Press Release
Adaptive Data Manager™ Chosen for New Electronic Medical Record
01/23/2002
Northbrook, Illinois, January 23, 2002 - Focused Health Solutions, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a licensing and consulting agreement with Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc., involving the new IMO flagship product, Adaptive Data Manager™ (ADM). ADM will be used to create an advanced electronic medical record to support the rapidly growing employee and retiree health services offered to self-insured employers by Focused Health Solutions.
ADM is an advanced data management solution for complex data bases. It provides an information storage and database development environment based on a meta-data model along with a suite of development tools. Its unusual flexibility allows rapid definition and accommodates continuous change in database structure. At the same time, ADM features an unusual level of security and control, plus low maintenance overhead.
Judith Hicks, President of Focused Health Solutions, comments on this new capability: "Through our FocusCare Program, our business involves 24/7 monitoring of individuals with chronic health conditions. Our nurse managers require a sophisticated and totally customized electronic medical record to assist us in following program enrollees' progress, tracking outcomes, and maintaining privacy. The ADM solution fits our needs best."
Frank Naeymi-Rad, CEO at Intelligent Medical Objects since the company's formation in 1994, discusses the origins of the ADM solution. "When we developed our first electronic medical record (HealthPoint ACS) for Glaxo Wellcome, we ran into some very complex database challenges. These included multi-site schema management, the repository requirement, a data warehouse for analysis, and physicians' data entry. We were successful with implementation, but the ongoing changes required for multi-specialties, the flexibility expected by different users, and the demands imposed by regulatory agencies were too costly to handle effectively. As a result, much of the dream was unrealized. To date, most of the industry's investment in developing the electronic medical record repository in health care has become a black hole. We decided that the constant changes in structure, the lack of consensus among physicians, and the new opportunities associated with ongoing medical discoveries absolutely required highly flexible layers of architecture--both visual and data. It turns out that employer-sponsored health services are no different in this respect."
Dr. Andrew Kanter, IMO President and Chief Medical Officer, adds, "In the health care environment, the data model is constantly evolving. Changing user requirements and new regulations such as HIPAA put tremendous pressure on databases and application developers. ADM provides both HIPAA-compliant security and maximal flexibility right out of the box--empowering systems professionals to rapidly deliver the features demanded by the HIS community."
With IMO's ADM and Visual ADM™ development platform, Focused Health Solutions expects to have a totally customized medical record in less time than it would take to implement any off-the-shelf solutions--at a substantially lower cost. Hicks noted, "This is a sound financial and infrastructure decision that will strengthen our strategic position."
About Focused Health Solutions, Inc.
Focused Health Solutions is a national provider of customized health services for the employer market dedicated to reducing health care costs, increasing work productivity and improving the lives of individual employees, retirees and their families with chronic health conditions. By combining innovative nursing services, telehealth capabilities and medical informatics, Focused Health Solutions delivers proven and effective health care programs. Focused Health Solutions is an independent care provider contracting directly with its employer partners and is not affiliated with any pharmaceutical, insurance or managed care organization.
About Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc
Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. is a private company, based in Illinois. In addition to the Adaptive Data Manager™, the company offers a line of medical vocabulary products, clinical application components and tool kits, and consults throughout healthcare and other industries. IMO will feature ADM at HIMSS™, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference in Atlanta January 27-31, 2002, where they will exhibit in booth no. 3034 for the duration, and also make four key presentations to the membership and other attendees about how ADM can be used in healthcare. Three of these sessions will be held on Sunday, January 27, and will show the widespread applicability of ADM™ from building data warehousing and mining applications, to EMRs, to Internet portal and content management applications.
Contact:
Cathy Faetanini, Manager of Clinical Systems, Focused Health Solutions, Inc. (847) 412-7907
Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA, CEO, Chairman of the Board, Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc, (847) 272-1242