Novo Innovations Joins UPMC to Address What Works in Healthcare Exchange at Northeast Healthcare Conference

Atlanta, GA, October 16, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Novo Innovations, the leader in agent/grid technology solutions for healthcare exchange, today announced that Bill Sims, Novo Innovations Vice President of Marketing along with Lisa Khorey, CIO of UPMC (Southside/Braddock) will present at the 2008 Northeast US Healthcare Trade Faire & Conference, Thursday, October 16 in Pittsburgh, PA.

Addressing a daunting task for healthcare CIO’s, the first session will provide insight into the current challenges in implementing a healthcare exchange system between hospital information systems and physician practice EMR’s, and shows how agent/grid technology provides a better platform over the current options for data collaboration in the healthcare community.

Additionally, the second session is a case study highlighting UPMC’s experience in deploying Novo’s exchange solution for its affiliated practice community and its rapid time to value. The session will show how patient information can be delivered electronically to the referring practices, regardless of the type of EMR installed or if the practice is paper-based, resulting in a tighter relationship with its physicians, fewer medical errors, more secure data, and ultimately higher quality of patient care.

Where: David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
3RD Floor, Room 303

When: Thursday, October 16, 2008 – 10:15am & 2:30pm EDT

Who: Featured session speakers includes:
- Bill Sims, Vice President of Marketing, Novo Innovations
- Lisa Khorey, CIO, UPMC (Southside/Braddock)

About Novo Innovations
Founded in 2003, Novo Innovations has pioneered a new approach to health information exchange, based on the use of intelligent software agents to provide workflow automation and system integration between hospitals, physicians and other providers in the healthcare community. Novo’s comprehensive service approach provides all of the necessary integration expertise and technical effort, enabling any hospital or health system to create a community exchange solution at a fraction of the time, cost and effort of other solutions.

As Novo agents are deployed to address tactical interoperability challenges, they form the core of an collaboration grid that will be able to address future strategic challenges. Novo Innovations currently serves more than 250 hospital communities in the US. Learn more at http://www.novoinnovations.com or call 1-888-325-NOVO.

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