Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. Implements Transfusion Management System in Large Private Physician Owned Laboratory
October 28 2008 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MIMA, Florida Physicians Group, is Early Adopter in U.S. DENVER,
Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Med Technologies(R), Inc.
("Global Med" or the "Company") (OTC:GLOB) (BULLETIN BOARD: GLOB) ,
an international e-Health, medical information technology company,
today announced that its Wyndgate Technologies(R) ("Wyndgate")
division has licensed its SafeTrace Tx(R) transfusion management
software to MIMA, an independent physician group in Brevard County,
Florida. The system is now live in MIMA's blood bank. MIMA is one
of the first physician groups in the country to implement
transfusion software in a private accredited Physician Owned
Laboratory (POL). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040226/GLOBALMEDLOGO) Mary
Lawrence, MT DLM (ASCP), Administrative Lab Director for MIMA
commented, "When we made the decision to install a transfusion
management system in our lab, we had no idea that there were no
similar installations. We quickly realized that we were breaking
new ground in our industry and needed the guidance of an innovative
company with a customer focused team." MIMA's decision to invest in
its own blood bank was driven by patient and physician need. With a
large Oncology practice and state-of-the-art cancer center, MIMA
chose to open a blood bank to offer their patients lower cost
outpatient services and a better transfusion experience.
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments commonly require extensive
transfusion support. When MIMA went online, it had no previous
paper or legacy systems; it started an entirely new blood bank.
MIMA's unique implementation is creating interest in the blood bank
community. Medical Laboratory Observer, an industry journal,
featured an article on MIMA in its September 2008 issue. Ms.
Lawrence continued, "We were impressed by the range of features and
capabilities in Wyndgate's products after reading the annual CAP
Today Blood Bank System Review. Our AABB consultant confirmed our
findings. After narrowing the field to three companies, we made our
decision based on Wyndgate's extensive safety features and their
ability to interface with Orchard Harvest, our existing laboratory
information system (LIS). We were also very impressed by Wyndgate's
Professional Services Department and their ability to implement our
software quickly." SafeTrace Tx is a transfusion management
software system designed to raise the standard of care for
patients, improve safety, reduce waste and increase efficiency.
SafeTrace Tx provides comprehensive tracking of orders, specimens,
blood products, derivatives, and accessories with a complete
testing and transfusion history in one consolidated record. These
complex features will assist MIMA's technologists in selecting
appropriate blood products for their patients. SafeTrace Tx is
designed to support the full scale of transfusion services from
enterprise-wide centralized facilities to small, individual
laboratories. Kimberly Stone, RN MT(ASCP), Transfusion Services
Supervisor for MIMA, remarked, "We were very impressed with the
overall features in SafeTrace Tx. The software's
Patient-At-A-Glance(R) Bar is an important feature for our
technologists. It allows our staff to access medical information
about a patient in one convenient location without switching to
multiple screens and flags problem areas in the patient's profile
with easily defined color coding." Wm. Scott Dustin, Vice President
of Sales and Marketing for Wyndgate Technologies, stated, "MIMA's
use of transfusion management software in a physician owned lab is
a pioneering concept for their industry. We are thrilled to have
been chosen to provide the solutions and implementation team to
assist MIMA in realizing their new transfusion service. Ms.
Lawrence and her team have thoroughly researched and created a
comprehensive lab to provide exceptional services for their
patients." Mr. Dustin continued, "Working with MIMA has opened new
opportunities for Wyndgate. We see great market potential for
implementations of this kind in other independent physician groups
throughout the country." About MIMA MIMA is Brevard County,
Florida's largest, most comprehensive independent physician group.
Headquartered in Melbourne, MIMA has eighteen locations with more
than 120 Board Certified physicians providing medical expertise in
25 different medical specialties, including Hematology and
Oncology. MIMA's lab is unique among Physician Owned Laboratories.
Its core lab is comparable to a laboratory serving an average
350-bed hospital. MIMA has the area's largest infusion clinic for
the administration of outpatient chemotherapy and other injectables
and is the only POL in the country to offer a transfusion service
in a nationally accredited lab. MIMA now provides laboratory
services at seven of their Brevard County locations. About Global
Med Technologies(R), Inc. Global Med Technologies, Inc. is an
international medical software company which develops regulated and
non-regulated software products and services for the healthcare
industry. As a leading provider of blood and laboratory software
applications and services, Global Med's products are deployed in 20
countries and serve over 1,600 transfusion centers, blood banks and
laboratories. Global Med's U.S. division, Wyndgate Technologies(R),
provides Vein-to- Vein(R) tracking through its Donor Doc(TM),
SafeTrace(R), SafeTrace Tx(R) and ElDorado Donor(TM) software
products. Each year, Wyndgate's products and services manage more
than eight million blood components, representing over 27% of the
U.S. blood supply. Global Med's European subsidiary, Inlog, SA, is
a leading provider of donor center and transfusion management
systems as well as cellular therapy software, laboratory
information systems and quality assurance medical software systems
internationally. Inlog's products include EdgeBlood*, EdgeTrack*,
EdgeCell, EdgeLab and SAPANET. Global Med's U.S. division,
eDonor(R), provides a web-based donor relationship management
system that integrates recruitment, scheduling, retention and
fulfillment for national as well as local community blood centers
and hospitals. eDonor's products and services are designed to
complement Global Med's strong line of international blood
management and laboratory information software and service
solutions. Global Med's U.S. subsidiary, PeopleMed(R), Inc.,
provides cost-effective customized software validation, consulting
and compliance solutions to hospitals and donor centers. For more
information about Global Med's products and services, please call
800-996-3428 or visit http://www.globalmedtech.com/,
http://www.peoplemed.com/, http://www.inlog.com/,
http://www.edonor.com/, and http://www.wyndgate.com/. *FDA 510(k)
clearance required prior to sales in the U.S. This news release may
include statements that constitute forward-looking statements,
usually containing the words "believe," "estimate," "project,"
"expects" or similar expressions. These statements are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements
inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes
no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes
after the date of this news release.
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