FAIRVIEW-UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER TO USE ORGAN TRANSPLANT TRACKING SOFTWARE

TRACKING SOFTWARE CAN LOWER ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, REDUCE POTENTIAL FOR ERRORS

OMAHA ( Neb. )-Fairview-University Medical Center in Minneapolis has entered into an agreement to use the Organ Transplant Tracking Record, or OTTR, which is software for tracking the medical history and progress of patients undergoing organ transplantation.

OTTR was developed and is marketed by HKS Medical Information Systems to meet the unique clinical and patient management needs of the organ transplant community. In using OTTR, Fairview-University will join 36 other hospitals who, together, support 115 transplant programs in the U.S. and Canada.

More than 6,000 kidney transplants and 9,600 total transplants have been performed at Fairview-University, starting with its first kidney transplant in 1963. Today the hospital performs heart, lung, liver, kidney, intestinal and pancreas transplants, with excellent success rates in each program.

OTTR helps reduce the potential for errors in transplant medicine, where hundreds of pieces of data, such as blood type, medications, lab reports, test results, and other information are required to provide quality patient care. One of the founders of HKS Medical Information Systems was a transplant surgeon who wanted to eliminate the vast amount of paper charting necessary with transplant patients, so that more time could be spent providing patient care.

"Our software allows transplant teams to track and access hundreds of pieces of vital health care information," said Doug Perry, President of HKS Medical Information Systems. "That in turn, allows the medical staff to spend more time with the patient and less time with the paperwork."

About HKS Medical Information Systems

HKS Medical Information Systems, Inc. is a privately held company, headquartered in Omaha , Nebraska . Founded in 1993 by Dr. Byers Shaw of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Hubert Hickman and Paul Kenyon, Ph.D., HKS strives to improve the quality of patient care and operational efficiencies for its clients. HKS products include OTTR (Organ Transplant Tracking Record), the market leader in patient tracking software for organ transplant centers; and OTTR-HLA, which is a comprehensive software system to support the patient management, reporting and regulatory needs of the HLA laboratory. Clients using HKS products include Georgetown Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York . Inc. magazine named HKS Medical Information Systems one of 2003's fastest-growing private businesses. More information is available at www.hksys.com or 1-800-411-0975.