French hospital association selects Cedara Software's EPR system
Toronto, Canada. GIP CPAGE, a French public hospital association, has
selected Cedara Software as its exclusive electronic patient record (EPR)
partner. Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company (Nasdaq: MRGE; TSX:
MRG), was selected following a competitive tender process and a vote by its
public hospital members. GIP CPAGE is a public Information Technology
Group in France that has developed an administrative hospital information
system (HIS), which has been implemented in a large number of its 250 public
hospital affiliates. GIP CPAGE provides over-arching information technology
guidance and administrative support to its affiliated hospitals, including
small institutions and large multi-site facilities. Cedara aXigate has
already been integrated with GIP CPAGE's hospital information system and is
currently installed at one of the largest GIP CPAGE member hospitals,
University Hospital of Besancon (CHU), a 1200 bed hospital network. The HIS
together with Cedara aXigate provides a complete administrative and clinical
hospital information solution. "Our Selection Committee is impressed and
convinced by the clinical capabilities and modern architecture of Cedara
aXigate," said Gilles Leger, Managing Director of GIP CPAGE. "Cedara aXigate
provides highly complimentary EPR functionality to our existing HIS
offering, and allows our member hospitals to leverage their existing
clinical information systems without costly replacement. We are looking
forward to working closely with Cedara, a worldwide software leader in the
healthcare industry." Many hospitals have a number of existing clinical
and information systems in use. Cedara aXigate's unique interoperability
capabilities allow hospitals to add modern EPR functionality without
replacing legacy systems. Cedara aXigate is a secure, web-based solution
for patient, medical and clinical process management. It employs an open
architecture, and is built with XML, Java and AJAX. It incorporates
information from labs, radiology, the pharmacy and other divergent areas
into the hospital database. With components for patient registration,
consultation, reporting, prescription, follow-up and codification, Cedara
aXigate provides a folder-based approach to medical information management,
displaying relevant information at the click of a button to different health
care professionals. Specialists can utilize a variety of modules designed to
incorporate clinical content into the patient database, including oncology,
psychiatry, radiology, surgery, neurology, anaesthesiology, OB/GYN and more.
The unique clinical content can be stored and accessed through a standard
interface that provides a comprehensive portrait of medical images,
diagnosis and test results. "We are very pleased to have been selected by
GIP CPAGE, a major player in the Hospital IT landscape," said Brian Pedlar,
President of Cedara Software. "The combination of C.Page's Hospital
Information System and Cedara aXigate will provide a comprehensive and
cost-effective solution for managing the needs of healthcare facilities
throughout France. We look forward to offering the aXigate solution to
C.Page's public hospitals as they go through their electronic patient record
selection process." To top
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