University of Washington Academic Medical Center Deploys Carefx's Fusion Context ManagerSEATTLE & MESA, Ariz., Dec. 31, 2002 -- Carefx(TM) Corp. (Carefx), Mesa, has entered into a strategic development relationship with the University of Washington Academic Medical Center (UWAMC), Seattle, to implement Fusion Context Manager(TM), Carefx's desktop integration solution. UWAMC is deploying Fusion Context Manager to simplify and improve caregivers' access to and utilization of clinical information from its many systems, both those developed in-house as well as purchased from different vendors. UWAMC has begun deploying Fusion Context Manager at its University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center campuses. Fusion Context Manager provides clinicians with visual desktop integration that streamlines daily interactions with varied clinical applications. The goal is to eliminate repetitive and time-consuming activities users must perform in each application such as logging on and selecting a patient. Such steps often become significant barriers to use and, at a minimum, disrupt users' thinking about the clinical tasks they want to perform. "Like many IDNs today, the University of Washington Academic Medical Center found itself in the position of having pertinent clinical data in many different systems; accessing each can be so cumbersome that clinicians often do not and may overlook available data. Giving the clinician one-step access to all of the pertinent clinical data from diverse systems provides a valuable tool for improving patient safety and clinicians' workflow," said Terrence Macaleer, Carefx's chief executive officer. About UW Academic Medical Center The UW Academic Medical Center includes the School of Medicine, UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, UW Physicians, UW Physicians Neighborhood Clinics, and the UW's membership in the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and the Children's University Medical Group. The UWAMC has major academic and service affiliations with the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Veterans Administration Medical Centers in Seattle and Boise, Idaho. Consistently among the top five recipients of federal funding for biomedical research, the School of Medicine has among its 1,600 regular faculty four Nobel Laureates, 25 members of the National Academy of Sciences and 26 members of the Institute of Medicine. For more information, please visit www.washington.edu. About Carefx Carefx Corp. (www.carefx.com) is a Mesa-based technology and infrastructure supplier providing clinically and financially oriented, enterprise-scale, Web-based context management and desktop integration toolsets to health care organizations. Carefx's Fusion suite of products offers: -- investment protection for existing information system infrastructures -- support for patient safety and HIPAA initiatives -- improved communication and workflow processes for physicians and other care providers About Fusion Context Manager Fusion Context Manager delivers a standard-compliant implementation of HL7's Context Management Architecture. Fusion Context Manager's application platform neutrality supports workflow-context integration among a wide range of applications, including client-server, thin-client and Web-based environments. Fusion Context Manager is compatible with all CCOW-enabled applications, empowering health care organizations to deploy visually integrated clinician desktops featuring the full range of existing clinical applications. Other Carefx products -- Fusion Desktop(TM) provides a Web-based, highly adaptable framework, including a developer toolkit, for a "clinical information/application kiosk." It enables hospitals to blend best-of-breed applications and information into a highly customizable clinical workspace for physicians, nurses and other allied caregivers. -- Fusion Audit Log(TM) provides a highly scalable, fault-tolerant and application independent auditing tool. Its centralized, security-related event tracking and reporting capabilities, including event-triggered audit actions, augment any health care organization's repertoire of HIPAA compliance tools. -- Fusion Resource Manager(TM) offers a comprehensive and cost-effective LDAP-based security framework that provides health care organizations with ubiquitous, cross-domain and domain-specific security services, including a common, end-user single sign-on service. -- Fusion Patient Roster(TM) provides physicians with an at-a-glance, Web-based application to locate patients and access their clinical data. Its intuitive design conveniently summarizes patient data and increases physicians' efficiency. -- Fusion Clinical Viewer(TM) puts information at physicians' fingertips where and when they need it. Clinical Viewer provides an infrastructure to integrate distributed and heterogeneous information components effectively. For more information about Fusion Context Manager and other Carefx products, visit us at www.carefx.com or contact Oscar Diaz at 480/833-5010, ext. 412. --30--MB/ix
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