Natick, MA – August 31, 2010 – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services for improving healthcare efficiency, today announced it has been named to Inc. Magazine’s exclusive list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the United States for the second year in a row. The company ranked No. 1902 as a result of achieving over 142% growth from 2006 to 2009, a significant move up from its ranking of No. 2909 on the 2009 Inc. 5000 list. This growth places Interbit Data at No. 152 in the health industry ranking and No. 64 among Boston, MA area companies.

“Our continued growth during this economy is not only proof of our staying power, it is confirmation of the significant value our software delivers in terms of time and cost savings,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “We are dedicated to helping healthcare providers improve the level of care by addressing their challenges with streamlining operations, distributing patient data and reports, and ensuring access to critical patient records during system downtimes.”

Since 1997, Interbit Data has sold its software solutions for improving operational efficiency to over 650 healthcare providers and organizations in the U.S., Canada and U.K. The company offers three types of solutions that contribute to increased productivity, reduced costs, and, ultimately, better and more consistent patient care:

• Information distribution – automates the secure transfer of information over the Internet in multiple formats (print, fax, email or file), easily integrating it into physician practices’ electronic medical records (EMRs) using the industry standard HL7 format.
• Business continuance – ensures up-to-date patient data is readily available in the event of a network or system outage.
• Scheduling and workforce automation – automates manual scheduling, enabling organizations to easily implement a complex schedule and efficiently manage staff.

The 2010 Inc. 5000 serves as a unique illustration of the profound changes taking place in the U.S. economy. Despite the fact that most of this year’s measuring period of 2006-2009 took place during the latest recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $321.6 billion, up more than 50 percent from last year. The effects of the recession are seen, however, in the median three-year growth rate, which dropped to 96 percent from last year’s 126 percent.

This year’s Inc. 5000 employ a record 1.4 million people, up from one million on last year’s list. The Health sector is the top employer with 287,726 jobs, followed by Business Products & Services (230,066), Food & Beverage (108,344), Human Resources (107,924), and Retail (96,858).

The top five industries by total revenue are Business Products & Services ($84.7 billion), Health ($48.3 billion), Consumer Products & Services ($26.4 billion), Retail ($22.3 billion), and Government Services ($15.1 billion).

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on www.inc.com/5000.

Inc. 5000 Methodology

The 2010 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2006 to 2009. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by June 30, 2006. Additionally, they had to be based in the United States, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2009. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2006 is $80,000; the minimum for 2009 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. The top 10 percent of companies on the list constitute the Inc. 500, now in its 29th year.

About Inc. Magazine

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,647, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at Inc.com.

Natick, MA – August 18, 2010 – To provide healthcare IT professionals with continuing education, purchase planning assistance and peer networking around issues facing hospitals and healthcare systems, Interbit Data has partnered with Iatric Systems, Inc. and Array Software to form the Healthcare IT Solutions Exchange (HITSE). HITSE will host an ongoing series of healthcare IT conferences starting this fall with HITSE New England 2010, to be held October 26 and 27 at the Doubletree Hotel, Westborough, MA.

“The primary intention of HITSE is to fill a void left by other healthcare IT conferences and user associations,” states Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. ”Other conferences have missed opportunities to extend the educational process on certain topics and allow vendors to convey beneficial, user-valued product solutions information outside of the exhibit area, which is often disregarded by attendees. HITSE was designed to provide a setting in which users and vendors can communicate and collaborate in order to develop and implement solutions that improve healthcare.”

HITSE’s initial healthcare IT conferences will include educational tracks on Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), MEDITECH 6.0, Meaningful Use and Revenue Cycle Improvement, with sessions on industry updates, technology and compliance, and panel discussions featuring industry experts. Vendor sessions will offer case studies, product demonstrations and user group discussions.  Each conference will include the Solutions Exchange, which will bring together hospital information systems users and vendors to discuss the selection, planning, implementation and support of healthcare IT solutions. The HITSE conference agenda will continuously evolve according to emerging trends and healthcare IT user needs.

All members of the healthcare IT community can participate and benefit from HITSE, including CIOs, IT managers, IT department managers, IT staff and consultants, as well as IT vendors.  Vendors can participate in HITSE healthcare IT conferences by exhibiting, attending or serving as a sponsor, as well as conducting vendor sessions.

