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| Announcement |
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| August 8, 2001 |
| Dagran Signs Integration Services
Contract at Children's Hospital Inc, Columbus Ohio |
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| Tucson, Arizona (August 1, 2001)
- Dagran, a leading information technology consulting firm
focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, today announced
that it has signed a contract to provide integration consulting
services for Children's Hospital Inc. Columbus, Ohio, a nationally
recognized leader in pediatric healthcare services. |
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| Dagran will provide integration
and project management services to assist the information
services department in the implementation of their clinical
documentation and order entry system. |
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| "The clinical documentation
and order entry system implementation at Children's will enable
Children's clinicians to obtain the greatest value from the
information system in order to achieve their primary goal of
providing the highest-quality pediatric healthcare services
possible,” stated Sherri L. Yandell, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Dagran. "Dagran is delighted to
join Children's Hospital and utilize our expertise in healthcare
integration to enable Children's to succeed in this endeavor." |
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| About Dagran |
| Dagran is a leading provider of information
technology consulting services and solutions. Specializing
in healthcare, Dagran develops innovative software that integrates
and enhances healthcare systems, saving time and money while
improving efficiency and outcomes. Dagran's easy-to-use tools
and applications facilitate the secure access to and exchange
of information between hospitals, doctors and clinicians, improving
the communications and connectivity of the entire health sector.
Dagran's solutions are reliable, quick, cost effective and
facilitate the seamless flow of information, helping customers
improve productivity, efficiency, and return on investment.
Established in 1998, Dagran has over 50 clients nationally
in healthcare. |
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| Contact Information: |
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Telephone: 520-886-4719 |
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FAX: 520-886-8699 |
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Postal address: 10025 East Stella Road |
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Tucson, AZ 95730-3139 |
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Email: marketing@dagran.com |
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| About Columbus Children’s
Hospital |
| Serving more than 400,000 patients
annually, Columbus Children’s Hospital is one of the
nation's recognized pediatric leaders, with 313 licensed inpatient
beds, 47 leased beds in the Neonatal Intensive and Special
Care Units at three local adult hospitals and approximately
11,000 patient admissions each year. Critically-ill children
are cared for in Children’s Hospital's 45-bed Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit and 27-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
The hospital’s specialty areas include surgical, neurosciences,
rehabilitation, burn, dialysis and bone-marrow units. In addition
to the main hospital complex, the Children’s Hospital
campus includes the seven-story Outpatient Care Center, which
was recently constructed to house the hospital’s ambulatory
clinics, outpatient lab, outpatient radiology and outpatient
pharmacy, as well as pediatric and surgical specialists’ private
offices; a six-story Education Building that is home to faculty
offices, the Pediatric Residency Training Program, a Clinical
Skills Lab, a Computer Instruction Center, the 300-seat Stecker
Auditorium, the Grant Morrow Medical Library and the Janet
Ortung-Morrow Family Health Information Center; and the Children’s
Research Institute, a six-story, $20-million facility dedicated
to the research of children’s diseases. In addition,
Children’s Hospital offers convenient diagnostic and
treatment services at seven Close to Home Health Care Centers,
neighborhood-based primary care at seven Close to Home Physician
Care Centers, and home-based care, hospice care and medically
fragile daycare services through Children’s Homecare.
For more information, see the hospital’s Web site at
www.childrenscolumbus.org. |
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