August
8, 2000
Medicity, Inc. Provides
Online Delivery Method of Unilab
Results to California Healthcare Professionals via Medicity.com
New Services Assist in the Delivery of Local Healthcare
Resulting in
Further Integration of Medicity Into the Workday
SALT
LAKE CITY, UT — Medicity,
Inc., the healthcare Internet infrastructure company that
provides secure communication networks to link healthcare
communities, announced today that the company will add
online delivery of Unilab results to the comprehensive
clinical content now available on Medicity. Unilab Corporation,
California's largest provider of clinical laboratory testing
services, will send lab results to Medicity's clinical
data repository from which any Medicity member in the
state of California can customize patient labs reports
at their desktop.
"With
access to customizable Unilab results via the desktop,
we are strengthening the daily utility of Medicity.com
for healthcare professionals," said James "Kipp" Lassetter,
M.D., chief executive officer of Medicity. "As Medicity
continues to build communication networks to enhance the
local delivery of healthcare services, providing access
to vital information that addresses the unique needs of
each individual healthcare community is vital to the company's
growth. This valuable regional partnership with Unilab,
and the capability to mine and trend the lab data via
Medicity are essential clinical information tools for
our users in California."
Medicity
members will be able to access online Unilab reports using
a robust clinical data repository. The repository will
allow physicians to access and search through discrete
data, customizing lab reports to display results in the
format they desire. These online reports can then be printed,
associated with a patient record and shared with allied
health professionals in a secure Web-based environment.
This type of advanced reporting via Medicity gives members
the ability to truly utilize the information within the
report to meet their individual needs.
"Medicity delivers Unilab results
to our members in a uniquely personalized way, via an
extensible and searchable discrete database. Also, we
recently began integration of new security technology
to provide users with secure and mobile access from any
computer to the Medicity site, and upgraded our portal
with an innovative interface and enhanced communication
features," said David Coyle, president and chief operating
officer of Medicity. "Medicity is committed to persistently
adding services and upgrading our technology to address
the everyday needs of the physicians, staff and affiliated
healthcare professionals who are Medicity members."
Medicity
spans across traditional enterprise boundaries, connecting
members to relevant healthcare communities with robust
clinical tools and a unique patent-pending communication
networking environment. Medicity's user base will continue
to grow through a participation-by-invitation marketing
approach that captures new physician users and their supporting
networks. This model has been established through Medicity's
current users who have circulated the solution from doctor
to doctor, organization to organization.
About
Medicity
Medicity
is an eHealth infrastructure company that creates secure
communication networks and aggregates connectivity solutions
for healthcare communities. Medicity's patent-pending
technology empowers physicians and healthcare professionals
to create personalized virtual communication networks
based on important workday relationships, as well as access
their ASP, connectivity and other premium service offerings
of choice, regardless of vendor, through a single logon
and authentication process. Medicity addresses the healthcare
industry's need to electronically link local healthcare
participants and provide effective, efficient and private
information sharing. The company is committed to building
network infrastructure for healthcare communities by providing
its members with unlimited access to personalized content
and productivity solutions. Headquartered in Salt Lake
City, Utah, Medicity, Inc. is a privately held company
created by a team of healthcare experts. For more information
about Medicity, contact us at 801.322.4444 or via email
at publicrelations@medicity.com.
Visit the Medicity website at www.medicity.com.
About
Unilab Corporation
Unilab Corporation is the largest provider of clinical
laboratory testing services in California. The Company
performs over 1,000 clinical and anatomical tests, from
the routine to the highly sophisticated. Unilab serves
office-based physicians in private, group, and clinic
settings, as well as hospitals, corporations, and HMOs.
Based in Tarzana, California, Unilab conducts testing
on more than 50,000 patients each business day and employs
approximately 3,200 skilled lab and administrative professionals.
The Company's service infrastructure blankets the state
of California and includes three main laboratories (located
in Los Angeles, San Jose and Sacramento) where most of
the testing is performed. In addition, 40 smaller "STAT"
laboratories provide clients with urgent test results
within hours, and 320 patient service centers ("PSCs")
are used to collect patients' specimens for delivery to
Unilab's testing facilities. Additional information about
Unilab is available on the company's website at www.unilab.com.
