TheraDoc Celebrates 10 Years of Helping Hospitals Leverage Information Technology to Improve Patient Safety & Healthcare Quality

SALT LAKE CITY, June 24, 2009 – When TheraDoc® was founded in 1999, computerized patient safety surveillance and clinical decision support were in their infancies. Today, as the company celebrates 10 years of leadership in these fields, clinical informatics tools have become cornerstones in hospital efforts to reduce the spread of infectious diseases and improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare.

Founded by pioneers in clinical informatics, TheraDoc's standards-based, real-time surveillance tools automatically monitor and standardize patient data from all areas of the hospital, looking for a broad range of adverse events and healthcare-associated infections. Clinicians are quickly alerted to changes in patients' conditions, and evidence-based guidance for treatment decisions is provided.

According to Stanley Pestotnik, M.S., R.Ph., president, chief executive officer, and co-founder of TheraDoc, the company's core technology–its patented Expert System Platform®– helps hospitals manage the growing torrent of clinical information, integrating patient data with clinical practice guidelines and delivering it to the right clinicians at the right time to help them positively impact patient care. "Our dynamic technology provides clinicians with real-time information and support," Pestotnik said. "Our software provides the five Ws–who needs to be examined, what needs to be looked at, what needs to be done, why it should be done and, finally, what needs to be documented."

Pestotnik is an innovator in the field of clinical informatics. After receiving countless requests for assistance during innumerable speaking engagements, he founded a company that has set the standard for expert clinical decision support for infectious disease prevention and other critical patient safety issues. TheraDoc dedicated its early years to developing and testing its groundbreaking technology, which was first adopted in 2003 at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla.; the University of Utah; Johns Hopkins Hospital; and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Since then, its software has been licensed by more than 200 U.S. hospitals in 31 states, including community hospitals, academic and Veterans Affairs medical centers, large integrated delivery networks, and children's and oncology specialty hospitals.

Pestotnik said that solid interfaces with various hospital systems, integrity of the data, and standardization of clinical terminology and coding are vital in order to provide clinicians with accurate and timely information that they can use to positively impact patient care and safety. "Clinicians need to be confident that they are receiving complete and accurate information that they can rely on to make patient-care decisions," he said. "We are most proud of the fact that every healthcare institution that has contracted with us continues to be a customer today."

Examples of the positive impact of TheraDoc technology include:

• H1N1 Influenza - During the recent swine flu outbreak, hospitals used TheraDoc software to quickly identify and track potential cases of the H1N1 virus and enable more efficient coordination among key hospital personnel.


• Infection Prevention & Antimicrobial Management - Using TheraDoc technology, healthcare providers at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla., reported prevention of 5-6 infection-related deaths per year and annual antibiotic drug cost savings equal to the annual license fees for the TheraDoc system.


• Identification of Disease Clusters/Bioterrorism - At the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, TheraDoc was used for the rapid detection of disease clusters and agents of bioterrorism in the athletes' village and surrounding population. The software provided for early detection and containment of an influenza outbreak.

As for the next 10 years, Pestotnik said healthcare technology will continue to rapidly evolve, and the Obama Administration's focus on healthcare IT will only accelerate the pace. "As an electronic surveillance and clinical decision support leader in the healthcare information technology field for 10 years, TheraDoc is uniquely positioned to help hospitals calmly and effectively meet the changing patient care and regulatory challenges well into the next decade," he said. "Hospitals are under tremendous pressure to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors, and increase efficiency. Our platform-based approach continues to be key in enabling a growing number of healthcare organizations to meet their current and future needs, providing the foundation for a coordinated approach among various hospital departments that is vital to combat the fragmentation of information that has plagued our healthcare system."

About TheraDoc
TheraDoc is a clinical informatics company dedicated to improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care through enhanced clinical decision making. With TheraDoc's Expert System Platform as the "engine," the company offers a suite of Knowledge Modules that includes the Infection Control Assistant®, Antibiotic Assistant®, ADE Assistant®, and Clinical Alerts Assistant®. The company's leadership in medical informatics standards enables the exchange and use of information between disparate health information systems. TheraDoc'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.