Watauga Medical Center Selects The Poseidon Group's NavigatorWeb(TM) EDIS to Automate 20,000 Patient Emergency Department

Watauga Medical Center Selects The Poseidon Group's NavigatorWeb(TM) EDIS to Automate 20,000 Patient Emergency Department

ATLANTA, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its commitment to delivering the best healthcare using cutting edge technology, Watauga Medical Center, selects The Poseidon Group's NavigatorWeb(TM) EDIS to streamline the internal workings of its Emergency Department. Though a multi-year agreement, The Poseidon Group, Inc., a leading provider of emergency department documentation and web-based electronic medical record (EMR) solutions for the healthcare industry, will implement its NavigatorWeb solution in convergence with Watauga Medical Center's mission to provide community healthcare programs and primary and secondary medical services for the region of Northwest North Carolina and Northeast Tennessee.

"Our goal is to continually prove our commitment to delivering the best healthcare by reducing medical errors, increasing patient satisfaction, and allowing shared knowledge and free flow of information though our emergency departments." stated Greg Kieliszek, CIO at Watauga Medical Center, "In turn, our emergency department will increase in efficiency by decreasing overall operating costs, optimizing reimbursement, and maintaining high-level, consistent documentation."

The Poseidon Group will implement its web-based NavigatorWeb(TM) technology during the third quarter of 2005. The paperless solution provides Watauga Medical Center's nurses, physicians, and internal administrative personnel with robust modules including a status/tracking board, nursing module, physician module, coding & billing module, and administrative module.

"It is a pleasure to be working with Watauga Medical Center. Watauga Medical Center's decision to deploy our NavigatorWeb(TM) Emergency Department Information System is consistent with their mission to better serve the community and their staff," said Jeffrey J. Oyler, MD, FACEP, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Poseidon Group. "We are pleased to be working with Watauga Medical Center to automate the ED and help them meet their business and personal care objectives."

About The Poseidon Group, Inc.

The Poseidon Group, Inc. is focused on addressing the needs of healthcare providers by providing documentation and web-based EDIS solutions to the healthcare industry. Poseidon's Navigator solutions are currently being utilized in emergency departments (ED) across the United States with annual volumes ranging from 5,000 to 125,000. The Poseidon Group offers two products (a) Navigator PC: an application designed to start ED staff on the migration path to an electronic medical record (EMR); and (b) NavigatorWeb(TM) a comprehensive, web-based EDIS. The Poseidon Group's end-to-end and modular solutions can be seamlessly integrated with existing hospital systems, and are proven to deliver shared knowledge and free flow of information to healthcare providers; increased patient satisfaction; consistent high-level documentation; reduction of medical errors; insured compliance with JCAHO, CMS, and HIPAA; increased employee loyalty/moral, and automated data analysis. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.poseidongroup.com/

About Watauga Medical Center

Watauga Medical Center is a private non-profit corporation established to provide health related services in the High Country Region (Watauga, Ashe, and Avery Counties in North Carolina and Johnson County Tennessee). Our regional referral medical complex offering both primary and secondary acute and specialty care.

For more information, visit the Watauga Medical Center's website at http://www.wataugamc.org/.


Source: The Poseidon Group, Inc.

CONTACT: Jerry Moretz of Watauga Medical Center, +1-828-262-4391,
jmoretz@wataugamc.org; Carr Scott of The Poseidon Group, Inc., +1-404-261-0401,
cscott@poseidongroup.com

Web site: http://www.poseidongroup.com/
http://www.wataugamc.org/


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