DALLAS, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services,
Inc. (NYSE: ACS) today announced a $4 million contract to provide
electronic patient records capture for the City of New Orleans Emergency
Medical Services (EMS) agency.
Under the terms of the five-year contract, ACS will equip all New
Orleans' ambulances with the state-of-the-art FIREHOUSE (FH) Mobile EMS
software that allows local EMS personnel to record complete patient data in
real-time, whether in the field at a patient's side or in the ambulance on
the way to the hospital.
"We look forward to stepping into a new future with ACS through the
adoption of electronic patient care records and electronic billing, which
will allow us to provide our city with the highest level of pre-hospital
emergency medicine to-date," said Jullette Saussy, M.D., director of EMS
for the City of New Orleans. "For 19 years, ACS has continued to work with
us side-by-side to ensure that our needs as a revenue-generating EMS agency
are met while also remaining patient-care focused throughout the process."
Since 1989, ACS has supported the City of New Orleans EMS Department
with a full range of professional services; computer operations and data
center management; quality and production control; as well as auditing,
accounting and customer service. In 2003, ACS provided handheld computers
for use on the city's ambulance units to help improve data collection
procedures and ambulance response times.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, ACS continued to serve as a
full-service partner for the City of New Orleans despite the loss of key
hardware which required ACS to temporarily return to a paper-based billing
system until the company could ship new equipment into the city.
"This integration of FH Mobile EMS with ACS' FIREHOUSE software will
provide New Orleans paramedics with a state-of-the-art system that will
give them the ability to reach the patient faster, and treat, transport and
document the incident seamlessly and more efficiently than ever before,"
said Louis Schiavone, ACS vice president of Public Safety and Justice
Systems.
FH Mobile EMS is the first product that has been fully integrated into
ACS' award-winning FIREHOUSE software, the most widely used fire department
records management system in the nation. FIREHOUSE software has been
selected by more than 14,000 clients worldwide -- 96 percent of whom say
they would recommend the solution to others.
About ACS
ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with 63,000 people supporting client
operations reaching more than 100 countries, provides business process
outsourcing and information technology solutions to world-class commercial
and government clients. The company's Class A common stock trades on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ACS." Learn more about ACS at
http://www.acs-inc.com.
SOURCE Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
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CONTACT:
investor relations, Jon Puckett, Vice
President, Investor Relations, +1-214-841-8281,
jon.puckett@acs-inc.com, or media relations, Lacey Hautzinger,
Manager, Corporate Communications, +1-214-841-8004,
lacey.hautzinger@acs-inc.com, both of Affiliated Computer
Services, Inc.
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