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| Cooper Pediatrics of Duluth GA Wins 2003 HIMSS Davies Award for Excellence Using JMJ’s EMR EncounterPRO® Atlanta -- Nov.24, 2003 -- Cooper Pediatrics, a solo-practitioner office using EncounterPRO, an electronic medical record (EMR) from JMJ Technologies, is winner of the 2003 Davies Award for Excellence in ambulatory care. The Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) bestowed the high honor on Dr. Jeffrey D. Cooper for his 1995 implementation of an EMR into his high-volume Atlanta-area practice. The main criterion of the HIMSS award is improvement in the delivery of patient care. Dr. Cooper’s Duluth office eliminated all chart-pulling, increased the immunization rate to 99 per cent and decreased call turnaround time to less than 20 minutes. Drug refill time decreased to 20 minutes, primarily due to the elimination of pulling paper charts. Charting time decreased from four minutes to one minute, giving Dr. Cooper more time with patients. Office wait time decreased from 60 to 35 minutes from check-in to check-out. His EMR electronically prints prescriptions. Except for scanning and storing documents, his office is paperless. Dr. Cooper currently works with a part-time Physician’s Assistant and two part-time Nurse Practitioners. In 1995 his total number of patients numbered 3500 and his practice was closed to new patients. His office currently serves 12,000 active patients from all over North Georgia. In 2002, Dr. Cooper and his staff handled over 18,000 patient encounters. Over the past eight years, his total volume of patients increased by 255 percent. “My solo practice provides proof that the migration to an electronic information system improves safety, the quality of healthcare delivery, patient and physician satisfaction, and billings,” Dr. Cooper wrote in his award-winning application to HIMSS. “The bottom line is crystal clear. In terms of operating a small business, how can a physician afford not to automate his practice?” JMJ Technologies, Inc., creator of EncounterPRO, an Atlanta-based company founded in 1994, specializes in an electronic medical record fully integrated with a workflow management system. EncounterPRO features touchscreen/pen computer interfaces, radical configurability, digital camera interface, digital recording, signature capture, billing/scheduling integration, integration with major medical devices, and more. EncounterPRO has won nine other national awards for excellence, ease of use, and economic benefits, including first place from TEPR (Toward an Electronic Medical Record) and MS-HUG (Microsoft Healthcare Users Group). CONTACTS: Carolyn Copenhaver VERSAILLES, Ohio (November 4, 2003) Midmark Diagnostics Group today announced the signing of an agreement with JMJ Technologies, Inc. for the integration of Midmark’s digital ECG, Spirometer, and Holter Monitor with EncounterPRO®, JMJ Technologies’ electronic medical record (EMR). The integration of the Midmark devices with JMJ’s software will streamline the workflow in the physician’s office, eliminate a source of data transcription errors and provide the physician with a unified view of patient diagnostic data that is always only a keystroke away. Physicians will be able to monitor the patient’s real-time results and later retrieve the data from EncounterPRO. Data can be e-mailed to referral physicians. About JMJ Technologies JMJ Technologies, founded in 1994 in Atlanta, GA, produces EncounterPRO, an awardwinning electronic medical record and workflow management system that fully automates a physician’s office. EncounterPRO comes in several customized versions tailored to the needs of physicians in a wide range of specialties. Its workflow capabilities allow EncounterPRO to adapt to the physician rather than the physician adapting to the software. This keeps the physician focused on the patient and medicine. For more information visit the company’s Web site at www.jmjtech.com. About Midmark Diagnostics Group Midmark Diagnostics Group is a leading medical technology innovator that offers digital diagnostic medical devices through its IQmark product line. Midmark Diagnostics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Midmark Corp. Midmark Diagnostics Group incorporates Microsoft’s ActiveX Controls for healthcare software into its products to allow direct acquisition of the IQmark product line data into EMR systems. Test results can be stored in a local stand-alone computer, a central network or an advanced SQL Server database for record keeping, future viewing or editing. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.midmarkdiagnostics.com About Midmark Founded in 1915, Midmark Corporation is committed to developing quality products, services and technologies that allow healthcare providers to increase effectiveness in their practices. With a full line of high-quality products for the medical, dental and digital diagnostic markets, Midmark’s trusted equipment helps providers deliver more efficient patient care. Headquartered in Versailles, Ohio, Midmark also has subsidiaries in Torrance, California as well as Ernee, France. For more information about Midmark or any of its products, visit the company’s Web site at www.midmark.com. ### CONTACTS: Jamie Kenny Carolyn Copenhaver Bob Lammers According to Mr. Anderson, "With the release of their new 4.0 version, JMJ Technologies is the "most improved" EMR vendor with an overall functionality increased from 58.0% in 2002 to 93.8% in 2003. Beginning with their new release, practices with 1 to 49 physicians should consider JMJ as one of their top 5 vendors". JMJ Adds Dermatology to Product Line JMJ Technologies Inc. announces today the successful roll-out of its recently released electronic medical record (EMR) and workflow management system, EncounterPRO® 4.0, in ten sites across the country. “A workflow management system is very different from a workflow system,” explains Charles (Chuck) Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS, VP of medical informatics for JMJ. “Very, very few EMRs actually have workflow management systems. JMJ is achieving the IOM vision of automating the physician’s office by giving physicians the tools to design sequences of screens to match their workflow patternsthat’s what only workflow management systems provide.” EncounterPRO® 4.0 is now operational in sites in Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Georgia. JMJ also announced today that it has increased its target market by 20 percent with the addition of Dermatology to its product line. JMJ currently targets the following specialties: Cardiology, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN and Pediatrics, “These six specialties represent a significant percent of the ambulatory care market,” said CEO Jim Copenhaver. “We are going to aggressively pursue sales in all of these areas and anticipate further expansion into additional practice areas in the very near future.” Additional specialties currently under development include Ophthalmology and Orthopedics. About JMJ Technologies, Inc. JMJ Technologies, Inc., of Marietta, GA, produces EncounterPRO®, a computer-based patient record for ambulatory care. EncounterPRO®’s advanced workflow management systemunique to the industrypermits patient information to flow instantaneously from screen to screen throughout the office. EncounterPRO® uses a Navigational Interface characterized by the absence of pull-down menus or windows-within-windows. The radical simplicity and easy configurability of this interface allows physicians and their staffs to use the product after a weekor lessof training and to rapidly enter data at the point of care. Ambulatory care physicians can chart patientscompletely and comprehensivelyin typically less than two minutes. The application utilizes touchscreens or pen computers on a client-server or thin client platform, wired or wireless. EncounterPRO® is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000. Additional information regarding EncounterPRO may be obtained by visiting the company's web site at http://www.jmjtech.com. NOTE: EncounterPRO® is a registered trademark of JMJ Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Carolyn Copenhaver of JMJ Technologies, Inc. at 770-919-7220 x225, or carolyn.copenhaver@jmjtech.com. For information on EncounterPRO®'s workflow management system, contact Charles (Chuck) Webster, MD, at 770-919-7220 x237 or chuck.webster@jmjtech.com. |
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