UCSF Chooses Apollo

Seattle Systems Cardiology Clinical Information Systems Chosen by UCSF Stanford Health Care

Oakland, California--March 1, 1999 Seattle Systems, Inc., a leading provider of clinical information management systems, today announced the upcoming installation of the company's Apollo SQL Server cardiology software at UCSF Stanford Health Care. UCSF Stanford operates four acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area: UCSF Medical Center and UCSF/Mount Zion in San Francisco, and Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

Apollo integrates clinical and administrative information gathered throughout the clinical cardiology environment, establishing a single point-of-entry for patient demographics and providing complete individual patient electronic medical records, including electronically generated clinical notes and full-motion procedural images. The system also analyzes clinical and cost outcomes for composite patient groups, which can be used for benchmark standard comparisons and quality and cost monitoring.

The purchase of the complete line of Apollo cardiology modules and all Apollo hemodynamic monitor interfaces was made following UCSF Stanford Health Care's two-and-one-half year review and assessment of clinical information management systems available in the market. UCSF Stanford has assembled a team of information systems specialists and clinicians to guide implementation of the Apollo system over a six-month time frame. Apollo's open architecture will allow data from all UCSF and Stanford facilities to be accessed and integrated throughout the system.

"We made this choice because we needed a system that could handle a large volume of information and provide the means for real-time data collection. In addition, we wanted a technologically advanced system with a wide range of capabilities" stated Tony Chau, MD, director of the Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Interventional Cardiology at UCSF.

UCSF Stanford Health Care is a private, nonprofit organization that brings together the medical centers of the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University. The UCSF and Stanford facilities are consistently ranked in the top 10 U.S. hospitals in surveys by consumers and health care professionals. The institutions are distinguished by their integration of research, clinical care and leading-edge treatment for patients. UCSF Stanford's four hospitals have 1, 350 available beds, and log about 58,000 inpatient admissions annually.

Seattle Systems serves the clinical information management needs of more than 200 medical centers worldwide, focusing on integrating and automating information access and display in the cardiology environment. The company's key integration partners include Philips Medical Systems, Siemens Electromedical, Hewlett-Packard and the Guidant Corporation. One out of every four of the top U.S. cardiology centers identified by U.S. News and World Report is a Seattle Systems customer. The company is based in Oakland, California, with offices in Bellevue, Washington, and the United Kingdom.

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