ACCURO EMR SELECTED AS PREFERRED PRODUCT SOLUTION FOR SASKATCHEWAN EMR PROGRAM
Monday, May 4, 2009
Kelowna, BC, January 28, 2009 – Mr. Al Hildebrandt, President and CEO of QHR Technologies Inc. (“QHR” or the “Company”) (TSX-Venture: QHR) is pleased to announce that its electronic medical records (EMR) division, Optimed, has successfully reached the Preferred Product Solution stage in the Saskatchewan Medical Association’s (SMA) request for proposal (RFP) process to provide Saskatchewan physicians with a set of approved EMR products.
Optimed’s Preferred Product Solution is Accuro EMR. Four vendors, including Optimed, have been selected as Preferred Product Solutions through the EMR qualification process.
As one of the Preferred Product Solution vendors, Optimed will be required to enter into a Master Standing Agreement with the SMA and to modify its products to meet all of the SMA’s core EMR requirements. Optimed will then need to pass a conformance testing process to verify that all core requirements have been met before becoming an Approved EMR Vendor and being eligible for the SMA’s EMR Program.
The RFP process is intended to elect a limited number of pre-approved vendors to participate in the SMA EMR Program, with a choice of client-server or ASP platform architectures. The EMR Program will be made available to approximately 1,400 fee-forservice and contracted physicians within the province of Saskatchewan.
In announcing the selection of Optimed, Mr. Hildebrandt said “Over 50% of Saskatchewan’s physicians already use an Optimed system for their EMR, scheduling or billing workflows. In 2006 we acquired the ‘MedSoft’ customer base from Peardon Consulting and the ‘Medicentre’ customer base from IQMedX (formerly Rave Software). Once we become an Approved EMR Vendor, we expect that many of our Medicentre and Medsoft customers will switch to our flagship Accuro EMR system in order to qualify for inclusion in the SMA EMR Program which provides reimbursements to physicians.”
For further information on Optimed, please contact Fred Chapman, General Manager and
VP Sales, at 250-979-1717 or fchapman@optimedsoftware.com, or go to the Optimed
website at http://www.optimedsoftware.com/.
Al Hildebrandt, President and CEO
Legal Notice Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This news release may contain “forward looking statements” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements are indicated expectations or intentions. Forward–looking statements included in this news release include that we expect to become an approved EMR vendor in Saskatchewan, and that “we expect that many of our Medicentre and Medsoft customers will switch to our flagship Accuro EMR system.” These are based on assumptions that we are working towards approval and intend to market our product vigorously. These statements are subject to risks that may cause the actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. Factors which could result in these forward looking statements being different or failing to come to fruition include that we may not agree to the master standing agreement terms, our products may not conform to what is required by the SMA, and other EMR vendors may sell products that are more readily accepted by physicians. Readers should consider these risks and other risks of our Company disclosed in our public filings available on SEDAR. It is not our policy to update forward looking information.
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For further information, please contact:
Al Hildebrandt at (250) 979-1701
ahildebrandt@QHRtechnologies.com
Investor Relations – Tangent Mgmt. 1-866-345-0115
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