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Brian Yount, MD, FAAP and HealthGate’s Timothy McNamara,
MD, MPH to Discuss Benefits and Use of Collaborative
Technologies at HIMSS 2008
Other topics:
Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
HealthGate Data Corp.
February 12, 2008
Burlington, MA -- HealthGate Data Corp. (www.healthgate.com)
announced today that Brian Yount, MD, FAAP and Timothy McNamara,
MD, MPH will be featured speakers at HIMSS 2008 in Orlando,
Florida. Drs. Yount and McNamara will be discussing how document
standardization, including order sets, clinical guidelines and
protocols, improve the quality of healthcare services and are
necessary to prepare organizations for major initiatives such as
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The
presentation features three areas of benefit to healthcare
organizations: 1) why collaborative technologies in healthcare
are not only necessary, but imperative; 2) available
technologies that promote better collaboration; and, 3) lessons
to be learned from one system’s successful implementation of a
collaborative solution.
Also included in the presentation will be the results of a
year-long survey of healthcare executives representing 60 major
health systems regarding collaborative technologies and a case
study featuring how one such organization, St. Francis Health
System, Tulsa, Oklahoma, implemented HealthGate’s Collaboration
Architect. Collaboration Architect, a web-based document and
task management application, greatly accelerates the process of
reviewing, editing and approving complex documents and other
clinical, operational and support materials.
“We are pleased that experts such as Drs. Yount and McNamara
will share the success enjoyed by St. Francis’ implementation of
Collaboration Architect at such a prestigious and well-attended
event as HIMSS,” said Bill Reece, HealthGate’s Chief Executive
Officer. “Those attending the event and their respective
organizations will certainly benefit from the presentation.”
About Dr. Yount
Brian Yount, MD, FAAP is an internal medicine/pediatrics
hospitalist practicing in Tulsa, OK. He is an assistant
professor with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine,
Tulsa and is program director for the combined internal
medicine/pediatrics residency.
About Dr. McNamara
Timothy McNamara, MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer of
HealthGate Data Corp., a provider of collaboration technology
for the healthcare industry. He also currently serves as the
medical director for the Center for Healthcare Informatics at
the University of Kansas and teaches medical informatics in the
Schools of Medicine and Nursing at KUMC.
About HealthGate Data Corp.
HealthGate Data Corp., founded in 1994,
brings innovative collaboration, document and knowledge
management technologies to health systems to support their
quality and standardization initiatives. HealthGate’s
Collaboration Architect allows teams from various hospital
disciplines, including clinical, operational, IT and legal, to
collaborate, reach consensus and communicate asynchronously,
anytime, through our structured collaboration platform. Visit
www.healthgate.com or call HealthGate at 800-434-4283 for more
information.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain statements that are
forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. HealthGate's actual results may
differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements reflect
management's current expectations, are based on many
assumptions, and, like HealthGate’s business and operations
generally, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties,
including, among other things: the market for HealthGate’s
Collaboration Architect offering and other Quality Improvement
and Risk Management Solutions products and services;
HealthGate's ability to generate sufficient revenues from its
current and future products and services; HealthGate's ability
to keep up with the rapid technological developments in the
healthcare industry; competition; reliance on computer systems
and software; HealthGate's ability to retain key personnel; and
other risk factors. HealthGate does not intend to update or
publicly release any revisions to the forward-looking
statements. |
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