Thursday, September 28, 2006
Nightingale Informatix Corporation Signs Multi-Year Electronic Medical Record Contract with Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care
The community based TLCPC physicians and other clinical professionals visit the homes of more than 2,500 patients and families each year - as many as 600 to 700 patients at any given time - to provide palliative care.
Palliative care is the combination of active and compassionate therapies aimed at reducing the symptoms and suffering of individuals and families facing a life-threatening illness. It strives to meet physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs while remaining sensitive to personal, cultural, and religious values, beliefs, and practices. In addition, the Centre is actively involved in furthering palliative care services at a local, provincial, and national level.
The agreement will provide wireless computer technology that allows healthcare professionals visiting patients in their homes to access up-to-date, complete patient records.
"Having complete patient profiles at our fingertips, and at the patient bedside, will significantly enhance our ability to provide seamless, high quality care," said Dr. Russell Goldman, Assistant Director of the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care.
Dr. Goldman said the technology provides many benefits that can be passed on to the patient in a timely way.
"Having the most recent patient information available right at the bedside will also mean that a physician who is making a house call as part of our after-hours service will know things like what medications the patient is on, even if a change has been made earlier that day, and they won't need to trouble family members by asking them to repeat their story."
The agreement between Nightingale and the Temmy Latner Centre will encompass the Centre's 18 physicians, the Max and Beatrice Wolfe Children's Centre team, and all TLCPC administrative staff.
"This agreement is further validation of Nightingale's technologies and track record in its ability to build great healthcare platform that focuses on our clients' needs to improve the quality of patient care," says Sam Chebib, President and CEO of Nightingale. "This is reflective of Nightingale's overall commitment to set the standard not just for practice management automation, but our 'patient centric' model for healthcare record management. We're pleased to be partnering with the Temmy Latner Centre and to be a part of the very important work they do."
This agreement is the latest announcement with Mount Sinai Hospital and includes Nightingale's latest Hybrid Version of its applications, which will derive all the benefits of web-based application as well as enable physicians to use the myNightingale application outside of the clinic setting, where no internet connection is available.
About Nightingale
Nightingale's internet-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solutions are designed to help physicians, clinics, hospitals and other healthcare organizations manage their practices, as well as their patient records, through a secure internet browser. Nightingale's Practice Management and EMR solutions offer multi-location, enterprise-wide management and reporting capabilities. Nightingale's suite of products offer Canadian and United States physicians leading-edge functionality for patient scheduling, resource scheduling, billing, claims processing, work flow tools, clinical documentation, laboratory interfaces, document management and patient portals, and other real-time patient services. OpenX Technologies and VisionMD are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Nightingale. Nightingale services customers in every province in Canada. Visit www.nightingale.md for more information about Nightingale.
About Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care
The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital, is a community-based program that provides palliative care to more than 2,500 individuals and families each year. Palliative care is the combination of active and compassionate therapies aimed at reducing the symptoms and suffering of individuals and families facing a life-threatening illness. It strives to meet physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs while remaining sensitive to personal, cultural, and religious values, beliefs, and practices. In addition, the Centre is actively involved in furthering palliative care services at a local, provincial, and national level. Visit http://www.tlcpc.org for more information about TLCPC.
Except for historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. Factors that might cause a difference include, but are not limited to, market acceptance of principal products, the impact of competitive products and technologies, the possibility of products infringing patents and other intellectual property of fourth parties, and costs of product development. Nightingale Venquest will not update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. More detailed information about potential factors that could affect financial results is included in the documents filed from time to time with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities by Nightingale.
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