FORT MYERS, Fla. and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Dawning Technologies, Inc. (Dawning) and Medical Automation Systems, Inc. (MAS) announced today they have begun a joint project to leverage their product synergies and create added value for their customers.
The partner project will focus on the seamless integration of Dawning’s instrument interface and laboratory middleware products with MAS’s RALS(R)- Plus POC Data Management solutions. RALS-Plus is a widely used point-of-care (POC) data management system developed and marketed by MAS. The joint project between Dawning and RALS will enable users of the RALS system to connect a wider range of POC devices through their existing RALS-Plus system.
“We are very pleased with this new business relationship,” said John Selmyer, Dawning’s President. “MAS has been a leader in POC connectivity for many years, and we believe our technology can add real value to current and new MAS product offerings. We will be working with MAS to develop applications that make a difference to customers,” he said. The integration between Dawning’s system and RALS will leverage Dawning’s JResultNet Middleware software as well as the new JavaLin/PDI device in order to provide connectivity for serial and network based POC Analyzers.
The immediate benefit of this project is to provide MAS’s RALS-Plus system with connectivity to devices in Dawning’s Java Instrument Driver Library. “One of our strategic goals has always been to offer our customers total freedom of choice in the selection of their Point of Care technology platforms,” said Greg Menke, MAS President and CEO. “Partnering with Dawning will make this goal a reality. We are very excited about this new partnership and what it will mean to our 1500 hospital customers.”
About Dawning Technologies, Inc.
Dawning Technologies, Inc. is the leading supplier of connectivity solutions to the clinical laboratory market. In business since 1984, Dawning solutions are installed in over 3000 client sites worldwide. Their customers include information system vendors, IVD instrument manufacturers, POC system vendors and clinical laboratories of all forms. Dawning solutions are available for nearly all clinical analyzers, POC and system-to-system connections. For more information contact their web site at http://www.dawning.com .
About MAS
Medical Automation Systems, Inc. (www.medicalautomation.com ) is the country’s premier provider of data management systems used by hospitals to monitor and manage diagnostic testing performed at the patient’s bedside. Founded in 1994, MAS will have a presence in over 1,500 U.S. hospitals by the end of 2008. With the 1999 Institute of Medicine report on the impact of medical errors on patient mortality and cost of care, an increasing number of hospitals are focused on taking steps to minimize the number of errors tied to patient and specimen identification. RALS-Plus provides a healthcare information technology (IT) solution that can aid in eliminating sources of bedside diagnostic testing identification errors cited in the Institute’s report. Other products include RALS-Web, providing instant access to POC results through the hospital intranet; RALS-eQuiz, an on-line training tool with re-certification quizzes and automatic grading; RALS-TGCM, a Tight Glycemic Control Module featuring graphical reports for those caring for patients on glycemic control protocols. MAS also supports websites that provide source and reference materials on the point-of-care industry and glycemic control protocols. Visit www.pointofcare.net , and www.glycemiccontrol.net .
CONTACT: Heather Selmyer, Marketing Coordinator of Dawning Technologies,
Inc., 800-332-0499, +1-239-931-6004, hselmyer@dawning.com; or Steve Valorz,
Director of Marketing of Medical Automation Systems, Inc. +1-888-971-7953
Ext. 3060, svalorz@rals.com
Web site: http://www.dawning.com/
http://www.medicalautomation.com/
