One more... There's lots more info at their web site under "What's New". The list is fairly impressive.
CDC Extends Cooperative Agreement with APACHE for Longitudinal HIV/AIDS Outpatient Research Study
McLean, VA--July 8, 1997-- APACHE Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMSI) announced today that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has extended their Cooperative Agreement with APACHE's Health Research Network Division (HRN) through 2001. HRN has been performing longitudinal data collection and analysis on HIV/AIDS patients since 1992 through the multicenter HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS) project, and has had a formal Cooperative Agreement with the CDC since 1993.
Scott Holmberg, Project Officer of the CDC said, "The CDC is pleased to see this Agreement extended. The data are valuable for anyone interested in tracking the changing HIV/AIDS epidemic, and continue to have a variety of public health implications. Nine scientific abstracts resulting from the HOPS project already have been presented at conferences such as the International Conference on AIDS, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, and four papers are in development for peer review. These new publications focus on the changing dynamic of HIV illness, treatments, and outcomes as identified through HRN's analysis of the HOPS database."
Diane Aschman, General Manager of HRN stated, "This project has provided invaluable insights into the multiple stages of HIV infection, and the efficacy of available treatments in fighting the disease. We are pleased that the CDC is extending the Cooperative Agreement, and we look forward to continuing to perform epidemiological and outcomes analysis for the CDC."
As part of the Agreement, the CDC will continue to fund HRN's HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS). The HOPS project has collected and analyzed a national longitudinal epidemiological database of HIV-infected non-AIDS and AIDS patients which is the most comprehensive of its kind.
Members of the HOPS project include nine HIV treatment centers including private practices, university health facilities, and public health clinics. HOPS prospectively tracks patients diverse in their geography, race, gender, HIV risk group, and social and economic class through visits to leading community-based HIV clinicians.
To date, the HOPS database contains an average of 22 months of demographic, clinical, cost and outcomes data for each of more than 3,000 HIV/AIDS cases. The database is composed of 59% AIDS patients and 41% HIV-infected non-AIDS patients, and has captured all stages of illness for HIV infected patients.
Extension of the Agreement ensures the continuing analysis of the growing HOPS database, enabling more research on the effects of new treatments, changes in opportunistic illnesses and infections, and the course of the disease. More immediately, these data can provide indicators to help minimize HIV patients contracting severe late-stage infections. Used as a resource by managed care organizations, the data also can provide a basis for more effective managed care contracts throughout the course of the disease.
The APACHE family of companies combines evidence-based medicine and knowledge-based consulting to deliver tools and processes for clinical, financial, and operational performance improvement across the continuum of care. APACHE's data-driven solutions provide a strategic "blueprint" for performance improvement, helping providers and healthcare organizations to improve variations in practice patterns and reduce clinical costs.
APACHE patient management products and services give clients real-time, risk-adjusted clinical and financial information they need to manage care, especially for high-risk, high-cost patients. Health Outcomes Research provides clinical trial design services, research support for product marketing, and disease management programs. National Health Advisors focuses on strategy and management support services to improve the performance of hospitals and integrated delivery systems. Worldwide, over 600 healthcare organizations have used APACHE products and services to measure, monitor, and manage change. |
