Nightingale Signs Three-Year Agreement with MCI Medical Clinics
Inc., a subsidiary of Altima HealthCare Inc., One of Canada's
Largest Integrated Healthcare Providers
Company's enterprise EMR and business management solution,
Nightingale On Demand, to be implemented in MCI's 20 Ontario-based
clinics
MARKHAM, ON,
Jan. 21, 2013 /CNW/ - Nightingale
Informatix Corporation ("Nightingale" or the "Company") (TSX-V:
NGH), an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical
record (EMR) software and related services, today announced that it
has signed a three-year agreement with MCI Medical Clinics Inc.
("MCI") of Altima HealthCare Inc., to provide Nightingale On
Demand, the Company's enterprise EMR and practice management
solution to 20 MCI family practice and walk-in clinics ("MCI The
Doctors Office™) across Ontario.
MCI will use Nightingale On Demand within its Ontario-based family practices and walk-in
clinics. With Nightingale's products, MCI's 300 full-time and
part-time physicians will be able to quickly document patient
encounters and retrieve patient information anytime, anywhere.
"We have wonderful teams of healthcare providers
and support staff who aim to deliver compassionate, comprehensive
and timely care," said Dr. George
Christodoulou, President and Chairman of Altima
HealthCare. "We wanted a technology platform that would allow
us to create a clinical atmosphere where our physicians, healthcare
providers and staff can focus entirely on our patients and where
our patients can go to any one of our facilities and have their
up-to-date medical record instantly available to our staff. We can
achieve our objective of providing convenient high quality care
with the Nightingale platform."
Nightingale's one-patient, one-record™
architecture allows large organizations such as Altima HealthCare
to store patient information in a cloud-based EMR, which enables
any authorized user to retrieve patient data through a web-based
platform anytime and anywhere they need it. This streamlines
operations, improves the delivery of care and leads to a superior
patient experience. Nightingale On Demand's centralized practice
management capabilities will enable Altima HealthCare to
efficiently manage both private billings and provincially covered
services that are delivered across all of its clinics.
"As a board member of Nightingale for the past
five years, I have witnessed the company grow to a national leader
in EMR," Dr. Christodoulou continued. "We viewed the functionality
of the Nightingale Enterprise EMR platform to be superior to other
products in the Canadian market. The Company's cloud-based
approach, as well as its experience with other large organizations
of similar size and complexity really made Nightingale stand
out."
"We are very pleased that a leading healthcare
organization like Altima HealthCare has selected Nightingale as its
technology partner," said Sam
Chebib, President & CEO of Nightingale. "This agreement
continues the momentum we have experienced with large, well-run
healthcare providers in Canada,
and it strengthens our position as a leading enterprise partner. We
are looking forward to working with MCI's team to help them set a
new standard of patient care."
Nightingale will be responsible for migrating
original patient data from the existing system. The Company will
manage the process through its Data Migration Centre of Excellence
(DMCE).
"Protecting the integrity of data quality
through the data migration process is an important priority of this
EMR deployment process," Mr. Chebib added. "We have successfully
managed hundreds of successful data migrations and the people in
our Data Migration Centre of Excellence truly understand the
complexities of patient record systems, data and workflows."
Nightingale's Data Management Centre of
Excellence (DMCE) includes a set of processes, tools and resources
designed to help healthcare organizations extract data from their
legacy EMR applications and populate the data into Nightingale on
Demand EMR in a useful format. Migrating data is complicated and
time consuming. The tools built by Nightingale ensure that this
data is of the highest quality and will be readily available and
useable in the Nightingale On Demand EMR solution.
About Nightingale
Nightingale is one of the fastest growing healthcare service and
software companies in North
America and is recognized as an industry leader in Web-based
clinician and community based electronic medical records (EMR)
serving the needs of small primary care practices, multi-physician
outpatient clinics, and large scale regional health organizations
and networks. Coupled with integrated practice management and
transcription, Nightingale's comprehensive service offering allows
customers to enhance patient care, increase revenue opportunities
and optimize operations. Nightingale is continuously innovating and
enhancing its services to meet the needs of its growing and diverse
customer base. Nightingale - Healthcare connected.
www.nightingalemd.ca
About Altima HealthCare Inc. and MCI Medical Clinics
Inc.
Arguably the largest and most experienced primary medical and
dental healthcare provider in Canada, Altima HealthCare with Altima Dental
and MCI has roots in Ontario
dating back 24 years and in Alberta for 31 years. Altima Dental owns
and operates 31 dental practices in Ontario and Alberta while MCI operates 29 full service
medical clinics in Ontario and
Calgary. MCI is a Canadian firm
that specializes in helping physicians to improve their lifestyle
and focus 100% on patient care because MCI assumes full
responsibility for all administration and clinic
operations.
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statements" respecting the issuance and cancellation of securities
of the Company within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities
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,"could", "would", "might", "occur" or "be achieved".
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results,
level of activity, performance or achievements of Nightingale to be
materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: risks
related to the speculative nature of the medical software industry,
which is affected by numerous factors beyond Nightingale's control;
the ability of Nightingale to successfully secure customer
contracts and the timing of securing such contracts; the ability of
Nightingale to complete and successfully integrate its acquisitions
on an accretive basis, Nightingale's access to debt and capital
facilities, including compliance with current debt arrangements;
the existence of present and possible future government regulation;
the significant competition that exists in the medical software
industry; the early stage of Nightingale's business, and risks
associated with early stage companies, including uncertainty of
revenues, markets and profitability and the need to raise
additional funding. All material assumptions used in making
forward-looking statements are based on management's knowledge of
current business conditions and expectations of future business
conditions and trends. Certain material factors or assumptions
applied by management in making forward-looking statements, include
without limitation, factors and assumptions regarding future trends
in healthcare spending, economic conditions affecting Nightingale
and North American economies; Nightingale's ability to continue to
fund its business, rates of customer defaults, relationships with,
and payments to lenders, as well as Nightingale's operating cost
structure.
Although Nightingale has attempted to
identify important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in forward-looking
statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be
as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance
that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results
and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in
such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements. Nightingale does not
undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are
incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with
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SOURCE Nightingale Informatix Corporation