Carefx Expands International Presence with New Office in London

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Tue Apr 7, 2009 8:51am EDT

Carefx's Fusionfx allows UK hospital clinicians to experience clinically
relevant views of patient information from across disparate information
systems 

CHICAGO, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Carefx Corporation, whose Fusionfx solution
suite aggregates patient information across existing systems and offers
clinicians single, clinically relevant views of patient information, today
announced that it has established a base of operations in London, England. 
The move is designed to serve and build upon the company's client base in the
UK and Europe and expand its overall reach in the UK and EMEA markets.  Wayne
Parslow, a technology industry veteran, will lead Carefx's business
development in the UK as Executive Vice President and General Manager. 

"With the opening of our London office, we enhance our position to serve both
government-operated and National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust
hospitals and fulfil our long-term commitment to the UK and European markets,"
said Andrew Hurd, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Carefx. "With Wayne
in place, Carefx can fully leverage our established distribution partnerships
and help UK hospitals and their clinicians tap into a centralized electronic
clinical record (ECR) system that resolves the problem of data fragmentation."
 

Carefx has already implemented Fusionfx at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, where clinicians are using Fusionfx to access the patient
information they need - where, when and how they need it.  Carefx is
implementing Fusionfx at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 
Because the Fusionfx solution suite aggregates patient information across
disparate systems and provides clinicians with single, clinically relevant
views, clinicians can more easily solve patient problems and make rapid,
accurate decisions at the point of care. 

"The Carefx solution benefits the Trust by bringing together relevant patient
data from multiple applications and making that data more meaningful and
useful to clinicians," said Dianne Nixon, Head of IT Programme Management at
Cambridge University NHS Trust. "Carefx adds value to the Trust's existing
applications while improving its clinical care and patient safety
performance."

UK hospitals such as Cambridge and Oxford face many of the same issues
experienced by U.S. institutions. "Hospitals use varied combinations of health
administration systems (HASs), with some relying on national hosting, and
others running systems by themselves or through an external managed services
company," Parslow said. "But every UK hospital realizes that it must pursue
some action plan to resolve the pervasive and crippling crisis of data
fragmentation."  

Clinicians' urgency to access unified, clinically relevant views of patient
information has accelerated since the UK set targets for multiple clinical
pathways -- known as protocols in the U.S. -- and incentivized hospitals and
Trusts to meet those targets. Given these realities, Carefx believes that
growing numbers of UK hospital administrators and clinicians will gravitate
toward the open, flexible and scalable platform from Carefx which also allows
them to evolve to newly available composite applications that focus on
medication reconciliation and quality measures (fxClinical) and charge capture
(fxFinancial). Adoption and use of Carefx's messaging and electronic referral
application (fxCollaboration) may increase as Foundation Trust clinicians
increasingly refer patients to other UK hospitals. 

"Carefx is committed to helping healthcare organizations advance patient care
quality and safety by better managing care transitions and information gaps
among diverse departments, systems and facilities," said Hurd.  "Carefx will
partner and collaborate with UK hospitals to improve performance and patient
care quality by providing real-time interaction and connectivity among
applications within an organization's existing infrastructure and taking an
open, flexible and scalable approach to patient information delivery. 

Carefx is demonstrating the Fusionfx suite at the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference (booth #3637) in Chicago, IL,
April 4-8, 2009.

About Carefx Corporation
Carefx supports healthcare organizations in achieving their vision of
advancing the quality and safety of patient care delivery through its Fusionfx
solution suite. Fusionfx streamlines and simplifies clinical and business
workflow and connects care providers to the information they need -- where,
when, and how they need it.  By managing care transitions and information gaps
between diverse systems, departments and facilities, Fusionfx delivers crucial
patient information with speed, efficiency and logic. Carefx supports more
than 600 hospitals, health systems, regional health information organizations
(RHIOs) and health information exchanges (HIEs) across North America and
Europe.

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ, Carefx can be reached at
(480) 833-5010 or by email at info@carefx.com.

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    KNB Communications
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