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• Compliance Software (Salt Lake City) has signed a contract with Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp; Burlington, NC) to provide LabCorp and its corporate clients with new drug-testing software. The software system will link the laboratory with client and collection sites through workstations placed in LabCorp’s patient service centers.
• InfoSys (Chicago) said five clients have installed or committed to Microsoft’s Windows NT with SQL Server 7.0 as their operating platform for financial, administrative and clinical functions. The clients span the entire healthcare industry, including home health, nursing home, assisted living, physical therapy and rehabilitation fields. The five new clients are American Baptist Homes of the West, which uses assisted living, nursing home and rehabilitation software; VNA of Houston, which uses HomeSys; Medi-Bill Associates and Nightime Pediatrics, which use MedSys; and North Memorial Health Care, which is scheduled to install HomeSys this month.
• MarNetsmart Technologies said that its wholly owned subsidiary, Creative Socio-Medics (Islip, NY), has signed a multi-year, $1.26 million base contract with the State of Indiana’s Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA; Indianapolis). In addition, the contract provides for approximately $700,000 of software from third-party suppliers and maintenance by CSM. CSM will provide its Windows-based Behavioral Healthcare Information System (BHIS), Clinician Workstation (CWS), and Decision Support System (DSS). The FSSA oversees eight state-operated entities, plus its own central location, that serve about 2,000 institutionalized mentally ill and/or developmentally disabled patients. The FSSA’s requirements for the new management information system were that the software be Windows-based, already in use by other statewide systems, ODBC, and Y2K-compliant.
• Shared Medical Systems (Malvern, PA) has signed a 10-year, $90 million contract to supply new Y2K compliant clinical information systems to Albany Medical Center (AMC; Albany, NY). The agreement enables the medical center to facilitate quicker and more efficient registration and billing processes for patients, replacing the center’s current system of more than 500 stand-alone computer applications connected through 200 interfaces. The new system is predicted by AMC to save the institution more than $75 million over the next 10 years. "These sophisticated computer technologies and systems will also be employed by our scientists and educators to conduct biomedical research and to help them better train the next generation of providers," said James Barba, president and chief executive officer of AMC.
• Xceed’s Zabit & Associates (Z&A; New York) has created and launched a web site for the National I.A.M. Benefit Trust Fund, which provides healthcare benefits for 20,000 participants and has more than $4.8 billion in assets. The site provides fund members access to information about pension benefits, and interactive retirement modeling allows each individual to explore different retirement lifestyle choices using Xceed’s A&Z software. The site allows participants to compare their retirement income through the fund to results with a 401(k) plan.
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