PatienTree Achieves Microsoft Certification
“The Power to Care from Anywhere!”
PatienTree, Inc., a Tampa, FL “A Point of Care” Communications and Entertainment Console provider, announced today that the PatienTree “Point of Care” Software Suite has been officially certified by Microsoft™ for Windows XP™.
TAMPA, Fla. – June 28, 2004 – PatienTree, a leading provider of point of care terminal hardware and software with integrated patient entertainment technologies for hospitals, proudly announced today that it has received certification for Windows XP™ from Microsoft™ for the product suite. In the new age of Digital Hospitals, HIPAA, EMR, and CPOE, Point of Care devices are expected to be a critical component and at the forefront of these initiatives. For hospitals to accomplish their internal missions in these areas, especially the IT strategies which embrace them, they must consider the secured delivery and input data points. Point of care terminals provide the conduit for viewing and inputting critical patient data to support real time Electronic Medical Records, Computerized Physician Order Entry, Work Flow, and Bar Code scanning for drug safety. Hospitals are also considering ways to compliment these new age opportunities which result in reduced operational cost and better outcomes. With the innovative technologies from PatienTree, our customers are able to encompass both caregiver requirements and enhanced patient services from a single industry standard hardware and software platform.
Bob Letzeisen, President and Founder of PatienTree states “Our mission at PatienTree is to support the healthcare transformation underway in this country. In a digital age, today’s patients who are accustomed to quality entertainment, high speed access, and related technologies in their normal everyday life, will expect similar services from their care giving facilities. Likewise, in a competitive marketplace for professional staff, coupled with newly issued regulatory requirements, hospitals will continue to embrace new technologies which efficiently and effectively deliver healthcare data to the point of care.” “We believe IT professionals will continue to play a significant roll in the selection of these new technologies and will mandate conformance to their current strategies for standards.” “Having the PateinTree software products certified by Microsoft™ for Windows XP™ is a watershed event at the Company.” “Many Information Technology strategies inside healthcare are built on Microsoft platforms. We have specifically designed our products around Microsoft™ and the .Net Framework for this reason.” “We have also introduced the product on a standard Intel™ Pentium 4 for the same reasons.” “Hospitals can ill afford proprietary hardware or software solutions that do not allow internal IT professionals the access they require to host and deliver their own software solutions.” “They also will require a standard open architecture for the secured delivery of other vendor’s software without limitations to the bedside.” “Our partnership with Microsoft™, and other premier providers such as Mi-Co™ (PatienTree Mobile Forms) and Netilla™ (PatienTree Trunk), with tight integration of our own software products, empowers PatienTree and our customers to triumph over new challenges and exceed patient’s expectations of tomorrow’s digital healthcare providers.
About PatienTree,
Inc.
PatienTree, Inc., headquartered in Tampa, FL, Founded in
2002, is an innovative solutions company in the delivery of Point of Care software
and hardware technologies. PatienTree offers a portfolio of products and services
for both patient entertainment and Hospitals. For more information on PatienTree,
visit www.patientree.com.
Netilla Networks, Inc. is a leading global provider of enterprise-class secure remote access solutions. The Netilla family of SSL VPN appliances gives organizations the power to make their mission-critical applications and resources instantly available to employees and trusted partners anywhere via standard Web browsers, while safeguarding internal networks. Compared to traditional VPN technologies, the Netilla Security Platform is a versatile, simple and quick-to-deploy solution that lowers the total cost of secure application access management. Netilla’s products are available through a worldwide network of value-added resellers. www.netilla.com
About Mi-Co
Mi-Co, the mobile data capture company, provides software to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire process of capturing and using data. Mi-Co’s end-to-end enterprise Mi-Forms Software System enable the capture, handwriting verification and communication of forms based and free-form pen-on-paper data for enterprise users. Mi-Forms supports enterprise data capture suing the Table PC, the Logitech io Digital Pen, Pocket PCs and signature capture devices. Mi-Co is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. For more information on Mi-Co visit www.mi-corporation.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Bob Letzeisen
President, PatienTree Inc.
813-814-4422