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Velos is Fully STS Version 2.41 Certified
VELOS CERTIFIES SINGLE DATABASE ARCHITECTURE WITH THE
SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS
Minneapolis, MN – June 5,
2002 – Velos, Inc. announced today that it has certified a
single database architecture for its customers who report clinical
outcomes to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). The Velos
Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery is a scalable data management
solution designed to meet the wide range of customer needs in the
cardiovascular market. Velos will be updating STS 2.35 data into the
newly certified STS 2.41 certified product.
“To address
ever-changing clinical outcomes information needs of medical
societies such as the STS, many vendors simply develop new databases
for new society database standards”, notes John S. McIlwain,
President and CEO of Velos. “This can become very cumbersome for
customers with extensive clinical data. Our ability to provide
customers with a single longitudinal record reflects a superior
system design and many years of leadership in Cardiology and
Cardiothoracic Surgery clinical information.”
“We know how
important retrospective data reporting is to our customers,” stated
Kevin McDonald, Product Manager. “With this and other STS releases,
Velos is migrating existing data into the newest societal version.
Rather than reporting from different databases, all data is in one
database making the data far easier to report on and query.
Furthermore, with Velos, fields that have been deleted in the
current societal version continue to be available in Velos. This
enables Velos customers to derive value from many years of clinical
data for other applications in patient care, marketing, and
research.”
Velos develops innovative healthcare information
management solutions in Cardiology, Renal, and Transplantation
specialties and for clinical research. Velos is focused on providing
customer-driven software applications that easily evolve with the
needs of its customers. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and
the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) have fully certified the
Velos Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery applications for use by
participants in the ACC-NCDR and the STS National Database. Velos
customers benefit from 15+ years of cardiology/CV surgery clinical
information management expertise. Velos offers an integrated suite
of clinical, administrative, and financial products and technology,
bridging legacy and net-centric architectures. Velos is privately
held with headquarters in Silicon Valley. This press release
contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those set forth in the forward-looking statements, including
the anticipated benefits resulting from STS 2.41 certification.
Actual results may differ materially from those projected. These
forward-looking statements represent the Company’s judgment as of
the date of this release. The Company disclaims, however, any intent
or obligation to update these forward-looking
statements.
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Why Choose Velos Over Other
Vendors?
CLIENT SERVICES - At Velos we provide Gold standard client
services. Velos Implementation, Training, and, most importantly the
Technical Customer Support is the standard by which other vendors
measure themselves. All of our customers serve as
references.
AFTER THE PURCHASE - We take care of our customers after the
purchase of the program. You will receive monthly communiqués,
product information updates, a quarterly newsletter, and regional
user group meetings on a quarterly basis. Summer 2002 – All Velos
User Group Meeting in Minneapolis, MN!!!
PRODUCT SCALABILITY - Grow your Velos system AS your
institution’s needs increase! Start with the ACC-NCDR and/or STS
certified databases, and then purchase additional modules, OR create
your own modules with our Dynamic Database Design Tool.
CUSTOMIZED FIELDS - The Velos Customization Tool allows you
to place fields in sections where you want them. The end result is
easier, common-sensical data reporting. Customized fields may then
be reported on and incorporated into the Standard Reports or via an
ad hoc query.
EXCEL REPORTING TOOL - We have MS Excel-based reports. This
is a very inexpensive reporting tool; most people have had at least
minimal exposure to Excel – so learning the reports is very quick
and easy. Excel offers great flexibility and the ability to obtain
all of the data you need through filtering, pivot tables, charting
and graphing. Statistical graphs and charts already come with Excel
and are very easy to use. Other vendors need additional SPSS or
statistical reporting packages that cost extra $$$. Say “NO” to
hidden costs!
ODBC COMPLIANT REPORTING ENGINE - If you opt not to use
Excel, the Velos application is ODBC compliant. Crystal, SASS,
Cognos and other reporting engines can be used to report Velos
data.
INTERFACES - Let interfacing take 3 or more minutes off each
patient’s data entry record time. Our program has ADT and
Hemodynamic interfacing capabilities. All costs associated to run
the program are communicated up front. We work closely with your IT
department to ensure the successful implementation of your
interface.
STANDARD REPORT LIBRARY - Currently there are 20 standard
reports each for the ACC and STS modules. This reporting library is
both analytical and procedural. From the feedback of our customers,
new reports are being developed continuously.
SYBASE - We utilize Sybase® SQL Anywhere as our standard
database engine for three reasons: Widely available, low-maintenance
and self-tuning, plus very cost effective when compared to other
database engines.
Latest Velos Features
ACC DATA COMPLETENESS REPORT - For ACC-NCDR harvest
submission with high threshold, identify patient data that is
“Missing” or has been labeled “Unknown.” This report is a MUST and
comes STANDARD with our report library.
STS RISK STRATIFICATION REPORT - Report on the CABG, Valve
and CABG/Valve risk models.
AVERAGE DOOR TO BALLOON-STENT TIME BY PROCEDURE BY PHYSICIAN -
For patients that have a “ST Elevation MI” it displays Physician
by Procedure average deployment time, number of cases and those that
exceed the 90-minute threshold as set by National Registry for
Myocardial Infarction (NRMI). NEW!!!!
DYNAMIC DATABASE DESIGN TOOL - Create your own customized
forms easily with the Dynamic Database Design tool. To report on
data, simply design an ad hoc query and capture the data you
want.
ADDITIONAL MODULES - Velos utilizes our customers for module
development and beta-testing, Velos has released an
Electrophysiology module and is currently developing CHF and Cardiac
Rehabilitation modules. Several other modules will be distributed to
our customers by the end of 2002.
What Velos
Customers Say . . .
“I am extremely happy with
product and support. The Velos program has helped our cardiac
program grow in many areas – marketing, clinical trials, day-to-day
patient care and development of protocols based on outcomes tracked
in Velos. The system has been a crucial piece in our performance
improvement plan as a healthcare system. Our future improvement
plans are very much driven through the utilization of the Velos
system.” Pam Orshaw – Guthrie HealthCare
System
“I love the reporting capabilities that Velos
utilizes. I love being able to add additional fields into the
standard, canned report. This makes the reporting tool easy to use.”
Karen Saunders – Midwest Heart
Institute
Information regarding this press release
may be obtained by contacting Madalynne Chapman (510) 580-2661 or mchapman@velos.com.
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