More information on HITSE and the October New England conference can be found at http://www.hitse.org.

Natick, MA – July 28, 2010 – To ensure downtime access to current patient data after moving to electronic medical records (EMRs) and electronic medication administration records (eMARs), Hancock Regional Hospital in Greenfield, IN implemented NetSafe, Interbit Data’s downtime protection and business continuance solution. NetSafe downloads up-to-the-minute patient data and records from the hospital’s MEDITECH Healthcare Information System (HCIS) and provides access to it from local machines, allowing clinicians to obtain the information they need where they need it whenever the system or network goes down. With NetSafe, critical patient data is always available and the hospital assures patient safety and the delivery of uninterrupted care.

“NetSafe is a terrific safety net if the HCIS, a server or the network goes down,” states Doug Hogue, information analyst at Hancock Regional Hospital. “It’s one of those tools we hope to never have to use, but if and when we do need to rely on it, we have complete trust it will perform superbly. With NetSafe, we have peace of mind knowing that the latest eMARs and other important patient information are in a location that we can access when that information is needed.”

A one-minute video on the downtime protection and business continuance benefits of NetSafe is available at: http://interbitdata.com/business-continuance/netsafe/

Using NetSafe, Hancock Regional Hospital downloads updates of the eMARs every hour to ensure that clinicians can obtain the most up-to-date medication information on their patients whenever the system is unavailable. Electronic physician orders are updated twice per day and in PDF format, allowing staffers at registration desks to bring up and view the orders easily. Patient profiles, surgery schedules and out-patient schedules are also downloaded and updated. Physicians’ practices use NetSafe as well to back up their schedules.

Since Hancock Regional Hospital started using NetSafe in 2007, it has had four planned downtimes due to MEDITECH updates. It has had no unplanned downtimes as yet.

“If an unplanned downtime were to happen, we’re confident that we’re ready,” confirms Hogue. “NetSafe has performed flawlessly during the downtimes Hancock Regional Hospital has experienced so far, providing clinicians with whatever information they needed during those times.”

Over the three-plus years of using NetSafe, Hancock Regional Hospital’s experience with it has been nothing but positive.

“I love it, it’s a great product,” affirms Hogue. “NetSafe is easy to use, and other than normal server maintenance, I don’t need to do anything to it.”

More information on NetSafe can be obtained at the Interbit Data website.

About Hancock Regional Hospital

Hancock Regional Hospital in Greenfield, IN is a full-service primary care facility serving the residents in east-central Indiana. The hospital offers a state-of-the-art surgery department, 24-hour emergency services, progressive and critical care, occupational health, a transitional care unit, a total oncology program, and comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, including the more specialized Diabetes Center and Center for Wound Healing.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide. For more information about Interbit Data and its NetSolutions products, visit the company Website at www.interbitdata.com.

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Natick, MA – May 19, 2010 – Automating report distribution from the healthcare information system (HCIS) to doctors in multiple locations, Interbit Data’s NetDelivery and the NetDelivery Distribution Wizard have helped St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll, IA with getting critical patient data to those who need it within minutes rather than hours. The hospital once used a totally manual report distribution process that involved printing patient reports on paper and sending them by mail or courier to the recipient. Since moving to NetDelivery, the hospital’s staff not only saves time and stops performing this menial daily task; it also eliminates paper waste and expedites delivery of patient care.

“NetDelivery has proven to be an incredible time-saver for report distribution, specifically for the lab but also for pathology, radiology and the medical records department,” stated Dr. Jedd Hagen, a pathologist at St. Anthony Regional Hospital. “The pathology department alone decreased the amount of patient reports it has to print and distribute by 80%; those reports are now sent automatically with NetDelivery.”

St. Anthony Regional Hospital’s pathology department sends patient reports to approximately 50 doctors at 15 different clinics, while its laboratory sends patient reports to this same group plus nursing homes and other doctors outside the hospital — between 80 to 100 doctors altogether. The hospital also sends the doctors any dictation it does for patient history and physicals, operative reports and emergency room visits.

Prior to implementing NetDelivery, St. Anthony Regional Hospital’s lab staff had to spend two hours per day printing, folding, sorting and packaging about 100 lab reports for delivery to different doctors. The pathology department consumed one hour per day to distribute 30-40 reports. That is time those departments now have each day to attend to more important issues. Because of this freed-up time, the hospital was able to absorb the loss of a staff member and not add new personnel, yet still accomplish everything they need to do.

