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ProCure Selects VTOC® for Web-based Patient Management & Data Connectivity

February 16th, 2009 - VisionTree®, the leader in Web-based patient-centered health record management and provider communication systems, announced today that ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc has selected the VisionTree Optimal Care™ (VTOC) web-based platform for paperless patient data management for its ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City.

Proton therapy, a form of radiation therapy without many of the short- and long-term side effects often experienced with standard radiation therapy, is an advanced cancer treatment for specific types of tumors. The 55,000-square-foot Oklahoma City facility, which will open this summer, will be the sixth proton treatment center operating in the United States. The center will have the capacity to treat approximately 1,500 patients a year.

The center will have four treatment rooms allowing radiation oncologists to select the precise proton treatment for a particular cancer and situation. Studies have shown proton therapy to be effective in treating brain, head and neck, pediatric, colorectal and prostate tumors as well as cancers that cannot be removed completely by surgery. Research is showing promising results in the treatment of some breast and lung tumors. The course of proton treatment can range from 20 to 40 treatment sessions over a period of four to eight weeks.

VTOC™ in Health 2.0 Panel Discussion, Attendees Use VisionTree for Audience-Response and Data-Capture

October 18th, 2008 - VisionTree®, leading provider of interactive, web-based technologies and patient-centered data collection systems, announced today that the Health 2.0: User-Generated Healthcare 2008 Conference in San Francisco, CA will include VisionTree’s core technology, VisionTree Optimal Care™ (VTOC), in a discussion on patient-centered data management and clinical research.

VisionTree will be participating in the session for Pharma and Health 2.0 on Thursday October 23, 2008 to present the VTOC web-based, patient-centered continuum of care solutions which include VTOC and the VTOC Network.

Attendees will also use the VisionTree Conference™ system throughout the meeting for the next generation in audience collaboration through live Q&A and graphical aggregation of their responses using web-enabled devices.

VisionTree® Partners with MediVoice® to Integrate Voice Activated ePrescribing into VTOC™ Web-based Patient Management System

July 22nd, 2008 - VisionTree®, leading provider of interactive, web-based patient-centered health record management and provider communication systems, has formed a strategic partnership with MediVoice®, LLC, the world’s first mobile voice-activation solution for e-Health and e-Prescribing to integrate and market its solution with the VisionTree Optimal Care™ (VTOC) system.

"MediVoice is pleased to develop a strategic partnership with VisionTree. We are impressed with their web-based technology and the value it brings to the physician and patients," said Anthony Milone, MediVoice, LLC, Board Member and Managing Director.

VisionTree customers will be able to utilize MediVoice’s software platform to access the SureScripts network for e-Prescribing and e-Health management. MediVoice provides the world's first commercially available mobile voice-activated e-healthcare solution. MediVoice utilizes the most innovative technology in speech solutions. It allows healthcare professionals to voice-activate electronic prescriptions, electronic medical records, and a wide variety of e-health services. The use of e-Prescribing has been shown to reduce medical errors and improve the efficiency and documentation of the medication prescription process.

Martin Pellinat, CEO of VisionTree Software, said "The VisionTree Optimal Care™ (VTOC) platform is used by over 70 leading academic and community sites around the country for web-based patient communication and data management. With the ability for physicians to launch a voice-activated e-Prescribing solution, we have expanded the VTOC patient management system to not only include the patient’s health record, e-communication and disease management, but also include the ability for physicians to deliver the highest level of efficiency and quality care to their patients."

Ed Zecchini, COO & CTO of MediVoice adds, "the ease of use of a voice solution will be the driving force for rapid deployment and utilization of the VisionTree Optimal Care™ system and MediVoice’s electronic prescriber."

The American College of Surgeons, American Institutes for Research, and Westat Partner with VisionTree to Pilot New Surgical Patient Survey using the Web

April 29th, 2008 - In an effort to collect information about the experiences of surgical patients quickly and easily, the American College of Surgeons (ACS), along with the American Institutes of Research (AIR) and Westat, announced today that it will partner with VisionTree, the leader in web-based, patient-centered, health record management and provider communication systems, as part of a field test of a new surgical patient survey using the Vision Tree Optimal Care™ (VTOC) platform. Under contract to ACS, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Westat are developing this survey and will be conducting the national pilot test.

The ACS survey, a project initiated by members of the Surgical Quality Alliance, collects information from patients who have recently undergone surgery about their experience of care. It will provide information to surgeons and their practices that can be used to inform and enhance quality improvement efforts. In addition, results may be used for maintenance of certification and to help guide consumer choice. This instrument will be submitted to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) consortium for certification as a CAHPS product. Other CAHPS products include the CAHPS Hospital Survey (H-CAHPS), considered the benchmark for the consumer definition of quality hospital care, which provides a national standard for collecting and publicly reporting this information and enables valid comparisons to be made across all hospitals.

Part of the ACS pilot study will be conducted at select VisionTree sites with surgical specialties. VisionTree’s HIPAA-compliant VTOC platform will administer the survey in a Web-based format with three patient email reminders. This will allow patients to complete the survey from the comfort of their homes or any internet-accessible location. By using VTOC, ACS hopes to improve survey completion rates over traditional paper surveys, evaluate factors related to survey completion on the Web, and access the data for analysis in real-time.

The VTOC platform is easy-to-use and allows patients to view educational information, clinical results and imaging, as well as build and store their personal health record, meeting CCR guidelines. Medical providers can access patient-completed data in real time, securely communicate with their patients and view aggregate outcomes data reports from their smartphone or any location with internet access.

"The patient's experience of care is a key component of health care quality," said Elizabeth Hoy, Assistant Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Improvement, American College of Surgeons. "Surgical care differs from care of patients with chronic illnesses in several ways. Our patient survey will capture a more accurate profile of the surgical patient’s experience than existing CAHPS surveys. With more surgeons and patients using the Internet to exchange information, we are very interested in testing a web-based technology for administering the new survey. The VTOC system provides a way to complete the survey that is timely, accurate, and efficient."