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Chapter11 information systems

Mediware Information Systems, Inc. (Mediware), incorporated in 1970, licenses, implements and supports clinical and performance management information solutions and other services to healthcare facilities. The Company licenses its blood and biologics management solutions to hospitals. Mediware licenses its blood donor recruitment and management solutions to blood donor and plasma donor centers through its Blood Center Technologies business group. The Company’s medication management solutions are licensed to hospitals, long-term care, specialty pharmacy, home infusion, alternate care and behavioral health facilities. The Company’s home infusion, specialty pharmacy and alternate care products and services are licensed through the Company’s alternate care solutions (ACS) business group. ACS also provides billing and collection services to the home infusion market. On December 11, 2009, Mediware completed the acquisition of Healthcare Automation, Inc. (HAI), which provides medication management solutions to home infusion, specialty pharmacy and alternate care markets through integrated software solutions. On December 11, 2009, Mediware completed the acquisition of Advantage Reimbursement, Inc. (ARI). In April 2011, the Company acquired CareCentric, Inc. In January 2012, the Company acquired Transtem, LLC.


The Company licenses performance management software to hospitals, blood and plasma centers and alternate care facilities. Its software systems consist of the application software, third-party licensed software and third-party hardware. Mediware licenses its blood management and biologics management software systems and medication management software systems. Mediware sells performance management, blood donor, and blood and biologic management products in the United States. The Company sells medication management solutions in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

Blood and Biologics Management Products

The Company supplies information and management software systems to hospital blood banks and transfusion centers. The Company’s flagship blood transfusion product is the HCLL transfusion software. Mediware provides hospital HCLL donor software module for use in hospital-based donor centers. Its HCLL transfusion and HCLL donor (HCLL software) addresses blood donor recruitment, blood processing and transfusion activities for hospitals and medical centers. The Company provides LifeTrak software tools and services to blood centers for donor targeting, donor recruitment, donation management, unit testing, blood component manufacturing, inventory control, sales and distribution. BiologiCare, the Company’s first generation bone, tissue and cellular product tracking software, tracks and manages transplantable materials in hospitals, surgery centers and other healthcare facilities. The products enable users to document donors, tissue vendors and tissue recipients. BiologiCare can be integrated with Mediware’s HCLL software or operate on a standalone basis. The Company’s BloodSafe suite includes hardware and software, which enable healthcare facilities to store, monitor, distribute and track blood products from locations removed from the hospital’s physical blood bank. Components of the BloodSafe suite include blood tracking and monitoring software, computer controlled refrigerators, and handheld point of care tools to verify patient identification and document transfusion activities. BloodSafe can be integrated with Mediware’s HCLL software or operates on a standalone basis.

The Company competes with Cerner, McKesson, Meditech, Sunquest, Haemonetics, SCC Soft, Blood Bank Computer Services Company and MAK.

Medication Management Products

The Company supplies medication management solutions to hospitals, mental health facilities, specialty pharmacies, home infusion facilities and other institutions. The Company’s medication management software product for hospitals and healthcare institutions is WORx, a pharmacy information system, which manages inpatient and outpatient pharmacy operations. The Company offers the WORx product line to acute care hospitals and state behavioral health facilities, while offering the Ascend product line to hospitals. The Company’s MediCOE and MediMAR products are integrated with the WORx software and provide ClosedLoop drug therapy management system with a physician order entry module (MediCOE) and nurse point of care administration and bedside documentation module. Through MediCOE software, clinician can identify problems at order entry and can be corrected or explained at the point-of-care. The MediMAR software uses bar code, wireless, handheld, and other technologies to allow caregivers methods to document patient medication administration and provide nurses safety measures at the point of care. Mediware’s ACS product offerings include home infusion software, pharmacy software, home medical equipment software and home healthcare software, as well as billing and collections services. The Company’s MediREC medication management product assists in achieving compliance with a Joint Commission mandate, which requires hospitals to document all of a patient’s home medications, when a patient is admitted or enters the emergency room, and to reconcile that list with the medications prescribed in the hospital. The Company’s United Kingdom operating business is JAC Computer Services, Ltd. (JAC). JAC markets and provides support for its pharmacy management and electronic prescribing systems in the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. JAC’s product offering includes JAC’s pharmacy management system and electronic prescribing module.

The Company competes with Cerner, General Electric, Siemens, Eclipsys, FastTrack, Definitive Healthcare Solutions, Inc., CareCentric, Ascribe, iSoft and CIS Healthcare Ltd.

Performance Management Products

The Company’s Insight software tracks performance metrics to assist healthcare managers to manage performance. The Insight system collects data from the disparate information systems across a hospital to create understandable graphical dashboards.

The Company competes with Cerner, McKesson, General Electric, Siemens and Eclipsys.

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