IDX Imagecast(TM) RIS and PACS users among leaders in implementing solutions
to streamline workflow and promote clinical excellence in annual survey by
leading imaging technology publication
BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDX Systems Corporation
(Nasdaq: IDXC), a leading provider of healthcare information systems, today
announced that six IDX Imagecast(TM) customers were included in the annual
"Top 15 Connected Healthcare Facilities" survey conducted by Health Imaging &
IT Magazine. Imagecast Radiology Information System (RIS) and Picture
Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) solutions were more widely
represented in this year's "Top 15" survey than any other single vendor.
Imagecast is designed to automate the clinical and administrative aspects
of radiology and imaging departments and enable rapid, reliable access to
images and associated patient information for technologists, radiologists,
specialists and referring providers. Imagecast customers in this year's Health
Imaging & IT "Top 15" are:
* Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
* Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota
* Brigham and Women's / Faulkner Hospitals, Boston, Massachusetts
* Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
* Clarian Health Partners Methodist, Indiana University & Riley
Hospitals, Indianapolis, Indiana
* University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nominations were collected from an online database of more than 13,000
healthcare business and clinical professionals. A team from Health Imaging &
IT analyzed the surveys completed by each facility and selected the winners
from more than 250 nominees. A full explanation of the selection process is
available in the October 2004 issue of Health Imaging & IT and via this link:
http://www.healthimaging.com.
"These results from Health Imaging & IT validate the innovation and
leadership our customers show every day," said Walt Marti, Vice President and
General Manager, IDX Imagecast Operating Unit. "We are proud to be an ongoing
part of our customers' success in undertaking the transformation of evidence-
based medicine."
For a demonstration of Imagecast technology, visit booth 1936 at the
upcoming RSNA Conference in Chicago, November 28 - December 3, 2004. For more
information, visit http://www.idx.com/rsna.
About IDX Imagecast(TM)
Imagecast solutions provide healthcare institutions, such as hospitals,
academic medical centers, integrated delivery networks and imaging centers,
with comprehensive distributed access to significant clinical findings and
associated images. Our solutions optimize productivity, enhance business
practices, and facilitate clinical decision making. Today's leading medical
specialists, business managers, and executives can depend on IDX because only
Imagecast products combine advanced technology with unmatched expertise to
deliver visionary workflow integration. For more information, visit
http://www.idx.com/imagecast. Also, be sure to visit Imagecast at this year's
RSNA, November 28-December 3 in Chicago at Booth 1936.
About IDX
Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology
solutions to maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality
of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care.
IDX supports these objectives with a broad range of complementary and
functionally rich products installed at 3,300 customer sites. Customers
include 138,000 physicians who utilize practice management systems to improve
patient care and other workflow processes. IDX software solutions are
installed at:
* 380 integrated delivery networks (IDNs) representing more than 500
hospitals
* 175 large group practices with more than 200 physicians
* 665 mid-size group practices with less than 200 physicians
IDX also provides its enterprise clinical software as a subcontractor to
BT and Fujitsu Services, Local Service Providers for the United Kingdom
National Health Service's National Programme for Information Technology, an
initiative to establish electronic patient records for 50 million patients.
The IDX web strategy includes browser technology, e-commerce and web-based
tools -- built using Internet architecture -- that facilitates access for
patients, physicians and care providers to vital health information and data
managed by the IDX clinical, administrative, financial, and managed care
products. IDX has approximately 2,100 full-time employees.
IDX and Imagecast are trademarks or registered trademarks of IDX
Investment Corporation.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about IDX Systems
Corporation that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the
important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those indicated by such forward-looking statements are uncertainties or
difficulties in developing new services and systems, including Imagecast,
difficulties in implementing systems, possible deferral, delay or cancellation
by customers of computer system or service purchase decisions, possible delay
of system installations and service implementations, development by
competitors of new or superior technologies, changing economic, political and
regulatory influences on the healthcare industry, possible disruptions in the
national economy caused by terrorist activities and foreign conflicts, changes
in product pricing policies, governmental regulation of IDX's software and
operations, the possibility of product-related liabilities, and factors
detailed from time to time in IDX's periodic reports and registration
statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which important
factors are incorporated herein by reference. IDX undertakes no obligation to
update forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the
occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes in future operating results,
financial condition or business over time.
For more information, contact:
Bob Osmond
Osmosis Communications, Inc.
For IDX Systems Corporation
bob@osmosiscommunications.com
802.472.3444
SOURCE IDX Systems Corporation
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Related links:
http://www.idx.com
http://www.healthimaging.com
CONTACT:
Bob Osmond of Osmosis Communications, Inc.
for IDX Systems Corporation, bob@osmosiscommunications.com,
+1-802-472-3444
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