Anne Arundel Medical Center to Install OmniBuyer(R) Procurement Automation Application

Anne Arundel Medical Center to Install OmniBuyer(R) Procurement Automation Application

Buying Supplies for the Medical Center Will Be Streamlined

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), which serves more than 600,000 residents in a five-county area of Maryland, has signed an agreement with Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMCL) to install OmniBuyer, a secure, Web-based software application that automates supply requisition and approval processes. Completion of the installation is set for July 1, 2005.

"OmniBuyer will not only help increase the efficiencies and timeliness for procuring medical supplies, services, and equipment, it will also help reduce the medical center's overhead costs," explained Steve Warrington, the medical center's director of materiel management. "We'll be able to track our ordering habits and give requestors the ability to track their requisitions through the approvals process and see when the request becomes a purchase order sent to a supplier."

"OmniBuyer integrates into our existing MEDITECH computer systems, incorporating buyer-specific business rules such as spending limits, contract pricing, approval routing, line-item approval, and customized user access profiles." Warrington states, "OmniBuyer offers a flexible procurement tool enabling AAMC to move from manual procurement methods to automated technologies, including XML."

About AAMC

Anne Arundel Medical Center, a subsidiary of Anne Arundel Health System, Inc., is a non-profit healthcare organization, licensed and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, which services a population 600,000 residents in the counties of Anne Arundel, Calvert, Prince George's, Queen Anne and Talbot.

About Omnicell

Established in 1992, Omnicell is a leading provider of patient safety solutions preferred by nurses. Improving patient care by enhancing operational efficiency, Omnicell solutions are used throughout the healthcare facility-in the pharmacy, nursing units, surgical services, cath lab, and all the way to the patient's bedside. The company's MedGuard(TM) line of solutions for the medication-use process includes systems for physician order management, automated pharmacy retrieval, medication packaging, medication dispensing, and nursing workflow automation with bar code medication administration. For the medical-surgical supply chain, Omnicell's OptiFlex(TM) product line provides open bar code systems, cabinet-based supply management, integrated open and cabinet-based systems, and Web-based procurement. More than 1,500 healthcare facilities use Omnicell solutions to help reduce medication errors, operate more efficiently, and decrease costs-ultimately contributing to improved clinical and financial outcomes. For more information, visit www.omnicell.com.


Source: Omnicell, Inc.

CONTACT: Bruce Lewis of Lewis & Summers Public Relations,
+1-707-964-3844, or bruce@prwebsite.com, for Omnicell

Web site: http://www.omnicell.com/


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