ROME and HOUSTON, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- E-Ceptionist, Inc. has signed an agreement and will immediately be used to coordinate the national organ donation process in Italy, the company announced today.
Centro Nazionale Trapianti (the Italian National Organ Transplant Center), in a project with TelBios S.p.A., will use the E-Ceptionist system to manage the organ donation process in order to maximize the number of successful recipients and minimize the number of organs that are wasted in Italy each year.
TelBios Managing Director Mr. Alberto Golinelli commented on the benefits of the system: "TelBios' use of the E-Ceptionist system helps Centro Nazionale Trapianti guarantee that the donation process is secure and allows doctors in Italy to make certain that a donor is suitable and that a perfect matched recipient can be found." Managing Director Golinelli continued: "The system will be used to archive donor information in order to allow our nation's transplant experts to review the complete organ record before making an educated decision on a transplant. TelBios' unique technology and process control methodology will allow fast and reliable information exchange with the maximum guarantee of security for patient information."
"E-Ceptionist will allow Italy's organ transplant specialists real-time access to critical information," said Dirk Voorhees, E-Ceptionist's President and Chief Executive Officer. "E-Ceptionist will help the Italian National Organ Transplant Center save lives."
Merrick Alpert, E-Ceptionist's Chairman, stated: "We are honored to continue to expand the services E-Ceptionist provides to the people of Italy. We are proud to play a role in Prime Minister Berlusconi's modernization of the Italian health care system."
Centro Nazionale Trapianti is based in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1999 and part of the Italian National Institute for Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanita), the center is responsible for overseeing the entire organ donation and transplant process in Italy.
TelBios (http://www.telbios.it/ ) is a leading telemedicine company based in Milan, Italy. The company, founded in 1996, is a joint venture of Telecom Italia, San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park, Alenia Spazio and Value Partners. Based on the joint venture partners' consolidated experience and specific technology, TelBios is focused on three different business areas: telemedicine, home care and e-learning. TelBios has also developed its activities in the military health domain and provides tele-consulting and tele-diagnosis services to the Italian Army engaged in peacekeeping operations abroad.
E-Ceptionist, Inc. (http://www.e-ceptionist.com/ ) is a privately held company located in Houston, Texas. The company owns and licenses the E-Ceptionist(R) software. The service allows users to book appointments in real-time over the Internet as well as to create an electronic patient record, complete with medical images. The service is secure and encrypted and the privacy of patient information is protected. E-Ceptionist, Inc. provides service in multiple languages to customers throughout the world.
E-Ceptionist's customers include the United States Military, the National Health Service in the United Kingdom and Telecom Italia's "TelBios" in Italy.
E-Ceptionist, Inc.CONTACT: Alessandro Baro of TelBios, +011-39-022-643-3606; or KyeJohanning of E-Ceptionist, Inc., +1-713-520-6688
