Press Release

Verinform Systems, Inc. Launches VerinformRM 2.0

March 31, 2003 - Portland, Oregon

Verinform Systems, Inc. today announced the launch of VerinformRM™ GME and Residency Management System version 2.0. VerinformRM is a comprehensive data management and reporting system for residency training programs and Graduate Medical Education Departments. This new release adds support for new reporting and monitoring requirements facing clinical training programs at large teaching institutions under ACGME Resident Duty Hours regulations taking effect on July 1st, 2003. Other enhancements include new calculation options for vacation accruals, additional reports to support Medicare billing, advanced master rotation schedule functionality, performance enhancements and more.

CEO & Founder Dina Dickerson, MPH said of the new system, “we’re delighted to offer leading medical institutions a web-based solution that is scalable and secure. Clinical training programs around the country face a challenge in the upcoming year. In addition to their current Procedure and Evaluations reporting, they must make major adjustments in rotation and call schedules to satisfy new ACGME Resident Duty Hours limits and then 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 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 the pragmatic issues faced by residents, residency coordinators, program directors and GME administrators alike. 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 exactly meet the needs of each individual program while also aggregating data to address the needs of Residency Management at the GME level.”

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.