Stanford's SKOLAR Announces Collaboration with Agilent Technologies To Extend the Reach of Next-Generation Web-Enabled Healthcare Devices
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000-- Devices to Provide Physicians with Knowledge Support at Point of Care
SKOLAR, an Internet-based knowledge service provider for the medical community, today announced details of a collaboration with Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) that will enable physicians to make rapid, high-quality decisions at the bedsice of critically ill patients .
"Agilent, which traces its origins to Hewlett-Packard, and SKOLAR, share common roots in Stanford. We also share a vision for improving patient care. We want to put the best knowledge in the hands of medical professionals when and where they need it most," says Paul Lippe, Chief Executive Officer of SKOLAR.
SKOLAR is Stanford University's first branded Internet spin-off and one whose purpose is primarily educational, and therefore the first that carries the Stanford name.
The agreement announced today between SKOLAR and Agilent's Healthcare Solutions Group has two key components: e-commerce and knowledge integration.
In the e-commerce component, Agilent will act as the exclusive e-commerce distributor of subscriptions to Stanford-SKOLAR, MD, the online search and medical reference service, which is the company's flagship product.
In the knowledge-integration component of the agreement, Agilent confirmed that it has purchased 1,000 user-subscriptions to SKOLAR, MD and has begun to integrate the product with one of its own premier products: the CMS 2001 Patient Monitoring System. Introduced in July, this state-of-the-art system enables physicians to access real-time and retrospective patient data while at the same time consulting Web-based knowledge and information applications.
"By bundling subscriptions to SKOLAR, MD with our growing family of wireless and Web-enabled patient mooitoring systems, we're offering an enhanced decision-support solution to physicians in the critical care environment," said Steve Rusckowski, senior vice president and general manager of Agilent's Healthcare Solutions Group.
"By integrating the high-quality information-querying capabilities of the SKOLAR product, we've helped shape a solution by enhancing the user's ability to support decision-making in intensive care units, operating rooms, neonatal care facilities, or from remote locations, anywhere in the world," Rusckowski said.
The Beginning of a New Era in Patient Care-Delivery Systems
Agilent and SKOLAR executives explain that their products use standard Web technologies to deploy critical information throughout the care-delivery system's existing infrastructure. They note that this new technology is an example of how use of the Internet is moving to a new stage. In this stage, substance and depth become paramount. By taking advantage of the Agilent/SKOLAR solution, physicians and large healthcare institutions will not only save time and money, but they will also obtain better results. In the critical care environment, this translates into better patient outcomes, and ultimately, lives saved.
"Agilent and SKOLAR are helping to change the way professionals use knowledge," said SKOLAR's Lippe. "We're moving to a post-PC, device-independent world where knowledge is literally at the fingertips of professionals as they go through their day."
"Agilent's devices--already ubiquitous, already wired--will enable physicians to access patient data and medical knowledge in the clinical setting. By presenting deep, real-time patient data side-by-side with deep, real-time knowledge, the Agilent/SKOLAR solution helps re-define the physician workflow," he said
Eugene Bauer, MD, Vice President for Stanford University Medical Center and Dean of Stanford's Medical School, suggests this new knowledge environment "raises the bar of medical practice by bringing one-click knowledge to the point of care."
CONTACT:
SKOLAR
Michael Whitehouse, 650/854-1725
whitehouse@connectionscorp.com
Peter Tarr, 212/521-3166 or 917/817-4067 (cell)
tarr@connectionscorp.com
or
Agilent Technologies
Heidi Wilson, 978/659-7302
heidi-wilson@agilent.com |
