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"There is a long way to go in the process of leveraging the power of computing, in the improvement of the quality of care. As new technologies become available, doctors realize that their practices and systems need to change, but they also feel overwhelmed about where to start."

AMA Study

  Our Technology

Physicians, clinics and billing services need easy-to-use, intuitive graphical and windows based networked applications to access, process and analyze patient data. Medasis Corporation provides a state of the art, robust information solution that allows healthcare organizations manage a truly complex process.

The simplicity of our Windows-based user interface and the relatively low cost of ownership hide the technical complexity at the heart of Medasis Corporations sophisticated practice management solution.

Medasis Corporation is developing advanced computing technologies to create its practice management solutions. These technologies and the methods used to deploy them are an important competitive advantage.

The technology and processes were selected to minimize the investment in
hardware in the physician's office while reducing support problems. The component application architecture developed at Medasis Corporation provides the foundation on which the information systems are developed. This architecture leverages the Company's extensive object oriented development experience to create a scaleable, state of the art solution. In a rapidly changing technological environment, the object oriented architecture isolates system components, enabling the company to quickly adjust to changing business complexities and local variations and requirements. This approach also scales to match business volume, and provides a framework for enhancing and adding new functionality.

The system architecture is modularized to simplify complexity and provide methods to embrace new technologies. It is based on object-oriented principles to speed development to allow the company to respond with ever changing rules and requirements.

The foundation for the Medasis Corporation’s practice management software is a Thin-Client philosophy in which windows-based workstations are served data using a high-performance unix/AIX or NT based SQL server. The workstation employs a "thin client" based on Windows 95 or 98 and developed in ultra-high performance C++. Server-based software is built upon a unix/AIX/NT framework, using a mixture of C++ and SQL, an approach that allows for flexibility in the choice of a hardware platform. Medasis was created from the ground up to run either on selected versions of Unix or on servers which use the Microsoft NT operating system. Database platforms include Oracle Corporation, Informix, Borland/Inprise, Microsoft and others.

Network Architecture

The development of medical applications has been stagnant for many years. The traditional text based user interfaces have been the de-facto standard with little innovation other than changes to respond to ever increasing billing requirements. The movement from terminal based solutions to a PC-based client and a Unix or Intel-based server has been slow to develop. This is mainly due to the quality of the existing Windows based solutions and the reluctance of the traditional companies to innovate.

While Windows based medical practice management software has been available for a few years, they have not fared well when compared to the traditional text based applications. Medasis Corporations software offers network-based, client-server architecture with the features of the traditional text based software applications in a Windows environment. The power and flexibility of a graphical user interface, blended with centralized control of the business data provides an organization with the most cost-effective and state-of-the-art solution available.

Thin-Client architecture promotes simplicity on the client system by moving data intensive functions onto a server, rather than doing the processing on the workstations. The client provides access to the data on a server which may reside anywhere in the network. Separating the user interface portion from the function of processing that information allows for solutions that scale better. This means that if a server becomes the bottleneck in an application, more computing resource can be added without any impact on the end-user environment other than improved performance.

A tremendous advantage of the Thin-Client architecture is reduced workstation processing capability thus allowing the use of inexpensive workstations. The reduced requirements will also extend the useful lifetime of existing equipment. Users can take advantage of any PC that runs Windows 95/98 if it provides enough processing power to run the application. For customers that have already installed an Ethernet network, installation is very simple.

The primary advantage of text-based traditional solutions is that the systems
infrastructure is centralized in a data server, which makes issues like backup and recovery, performance tuning, virus avoidance

Security, and other issues much easier to manage. Medasis Corporation has
embraced this philosophy and yet is able to provide a graphical client/server
environment.

While cost savings can be tremendous as well as the administrative simplification, perhaps the greatest advantage our architecture provides is improved response to changing requirements. Application modifications can be made quickly and distributed even more quickly. Through a unique technology developed by Medasis Corporation changes are introduced on the server, and each client is automatically updated. This allows Medasis Corporation to be very nimble and react quickly to changing market conditions and end user needs.

Summary

The Thin-Client approach providing powerful, network-based applications is emerging as the architecture of the future. Current text based billing applications have serious limitations that have been uncovered by application software developed by Medasis Corporation. Clearly, the continued development of the text-based applications cannot continue for any period of time. The improved response to changing requirements, administrative and management simplification, reuse of existing resources, improved scalability and minimized up-front costs all suggest that our technology is the optimal architecture. The sophisticated "Thin Client" technology developed by Medasis is a key competitive advantage allowing Medasis to offer innovative solutions to complex practice management problems.

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