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Bristol Group Mitretek Acquires New Name; Group to Serve as Foundation of Private Sector Practice within Mitretek Healthcare FALLS CHURCH, Va. --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 30, 2004 -- Mitretek Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that, effective August 30, 2004, Bristol Group Mitretek, a part of Mitretek primarily providing strategy and planning services to private sector healthcare organizations, will be known as Mitretek Healthcare. With this name change, the group will serve as the foundation of the support to the private sector within the newly expanded Mitretek Healthcare practice, which provides strategy and innovative solutions in the public interest to both Federal and private sector healthcare organizations. Mitretek Systems acquired Bristol Group Mitretek, formerly known as The Bristol Group, in 2002.Mitretek Healthcare includes three operating components: its ongoing Healthcare Strategic Services; its new Center for Health Innovation; and its recently initiated Technology-based Services. Mitretek Healthcare's expanded Strategic Services will provide healthcare strategic planning, clinical services planning, and operations and facility planning, as well as innovative design of clinical and business work and decision processes. It will also continue to provide independent, unbiased advice and guidance related to healthcare information technology (IT) planning, acquisition support, information assurance, information management, and IT-enabled process improvement. Mitretek Healthcare's services address the needs of hospitals, multi-hospital systems, academic medical centers, physician organizations, post-acute services, health plans and payers, and life sciences organizations in both the public and private sectors. A key feature of the expanded healthcare practice is the new Center for Health Innovation - the component of Mitretek Healthcare that pursues research and innovation around societal health and health system problems affecting the healthcare industry. Areas of focus include knowledge management and integration; knowledge dissemination, effectiveness and safety, and solution prototyping. The Center will also provide research and analyses tailored to the requirements of its health industry clients. Finally, Mitretek Healthcare's Technology-based Services provide healthcare organizations with more effective ways of doing business through the implementation of new technology-enabled capabilities. This is exemplified by its development of the Web-based service RASMAS, the Risk and Safety Management Alert System, that significantly enhances patient safety by improving the information, timeliness, and workflow in handling the high number of product and safety alerts that health care organizations receive. Mitretek Healthcare currently has offices in four area locations: Washington, DC; Boston (Lexington), Mass.; Baltimore, Md.; and Austin, Texas. Mitretek Healthcare is a part of Mitretek Systems, a nonprofit company that works to solve complex organizational and technological problems of public interest. Mitretek Systems is nationally recognized as a strategy and technology leader and an innovator. In addition to the field of healthcare, Mitretek Systems applies its expertise in other public-interest areas such as transportation, weather systems, homeland security, public safety, and environmental sustainability. For more information please visit Mitretek Healthcare's Web site @ www.mitretek.org/healthcare. |
