals of Central California is the oldest delivery system in Central California with four inpatient facilities including Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center, Clovis Community Hospital and Medical Center, The DeWitt Center, and Sierra Community Hospital. In addition, the delivery system provides a full range of ambulatory, sub-acute and non-acute services spanning the region including two urgent care facilities, two major outpatient clinics, and three long-term care facilities long-term care facility
n.
See skilled nursing facility.
.

Community Hospitals of Central California purchased the LASTWORD system to support their philosophy of providing patient-focused care. "Community Hospitals of Central California was looking for Looking for

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 a system to support their effort to provide patient-focused care. The LASTWORD system will help support this effort by providing users with complete, patient-centered information wherever it's needed," said Frank T. Sample, President and 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. , of PHAMIS, Inc.

The organization will install the following LASTWORD modules

throughout their delivery system:

LASTWORD Base Applications: Patient Information Management,

Utilities, and Workstation

LASTWORD Clinical Applications: Order Communication, Results

Reporting, Patient Care, Ancillary Departments, Pharmacy,

Emergency Care, Clinician Access, and Protocols

LASTWORD Administrative Applications: Admissions & Visits, and

Medical Records

The PHAMIS-LASTWORD healthcare information system is an integrated hardware and software solution that constructs an on-line lifetime medical record that is simultaneously accessible throughout the heathcare delivery enterprise. The LASTWORD system incorporates over 40 modular applications that collect, store and organize patient-centered healthcare information as a single relational database. This gives users immediate, on-line access to current and prior episodes of patient care. The on-line medical record assists healthcare providers to better monitor and manage the cost and quality of patient care and to support enterprise-wide decision making in finance and administration.

LASTWORD operates on the fault-tolerant computing platform provided by Tandem Computers Inc. (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. ). This computing platform enables healthcare providers to cost effectively expand system capacity to increase functionality in smooth increments without loss of computing efficiency.

CONTACT: PHAMIS Inc.

Cheryl Isen (IR), 206/622-9558

or

Gregg Blodgett (CFO See Chief Financial Officer. ), 206/622-9558

or

Fi.Comm Inc.

Heidi Flannery, 503/221-7403
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