August 26, 2008

VHA, INC. TO OFFER TELETRACKING PATIENT FLOW SOLUTIONS

Leading healthcare alliance helps members get serious about improving patient flow

PITTSBURGH, PA, AUGUST 26, 2008 -- TeleTracking Technologies, the world leader in patient flow automation solutions, has teamed with VHA, Inc. to offer the national health care alliance’s 1400 member hospitals the option to license TeleTracking Technologies’ patient flow automation technology.

“It’s clear that the VHA leadership is committed to helping its members improve patient care, through better patient flow”, said Anthony Sanzo, President & CEO of TeleTracking Technologies, “and this relationship helps VHA bring to it’s membership an awareness of time tested and proven patient flow automation solutions and years of patient flow expertise with our Avanti™ patient flow redesign services.”   

VHA is the Nation’s leading provider of supply chain management and performance improvement services to not-for-profit health care providers. The option to procure industry-leading TeleTracking products is another facet of VHA’s commitment to provide members with tools and guidelines to enact “leading practices” and improve performance by measuring against their peers through detailed metrics.

“VHA understands that patient flow is directly linked to key outcomes,” said Amy Anthony, VHA Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Services. “TeleTracking provides the quality offering, vast expertise and exemplary customer satisfaction our members need to successfully address the capacity constraints many of them face.”

TeleTracking software and patient flow redesign services help hospitals improve patient flow through process change and by leveraging proven technology to automate every state of patient flow. Through automation, hospitals are also able to measure and monitor their performance in order to improve the flow process.
 
About VHA
In addition to not-for-profit hospitals, VHA serves more than 23,000 non-acute care organizations. Last year, the alliance delivered more than $1.3 billion in savings and value to its member organizations through its supply chain management programs.

The VHA alliance brings together health care organizations nationwide to share information, insight, best practices and purchasing leverage. It’s regional and national Rapid Adoption Networks (RANs) encourage information exchange to accelerate the pace of clinical and economic performance improvement.

 

About TeleTracking
TeleTracking Technologies is the world leader in helping hospitals reduce overcrowding and improve patient throughput through patient flow automation. It provides software and process redesign services which diminish patient flow backlogs by giving managers real-time, actionable feedback for streamlining bed turnover, patient placement and patient transport. The pioneer of automated patient flow solutions software, it launched the industry over a decade ago with the first automated bed turnover solution and has since developed a number of widely accepted products including the first digitized large screen bedboard and the first wireless, handheld patient flow solutions.
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Amie Podolak
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TeleTracking Technologies
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amie-podolak@teletracking.com