DAOU lands $3.9 million contract to provide information technology to St. Mary's Health Network.SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--March 26, 1997--DAOU Systems Inc. has captured a $3.9 million, five-year contract to provide St. Mary's Health Network of Reno, Nev., with the personnel, strategy and technology to implement and manage a state-of-the-art, enterprisewide computer network. The contract calls for DAOU to manage St. Mary's information systems department, placing a team comprising a project manager and five network engineers at the health care organization's corporate offices. The DAOU team will work to develop a network infrastructure that connects all of St. Mary's facilities with each other, preparing the organization for the future through the use of 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. technology. Such technology enables health care organizations to transmit voice, video and data via computer, making possible the transmission of medical images, as well as the operation of integrated multimedia and robust applications over the network. "The management and implementation of information technology is a valuable addition of resources to our organization," said Jeff Bills, chief executive officer of St. Mary's Health Network. "DAOU will give us access to the right skill set, at the right mix, at the right time. Instead of doing without, we can now tap into a flexible set of skills in the time and volume we need. "We're also asking DAOU to provide us with leadership in staying abreast of technology and in helping us strategize on the direction we should go in terms of technology. In this sense, we'll rely on DAOU as our business partner." "This is an important project for DAOU, and we're excited to team with St. Mary's Health Network in building a world-class information systems department," said Bob McNeill, DAOU's executive vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "This network will take St. Mary's into the 21st century. The result will be a more competitive organization that can deliver the highest quality of health care to its communities." St. Mary's Health Network is an integrated health care integrated health care, n healthcare services combining the best of conventional and complementary health care. delivery system based in Reno. The organization has more than 2,200 employees and comprises two hospitals, an HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, and PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there , a physician practice group, a philanthropic foundation Noun 1. philanthropic foundation - a foundation that provides funds for science or art or education or religion or relief from disease etc. charity - a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) and a joint-venture outpatient surgery Outpatient Surgery, also referred to as ambulatory surgery or same-day surgery, is surgery that does not require an overnight hospital stay. The term “outpatient” arises from the fact that surgery patients may go home do not need an overnight hospital center. Founded in 1987, DAOU Systems designs, implements, supports and manages computer networks for the health care industry. The company also offers Internet and 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. solutions. DAOU has provided network services to more than 350 hospitals and health care facilities nationwide. With headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , the company has five regional offices and 140 employees. In addition to St. Mary's Health Network, DAOU's clients include such organizations as Lutheran Healthcare Systems, ScrippsHealth, Palomar-Pomerado Health System and Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens. CONTACT: DAOU Systems Inc., San Diego Craig K. Collins, 619/646-2857 craig.collins@daou.com |
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