MILWAUKEE, September 19, 2005 - TeraMedica, a Milwaukee-based medical informatics company, today announced the launch of its new Evercore Oncology Information Manager as part of its commitment to solving interoperability challenges in the Radiation Oncology and Proton Beam Therapy arena, according to company CEO and President Jim Prekop.

"Evercore Oncology Information Manager integrates and manages all Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy (RT) information objects, now including the RT ION objects, into a single cohesive infrastructure," said Paul Markham, TeraMedica's Vice President of Marketing. "This unique information manager then serves this vital dataset, to the resident RT Electronic Medical Record (EMR), or to the greater Enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR). The integrated clinical focus includes connectivity of data sets from traditional radiology modalities, including CT and MR, along with departmental PACS systems, Linear Accelerators, TomoTherapy units, Cone Beam CTs, and Proton Beam generators. The aggregated device information is then seamlessly linked to treatment planning systems and oncology information systems."

Markham added that the unique market breakthrough for the Evercore Suite is the application of the SmartStore Clinical Policy Engine. Application of SmartStore clinical policy intelligence allows the classification of radiation oncology objects dependent on the object's inherent departmental value, which may include classification due to clinical or research relativity. As a result, Evercore is a new type of clinically oriented information lifecycle manager. It supports physician acceptance while optimizing storage area networks and delivering consolidated information to the EMR or other HL7-based systems.

Evercore Oncology Information Manager also uses open standards in managing and storing digital information and makes the radiation oncology data available at the point of patient care across the healthcare enterprise in multiple formats and at multiple service levels. "Evercore can literally disappear into a facility's infrastructure, allowing clinicians to focus on patient care instead of on information retrieval," said Markham.

"The release of Evercore Oncology Information Manager further validates the Evercore Suite as a truly vendor-independent health imaging and information system," Prekop said. "This technology allows hospitals and health care systems to choose the best-of-breed when shopping for radiation oncology devices, treatment planning systems, and other associated information sources. The result is reduced cost to healthcare systems and, ultimately, to the American health care consumer."