U.S. HealthWorks Acquires Adjacent Physical Therapy Practice in Stockton

Stockton, CA Dec 17, 2010 – U.S. HealthWorks, the leading operator of occupational healthcare centers in California, today announced that it has acquired the Stockton location of Xcel Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, located adjacent to the company’s Stockton West facility at 1429 West Fremont Street.
“We’re pleased to expand our services to include on-site physical therapy at our Stockton West location,” said Therese Hernandez, senior vice president of operations for U.S. HealthWorks in California. “Bringing Xcel Orthopaedic Physical Therapy into our group makes tremendous sense, given its location next to our Stockton West facility.”
The West Fremont center is a health facility focused on providing injury and illness diagnosis and treatment, preventive services, pre-employment and post-offer exams and testing, return-to-work programs, and now on-site physical therapy. Terms of the transaction, which was effective Dec. 17, were not disclosed.
“The addition of physical therapy to our current offerings will not only provide our clients and patients with an important service, but it’ll also allow for quicker and effective treatment by simplifying communication and paperwork,” said James L. Sepiol M.D., the center’s medical director.

Geisinger Health System, Precyse Solutions and M*Modal Announce Strategic Partnership to Improve Clinical Documentation and Billing Efficiency

Danville and Wayne, PA Dec 16, 2010 — Precyse Solutions, LLC, a health care technology-‐enabled services company, today announced that it has been named one of the two top medical transcription service organizations (MTSOs) in the 2010 KLAS “Transcription Services: Competition, Technology, Consolidation” report. Precyse received the second highest overall performance ranking, with its score less than a half point behind the first‐place vendor. Moreover, Precyse’s 2010 score of 91.7 exceeded the 2009 score of last year’s top vendor and improved upon Precyse’s 90.4 score in 2009. Precyse provides hospitals and physicians with the most advanced dictation­‐transcription software platform, deploying sophisticated automated speech understanding and natural language processing technologies along with its extensive transcription services organization.
Key findings of the 2010 KLAS report include:
• Precyse received an overall score of 91.7 out of 100.
• Precyse received the highest score in Report Quality, a key differentiator in client satisfaction.
• On a scale of 1 – 9, Precyse was the highest-­scoring vendor in the categories of Money’s Worth (8.5) and Real Problem Resolution (8.5) and was tied for the highest score for Quality of Service Staff (8.3). In addition, Precyse was the only vendor to be rated above average in three of the four service categories.
• 100% of surveyed Precyse clients said Precyse keeps its promises and that they would continue to do business with Precyse.
• Precyse demonstrated its ability to meet client expectations for both domestic and international transcription, and had the highest domestic transcription score.
• Precyse received 100% positive comments from clients in the area of Project Results.
• KLAS named Precyse one of only a few vendors who have made a serious investment in Administrative Tools, another key differentiator.
• Precyse was named one of only a few vendors offering an end­‐to‐end solution for service, technology and scalability.
Graham Triggs, KLAS director of financial and services research and author of the MTSO report said, “Today, most vendors’ performance scores are at their highest ever. Even so, the market is in transition. Vendors are clearly moving towards taking ownership of more of the entire transcription, technology, and service relationship with providers.”
KLAS is an independent‐research company that conducts surveys of healthcare executives and
professionals within the hospital and physician client base of each MTSO. The resulting performancerankings reflect the aggregated opinions of customers, comparing MTSO performance against participant objectives and expectations.
“It is gratifying that our clients have noticed and appreciated the qualities that set us apart in the industry,” says Sharon Fremer, Precyse’s Vice President of Transcription Solutions.“We’re particularly pleased that 100 percent of our surveyed clients said Precyse keeps its promises and they would continue to do business with us. We attribute our high KLAS ranking to a combination of our experienced, dedicated and well-­trained staff, our proven, trusted technologies and the active participation of our loyal clients in the KLAS survey, who are always helping us improve.”
CEO and Founder of Precyse Jeffrey Levitt adds, “The results of the KLAS report clearly indicate that Precyse continues to dominate the top of the pack of transcription service providers. But dictation and transcription is only the starting point for our enterprise clinical documentation software platform. By successfully capturing, digitizing and tagging our clinical data and importing this data into an electronic medical record as structured and tagged text, we are confident that we will add great value to our clients through our automated coding, clinical documentation improvement and clinical decision support tools and services. We are committed to capitalizing on our innovative technologies, excellent performance and extraordinary customer service to remain a leader not only in transcription services, but in all of our business lines.”

