East Texas Medical Center (ETMC) Regional Healthcare System Selects USA's Award-Winning Solution RMS for Enterprise Scheduling and Physician Access.

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (USA), the leading provider of enterprise-wide resource management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced that East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System, located in Tyler, TX, has contracted for USA's award-winning totally integrated Resource Management System (RMS). This is the eleventh hospital in Texas that has contracted for USA's access management solutions over the last two years. RMS, along with Physician Access, will provide conflict-free scheduling, notifications, retrospective analysis, and on-going process refinement making it easier for patients and physicians to schedule and pre-register for appointments and eliminate duplicate data-gathering, creating a more patient-centered approach.

USA's Physician Access will provide all of ETMC's physician offices access to real-time scheduling information and functions, including security features to control access. The implementation of RMS along with Physician Access is expected to improve physician relationships, increase referrals and revenue, improve scheduler productivity, reduce labor costs, improve patient and physician satisfaction, and provide optimal resource utilization and scheduling efficiency.

RMS, which is listed as #1 in the area of Enterprise Scheduling by KLAS Enterprises, will meet the centralized needs for ETMC Regional Healthcare System's sophisticated infrastructure of 14 hospitals and numerous outpatient clinics, with the goal of achieving better patient outcomes and delivering the most convenient, efficient, and safe patient care available throughout east Texas. "USA's outstanding reputation for support and service was the basis for winning this business," according to Charlie Kean, USA's Vice President of Sales. Charlie adds, "Being a highly complex healthcare organization, ETMC Regional Healthcare System was in search of a vendor they could form a partnership with, and needed to trust that they were buying a stable, reliable and robust system with zero downtown that would keep up with their extensive volumes and provide immediate results."

According to Paula Anthony, Vice President and CIO, "We are thrilled to partner with USA in support of one of our most strategic and critical functions - our centralized scheduling operation. Through our HealthFirst call center, we schedule over 180,000 patient visits and procedures per year. USA's Resource Management System will be pivotal to our operational efficiency and customer service efforts."

The ETMC Regional Healthcare System is a large IDN encompassing 14 hospitals, 6,000 employees and over 500 board-certified physicians serving hundreds of thousands throughout east Texas. ETMC prides itself on its advanced healthcare sophistication, boasting a Level 1 Trauma Center and home to some of the most sophisticated healthcare technology, specifically the most advanced imaging and surgical technology available. The philosophy of regional service that drives the ETMC Regional Healthcare System originated in the mid-1970's and transformed what was once one hospital drawing referrals from its surrounding area into a seamless system of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare facilities and services throughout East Texas. A system with one mission: bringing to the people of the region the care they deserve - care that is first in East Texas, second to none. More than a million people call East Texas home. They live in communities ranging in population from fewer than 500 to more than 50,000. And every year, ETMC serves more than 300,000 of them.

About Unibased Systems Architecture (USA): Celebrating its 20th anniversary last year, USA's reputation for product quality, reliability, and supporting services has no equal in the HIT industry. USA and its products have maintained highest rankings from the KLAS(TM) independent reporting for the last seven years. USA markets various products which are open, scalable, integrated client/server and web enabled solutions, designed to meet the unique needs of sophisticated enterprise organizations. USA has major solution offerings in the HIT and air travel markets, providing real time production scheduling, human resource, security and financial systems. In the HIT industry, RMS is an integrated solution which schedules and tracks patient resource needs from pre-access through follow-up. RMS also monitors the effectiveness of clinical programs, financial productivity and capacity management. ORMS is an integrated module which addresses OR scheduling, surgeon preferences, suite utilization, materials management, clinical worker training and certification. RMS/ORMS results in significant improvements in physician and patient relations. USA products and services are available through direct sales, marketing partners, value added resellers and system integrators. USA is a private corporation founded in 1986, and is based in Chesterfield, Missouri. Visit USA on the web at www.unibased.com.