CardioComm Teams With Microsoft for GlobalCardio Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2001 CardioComm Solutions Inc. (CDNX CDNX See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). :CCG) (the "Company", "CardioComm") announces that it has selected the Microsoft Application Platform for the development of its Vertical Service Platform. This announcement builds on the Company's long term relationship with Microsoft. GlobalCardio.com is an Internet-based service designed for managing patients with arrhythmia and pacemakers. GlobalCardio utilizes CardioComm's proprietary Internet enabled, ECG ECG electrocardiogram. ECG abbr. 1. electrocardiogram 2. electrocardiograph ECG Also called an electrocardiogram, it records the electrical activity of the heart. viewer and server technology deployed in its GEMS products. GlobalCardio.com is a Microsoft(R) Distributed Internet Application (DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. ) solution utilizing the technical superiority of Microsoft(R) Internet Information Server See IIS. (World-Wide Web) Internet Information Server - (IIS) Microsoft's web server and FTP server for Windows NT. IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs hosting websites that receive (IIS 5), Microsoft(R) SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft component technologies such as COM+, MSMQ See Microsoft Message Queue Server. . and MSXML (MicroSoft XML) An XSLT processor from Microsoft that works with the Internet Explorer browser. It includes an XML parser and XPath processor. See XSLT. . GlobalCardio.com offers the user the most comprehensive and user friendly, Arrhythmia, Pacemaker follow-up and ECG management application. CardioComm and its development partner, Sierra Systems Group Inc. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :SSG), chose the Microsoft(R) Application Platform because of its performance, integration, scalability, and cost effective licensing model. CardioComm evaluated several other software development packages and found none to match the comprehensiveness of that offered by Microsoft(R). GlobalCardio.com is designed to support several thousand simultaneous users, accessing potentially hundreds of data stores leading to several terabytes of file storage and management. GlobalCardio.com introduces a completely new dynamic to the availability and access of cardiac patient management software. GlobalCardio.com will be offered on a subscription based pricing model to physicians, clinics, hospitals, and monitoring services. Its large scope will require premium performance of its data store and file management systems. Microsoft stated "We are pleased to support the development of the Vertical Service Provider product by GlobalCardio.com and expect that the flexibility of our software development tools will play an important role in bringing this promising health care technology product to the market." GlobalCardio.com will be launched as the Internet compliment to its installable Windows application, currently on the market, known as GEMS(TM). Sierra, a Microsoft(R) Solutions Partner, has stated "The GlobalCardio.com project is truly a unique application. We have been able to challenge our team to be creative and forward looking in this project." CardioComm Solutions Inc. is a Canadian company dedicated to providing superior information technology to the field of Cardiology. CardioComm is committed to the containment of cardiovascular disease through improved information access, communication, management, and analysis. CardioComm's patented and proprietary technology is used in products for the recording, viewing, analyzing and storing of electrocardiograms (ECGs), for diagnosis and management of cardiac patients. CardioComm has achieved its technical goals of improved access and communication through the development of a real-time ECG viewer. CardioComm is the first company to provide a real-time means of viewing ECGs over a network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , WAN or Internet). This tool enables ECGs to be viewed and controlled live, by physicians, over a global virtual healthcare network. This technology is marketed as Global ECG Management System (GEMS(TM)). GEMS(TM) was cleared for sale in the US by the FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. in January of 1999. For further information on the Company's hardware and software products please contact Mr. Stephen Martin at (250) 744-1822, EXT 243 or visit the Company's website at http://www.cardiocomm.com. On behalf of the Board of Directors of CardioComm Solutions Inc.: "Stephen Martin" Stephen R. Martin, President & 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. For investor information, please contact: Doug Horne Toll-Free: 1-800-360-4809 The Canadian Venture Exchange The Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) is now a defunct stock exchange having been acquired by the TSX Group in 2001 and renamed the TSX Venture Exchange. History of the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or the accuracy of this release. |
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