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Visual Mining's NetCharts® helps Health First to more effectively report time-sensitive clinical data to physicians
Rockville, Maryland - July 28, 2004 - Visual Mining, Inc., a leading developer of reporting and data visualization solutions, today announced that Health First has selected NetCharts® to generate dynamic interactive charts over their secure physician's portal.
"We are collecting data from multiple systems and, with the use of XML and XSL, rendering clinical data graphs dynamically using NetCharts in a physicians' portal accessed by over 700 physicians," said Dallas Twiford, Developer. "We selected NetCharts primarily for the date/time line object controls built into the graph applets, specifically the combo chart. This was a huge time-saver to deploy time-sensitive data to our physicians in a graphical format. Another factor was the portability of java applets to any server environment."
"Health First's application provides physicians with up to date information on their patients, allowing them to make critical and accurate decisions in a fraction of the time it used to take," said Michael MacDonald, CEO and Founder of Visual Mining. "By integrating Visual Mining's NetCharts® into their application, Health First physicians will provide better patient care, and the Company realized an almost immediate ROI by eliminating months of development time."
About Health First:
Health First was formed when CCH, HRMC, and PBCH joined together in August 1995 to create a truly integrated not-for-profit healthcare delivery system and fulfill a common mission of improving the health of our community. The first new services added in the Health First family were Health First Physicians, opening in late 1995, and Health First Health Plans, opening in January 1996. Since then, Health First Heart Institute, Holmes Regional Trauma Center, and many other services have been added to the Health First family.
About Visual Mining, Inc:
Visual Mining builds interactive graphical reporting solutions for business and government organizations needing maximum software flexibility, high performance, and low cost. Visual Mining produced the first Java-powered charting engine in 1996. Since then, Visual Mining's NetCharts products have earned numerous industry awards, most recently, the 2003 Intelligent Enterprise Magazine's Readers' Choice Award for data visualization software. For more information, please visit www.visualmining.com .
Contact:
Lezlie Ramsey
Public Relations Manager
301.795.2217
lramsey@visualmining.com
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