Mediware Delivers Integration Between HCLL(TM) Blood Bank And McKesson's Horizon Lab(TM)

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations
Also Included In: Blood / Hematology
Article Date: 31 Dec 2006 - 0:00 PDT

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Mediware Information Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDW) announced that it has successfully implemented HCLL(TM) Transfusion at the University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC), automating transfusion services for the hospital's blood bank. UTMC is a 319-bed, Level I Trauma Center with almost 8,000 admissions, 200,000 outpatient visits and 24,000 emergency department visits annually. The project involved Mediware and UTMC teams working cohesively to convert UTMC's historical transfusion data and to validate system accuracy while interfacing transfusion services with the hospital's McKesson Horizon infrastructure.

The success being experienced at UTMC and elsewhere is significant for Mediware and its customers. In addition to the size and prestige of the facility, the UTMC project demonstrates the effectiveness of Mediware's HL7-based interface to McKesson's Horizon Lab(TM).

"At UTMC we strive for the best systems to support our patients," said Colleen Hood, Lab Systems Analyst. "In the blood bank, Mediware's HCLL offered us capabilities that matched our philosophies and provided one more step toward our goal of complete integration into an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)."

The integration with UTMC's EMR enables measurable benefits for UTMC -- both in the blood bank as well as throughout the facility -- and allows UTMC to further reduce its dependency on paper-based processes by permitting immediate electronic access to results and charges from the blood bank. UTMC admissions and lab system are also electronically accessible to blood bank staff, an improvement which is expected to reduce the department's paper-based processes by as much as 50 percent.

"Interfacing with McKesson's lab system was a complex but necessary process," said Colleen Hood. "We are very pleased to be able to leverage two systems we consider top of the line."

"Our successes with UTMC and other Horizon Lab customers are significant for Mediware," said John Damgaard, vice president and general manager of Mediware's Blood Management division. "We are impressed with the results and are pleased to add another esteemed organization to our community of top tier customers."

About Mediware

Mediware delivers powerful software solutions that encapsulate patient care instructions, reinforce patient safety practices and improve efficiencies to lower costs. Mediware targets three primary areas of patient care -- Medication Management, Perioperative Management and Blood Management (transfusion, inventory and donor practices) -- with specialized solutions that are proven in more than 1,000 client installations. Mediware's customers include prestigious hospitals, clinics, correctional institutions, blood centers and other public and private health care institutions throughout the world. For more information about Mediware products and services, visit our web site at http://www.mediware.com.

Horizon is a trademark of McKesson Corporation.

Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as the same may be amended from time to time (the "Act") and in releases made by the SEC from time to time. Such forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors disclosed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2006, which may cause the actual results of the Company to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any obligation to update its forward-looking statements.

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