Press Release

Verinform Unveils Residency Management Solution at CREOG/APGO

March 1, 2003 - Anaheim, California

Verinform Systems, Inc. today previewed the next release of VerinformRM™ GME and Residency Management System at the annual joint Conference of the Council on Resident Education on Obstetrics & Gynecology (“CREOG”) and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (“APGO”). VerinformRM is a comprehensive web-based system that serves the data management and reporting needs of residency training programs and GME departments. VerinformRM v2.0 adds full support for the new ACGME Resident Duty Hours regulations, which take effect on July 1st, 2003.

CEO & Founder Dina Dickerson, MPH said, “we’re delighted to show Conference attendees a preview of what we have in store for them with VerinformRM 2.0, due for release on March 31st. Obstetrics-Gynecology clinical training programs around the country face the same challenge in the upcoming year. In addition to the work they do now to comply with existing Procedure and Evaluations reporting requirements, they must make major adjustments in rotation and call schedules to satisfy new ACGME resident duty hours limits. Not only is it difficult to make these new schedules work, they also have to satisfy a set of monitoring and reporting tasks to prove compliance. At Verinform Systems Inc, we are dedicated to providing systems that help programs meet these requirements without alienating their hard-working residents with unwieldy, time-consuming or disrespectful recording methods.”

Dickerson adds,“we’ve worked closely with early customers to approach this in a way that’s sensitive to both the regulatory requirements and to residents, residency coordinators, program directors and GME administrators. This issue cuts across every accredited program within an institution of academic medicine – so it’s natural that we should solve it with VerinformRM, the first institution-wide solution that can be tailored to meet the needs of each program while aggregating data across programs to address information needs at the GME level.”

Verinform Educational Grant
Verinform also announced an educational grant in support of the joint CREOG & APGO Conference.

Donna D. Wachler, Executive Director of APGO said, “this grant is greatly appreciated and will enable us to continue to meet our mission of advancing and improving the study, teaching methods and research activities that promote excellence in the training of health care professional who care for women.”

“At Verinform we believe strongly in the importance of research,” Dickerson stated.

About Verinform
Verinform Systems, Inc. provides enterprise-grade software solutions for academic hospitals, clinical environments and public health laboratories. Software applications are developed on the Verinform Protocol Manager (VPM™) platform, a set of browser-based database and workflow tools that allows for the rapid deployment of highly customized, extremely secure and regulation-compliant solutions. For more information on Verinform, please visit them on the web at www.verinform.com or call 503-231-8912.