Picis Named Finalist for Microsoft Healthcare Users Group Annual Awards.Business Editors WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2003 Judges for the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG MS-HUG Microsoft Healthcare Users Group ) and Microsoft Corp. selected Picis as a finalist for the MS-HUG annual awards in the Acute Care -Clinical/Patient Financial Information Systems category. MS-HUG holds the annual Industry Solutions Awards for Healthcare (ISAH ISAH Independent Supervisory Authority for Hunting (UK) isah Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft und Abfalltechnik der Universität Hannover (Hannover, Germany) ) event to recognize independent software vendors (ISVs) that utilize Microsoft technology to provide significant business benefits to healthcare organizations. Picis demonstrated these benefits through the use of its PeriopSuite operating room (OR) management system at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. The Methodist Hospital implemented the PeriopSuite OR management system in ten OR facilities, including more than 60 operating rooms, three acute care hospitals and a 1250-bed main facility. PeriopSuite automates each step of the 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. process, including surgical scheduling, preference card maintenance, perioperative documentation, supply management, billing and much more. This integrated, multi-facility implementation enables Methodist to more easily track patient care, costs, supply usage and billing from facility to facility and for the entire organization. "We are especially proud to be named a finalist for the MS-HUG award because this selection is based on how our innovative technology provides real benefit and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). at a real clinical site," stated Todd Cozzens, chairman and chief executive officer of Picis, Inc. "Methodist has a very busy and challenging operating room environment, and our PeriopSuite installation there proves again that we have one of the most robust, innovative and powerful operating management system on the market. This is why Picis has signed up more new customers in the last two years than any other company in our market." "The MS-HUG annual awards program gives us the chance to honor healthcare industry leaders and organizations judged to have optimized Microsoft technology in the healthcare industry," said Ahmad Hashem, MD, PhD, global healthcare industry manager at Microsoft. "We recognize Picis' ability to create impressive perioperative information solutions that offer their customers the interoperability and scalability they require in today's rapidly changing healthcare environment." Finalists in the ISAH categories will demonstrate their solutions in the Microsoft booth at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Founded in 1961, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of medical informatics technology and management systems. conference, Feb. 9-13, 2003, in San Diego. Winners of the awards will be announced at the Microsoft booth, No. 3610, at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11. About Picis Picis provides the only integrated operating room management Operating Room Management is the science of how to run an Operating Room Suite. Operational Operating Room Management focuses on maximizing operational efficiency at the facility, i.e. and anesthesia information system in the industry that delivers total perioperative automation today. Picis' solutions are installed in more than 600 medical centers worldwide, such as The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world. "CHOP" has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Child Magazine in recent years. ; Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, located in Chicago's northern suburbs, is an academic health system affiliated with the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University and all attending physicians are on faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine. ; HCA HCA, n.pr See acid, hydroxycitric. Inc.; HMA (High Memory Area) In PCs, the first 64K of extended memory from 1024K to 1088K, which can be accessed by DOS. It is managed by the HIMEM.SYS driver. It was discovered by accident that this area could be used by DOS, even though it was beyond the traditional Inc.; The Mayo Clinic; The Methodist Hospital in Houston; and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Headquartered in Wakefield, Mass., Picis has expert sales and technical support staff in North America, Europe and Asia. Picis maintains partnerships with IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:IDXC), Siemens Medical Systems and Lawson Software (NASDAQ:LWSN). Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. |
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