Picis Announces Four New Clients Through Its Distribution Partner Siemens Medical Solutions.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers ARLINGTON, Va.--(BW HealthWire)--Nov. 26, 2001 Picis Inc., a worldwide provider of anesthesia and critical care information solutions, announced today that its distribution partner, Siemens Medical Solutions Siemens Medical Solutions (Siemens Med) is a supplier to the healthcare industry, and is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. Its U.S. division, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., is a Delaware corporation, with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania. , has signed contracts with four new clients for Picis CareSuite(TM), an information management solution that automates the clinical documentation process and caregiver workflow in the OR and ICU ICU intensive care unit. ICU abbr. intensive care unit ICU see intensive care unit. ICU environments. The new clients are Hospital Gelderse Vallei in Holland; Odense Universitethospital in Denmark; Teramo Hospital in Italy and Santa Maria Santa Maria, city, Brazil Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. Picis and Siemens entered into a distribution agreement in 1997, enabling Siemens to sell and market CareSuite as part of their integrated information and technology solutions. The CareSuite information management solution captures real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. from medical devices and hospital information systems, automates the workflow of caregivers at the point of care and provides real-time and retrospective reporting tools that give complete access to the CareSuite clinical database. "We are very pleased to welcome these new European clients to our growing list of prestigious customers throughout the world," said Todd Cozzens, chief executive officer and president at Picis. "Our CareSuite solution plays a critical role in helping our clients improve the quality of patient care, streamline workflow processes and save clinicians time. We are excited that our new clients will have the opportunity to realize these benefits." About Picis Picis is a worldwide provider of solutions for health care providers that automate the patient care process and help optimize patient outcomes in critical care and perioperative perioperative /peri·op·er·a·tive/ (-op´er-ah-tiv) pertaining to the period extending from the time of hospitalization for surgery to the time of discharge. per·i·op·er·a·tive adj. environments. Picis has developed CareSuite, an integrated critical care and anesthesia information solution coupled with data-mining tools that convert the data generated through care process automation into the information that clinicians and administrators can use to drive process improvement. CareSuite is installed in medical facilities such as Emory Healthcare, the Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic: see Mayo, Charles Horace. Mayo Clinic voluntary association of more than 500 physicians in Rochester, Minnesota. [Am. Hist.: EB, 11: 723] See : Medicine , the University Hospital of Rotterdam, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Medical Center, and the University of Vienna History The University was founded on March 12, 1365 by Duke Rudolph IV and his brothers Albert III and Leopold III, hence the additional name "Alma Mater Rudolphina". After the Charles University in Prague, the University of Vienna is the second oldest university in Central Hospital. Picis, with headquarters in Arlington, Virginia has sales and technical support staff throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Picis has distribution partnerships with IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:IDXC), QuadraMed Corporation (Nasdaq: QMDC), and Siemens Medical Systems. Picis was a runner-up winner for the 2001 Healthcare Innovation in Technology Systems (HITS) partnership awards. Recent news and other information are at www.picis.com |
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