SHERBORN, MA--(Marketwire - February 7, 2008) - Boston Software Systems™, the leader in workflow automation technology to the healthcare market, exceeded expectations with 55 percent growth in hospital sales over 2006. This caps a year of widespread success and praise for Boston Software Systems and its flagship product, Boston WorkStation™.
In the past year, Boston Software Systems added more than 100 new hospital sites. Among the new customers are: Catholic Health East, Pa., Wishard Health Services, Ind., Winber Medical Center, Pa. and Kindred Healthcare, Ky. In addition, Boston Software Systems saw an increase in business outside the U.S. New Canadian customers include Shared Services West, Ontario, Guelph General Hospital, Ontario and Eastern Health-Waterford Hospital, Newfoundland. Boston Software Systems also welcomed Mount Carmel Hospital in Ireland and Ramsey Healthcare in Australia to its customer base. Demonstrating a strong commitment to the technology, approximately one-third of these new hospitals purchased enterprise licenses, allowing them to deploy Boston WorkStation throughout their facilities.
Leading application vendors in the healthcare sector increasingly rely on Boston Software Systems to provide the automation and integration piece for their solutions. Business with these partners increased dramatically with the addition of more than 30 new application vendor partners. Close partner alliances delivered more than 150 installations of Boston WorkStation throughout the world. Among the newest partners actively using Boston Software Systems in their solutions are: IntelliDOT patient safety systems, Initiate Systems, EMPI systems, Meditech SA (Medical Information Technology SA (Pty) Ltd.), software and services, and KeyMark, document management systems.
New Products
In Q1 '07, Boston Software Systems unveiled Boston WorkStation v9.0, which offers greater connectivity and provides a simpler way to manage, change or analyze the performance of all scripts running throughout a hospital. In addition, version 9 can provide a high level strategic view of the efficiency of processes throughout the enterprise.
In Q2 '07, the company launched UNISON™ 2.0 and saw a 63 percent increase in sales of UNISON during the year. Built on the Boston WorkStation technology, UNISON is a stand-alone application for hospitals using MEDITECH information systems to simplify the updating, maintenance and synchronization of data dictionaries. UNISON enables users to reduce development of synchronizations from 30 hours to 20 minutes, and schedule them to occur regularly without human intervention. Additional features include an enhanced GUI, data mapping, field mapping and target synchronization.
Corporate Expansion
To accommodate widespread growth and demand, Boston Software Systems tapped additional sales and business development staff. This reflects the company's momentum and commitment to raising its growth to new levels, expanding the customer care team, and developing marketing and channel partnerships.
"Boston Software Systems' technology is the clear leader in workflow automation within hospitals. Hospitals and partners realize Boston WorkStation's value through its flexibility and interoperability with all information systems, enabling solution providers to speed implementations and reliably automate the exchange of data between their solution and legacy applications or systems," said Sara McNeil, president of Boston Software Systems.
"The healthcare industry has come to trust Boston Software Systems to address the critical operational needs of their organizations. In 2008, we will build our product line with enterprise-specific offerings that greatly enhance the management and strategic reporting of script functionality. In addition, we are committed to helping hospitals improve their processes as they adopt cutting-edge business practices and technologies, such as virtualization. Our growth in 2007 has positioned us very well for continued success in 2008," said McNeil.
About Boston WorkStation™
Boston WorkStation is a workflow automation and integration technology that provides an environment for on-demand process innovation and development. Boston WorkStation allows healthcare organizations to automate common tasks throughout the organization including revenue cycle projects, interactions with Web sites, integrating new applications, systems and devices, and electronically monitoring and managing user activity.
About Boston Software Systems
Boston Software Systems is the leading standard for workflow automation and system integration software, enabling healthcare organizations to streamline complex business processes and improve productivity. Hundreds of healthcare organizations worldwide respond to regulatory and business initiatives by using Boston WorkStation technology to automate and improve processes throughout their facilities. UNISON accelerates the development of critical dictionary and table synchronization in specific hospital information system environments. Customers include more than 50 HCA hospitals, Mayo hospitals, Stanford Medical Center, CHRISTUS Health, Lutheran Health Network and Tenet Healthcare. Boston Software Systems partners with leading application and system vendors such as McKesson, Siemens, Misys, Orion International and Emdeon. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.bostonworkstation.com or call 866.653.5105.
Boston Software Systems, Boston WorkStation are trademarks of Boston Software Systems, Inc.
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