Coloplast Selects TrackWise® Solution for Enhanced Customer Complaint Reporting

Holmdel, NJ Dec 16, 2010 – Sparta Systems, Inc., the maker of TrackWise quality management software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, today announced that Coloplast, the leading global supplier of intimate healthcare products, has selected Sparta’s TrackWise Enterprise Quality Management Software (EQMS) to replace its customer complaint handling system.
Coloplast’s decision to phase out its existing Lotus Notes-based system was made following an extensive review of the needs of the business by a joint team from Coloplast and Sparta Systems. Additionally, Coloplast conducted an extensive review of the complaint handling products and solutions being used by leading medical equipment manufactures and life sciences companies, determining that the TrackWise solution possessed the industry-wide reputation for ease-of-use, configurability and ability to integrate with existing applications that would meet and exceed Coloplast’s demanding requirements.
“TrackWise software appears to be very straightforward to use,” said Per Larsen, IT project manager at Coloplast.” There should be a minimal learning curve for our complaints management teams and, therefore, we expect the resulting increase in efficiency to be immediate. The software platform is also extremely flexible and will integrate easily into our existing network and applications set-up.”
Coloplast will transfer its existing complaint management process to the TrackWise platform. Once fully deployed, almost 300 of the company’s customer care consultants will rely on the TrackWise solution for the logging and resolution of user complaints. The second stage will be to move validation documentation management and all controlled workflows into the TrackWise EQMS.
“At Coloplast we have a strong track record within quality and complaint handling, but we want to be even better,” said Larsen. “Efficient complaint management is a must-have. If a manufacturer is not able to show the handling of complaints properly it could lose its license to operate. The management, handling and rectification of a complaint is the first port of call for an auditor.”
Moving forward, Coloplast plans to migrate all of its quality management processes into the TrackWise platform, linking the company’s 30-office network to a centralized quality management software platform. Once completed, it is expected that TrackWise software will be used to monitor the quality management of all processes along the supply chain, from supplier contracts through to change management.
“Every department within Coloplast is audited at least once a year by an external party, more so if there is a quality complaint made,” said Yaniv Vardi, managing director, Sparta Systems Europe. “This is a major administrative task and one that leaves no margin for error. TrackWise software makes the compilation of the customer complaint reports simple, ensuring that all the required data is logged and reported when the auditors come calling.”
For more information, visit www.spartasystems.com.
About Coloplast
Coloplast develops products and services that make life easier for people with very personal and private medical conditions. Working closely with the people who use our products, we create solutions that are sensitive to their special needs. We call this intimate healthcare. Our business includes ostomy care, urology and continence care and wound and skin care. We operate globally and employ more than 7,000 people.
About Sparta Systems
Sparta Systems, Inc. is the industry leader for global quality and compliance management systems. Its TrackWise product is a web-based software application used by quality, manufacturing, and regulatory affairs professionals to manage quality and compliance issues across the enterprise. The company has more than 14 years of experience and an extensive customer base in the life sciences and other highly regulated industries. Sparta Systems offers its customers a complete solution for global quality management needs, including the onsite support required throughout the project lifecycle. More information about Sparta Systems and TrackWise® can be found at www.spartasystems.com.

Sparta Systems Appoints Vice President of North American Sales

Holmdel, NJ Dec 1, 2010 – Sparta Systems, Inc., the maker of TrackWise® quality management software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, today announced that Jason Reynolds, a 20-year software and life science industry veteran, has been named vice president of North American sales. In this role, Reynolds will oversee all of Sparta Systems’ sales activities across the region, helping global organizations leverage the company’s market-leading TrackWise enterprise quality management solution (EQMS) to improve their quality and compliance initiatives.
Prior to joining Sparta, Reynolds served as vice president of North American sales at Phase Forward, a provider of integrated data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, where he successfully contributed to the company’s growth and completion of its initial public offering in 2004. Before this, he served in multiple sales positions at Interneuron Pharmaceuticals and G.D. Searle & Company, where he continually exceeded company sales goals. He received a bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University.
“Jason possesses exactly the right combination of sales and industry expertise to guide our North American sales efforts,” said James E. McGowan, CEO, Sparta Systems. “His unique experience in both the life sciences and software industries will prove to be invaluable as we extend Sparta’s leadership in providing unparalleled quality and compliance management solutions to organizations in highly regulated industries. “
“I’m excited to join a company that has an impressive history of delivering innovative, market-leading solutions,” said Reynolds. “Sparta Systems is well positioned to address the growing quality and compliance needs that organizations in highly regulated industries face, and I look forward to working with the team to continue the company’s strong momentum.”