PrimeCare's Version Nine System Introduces Bar-Coded
Patient Appointment Ticket
Newport News, VA — March 23, 2009 — PrimeCare Systems, Inc., . (OTCBB:PCYS) announced today that its
flagship product, the PrimeCare Patient Management System, Version Nine, (the Version Nine System) has
incorporated a bar-coded Patient Appointment Ticket that can be used to increase efficiency of patient
processing throughout the patient's visit. While developed particularly for use with PrimeCare's
Argentine-centered applications, the Patient Appointment Ticket, nevertheless, has general applicability,
and can be used in any PrimeCare installation as a system option.
Generated at the time the patient makes an appointment, the Patient Appointment Ticket serves both as a
reminder to the patient about the appointment details (date, time, location, and physician) as well as an
entry ticket to the clinical area at the time of the appointment. The Patient Appointment Ticket uses a
highly redundant form of the PDF417 bar code to create a document that is highly resistant to physical
neglect or abuse (see PrimeCare's White Paper,
Two Dimensional Bar coding with PDF417 ). In addition, by
simply scanning the bar code on the ticket, clinical providers can easily and immediately open the patient's
chart without an intervening search of the master index. Because the information encoded in the bar code
contains context-specific data relating the patient to the specific visit, other appointment-related actions,
such as checking in the patient, issuing medications from the pharmacy, handling laboratory tests and x-ray
requests can all be expedited by use of this single document.
The Patient Appointment Ticket was designed to be produced by the Star Micronics TSP700II bar code printer
and scanned by the IDAutomation SC5 Scanner, both of which provide very economical solutions to the use of
effective and efficient bar coding in the out-patient clinical setting.
Impetus for development of this capability came from suggestions made by users of the Version Nine System
at Hospital A. R. Isola, in Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina. Hospital Isola has been the primary point of
introduction for the Version Nine System in Argentina, and many of the enhancements made to the Version Nine
System have resulted directly from feedback from the physicians and staff at Hospital Isola.
About PrimeCare Systems, Inc., and the Version Nine System
PrimeCare's primary product, The Version Nine System, is user-friendly
interactive software that creates an electronic patient record. The
Version Nine System is centered around an authoritative and comprehensive
knowledge bank of approximately 285 symptom and problem-oriented patient
history questionnaires, collectively containing over 100,000 chief
complaint and disease state questions. The Version Nine System is
an Internet-based product that requires of the user only a computer
running any current version of Windows, and an internet connection.
Installation requires only a few moments, and no sensitive data is
permanently stored on client machines. All patient information is
securely stored in PrimeCare Systems, Inc.'s secure data center, available
to authorized users twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, from
any location with Internet access.
For more detailed information or to download an evaluation version
of the PrimeCare System, please visit the Version Nine dedicated web
site, http://www.versionnine.com.
PrimeCare Systems, Inc, has its technical and administrative offices
in Newport News, Virginia, and a corporate office in New Rochelle,
New York. Incorporated originally as a private company, and traded
publically since January, 2008, PrimeCare Systems, Inc., has developed,
owns, maintains, updates, expands and markets the PrimeCare Patient
Management System, Version Nine, (the Version Nine System) and several
related Internet sites that use various sections of the Version Nine
System. For more information about the company, visit the corporate
web site at http://www.pcare.com.
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of PrimeCare Systems, Inc., as well as those risks and uncertainties
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