Data General announces strategic healthcare software partnerships; Agreements with MarkCare, Health Systems Design and PaperChase solidify industry leading position.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1996--Data General Corp. today announced that MarkCare Medical Solutions, a subsidiary of Mark Solutions Inc., of Bloomfield, N.J. and Health Systems Design, of Oakland, Calif. will offer their healthcare solutions on Data General's Intel-based AViiON servers. In addition, Data General has signed an agreement to distribute PaperChase, an on-line biomedical literature retrieval service offered by Boston's Beth Israel Hospital See:
"Data General has been a leading provider of technology solutions and services to the healthcare industry for more than twenty years," said Michael Worhach, vice president of Data General's Healthcare Division. "We are continuing to expand our offerings and enhance our products to meet the evolving needs of today's integrated healthcare delivery system." In its first reseller agreement with a hardware provider, Health Systems Design (HSD) will offer its leading managed care solution on Data General's family of Intel-based AViiONs. HSD's Diamond client/server based software product is a leading information solution for managed care organizations including 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, , PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there , TPA (Transient Program Area) See transient area. TPA - Transient Program Area , IPA IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet , PHO and Medicaid. HSD's solution provides numerous network management applications including member and group administration, benefit plan management, utilization management, provider contracting, claims adjudication, premier billing and accounts payable. The agreement with MarkCare Medical provides an efficient solution for hospital radiology departments. MarkCare's INTRASCAN II medical image management system also will now run on Data General's Intel-based AViiON servers. As hospitals are faced with the task of managing data and images despite shrinking budgets and reduced space, Data General and MarkCare have collaborated to provide a total solution for the processing, reporting, reading, archiving and storing of medical images in the healthcare provider environment. INTRASCAN II is accessible to the entire network and can be integrated with the existing radiology information system A Radiology Information System (RIS) is used by radiology departments to store, manipulate and distribute patient radiological data and imagery. The system generally consists of patient tracking and scheduling, result reporting and image tracking capabilities. (RIS) to provide simultaneous access to diagnosis and picture. INTRASCAN II also allows for the storage and recall of images and text from several different imaging modalities, including X-ray, CT, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, RTPS, DSI, DSA and MRI. Data General's Intel-based AViiON servers offer a broad performance range, from powerful eight-processor enterprise servers to inexpensive, entry-level servers for reseller and workgroup applications. Intel-based AViiON servers combine Data General's expertise in commercial systems with Intel's superior microprocessor technology to provide a new standard in enterprise computing -- robust, high availability systems riding a new performance curve. PaperChase is a service of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, a major teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. . PaperChase is accessible via the Internet or local access twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It is also compatible with terminals and workstations located throughout hospitals that have the Meditech Hospital Information System. HSD is a leading provider of managed care information systems software to payers and providers of managed care services. Customers on the payer side include health management organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs) and indemnity insurers. Customers on the provider side include independent practice associations and physician hospital organizations. MarkCare Medical Systems Inc. is a subsidiary of Mark Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MCSI). Mark Solutions Inc. is a technology and marketing driven company providing innovative solutions to the growing corrections and healthcare industries. Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DGN) specializes in providing servers, storage systems, and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, with headquarters in Westboro, Mass., reported revenues of $1.2 billion in fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and services, is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com. -0- AViiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corp. All brand and produce names appearing in the press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Jim Dunlap or George W. Goldman Data General Corp. Edelman Worldwide 508/898-6546 212/704-4440 jim_dunlap@dg.com ggoldman@edelman.com |
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