Zix Corporation Selected by Piedmont Medical Laboratory for Lab Connectivity Services.DALLAS -- Regional Laboratory Signs Three-Year Contract for Dr. Chart(R) Automated Order Entry and Results Reporting Zix Corporation Zix Corporation (NASDAQ: ZIXI) is an American company based in Dallas, Texas that provides email encryption to health care organizations, financial institutions and government agencies. (ZixCorp(R)), (Nasdaq:ZIXI), a global provider of secure e-messaging, e-prescribing, and e-transaction applications and services, today announced that Piedmont Piedmont, region, Italy Piedmont (pēd`mŏnt), Ital. Piemonte, region (1991 pop. 4,302,565), 9,807 sq mi (25,400 sq km), NW Italy, bordering on France in the west and on Switzerland in the north. Medical Laboratory, a Virginia-based facility serving a 17-county service region, has signed a three-year contract for ZixCorp's Dr. Chart(R) service to provide laboratory client connectivity. "Dr. Chart will help us stay competitive with the national labs," said Desiree Kardashian, director of finance and interim co-chief executive officer for Piedmont. "The flexibility of Dr. Chart to interface directly with practice management systems and be accessed via a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. is helpful to physicians. This automation will also help improve the efficiency of our billing system. We plan to significantly increase our current client base, and Dr. Chart will help us achieve that goal." Dr. Chart is a Web-based communications tool that connects healthcare providers and laboratories. It enables doctors to initiate lab orders, check medical necessity compliance, and view results rapidly and accurately using an encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science Internet connection. The service automates several processes that normally place a burden on laboratory operations. "Dr. Chart is a great way for laboratories like Piedmont to gain a technological edge," said Rick Spurr, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for ZixCorp. "It's unmatched in flexibility and ease of use and strengthens the relationship between healthcare providers and the labs with fast delivery and easy-to-read results." About Piedmont Medical Laboratory Established in 1991, Piedmont Medical Laboratory serves clients in a 17-county service region in Virginia and West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. . With 10 locations, Piedmont offers full laboratory services including fertility testing, health profiles, drugs of abuse testing, and sexually transmitted disease sexually transmitted disease (STD) or venereal disease, term for infections acquired mainly through sexual contact. Five diseases were traditionally known as venereal diseases: gonorrhea, syphilis, and the less common granuloma inguinale, screening. For more information, visit www.piedmontlab.com. About Zix Corporation Zix Corporation (ZixCorp(R)) is a global provider of secure e-messaging, e-prescribing, and e-transaction applications and services. ZixCorp offers a range of solutions to protect organizations from viruses, spam, and electronic attack, as well as enabling secure electronic communications, such as email encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. , e-prescribing, on-line doctor visits, and electronic lab results. ZixCorp helps organizations of any size to streamline operations, reduce risks, and leverage the efficiencies of e-messaging. For more information, visit www.zixcorp.com. |
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