MOUNTAIN VIEW AND SAN
FRANCISCO, CA, June 1, 2006
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., an Elekta company and world’s
leading provider of oncology information technology (IT)
solutions, and Rocket Communications (Rocket), a professional
user interface (UI) design studio, announced today the release
of MOSAIQ™, IMPAC’s image-enabled oncology electronic medical
record (EMR) that features a powerful new user interface
designed in collaboration with Rocket Communications. Built upon
15 years of customer application and IMPAC innovation, MOSAIQ’s
robust database platform, and sophisticated user paradigm will
allow IMPAC and IMPAC customers to continue expanding the
horizons of oncology management over the next 15 years.
With Microsoft’s .NET and SQL database technology as its
foundation, the MOSAIQ platform is optimized for both local
area and wide area network implementations, and is structured to
help users view and analyze image and textual EMR information in
a familiar chart-based format. Fundamental to MOSAIQ’s
architecture is the ability to process DICOM and DICOM-RT
images, plans, data sets, and services required to support image
guided and adaptive therapy while providing the necessary
foundation for scaleable oncology image storage, retrieval, and
archive. With the ability to connect to multiple planning,
imaging, and treatment devices, MOSAIQ eliminates the forced
dependency on any single equipment vendor and offers a true
user-defined total solution that significantly improves
productivity and ROI while allowing more efficient, higher
quality patient care.
“MOSAIQ’s design is the result of
considerable input from our vast Multi-ACCESS™ user base. Based
on customer input, we’ve added new features and streamlined
existing ones with Rocket’s intuitive UI design. We believe this
will result in easier implementations, and faster, more
widespread user adoption of the richer and more highly developed
functionality our system offers versus that provided by
alternative products”, said Jay Hoey, president and CEO of IMPAC
Medical Systems, Inc. “Our current users will find MOSAIQ
familiar because the functionality is based on Multi-ACCESS; and
every user will appreciate the intuitive graphical UI because it
is modeled after the look of a patient chart. Most importantly,
MOSAIQ’s single user application that encompasses image-enabled
patient charting, oncologist’s documentation, scheduling, charge
capture, and billing, results in process-flow tools that are not
available with any competing product.”
“Bringing users into the design process is essential to
producing a great user experience,” added Michal Anne Rogondino,
Founder of Rocket Communications. “MOSAIQ must support users
with multiple roles and very different backgrounds including
physicians, nurses, therapists, administrators, and billing
professionals. Therefore it must be easy-to-use and intuitive
enough for the occasional user while supporting the needs of
‘power users’ who work all day long within the application. Our
new UI is designed to improve usability leading to easier
training, faster user adoption and increased value.”
IMPAC will exhibit MOSAIQ at the upcoming 2006 American Society
of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, which will take
place June 2-6 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.********
For more information, please contact:
Lorna Murdock,
Marketing
Communications Manager
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
Tel: +1 650-623-8937, e-mail:
lmurdock@impac.com
Product
Inquiries:
Lydia Gordon, Product Manager
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.,
Tel: +1 650-623-3829, e-mail: lgordon@impac.com
Paul Brown, Director of Account Management
Rocket Communications
415-863-0101, e-mail:
paul@rocketcom.com
Investor Enquiries:
International: Peter Ejemyr, Group VP Corporate Communications,
Elekta AB
Tel: +46 733 611 000, e-mail: peter.ejemyr@elekta.com
United States: Lars Jonsteg, VP Investor Relations North
America, Elekta Inc.
Tel: +46 708-783 735, e-mail: lars.jonsteg@elekta.com
About IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., an Elekta company, provides
healthcare information technology (IT) solutions that streamline
clinical and business operations across the spectrum of cancer
care. IMPAC’s open integration to multiple healthcare data and
imaging systems offers oncology-specific patient charting and
practice management, as well as best-of-breed systems for
anatomic pathology, clinical laboratory, and cancer registry.
With products that are used in association with diagnosis and
treatment environments through long-term follow-up, IMPAC
provides a comprehensive oncology management solution that helps
improve overall communication, process efficiency, and the
quality of patient care. For more information about IMPAC
products and services, please call 888-GO-IMPAC or visit
www.impac.com.
About
Elekta
Elekta is an international medical-technology Group, providing
meaningful clinical solutions, comprehensive information systems
and services for improved cancer care and management of brain
disorders. All of Elekta’s solutions employ non-invasive or
minimally invasive techniques and are therefore clinically
effective, gentle on the patient and cost-effective. With
approx. 1700 employees, Elekta’s corporate headquarters is
located in Stockholm, Sweden and the company is listed on the
Stockholm Stock Exchange under the ticker EKTAb. For more
information about Elekta’s products or services, please visit
www.elekta.com.
About Rocket Communications
Since 1992 Rocket Communications, Inc. (Rocket™) has designed
innovative Graphical User Interface (GUI) solutions for large
global corporations and next generation technology. Rocket's
Full Service GUI Design Solutions include User Interface Design,
Visual Design, Icon Design and User Research and Testing. Rocket
has worked with industry leaders including AOL, Apple, Autodesk,
Cisco, Concord Communications, eBay, FileNet, Fujitsu, HP, IMPAC
Medical Systems, Logitech, Motorola, Nortel, PalmSource, Sun
Microsystems, and Xerox. To learn more about Rocket
Communications, please visit
www.rocketcom.com. |
