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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
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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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Corporation • 3418 Olsen Blvd. Suite E
• Amarillo, TX 79109
Phone: 888-532-4446 • Fax: 806-359-4582
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