NEW YORK, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ramp Corporation today announced that its wholly-owned HealthRamp subsidiary and 3Com Corporation are co-presenting as platinum sponsors at the conference hosted by the Emerging Technologies in Healthcare Innovations Congress (TETHIC), the Health Care Research and Innovations Congress (HCRIC), and the Consumer Directed Health Care Conference and Expo (CDHCC) in Washington, DC from November 29 through December 1, 2004.
TETHIC, HCRIC and CDHCC have a commonality of purpose -- addressing the critical issues that are driving healthcare today -- yet each presents a very distinct agenda. HCRIC (http://www.hcric.com/) addresses the acceleration of innovation to practice, TETHIC (http://www.tethic.com/) showcases many of the emerging information and clinical technologies that promise to expedite delivery of innovation and standardization, and CDHCC (http://www.cdhcc.com/) provides the forum to address the role of the consumer and the patient as these new technologies emerge and consumers assumes more responsibility of their healthcare future.
"3Com is proud to collaborate with HealthRamp on their strategic enterprise mobility plan. HealthRamp's pioneering efforts in the long-term care industry, through its CareGiver technology suite, position them to be a leader in mobile point-of-care solutions for long-term care facilities," said Seth Adler, director of health sciences, 3Com. "HealthRamp is relying upon our mobile computing technology to set new standards in the delivery of highly available and critical wireless solutions. We look forward to a long-term successful relationship with HealthRamp," concluded Adler.
"Our CareGiver technology suite is the result of almost 2 years of development, and is now positioned to be aggressively introduced into the long-term care marketplace. Together with 3Com, we are positioned to effectively deploy our recently announced CareGiver contract awards, while being prepared to fulfill on the anticipated significant future demand resulting from our ongoing business development efforts. 3Com's superior enterprise mobility vision and product strategy provides us a formidable capability for deploying our CareGiver technologies," stated Andrew Brown, Ramp CEO and President.
3Com is a leading provider of converged voice and data networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes. 3Com offers a broad line of innovative products backed by world class sales, service and support, which excel at delivering business value for its customers. When customers exercise choice, their choice is 3Com. For further information, please visit http://www.3com.com/, or the press site http://www.3com.com/pressbox.
Ramp Corporation, through its wholly owned HealthRamp subsidiary, develops and markets the CareGiver and CarePoint suite of technologies. CareGiver enables long term care facility staff to easily place orders for drugs, treatments and supplies from a wireless handheld PDA or desktop web browser. CarePoint enables electronic prescribing, lab orders and results, Internet-based communication, data integration, and transaction processing over a handheld device or browser, at the point-of-care. HealthRamp's products enable communication of value-added healthcare information among physician offices, pharmacies, hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, health management organizations, pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies. Additional information about Ramp can be found at http://www.ramp.com/.
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Ramp CorporationCONTACT: Andrew Brown of Ramp Corporation, +1-212-440-1548