TheraDoc Forms Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Advisory Board

SALT LAKE CITY, September 2, 2009 – TheraDoc, a clinical informatics pioneer that has been helping hospitals leverage information technology to improve patient care for more than 10 years, today announced the formation of an Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Advisory Board comprised of leading experts in healthcare-associated infections, epidemiology, and antimicrobial resistance.

In forming the board, TheraDoc has brought together a group of professionals with extensive involvement with applied healthcare epidemiology and research, professional societies, government agencies, and other committees focused on the protection of patients. Its work will complement the company's existing Infectious Diseases advisory boards in providing leadership on key patient safety issues facing hospitals today.

According to Michael Barton, PharmD, senior vice president, knowledge and product development for TheraDoc, the Clinical Advisory Board will help the company focus technology development efforts to ensure that its patient safety surveillance and clinical decision support products are consistent with practitioner and researcher needs, best practices, current science, and future legislative and accreditation standards.

Barton said the company looks forward to working with this group of stellar clinical experts from leading institutions to obtain independent and objective advice about the use of real-time surveillance of patient data to prevent healthcare-associated infections, which cause more than 90,000 deaths in the United States each year.

"The TheraDoc® Infection Control Assistant® is playing a key role in providing continuous infection surveillance, intelligent alerts, real-time interventions such as multi-drug resistant organism isolation, and timely analysis of infections at more than 200 hospitals in the United States with impressive results," Barton said. "We hear from hospitals that TheraDoc does an excellent job of making sure that our technologies stay on top of emerging trends and changing clinical needs. Our Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Advisory Board will help ensure that we continue in that leadership role."

The TheraDoc Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Advisory Board includes:

• Co-chair Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc, professor of medicine, pathology, and epidemiology, and hospital epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and University


• Co-chair Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and associate hospital epidemiologist, University of Maryland School of Medicine


• Lillian Burns, BS, MT, MPH, CIC, infection control coordinator, Greenwich Hospital


• Julie Jefferson, RN, MPH, CIC, director of epidemiology and infection control, Rhode Island Hospital, and clinical assistant professor of community health, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University


• Keith Kaye, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and corporate director, infection prevention, epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship, Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University Health Center


• Loretta Litz Fauerbach, MS, CIC, director, infection control, Shands Hospital at the University of Florida


• Gary Noskin, MD, professor of medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

TheraDoc's core technology is its patented Expert System Platform®, which receives and standardizes patient data from multiple hospital information sources. With the Expert System Platform as the "engine," the company offers a suite of Knowledge Modules that integrate patient data with clinical guidelines. In addition to the Infection Control Assistant, other modules include the Antibiotic Assistant®, ADE Assistant®, and Clinical Alerts Assistant®.

About TheraDoc
Founded in 1999, TheraDoc is a clinical informatics company dedicated to improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care through enhanced clinical decision making. The company provides innovative products that improve clinical and financial outcomes for a range of provider and payer organizations, including leading healthcare providers Johns Hopkins, the National Institutes of Health, and Emory Healthcare. TheraDoc's leadership in medical informatics standards enables the exchange and use of information between disparate health information systems. The company's founders and core medical informatics team are internationally recognized for their pioneering and continuing work in clinical decision support design and development, which spans two decades. For more information, visit www.theradoc.com.