PatientKeeper Selected as Mobile Health Expo 2010 Award Winner

Company’s mobile CPOE offering receives award for “Best Innovation in Mobile Health Technology for Patient Safety”

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of physician information technology, received the award for “Best Innovation in Mobile Health Technology for Patient Safety” at the Mobile Health Expo 2010 awards ceremony in Las Vegas last week.

“Best Innovation in Mobile Health Technology for Patient Safety”

The company was honored for the PatientKeeper Mobile CPOE™ product, which extends the reach of CPOE to physicians’ smartphones and other handheld devices. PatientKeeper Mobile CPOE works in virtually any hospital IT environment. It is a complement to PatientKeeper’s own desktop CPOE product and can be deployed in hospitals with or without an existing desktop CPOE solution. This unique offering leverages mobile technology to enable physicians and hospitals to eliminate verbal orders and provide a fast track to ARRA Stage 1 Meaningful Use compliance.

Mobile Health Expo focuses on the convergence of mobile technology and healthcare across the entire mobile health ecosystem, including mHealth, telemedicine, wireless and connected health, and e-patient.

“The Mobile Health Expo 2010 Award winners represent companies and individuals who have had a profound impact on advancing the convergence of mobile technology and healthcare,” said Wendy Thomas, founder and CEO of Mobile Health Expo. “PatientKeeper and the other award winners have set a high standard for creating and delivering mobile healthcare solutions now and in the future.”

PatientKeeper CEO Paul Brient said the award exemplifies the ongoing advancements that PatientKeeper has made in the mobile health technology arena.

“We are honored to win the award for ‘Best Innovation in Mobile Health Technology for Patient Safety’,” said Brient. “We understand how valuable the right mobile technology can be in helping physicians to improve the quality of care they provide to their patients.”

About PatientKeeper

PatientKeeper Inc., the leading provider of physician information technology, works with hospitals and physicians to deliver solutions that drive efficient operations and a higher standard of patient care. PatientKeeper’s unique technology provides a single, secure view of patient information coupled with comprehensive physician workflow applications without replacing applications already in use. The company boasts the industry’s highest physician adoption rates and delivers solutions that ensure HITECH meaningful use criteria is met while delivering demonstrable ROI for hospitals, physician organizations and community health information exchanges alike. For more information about PatientKeeper, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, visit www.patientkeeper.com or call 617-987-0300.

PatientKeeper® and the PatientKeeper logo are registered trademarks of PatientKeeper, Inc.

PatientKeeper Mobile CPOE™ is a trademark of PatientKeeper, Inc.

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