DAOU Awarded $2.5 Million Contract to Implement and Manage Computer Network for Sherman Health Systems.SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 6, 1998-- Another VHA VHA Veterans Health Administration VHA Variable Housing Allowance VHA Villages Homeowners Association VHA Voluntary Hospitals Association VHA Virtual Home Agent VHA Very High Altitude VHA Vapor Hazard Area VHA Vermont Holstein-Friesian Association Member Signs with DAOU DAOU Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:DAOU) has been awarded a $2.5 million contract to install an advanced computer network for Sherman Health Systems of Elgin, Ill. The contract covers the implementation for an asynchronous transfer mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM) network, as well as a three-year service agreement for network management and remote network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. . The project will provide Sherman Health Systems with a regionwide ATM backbone network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. that will enable the organization to transmit data, voice and video via computer. With its new network, Sherman Health Systems will be able to boost productivity through enterprisewide networking, office automation and e-mail. The network will provide communication services for Sherman's planned electronic medical record. It will also link physicians to the health-care organization and deliver benefits to the area's medical and patient communities. Sherman Health Systems is the second major health-care organization to take advantage of the recent DAOU/VHA marketing alliance. West Tennessee West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Of the three, it is the most sharply defined geographically. Its boundaries are the Mississippi River on the west and the Tennessee River on the east. Healthcare, another VHA member, signed a $5.5 million network contract with DAOU earlier this week. "We're pleased to be teaming with Sherman Health Systems on this project," said Georges Daou, chief executive officer of DAOU Systems. "This network will certainly take the organization into the next century and will enable them to begin to take advantage of voice, video and data computing. We believe that the potential and benefits of such computing within health care are tremendous, and we see Sherman Health Systems as an example of how the market is beginning to adopt voice, video and data." Sherman Health Systems is the largest network of medical facilities in the Fox River Valley, northwest of Chicago. The organization is anchored by Sherman Hospital Sherman Hospital is is the one of largest networks of medical care facilities in the far Northwest Chicago suburbs. It has been one of two full service hospitals in Elgin, Illinois. and comprises several additional clinics, ambulatory centers and long-term care facilities long-term care facility n. See skilled nursing facility. . DAOU Systems designs, implements and manages computer networks for the health-care industry. The company offers solutions for voice, video and data networking, combining its technological expertise with its knowledge of the health-care industry's specialized needs. In addition, DAOU offers an array of operational and Internet solutions. DAOU's clients comprise more than half of the nation's top 50 integrated health-care delivery networks and include such organizations as Centura Health, North Shore Health System, Mercy Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , Harris Methodist Health System and Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens. DAOU operates five regional offices and five operations centers across the country. The firm employs a staff of more than 350 people and has provided services to more than 600 organizations throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . CONTACT: DAOU Systems Inc., San Diego Craig K. Collins, 619/646-2857 craig.collins@daou.com (e-mail) www.daou.com |
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