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Medical Automation Systems Announces Vendor-Independent Point-of-Care Data Management Position

Charlottesville, VA - January 25, 2001 - Medical Automation Systems (MAS; Charlottesville, VA) has announced that they positioned themselves with all of their business partnerships and strategic alliances so that all point-of-care devices can be integrated into the company’s state-of-the-art RALS^®-Plus data management system.

“Our goal from the inception of our business in 1994 was to provide data management solutions for all point-of-care testing,” said Gregory A. Menke, MAS President and CEO.  “We started the business supporting just critical care applications , then we added the glucose  analyte  with RALS-G and  now we have come full circle back to a total vendor-independent position for all point of care applications with RALS-Plus.”

In the Spring of 2001, MAS plans to launch the first version of RALS-Plus, a modular designed, vendor-independent information management system.  The devices included in the initial launch will be all of the Roche Diagnostics glucose devices including the new AccuChek Inform, the Roche CoaguChek Pro DM for coagulation, the Roche Chemstrip 101 and the AVL Opti for blood gas.  Additional devices, such as Biosite’s Triage System for cardiac and congestive heart failure markers, ITC’s Hemachron coagulation devices, Bayer’s Clinitek 50 urinalysis device, and a full range of manual tests will be introduced in versions of the RALS-Plus software scheduled for release throughout the first year.  Ultimately, RALS-Plus will interface to all manufacturer’s point-of-care devices and applications, including glucose.

MAS will continue to support the relationship they have developed with Roche Diagnostics over the past three years.   “We have nearly 250 RALS-G glucose data management customers connected to Roche devices throughout the U.S. and Canada and we will continue to support those customers and the Roche sales and marketing efforts,” Menke says.  “We greatly value the relationship we have developed with Roche over the past several years and have no desire to change that.”

Medical Automation Systems (www.medicalautomation.com) is a privately held company based in Charlottesville, Virginia.  The company was formed in 1994 by licensing RALS^®, a Remote Automated Laboratory Systems technology from the University of Virginia.