MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- 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(TM), 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(TM) 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: pr@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 Inquiries: Peter Ejemyr, Group VP Corporate Communications, Elekta AB Tel: +46 733 611 000, e-mail: peter.ejemyr@elekta.com About IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., a company in the Elekta Group, provides healthcare 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 quality patient care. For more information about IMPAC’s products or 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(TM)) 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.
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: Lorna Murdock, Marketing Communications Manager, +1-650-623-8937,or pr@impac.com, or Product Inquiries: Lydia Gordon, Product Manager,+1-650-623-3829, or lgordon@impac.com, both of IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.,or Paul Brown, Director of Account Management of Rocket Communications,+1-415-863-0101, or paul@rocketcom.com; or Investor Inquiries: PeterEjemyr, Group VP Corporate Communications of Elekta AB, +46 733 611 000, orpeter.ejemyr@elekta.com
