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[news 2005-2006]
AdapCS Canada
Corp. and DINMAR collaborate to help reduce patient
wait times
Jan. 27, 2006
For immediate release
KINGSTON -- AdapCS Canada Corp., a Kingston-based healthcare
informatics company, and DINMAR, a leading North American
healthcare information technology company have entered
into a partnership that will integrate AdapCS's Axcess.Rx
wait-list management application with DINMAR's electronic
health record system, Oacis | ehr.
The partnership should improve the ability of healthcare
organizations across Canada to better manage wait lists
and report wait times of patients scheduled for surgery,
says Dr. John Marshall, CEO of AdapCS and former chief
of staff at Kingston General Hospital.
“DINMAR is a world-class company and we're thrilled
to be partnering with them," he says. “Wait
lists and resource allocation are certainly among the
most vexing challenges for countries with single-payer
healthcare systems.”
Axcess.Rx, was developed under the direction of Dr.
Marshall, a longtime neurosurgeon, John Lott, Director
of Information Analysis and Distribution for KGH, and
Jonathan Bennet, a systems programmer analyst at KGH,
under a grant from the Ontario Hospital Association’s
Change Foundation.
The software
suite enables physicians and hospitals to effectively
manage patients waiting for services and to allocate
resources appropriately. PARTEQ Innovations, the technology
transfer agent of Kingston General Hospital, has filed
for patent protection on the waiting list technology
and has licensed exclusive rights for commercialization
to AdapCS Canada.
Axcess.Rx is currently in use in two Canadian provinces.
Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu hospitals in
Kingston, Lennox and Addington County General Hospital
in Napanee, and the Hospitals of the Capital District
Health Authority in Nova Scotia use Axcess.Rx, which
connects with existing Admissions Discharge and Transfer
(ADT), scheduling, and Electronic Health Record systems.
DINMAR is an ideal partner because of its expertise
in coordinated electronic health record management,
Dr. Marshall says. Its Oacis | ehr suite of applications
amplifies the power of hospitals’ disparate electronic
health care records. Organizations can quickly and economically
connect their unique and ever-changing information systems
with Oacis; moreover, where diverse clinical systems
coexist, Oacis provides a "unifying" clinical
data repository that enables a single, integrated electronic
patient record.
"While Oacis | ehr interoperates with any system,
we are particularly
excited about this venture with AdapCS because wait
times place an enormous
collective strain on the cost and quality of care in
Canada," said Mark Groper, CEO of DINMAR. "We
believe the combination of our two products, along with
DINMAR's consulting and implementation services, will
produce a particularly
effective tool for reducing patient wait times."
About ADAPCS CANADA:
AdapCS Canada was founded in 2003 by Dr. John Marshall,
John Lott of
Kingston, Ontario and AdapCS, Inc. of Marina, California.
The company offers
information technologies and services for the Canadian
healthcare market that
focus specifically on clinical and financial outcomes,
accountability, and
access to care. For more information, please visit www.adapcscanada.com.
About DINMAR:
DINMAR is a leading North American healthcare information
technology
solutions provider. The company's Oacis product was
instrumental in launching
the "open systems" revolution, which spawned
many innovative technologies and
clinical-interoperability standards in commercial use
today. For more
information, please visit www.dinmar.com.
Contact:
Dr. John Marshall
President & CEO
AdapCS Canada Corp.
P: 613. 531. 3008 x 202
Doug McCourt,
DINMAR
P: 707. 658. 5110
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