Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc. to Market HealthPoint ACS Advanced Clinical System
SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 19, 1997--Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:DHTI) and HealthPoint G.P. announced today the signing of an agreement under which Dynamic will sell HealthPoint ACS(TM), a highly advanced clinical system, as its preferred solution for the office-based physician in the ambulatory setting. Under the terms of the agreement, Dynamic also will provide implementation services, training and telephone support to its HealthPoint ACS clients.
HealthPoint ACS is an innovative computerized patient record (CPR) system developed over ten years that is designed to help caregivers enhance the quality of patient care and reduce healthcare costs. The software is used in physicians' offices at the point of care to document the patient visit, improve workflow and facilitate practice analysis.
Physicians using HealthPoint ACS and DynamicVision(TM), Dynamic's virtual electronic health record solution, will gain access to enterprise-wide electronic patient information. DynamicVision is a multimedia electronic health record that offers immediate, real-time access to vital patient records residing in multiple systems, data, voice and image repositories --
within a facility, across an enterprise, or virtually anywhere in the world.
"Our vision is to provide a solution for the continuum of care. HealthPoint helps in that objective by filling a critical need in the ambulatory setting," Mitchel J. Laskey, president and chief executive officer for Dynamic, said. "HealthPoint ACS captures the clinical encounter in the physician's office and enables it to be viewed in the DynamicVision electronic health record."
Bill Baicy, president of HealthPoint said, "Dynamic has extensive expertise in the integrated delivery network (IDN) marketplace providing enterprise-wide solutions. We are pleased that, through this alliance, caregivers now will have access to information gathered across the continuum of care."
The agreement was announced this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.
Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc., headquartered near Orlando, Florida, develops, markets and supports enterprise-wide, patient-centered solutions that enable the efficient capture, storage, archival and retrieval of electronic health information and the world-wide sharing of this information across the continuum of care.
HealthPoint G.P. is a healthcare information systems and services company dedicated to improving the quality, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery by providing state-of-the-art management and communication services to caregivers, patients, payers and suppliers.
Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, HealthPoint is a general partnership between Glaxo Wellcome Inc., the nation's leading research-based pharmaceutical company, and Physician Computer Network, Inc., the leading provider of information systems for physicians in the United States. The joint venture was announced in January 1996.
For more information about HealthPoint and HealthPoint ACS, call 1-800-452-9653, or visit the HealthPoint website at healthpoint.com. For more information about Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc., call 1-800-832-3020, or visit the Dynamic website at dht.com.
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CONTACT: Mary Lu Lander
Vice President, Marketing
Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc.
1-800-832-3020
mlander@dht.com
or
Tamara Cox Baker
Director, Corporate Communications
HealthPoint
919-572-1100 or 1-800-452-9653
tamara_baker@healthpoint.com
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