iMetrikus Announces Release of MediCompass

Specialized Resources for a Range of Clinicians and Providers Include Multi-disease Tracking and Multi-language Support

Carlsbad, CA, June 12, 2001 -- iMetrikus today announced the release of MediCompass, a suite of interactive applications for fast, easy access to clinical data to help physicians and healthcare professionals optimize treatment plans and improve patient adherence and compliance. MediCompass provides a platform for collaborative health management based on a patient's personal health record.

Created for physicians, nurses, diabetes educators, case managers, pharmacists and other members of the healthcare team, MediCompass delivers interactive applications with support for medical device uploads that help with monitoring patient records to identify compliance trends and patterns, status changes, and opportunities for intervention.

"Before MediCompass, Scripps patients with diabetes were forced to track their glucose test results manually or create separate records for individual monitors," said Dr. George Dailey, division head, diabetes/endocrinology at Scripps Clinic in San Diego. "The interactive, collaborative features offered through the MediCompass suite are helpful for both professionals and patients. These consistent tools and data views enable our staff to assist the patients to take better control of their health."

MediCompass includes special features for monitoring diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular conditions such as CHF, CAD, and Hypertension. Also included is the ability to engage a broad cross-section of patients who may not use English as a first language. Because of the flexibility of the iMetrikus XML architecture and the design of the iMetrikus dynamic page generation technology, MediCompass Web pages can be presented concurrently in multiple languages to multiple users. Spanish is the first supported language option with French and German soon to follow.

"As a disease management company, our goal at Diabetex is to make sure our patients comply with their treatment programs and receive the constant reinforcement they need," commented Merry Day, Diabetex' vice president, corporate operations. "By using the MediCompass application, we are able to more efficiently serve the broadest range of patients, across a wide geographic area, in both Spanish and English. We improve clinical quality while at the same time we reduce spending."

MediCompass Background

Anticipating the need for a highly targeted, interactive, Web-based approach that links patients, physicians, and healthcare companies, iMetrikus developed a sophisticated, secure clinical data repository that delivers personalized information and facilitates ongoing collaboration using XML Web technologies. Prior to the release of MediCompass for healthcare professionals, iMetrikus launched MyHealthChannel, its patient-centric personal health record that allows members to create and maintain a secure, anonymous and evolving online health record.

Having been tested and proven by a rapidly growing community of users, the release of MediCompass will link the community of healthcare professionals with MyHealthChannel members who have chronic conditions and who strive to take better control of their health.

Fundamental to establishing the platform of patient-provider collaboration is the Record Key, a secure program that allows patients to grant health record access privileges to individual members of their healthcare team. Utilizing MediCompass, healthcare providers can add additional medical information as well as access reports and graphs to better understand patient health patterns.

MediCompass Broadens Resources for Clinicians and their Patients

Use of MediCompass can also improve physician-patient communication and supports consultation with multiple practitioners with the ability to send text prompts, alerts, and reminders. Clinicians will be able to view a variety of customized graphs and reports that include uploaded test results, blood pressure, weight, lab results, self-tests, medication use, and other health indicators.

MediCompass has an integrated monitoring appliance library that supports upload of data from commercially available blood glucose meters, as well as insulin pumps. Unlike most other online health records, MediCompass supports a broad spectrum of data uploads making the service more useful to broader patient populations and more consistent for clinicians.

About iMetrikus

Linking patients, providers and healthcare companies, iMetrikus was named for the principles it represents. iMetrikus links the individual (i) through metrics (metrik) - that is, systematic measurement of diagnostics, therapeutic intervention and outcomes management - with the healthcare community (us). iMetrikus develops applications that provide secure, web-based real-time connections between patients, healthcare professionals and various sectors of the healthcare industry. iMetrikus (www.imetrikus.com) solutions enable healthcare clients to focus on improving disease outcomes, monitoring of chronic diseases, and health promotion through broad access to advanced, secure, interactive Internet applications.

Press Contacts

iMetrikus
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Jennifer Smith, Fischer & Partners
(310) 577-7870 ext. 153
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For more information about iMetrikus, visit the company's home page at www.imetrikus.com or call 760-804-8800.

iMetrikus, MyHealthChannel, Therametrics, SAIA, and MediCompass are registered trademarks of iMetrikus, Inc. All other company and product names used herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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