CuraSys Raises the Standard for Home Care Automation.BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1998--Initial feedback from users of CuraSys Integrated Systems indicates that CuraSys is setting a new standard for effective information management. CuraSys, from ORCA Orca - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. Technologies Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :ORCA), is a new system designed to manage information in a home care environment that is increasingly focused on efficiency, predictability of cost, and patient outcomes. As new customers have come online across the country, CuraSys automation has demonstrated an immediate impact on streamlining home health-care operations. Mike Girard, administrator at Washoe Home Care, has seen his organization benefit rapidly from using CuraSys. "Implementation of CuraSys was extremely efficient," said Girard. "After four days of training, our nurses were able to integrate the system into their daily visit activities without impacting the number of visits performed each day. "This is in sharp contrast to another system, which left us functioning below pre-implementation levels more than 90 days after implementation." Girard also anticipates decreased staffing and facilities requirements because of the efficiency and accuracy of acquiring information with CuraSys. Washoe Health System is one of the largest health-care providers in the state of Nevada. The recent introduction, by ORCA, of CuraSys Integrated Systems offers home care organizations a new level of effectiveness in automation. CuraSys is unique because it does more than eliminate paper. It addresses specific challenges facing home health-care organizations, and facilitates the activities needed to provide high-quality, cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. patient care. "Home care organizations are faced with mounting pressures to prove quality outcomes while containing costs," said Roger P. Vallo, ORCA chairman and chief executive officer. "An effective automation system must allow the organization to access and share complex clinical, financial, administrative and regulatory information across broad geographic regions. ORCA meets this need with technology and services that address the practical realities of home health care operations." CuraSys Integrated Systems is composed of two main components. The CuraSys Associate is a simple, portable field system that allows home care clinicians to remotely access and manage patient information. Much more than an electronic chart, CuraSys Associate utilizes a unique process-oriented user interface that assists the clinician clinician /cli·ni·cian/ (kli-nish´in) an expert clinical physician and teacher. cli·ni·cian n. in providing and managing care from geographically disparate locations. CuraSys Management Center is the nucleus nucleus, in physics nucleus, in physics, the extremely dense central core of an atom. The Nature of the Nucleus Composition of the systemwide flow of information throughout the agency. For the home care executive, CuraSys Management Center provides the right information to optimize optimize - optimisation patient care, while keeping the organization compliant and cost effective. The CuraSys System is based on a distributed client/server architecture An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. utilizing a virtual private network for rapid communication between the field and the agencies. This cost-effective, easy-to-maintain and scalable system provides the best tools for collecting, transferring and processing information from the field and throughout the organization. ORCA provides professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to structure and plan implementation, train care providers, and to maintain effectiveness through ongoing customization and systems integration. ORCA Technologies, which has headquarters in Bothell, a Seattle suburb suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent. , is a two-year-old acquisition-oriented, network and software applications solution provider. -0- This release, other than historical information, consists of forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risk and uncertainties. Readers are referred to the documents filed by ORCA with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the most recent reports on forms 10-QSB and 10-KSB, that identify important risk factors which would cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. ORCA and its subsidiaries disclaim dis·claim v. dis·claimed, dis·claim·ing, dis·claims v.tr. 1. To deny or renounce any claim to or connection with; disown. 2. To deny the validity of; repudiate. 3. any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
CONTACT: Orca Technologies Inc., Bothell
Roger Vallo, 425/354-1600
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