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Biscom Announces Integration of
FAXCOM with McKesson Automation's MedDirect System
San Diego, CA (February 10, 2003) - At the HIMMS
Healthcare Show Biscom, a leading provider of enterprise
fax management solutions, announced the integration
of its FAXCOM technology with McKesson Automation's
MedDirect system. McKesson Automation, a business unit
of McKesson Corporation, is the leading provider of
supply information and care management products and
services designed to reduce costs and improve quality
across healthcare.
MedDirect is a Web-based medication order communication
system that enhanced the speed and accuracy of pharmacy
orders between the nursing unit and the central pharmacy.
Introduced by McKesson in June 2001, it provides an
electronic image of the order that can be quickly expedited,
tracked and retrieved. After customers voiced an interest
in capturing faxes, McKesson evaluated the option of
including a fax capture system for MedDirect. After
a thorough search, McKesson selected the FAXCOM system
to provide this solution.
The solution integrates MedDirect with a FAXCOM model
5100, a fax server scalable from eight to 24 fax channels.
Specifically, MedDirect developers used the FAXCOM COM
API to interface to a Windows fax service gateway running
on the FAXCOM 5100. The FAXCOM COM API is a fax API
that supports programming to standardized Windows programming
environments. Developers thus can use Visual Basic,
C/C++ or any other programming or scripting language
that supports COM objects to write their own application
or simple macros. MedDirect is an integral part of a
complete suite of hospital pharmacy automation products
and services provided exclusively by McKesson Automation
that includes ROBOT-Rx, AcuDose-Rx, Admin-Rx, NarcStation,
PakPlus-Rx, MedCarousel and Connect-RX.
"The integration of the FAXCOM system with MedDirect
provides our customers with a choice that can't be offered
by competitive systems," explained Bob Meek, McKesson
Automation Director of Technical Product Management.
"The combination of FAXCOM with MedDirect allows
hospitals to take advantage of their existing fax technology
investment, and capture faxes into a powerful electronic
work flow and document management system."
Along from the patient privacy benefits inherent with
the use of electronic faxing, the incorporation of FAXCOM
with MedDirect provides nursing staffs and easy-to-use
solution that integrates seamlessly into their existing
hospital IT environment. Furthermore, the information
communicated via the system may be archived to create
a secure document repository for future reference.
Biscom is very pleased that McKesson selected us as
a technology provider for their MedDirect system,"
stated Neal McCann, VP of Sales, for Biscom, Inc. "Not
only did our technology come together seamlessly, but
so has our business relationship. We look forward to
mutual success in delivery of the fax enabled MedDirect
solution."
About McKesson
McKesson Corporation, the 31st largest industrial company
in the United States, is the leading provider of supply,
information and care management products and services
designed to reduce costs and improve quality across
healthcare. McKesson solutions empower healthcare professionals
with the tools they need to deliver care more effectively
and efficiently McKesson Automation, Inc., a business
unit of McKesson Corporation, is the market leader of
new placements of pharmacy and supply automation solutions
that help hospitals re-engineer and improve their medication
use and supply management processes. These solutions
are reducing medication errors and bringing new levels
of safety to patients nationwide.
About Biscom
Since 1986, Biscom has been widely recognized for its
pioneering advances in the technology of enterprise
fax management. Biscom provides software-based and complete
turnkey information technology systems to some of the
world's leading companies. The company's FAXCOM servers
provide enterprise-wide solutions that are reliable,
scalable and flexible.
In addition to its well-established leadership in the
fax server market, Biscom is an innovator in new business
communications technologies including: secure document
delivery solutions through the acquisition of vVault,
file conversion technologies through the Lincoln
& Co. division and Internet-based video surveillance
applications through the WebEyeAlert
division.
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