With NetDelivery, St. Anthony Regional Hospital can send patient reports easily to multiple locations at one time, pre-defining by recipient and location how each report is sent.

Patient reports going to a particular doctor are sent automatically — there is no need to tell NetDelivery what to do as the software knows where a report needs to be sent and in what format the recipient prefers to retrieve it.

“NetDelivery is straight-forward, Windows-based and very easy to use,” affirmed Hagen. “NetDelivery has many features and offers several delivery methods, allowing us to do more than just faxing.”

NetDelivery offers 14 report distribution methods, including fax, email, file, or directly to printer, and report distribution in PRN, TIF, TXT or PDF file formats. Remote locations can retrieve the data via the Internet on demand, on schedule or in real-time. All Internet connections are validated and all data is encrypted using 128-bit encryption algorithms, ensuring and improving compliance with HIPAA.

The NetDelivery Distribution Wizard efficiently collates patient reports generated by the HCIS and directs them to the proper recipients based on user-defined rules using data extracted from the reports. Collating reports that are printed in batches saves time spent determining which reports go to each persons. By extracting the recipients and destinations from the reports, organizations increase the accuracy of who receives the report, improve security by not sending reports to the wrong persons, and save staff time and effort ensuring reports were received on time by the right person.

About St. Anthony Regional Hospital

St. Anthony Regional Hospital & Nursing Home, located in Carroll, IA, serves communities in West Central Iowa. Founded in 1905, the hospital is a 99-bed facility with a connected 79-bed nursing home. St. Anthony Regional Hospital has been designated as one of sixteen regional hospitals in Iowa by the Iowa State Department of Health.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide.

Natick, MA – April 28, 2010 – To ensure accessibility to current patient data during a system downtime, Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario, Canada implemented NetSafe, Interbit Data’s downtime protection and business continuance software. NetSafe automates the process of maintaining up-to-date patient information and records, allowing Markham Stouffville Hospital to save time spent each day on printing, manually sorting and delivering the information across its two sites. Having the most recent data available on its patients during downtime helps the hospital preserve patient safety and the delivery of uninterrupted care.

“NetSafe business continuance impacts organizational efficiencies because having immediate access to up-to-the-minute information during downtime allows our staff to process patients quicker and treat them in a timely manner,” stated Tim Pemberton, director of IT and communications at Markham Stouffville Hospital. “Having timely and accurate information ensures patient safety while having immediate access to that information allows staff to improve the level of patient care.”

View a one-minute video on the downtime protection and business continuance benefits of NetSafe:

Prior to implementing NetSafe downtime protection and business continuance, Markham Stouffville Hospital refreshed its patient data every four hours. Now, NetSafe automatically updates the data on an hourly basis, and the IT department no longer needs to print and distribute the data as it is readily available on 50 “downtime computers” stationed throughout the various areas of the organization.

“NetSafe also helps make the information retrieval more efficient by making it access-driven,” added Pemberton. “Each area of the hospital gets only the data that they need in that area and on only the patients it is working with. This improved documentation access process also helps to ensure privacy of patient info.”

Over the first two months after implementing NetSafe, Markham Stouffville Hospital conducted a network refresh that required several downtimes in that period, each lasting 8 – 12 hours. NetSafe was used during all of these downtimes to provide downtime documentation and enable the hospital to continue providing quality treatment to patients without interruption. During downtimes, clinical areas as well as admissions save time because they have immediate access to recent data and can update their data automatically. By freeing up staff time, NetSafe allows them to be more efficient and use that time for more important matters.

“Unplanned downtimes occur rarely, but we need to show that the business can continue and the hospital can continue to provide care in the absence of the IT system. NetSafe is excellent and very useful for business continuity,” affirmed Pemberton. “With just the amount of time and effort saved by the IT staff, NetSafe has easily paid for itself 10 times over.”

NetSafe automatically captures and preserves patient information and reports from the healthcare information system (HCIS) on any location on the network to make critical data available for lookup, review or printing whenever needed. Data elements are automatically extracted from the captured reports and the reports are stored at locations throughout the network at regular intervals to ensure the most recent patient data is available. Data is encrypted to maintain confidentiality.

