A Medical Device Daily
InterSystems (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said it has been selected to provide its CACHE post-relational database software for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Health Affairs and Composite HealthCare System. The contract, with an initial value of about $14.7 million, includes option periods which, if exercised, will bring the cumulative value to an estimated $63 million, InterSystems said.
“We are very pleased that this contract award will put InterSystems database software at the core of healthcare delivery at 70 hospitals and more than 400 clinics serving over 8 million people,” said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems vice president of strategic planning.
The CACHE post-relational database and Ensemble rapid integration software are designed to enable developers in every industry sector to create, deploy and integrate high-performance applications. InterSystems has offices in 20 countries and provides support to customers in 88 countries.
In other grants/contracts news:
• Criticare Systems (Milwaukee) reported that it has received an order to replace all vital signs monitors in more than 50 domestic plasma collection centers. This is a multi-year agreement with the initial order exceeding $1 million.
The company said it is targeting complete shipments against this requirement by the end of the current fiscal quarter.
In other news, the company reported its preliminary, unaudited fiscal 2006 net sales. Criticare achieved net sales of $31,350,000 in fiscal 2006 compared to $26,780,000 in fiscal 2005, an increase of $4,570,000 or 17%.
Criticare manufactures patient monitoring systems and noninvasive sensors for hospital and alternate healthcare environments worldwide.
• Saint Clare's Hospital (Weston, Wisconsin) reported that it plans to enhance patient safety by installing Medhost 's (Addison, Texas) full-suite Emergency Department Information System (EDIS). Saint Clare's chose Med-host to automate its Emergency Department (ED) with its full-suite of software solutions, which feature next-generation processes that increase patient safety, reduce individual wait times, and streamline financial processes by improving charge capture.
Medhost also will provide Saint Clare's with ongoing consulting, integrated customer support and valuable on-site training.
Saint Clare's hospital nurses and physicians will be able to utilize a touch screen interface and Medhost's Administrative ToolKit, which allows facilities to customize clinical content to fit their particular needs. The company's solutions provide hospitals with methods designed to improve patient tracking, nurse charting, physician documentation and order entry.