[June 14, 2006] QuadraMed Partners with North Shore Medical Center for Multi-Hospital Enterprise Scheduling Contract Tweet RESTON, Va. --(Business Wire)-- June 14, 2006 -- QuadraMed(R) Corporation (Amex:QD) today announced that the company has been awarded a multi-hospital contract for its QuadraMed enterprise scheduling product by North Shore Medical Center (NSMC), Salem, Massachusetts. NSMC is the region's largest healthcare provider and a member of Partners HealthCare, which includes founding members Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. QuadraMed enterprise scheduling enables users operating in a centralized or decentralized environment to provide enterprise scheduling services across all departments and facilities. Multi-facility interoperability is achieved using HL7 technology that significantly improves access management efficiency, staff and patient satisfaction, and revenue cycle performance. Under terms of the agreement, the organization's NSMC Union Hospital in Lynn, a 150-bed acute care community facility, will upgrade to the new enterprise scheduling product, while NSMC Salem Hospital, a 284-bed community teaching facility, and the 25-bed NSMC North Shore Children's Hospital sites in Salem will be new QuadraMed clients. When fully deployed, enterprise scheduling will also link to the NSMC Cancer Center in Peabody, NSMC Women's Center in Danvers, and the physician practices of Charter Professional Services. QuadraMed's TempusOne(R) enterprise scheduling solution is one of the industry's most comprehensive front-end access management solutions for fully scalable and secure enterprise scheduling. The system provides access management capabilities for medical necessity checking, insurance verification, patient ID and kiosks, pre-registration, physician Web scheduling and call-back reminders. Its functionality includes inpatient and outpatient scheduling for radiology and imaging, rehabilitation services, laboratory, cardiology and surgical services. Clients that implement QuadraMed's Care-Based Revenue Cycle(TM) process can advance their financial success and leverage quality care into positive financial outcomes. Enterprise scheduling is a key element of this process and plays an important role in all three of QuadraMed's strategic initiatives: leveraging quality care into reimbursement, interoperability for the connected healthcare community, and quality measurement. The website for North Shore Medical Center is nsmc.partners.org. For information about QuadraMed TempusOne and related products, visit www.tempus.com, and for all QuadraMed products and services, www.quadramed.com or call 800-393-0278. About QuadraMed Corporation QuadraMed Corporation advances the success of healthcare organizations through IT solutions that leverage quality care into positive financial outcomes. As evolving reimbursement scenarios challenge healthcare organizations to leverage quality of care into payment, clients committing to QuadraMed's care-based solutions can realize market leading financial performance. Using QuadraMed's end-to-end solutions to optimize the patient experience and leverage quality of care into payment, our clients can receive the proper reimbursement, in the shortest time, at the lowest administrative cost. Behind our products and services is a staff of almost 600 professionals whose experience and dedication to service have earned QuadraMed the trust and loyalty of customers at approximately 2,000 healthcare provider facilities. To find out more about QuadraMed, visit www.quadramed.com. Cautionary Statement on Risks Associated with QuadraMed's Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements, as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, by QuadraMed that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "may," "should," "could," and similar expressions are intended to identify such statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are to be interpreted only as of the date on which they are made. QuadraMed undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement except as required by law. QuadraMed advises investors that it discusses risk factors and uncertainties that could cause QuadraMed's actual results to differ from forward-looking statements in its periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). QuadraMed's SEC filings can be accessed through the Investor Relations section of our website, www.quadramed.com, or through the SEC's EDGAR Database at www.sec.gov (QuadraMed has EDGAR CIK No. 0001018833). QuadraMed and TempusOne are registered trademarks of QuadraMed Corporation. Care-Based Revenue Cycle is a trademark of QuadraMed Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]