With NetSafe, users can define and capture an unlimited number of reports and rules, scan reports for locations to automatically deliver data to the right location and recipient, and store data at an unlimited number of locations throughout the network. Data is indexed for easy access to specific information. Reports can be sent to multiple locations to ensure data availability and improve staff efficiency. Users can view report data online, removing the need to print the reports, and they can search reports for individual patient data. NetSafe’s comprehensive logging capability allows users to create an audit trail.

About Markham Stouffville Hospital

Markham Stouffville Hospital is a progressive multi-site community hospital with leading diagnostic services and medical and surgical care focused on patient needs in its rapidly growing communities. The Hospital’s 275 physicians and 1,700 staff serve the residents of the Towns of Markham, Whitchurch-Stouffville and Uxbridge and a catchment area that also draws from North Scarborough and East Durham, a total population of nearly 300,000 people. Markham Stouffville Hospital serves its communities through two fully-accredited hospitals, one in Markham and the other in Uxbridge.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide.

Booth: 606

Demo Schedule:

• Tuesday 11 a.m. – NetSafe
• Tuesday 2 p.m. – 6.0 & NetDelivery
• Wednesday 11 a.m. – MAPS
• Wednesday 2 p.m. – 6.0 & NetDelivery
• Thursday 11 a.m. – NetSafe

Presentations:

Session 327: Downtime – Can We Work Without Computers?

Presenter:  Arthur Young

While every system has some downtime, MEDITECH has always been better than most.  The industry talks about three nines (99.9%), four nines (99.99%) and five nines (99.999%) – that’s about as good as it gets.  But what if MEDITECH is up, and you can’t get to it?

As our environments have gotten more complex, our infrastructure has introduced more potential points of failure.  It is no longer the case that your device is connected to the host via a physical cable.  Now it may go through any number of intermediary connections before actually reaching the host system.  Each link must be examined for its own up time.

Coincidental with the growth of the environment is the growth of the applications and the increased use of on-line and real-time documentation and processing (eMAR, PCOE, etc).  This means our sensitivity to downtime becomes even more acute.

This presentation will talk about the different aspects of downtime and the different approaches to data protection and service protection, identifying points of failure and creating policies and procedures to protect against them, and tools to help identify and quantify existing risk.

Session 328: Report Delivery via HL7

Presenter: Arthur Young

HL7 by itself does not constitute plug and play. As an extension of report delivery to clinician offices, reports are now being requested to be integrated into physician’s EMR systems. HL7 by itself does not constitute plug and play. This presentation will discuss some of the requirements, obstacles, and experiences in implementing this capability.

For more details on the conference, visit the MuseWeb site under events.

Natick, MA – April 14, 2010 – Interbit Data, the leader in software and services for improving healthcare efficiency, today announces that its information and report distribution solutions — NetFax and NetDelivery — work with all the platforms customers are currently running of the MEDITECH healthcare information system, including 6.0.

“Any of our customers who are upgrading to the MEDITECH 6.0 platform need not be concerned with how it will affect their use of our faxing and report distribution products,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “Whether a customer is running MEDITECH Magic, MEDITECH Client/Server or MEDITECH 6.0, also known as Focus and MAT, we will help them with upgrading our products if it’s necessary.”

Customers who are MEDITECH Magic sites using NetFax or NetDelivery will need to upgrade to NetFax for C/S and 6.0 or NetDelivery for C/S and 6.0.  Customers who are MEDITECH Client/Server sites and still use NetFax or NetDelivery will need to upgrade to NetFax for C/S and 6.0 or NetDelivery for C/S and 6.0.

NetDelivery C/S and 6.0 combines the capabilities of NetDelivery, Distribution Wizard, and Desktop Fax in one product that accurately and securely distributes reports and data from MEDITECH to multiple parties in the recipients’ preferred format. Users can send the data via fax, encrypted print stream, encrypted file or email and define the distribution method by recipient and destination.

NetFax C/S and 6.0 combines the capabilities of NetFax, Distribution Wizard and Desktop Fax into one solution that seamlessly integrates with MEDITECH to direct faxes to defined users. The product can be used instead of fax appliances and expanded as easily as adding multiple modems. Logs are maintained on the server and communicated directly to the MEDITECH audit trail.

