MAS
News...
For Immediate Release
Heather
Selmyer, Marketing Coordinator
Dawning Technologies
800.332.0499
239.931.6004
hselmyer@dawning.com |
Steve Valorz,
Director of Marketing
Medical Automation Systems, Inc.
1-888-971-7953
Ext. 3060
svalorz@rals.com
|
Dawning
Technologies, Inc and
Medical Automation Systems, Inc.
to develop a business partnership
May 16,
2008, Fort Myers, FL and Charlottesville, VA – Dawning
Technologies, Inc (Dawning) and Medical Automation Systems, Inc.
(MAS) announced today they have begun a joint project to
leverage their product synergies and create added value for
their customers.
The
partner project will focus on the seamless integration of
Dawning’s instrument interface and laboratory middleware
products with MAS’s RALS®-Plus
POC Data Management solutions. RALS-Plus is a widely used
point-of-care (POC) data management system developed and
marketed by MAS. The joint project between Dawning and RALS will
enable users of the RALS system to connect a wider range of POC
devices through their existing RALS-Plus system.
“We are very
pleased with this new business relationship” said John Selmyer,
Dawning’s President. “MAS has been a leader in POC connectivity
for many years, and we believe our technology can add real value
to current and new MAS product offerings. We will be working
with MAS to develop applications that make a difference to
customers” he said. The integration between Dawning’s system
and RALS will leverage Dawning’s JResultNet Middleware software
as well as the new JavaLin/PDI device in order to provide
connectivity for serial and network based POC Analyzers.
The immediate
benefit of this project is to provide MAS’s RALS-Plus system
with connectivity to devices in Dawning’s Java Instrument Driver
Library. “One of our strategic goals has always been to offer
our customers total freedom of choice in the selection of their
Point of Care technology platforms” said Greg Menke, MAS
President and CEO. “Partnering with Dawning will make this goal
a reality. We are very excited about this new partnership and
what it will mean to our 1500 hospital customers.”
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About
Dawning Technologies, Inc.
Dawning
Technologies, Inc. is the leading supplier of connectivity
solutions to the clinical laboratory market. In business since
1984, Dawning solutions are installed in over 3000 client sites
worldwide. Their customers include information system vendors,
IVD instrument manufacturers, POC system vendors and clinical
laboratories of all forms. Dawning solutions are available for
nearly all clinical analyzers, POC and system-to-system
connections. For more information contact their web site at
http://www.dawning.com.
About MAS
Medical
Automation Systems, Inc. (www.medicalautomation.com) is the
country’s premier provider of data management systems used by
hospitals to monitor and manage diagnostic testing performed at
the patient’s bedside. Founded in 1994, MAS will have a
presence in over 1,500 U.S. hospitals by the end of 2008. With
the 1999 Institute of Medicine report on the impact of medical
errors on patient mortality and cost of care, an increasing
number of hospitals are focused on taking steps to minimize the
number of errors tied to patient and specimen identification.
RALS-Plus provides a healthcare information technology (IT)
solution that can aid in eliminating sources of bedside
diagnostic testing identification errors cited in the
Institute’s report. Other products include RALS-Web, providing
instant access to POC results through the hospital intranet;
RALS-eQuiz, an on-line training tool with re-certification
quizzes and automatic grading; RALS-TGCM, a Tight Glycemic
Control Module featuring graphical reports for those caring for
patients on glycemic control protocols. MAS also support
websites that provide source and reference materials on the
point-of-care industry and glycemic control protocols. Visit
www.pointofcare.net, and www.glycemiccontrol.net.
