Careside System to Be Featured at National Conference.Business Editors and Health/Medical Writers CULVER CITY Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. , Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--March 27, 2001 The Careside System(TM) will be featured during a presentation at the national conference of the prestigious Medical Group Management Association (MGMA MGMA Medical Group Management Association MGMA Metro Global Media, Inc. (stock symbol) MGMA Metal Gutter Manufacturers Association (UK) MGMA Michigan Gospel Music Association ), according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an announcement from Careside Inc. Speaking on the Careside System's benefits for the physician office lab will be Domingo Rodriguez-Cue, M.D., a family practitioner family practitioner n. Abbr. FP See family physician. in Williamston, N.C., and a nationally-recognized authority on telemedicine. The title of his talk is, "Physician Lab Testing and the Power of the Paperless Office Long predicted, the paperless office is still a myth. Although paper usage has been reduced in some organizations, it has increased in others. Today's PCs make it easy to churn out documents. As one technology eliminates paper, another comes along to increase usage. ." Dr. Rodriguez-Cue was chosen from among numerous applicants to speak to the national MGMA conference, in recognition of his broad use of the Careside System to provide routine chemistry and hematology results in the physician office setting. His presentation will explain how he uses Careside's technology to achieve the efficiencies of a virtually paperless approach to physician-office lab testing, while ensuring data integrity, security and availability. In addition to outlining how he uses the Careside system to economically integrate point-of-care lab testing and data management, Dr. Rodriguez-Cue will show how Careside technology enables him to readily meet CLIA CLIA Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 Congressional legislation that promulgated quality assurance practices in clinical labs, and required them to measure performance at each step of the testing process from the beginning to the end-point of a requirements, achieve faster and better compensation from insurers, save on lab personnel costs, and improve patient satisfaction. Dr. Rodriguez-Cue, who has been featured on "ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. World News Tonight" for his groundbreaking work in telemedicine, uses the Careside System in his rural medical practice. Because the system can deliver test results in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
"The real-time decision-making that Careside technology provides has been life-saving for several of my patients," said Dr. Rodriguez-Cue. "It allows me to diagnose a broad scope of illnesses quickly and accurately. The Careside Analyzer(R) is an amazing device that is long overdue. Its ease-of-use, broad test menu, accuracy and low costs simplify the practice of medicine." The Careside Analyzer is an instrument about the size of a fax machine that provides more than 40 of the most commonly run laboratory test results using a whole-blood sample, with results delivered in four to 12 minutes. It takes no specialized laboratory specialized laboratory A type of reference lab dedicated to a particular type of 'esoteric' testing–eg, allergy, coagulation, drugs–especially drugs of abuse, endocrinology, genetics, paternity, virology, etc. Cf Reference laboratory. or technical training to operate the Careside Analyzer. A touch-screen user interface, much like that used in automated bank teller machines, assists operation. The cartridges self-measure the blood samples and can only be inserted one way into the instrument, eliminating the possibility of user error. Help screens and error messages guide the user through the simple pre-test process, after which the instrument takes over and automatically performs all test and results reporting. The Careside Analyzer's electronic quality control/quality assurance processes facilitate easy compliance with CLIA regulations. In addition to the Careside Analyzer, the system encompasses the H-2000(TM), a 16-or 18-parameter hematology analyzer, plus a groundbreaking data management instrument, the Careside Connect(TM). An affordable, plug-and-play device, the Careside Connect offers superb versatility. It interfaces with numerous other POC (Proof Of Concept) See PoC exploit. POC - Point Of Contact testing instruments, can be operated both in a wired or wireless format, in either a wide area network or the Internet and data management networks. The Careside Connect will comply with POC Connectivity Industry Consortium (CIC CIC circulating immune complexes. CIC Circulating immune complexes. See Immune complexes. ) standards, once those standards are finalized. The annual MGMA conference will be held Oct. 21-24 in San Antonio, with a theme of "Technology, Leadership and Caring: Reinventing Healthcare." At last year's MGMA conference, a survey of attendees found the benefits of Careside technology are highly appealing to physicians with office laboratories and medical managers of group practices. Respondents reported they are likely to adopt physician office lab testing devices such as the Careside Analyzer and its companion desktop instruments because of their comprehensive features. These features are important to physician group practices attempting to increase patient satisfaction, provide better patient care and operate a more cost-efficient practice, survey respondents said. Founded in 1926, MGMA is the nation's leading organization representing medical group practices and the professionals who lead them. More than 18,000 individuals and nearly 6,000 health care organizations are MGMA members. These organizations include integrated delivery systems integrated delivery system Integrated provider Medical practice A coordinated health care system formed by physician groups and hospitals which ↑ efficiency and ↓ redundancy in providing health care; IDSs coordinate delivery of a broad range of health , multispecialty clinics, single-specialty practices, hospital-based clinics, academic practice plans, management services organizations management services organization Physician practice management company Medical practice An organization contracted by a health care provider/supplier to furnish administrative, clerical, and claims processing functions of the provider/supplier's practice. and physician practice management companies. MGMA executive offices are in Englewood, Colo. The Careside System can be operated by non-technical personnel and provides a test menu that is the most comprehensive to be found in the near-patient instrument market, encompassing the majority of blood tests ordered by clinicians. The system provides gold-standard testing technologies in a simple, cost-effective form that can be easily used in decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. healthcare settings such as physician offices, outpatient clinics, and same-day surgical centers. Nearly 60 FDA-cleared or exempt tests in the categories of chemistry, electro-chemistry, coagulation coagulation (kōăg'y  lā`shən), the collecting into a mass of minute particles of a solid dispersed throughout a liquid (a sol), usually followed by the precipitation or , and hematology can be run on the system. Careside Inc., located in Culver City, is the world's leading developer of advanced POC blood testing technology. For more information on the company, call 888/698-2273 or access www.Careside.com. 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. : Statements in this press release regarding Careside Inc. that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Key factors that may affect these statements include technological hurdles and other challenges inherent in product research, development, manufacturing, marketing, and other factors discussed in the company's prospectus. The company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements. See the risk factors listed from time to time in the company's prospectus and reports on file with the SEC. |
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