With both NetDelivery C/S and 6.0 and NetFax C/S and 6.0, reports are collated and directed to the proper recipients based on user-defined rules using data extracted from the reports. Both products allow unlimited faxing from PC-based applications (C/S demand Fax) and offer support for inbound fax routing using Direct Dial Numbers (DDI, MSN), Caller Identification (CSID) or Line Routing to route incoming faxes directly to a department or user.  By allowing documents to be delivered via fax, email and/or secure remote print, both products increase user satisfaction, streamline delivery to both local and remote users and reduce the demand for fax lines.

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide.

Natick, MA – March 10, 2010 – Interbit Data, a leader in software and services for improving healthcare efficiency, offers a solution that addresses the shortage of registered nurses, a growing problem in healthcare organizations which affects patient care and safety. The MAPS Health Suite, a workforce scheduling and optimization software application, makes the best use of available staff by placing the right number and type of skills required on a unit at the right time.

Offered in partnership with Allocate Software, a recognized leader in scheduling, MAPS Health Suite automates the time-consuming task of staff scheduling and resource allocation, saving hours of time that can be devoted to delivering quality patient care. By offering highly efficient workforce management capabilities with advanced scheduling functionality, MAPS Health Suite helps healthcare organizations to lower labor costs, improve nurse retention and increase patient satisfaction.

“With nurses as a scarce but critical resource, optimizing staff scheduling has become a necessary operational requirement to ensure high quality patient care and satisfactory patient outcomes,” said Arthur Young, president of Interbit Data. “By replacing inefficient, manual workforce scheduling processes with a powerful automated tool, healthcare organizations can make more efficient and effective use of their nursing staff and their workforce in general.”

According to Julie Halliday, director of nursing at North Middlesex University Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, “Not only is the MAPS Health Suite solution proven in other hospitals in our organization, but our nursing staff is positive about working with it. MAPS improves staff satisfaction and allows more time caring for patients. For the organization as a whole, it ensures more efficient use of our nursing resources.”

“With MAPS Health Suite, our staff can gain by having fair shift allocations and we can ensure the staff with the relevant skills and competencies are deployed,” said Pat Hackett, director of adults and community division, South Birmingham Community Health. “We use our qualified resources wisely while improving patient satisfaction.”

The shortage of registered nurses is felt globally and is expected to worsen over the next decade as nurses retire, healthcare demands rise with the aging baby boomer population and the number of yearly nursing school graduates is unable to keep pace with the demand for new nurses. The U.S. nurse shortage is expected to reach 260,000 by 2025. In Canada, a nationwide shortage of 78,000 nurses is expected by the Canadian Nurses Association within the next three years, and the country is expected to reach a critical nurse shortage level by 2016. The nurse shortage is a situation that is being experienced globally

While government, education and healthcare industry initiatives are in place to address the nurse shortage and reverse the trend of nurses leaving the field and declining enrollment in nursing schools, MAPS Health Suite can provide an interim solution to this already critical situation and help healthcare organizations with returning the quality of patient care and outcomes to optimal levels.

About MAPS Health Suite

The MAPS Health Suite is a unique approach to clinical scheduling, designed to improve the effectiveness of nursing and other clinical staff to better meet patient demand. MAPS Health suite streamlines the entire staffing process – from modeling the demand, through to scheduling and payroll – making it more effective.

About Allocate Software

Allocate Software plc is the leading workforce optimization software applications provider for global organizations with large, multi-skilled workforces. With over 19 years of experience, the company ensures customers can match operational demands with workforce supply. Founded in 1991, Allocate Software plc is a British public company listed on the UK AIM Stock market. For more information about Allocate Software, visit their Website at www.allocatesoftware.com

About Interbit Data

Founded in 1997 and named to the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies, Interbit Data helps healthcare organizations deliver better, more consistent patient care with secure, reliable and cost-effective software solutions that improve operational efficiency. The company’s information distribution products deliver information securely over the Internet in multiple formats, such as fax, print, email, encrypted file or HL7 message format, and integrate it easily into physicians’ practice EMRs. Interbit Data’s business continuance products give healthcare providers continuous access to patient data in the event of a network or system outage. Interbit Data products are used by more than 650 MEDITECH® customers worldwide.