| Novant
Health Selects Arbortext Multichannel Publishing Solution for Cardiovascular Institute
Patient Education Material Arbortext
and Health Language collaborate to provide healthcare application that delivers
patient education material to 2.2 million people ANN
ARBOR, Michigan and AURORA,
Colorado – October 29, 2001 – Arbortext, Inc. and Health Language, Inc., today
announced they have entered into an integrator agreement to develop and deliver
a multichannel publishing application to the healthcare industry. The first customer,
Novant Health’s Cardiovascular Institute, will use the XML-based application to
publish patient education material to print and the Web. “The
first phase of this application is the launch of the Presbyterian Center for Preventive
Cardiology,” said Douglas Smith, Director of Internet Technologies for Novant
Health. “We required a system that enabled our subject matter experts to develop
patient education material for distribution to a variety of media in a very short
time frame. Working together, Arbortext and Health Language provided us with what
we needed today and gave us the ability to expand the scope of the project when
desired.” Arbortext
integrated Health Language’s Cyber Language Engine (Cyber+LE) software with its
XML-based Epic authoring and publishing software. Cyber+LE enables an author to
search and use healthcare terminology from different information sources that
contain dissimilar medical and drug vocabularies. Through the combination of Arbortext’s
Epic Editor and Epic E-Content Engine (E3), authors are able to capture, create
and publish customer-facing information automatically from a single source to
multiple media, including the Web, print, CD-ROM and wireless devices. Said
George T. Schwend, President and COO of Health Language, Inc., “We are delighted
Arbortext chose our unique healthcare language engine technology to integrate
with their XML-based single-source, multichannel publishing software to deliver
this healthcare application to Novant Health.” Said
PG Bartlett, Vice President, Marketing for Arbortext, “Health Language and Arbortext
worked closely together to develop this application for the healthcare market.
Novant Health is the first of what we expect to be many healthcare facilities
to implement the application to provide fresh, consistent and up-to-date information
to their customers.” About
Arbortext
Arbortext is the only global provider of XML-based software
that enables the creation, editing and publishing of information to multiple media
types - Web, print, CD-ROM, wireless - from a single source of content. Shipping
since 1991, Arbortext's standards-based software supports technical publishing,
reference publishing and catalog publishing applications that enable enterprises
to provide more accurate, cost-efficient, complete, timely, consistent and usable
information on all media. Arbortext's software is installed at over 3,500 customers,
including over 300 of the Global 2000 companies. Current customers include AT&T,
Audi, Boeing, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson Telecom,
Ford, GM, IBM, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Qantas, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems,
International Thomson Publishing, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and West
Group. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the XML Activity
of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
USA, Arbortext has offices around the world. For more information please visit
http://www.arbortext.com. About
Health Language Inc.
Founded in 2000, Health Language, Inc. is the only
global software infrastructure company that services the healthcare industry with
a patent-pending meta-modeling technology capable of handling information from
all the languages, specialty data and coding standards of healthcare. Cyber+LE,
the company's product, provides a common medical knowledge management system across
disparate healthcare information systems, languages and standards allowing for
comprehensive integrated and intelligent management of all health data. Health
Language, based in Aurora, Colorado, is a CyberPlus Company (www.cyberplus.com).
Further information on Health Language, Inc is available at www.healthlanguage.com
or by calling 303-307-4400 About
Novant Health
Novant
Health is a non-profit healthcare system in western North Carolina, serving more
than 2.2 million people in 32 counties reaching from southern Virginia to northern
South Carolina. The healthcare system consists of strong community-based providers
that are preferred by the citizens in the communities they serve. It employs more
than 12,000 people, and its eight inpatient hospitals in the Triad and Southern
Piedmont regions account for nearly 2,000 licensed beds. Other facilities and
programs of Novant Health include three philanthropic foundations, three nursing
home and senior residential facilities, physician clinics, outpatient surgery
and diagnostic centers, rehabilitation programs, community health outreach programs
and a school of nursing.
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Inquiries Contact Beth
Ambaruch
Arbortext, Inc.
+1 734.327.6014 Steve
Jensen
Phase Two Strategies
+1 212.530.7553 Christopher
Little
Health Language
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