NEWS UPDATES
May 23, 2006
GCQ to Provide Mobile Patient Information Access to Century City Doctors Hospital
Company will give critical care physicians access to patient's vitals , X-Rays and more via smartphones, PDAs and mobile devices
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.- Advanced medical information systems developer, Global Care Quest, Inc. (GCQ) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Los Angeles-based Century City Doctors Hospital to integrate the facility's critical care medical systems and make the information available to physicians via smartphones, PDAs and other mobile devices.
Under the agreement GCQ will build its mobile Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS Mobile) into the hospital's IT structure to allow doctors in the Intensive Care Unit, OR, and Emergency Department to review patient data on handhelds and smartphones over wireless networks and high speed mobile phone systems. In the first phase physicians will have mobile access to patient X-Rays and CT-scans as well as realtime vital signs from bedside monitoring equipment. Long term, GCQ will enable the doctors to access all of their patient information systems via handheld devices.
The ICIS mobile system will be piloted initially by 10 Century City physicians and eventually extended to as many as 150 doctors at the facility.
In December of 2005 GCQ completed a more extensive pilot at UCLA Medical Center where the company provided mobile and desktop access to a broad range of critical care patient information including labs, rounding notes and nurse charting systems, as well as X-Rays, CT Scans and realtime vitals. More than 1,000 physicians at UCLA worked with ICIS during that program.
About Global Care Quest
Global Care Quest is the developer of the Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS). ICIS performs real time integration and delivery of digital medical records, charting, bedside monitoring equipment and laboratory results to physicians and medical teams via stationary and wireless PCs as well as handheld wireless devices. ICIS improves access to patient data, enhances patient safety, and trims the cost of care by delivering critical patient information when and where it's needed. Founded in 2005, the company is venture backed by Lexington Ventures and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. For more information on Global Care Quest and ICIS, please contact Global Care Quest, 65 Enterprise, Suite 430, Aliso Viejo, California 92656, tel: (949) 330-7450, email: press@globalcarequest.com. Or visit the GCQ website at www.globalcarequest.com.
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