Verinform Unveils Residency Management Solution at CREOG/APGO; Company Also Announces Educational Grant Focused on Women's Health.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2003

Verinform Systems, Inc. (http://www.verinform.com) today previewed the next release of VerinformRM(TM) GME and Residency Management System at the annual joint Conference of the Council on Resident Education on Obstetrics & Gynecology ("CREOG") and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics ("APGO"). VerinformRM is a comprehensive web-based system that serves the data management and reporting needs of residency training programs and GME departments. VerinformRM v2.0 adds full support for the new ACGME Resident Duty Hours regulations, which take effect on July 1st, 2003.

CEO & Founder Dina Dickerson, MPH said, "We're delighted to show Conference attendees a preview of what we have in store for them with VerinformRM 2.0, due for release on March 31st. Obstetrics-Gynecology clinical training programs around the country face the same challenge in the upcoming year. In addition to the work they do now to comply with existing Procedure and Evaluations reporting requirements, they must make major adjustments in rotation and call schedules to satisfy new ACGME resident duty hours limits. Not only is it difficult to make these new schedules work, they also have to satisfy a set of monitoring and reporting tasks to prove compliance. At Verinform Systems Inc., we are dedicated to providing systems that help programs meet these requirements without alienating their hard-working residents with unwieldy, time-consuming or disrespectful recording methods."

Dickerson added, "We've worked closely with early customers to approach this in a way that's sensitive to both the regulatory requirements and to residents, residency coordinators, program directors and GME administrators. This issue cuts across every accredited program within an institution of academic medicine -- so it's natural that we should solve it with VerinformRM, the first institution-wide solution that can be tailored to meet the needs of each program while aggregating data across programs to address information needs at the GME level."

Verinform Educational Grant

Verinform also announced an educational grant in support of the joint CREOG & APGO Conference.

Donna D. Wachler, executive director of APGO, said, "This grant is greatly appreciated and will enable us to continue to meet our mission of advancing and improving the study, teaching methods and research activities that promote excellence in the training of health care professionals who care for women."

"At Verinform we believe strongly in the importance of research," Dickerson stated.

About Verinform

Verinform Systems, Inc. provides enterprise-grade software applications for academic hospitals, clinical environments and governmental public health agencies. Software applications are developed on the Verinform Protocol Manager (VPM), a set of browser-based database and workflow tools that allows for the rapid deployment of highly customized, extremely secure and regulation-compliant solutions.

Verinform's mission is to make it possible for leading institutions to provide the best care while meeting their reporting and accounting needs efficiently and automatically. We support the unique and unusual requirements of highly regulated clinical environments with robust, scalable information systems that embrace an institution's existing data needs and healthcare workflow.

Verinform, the Verinform logo, VPM, Verinform Protocol Manager, and VerinformRM are trademarks and/or service marks of Verinform Systems, Inc., and may be registered in your jurisdiction.