Netsmart Technologies Signs City of Berkeley Public Health
March 09 2005 - 8:54AM
PR Newswire (US)
Netsmart Technologies Signs City of Berkeley Public Health Netsmart
is Awarded the City of Berkeley Contract for Its Avatar Public
Health software GREAT RIVER, N.Y., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Netsmart Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTST), a leading supplier of
enterprise-wide software for health and human services providers
through its wholly owned subsidiary, Creative Socio-Medics Corp.
(Creative), today announced today that Creative has been awarded a
contract with the City of Berkeley Department of Public Health,
Berkeley, California. The contract to be performed over one year,
has a value of $548,000, which covers licensing, services, and
first year maintenance of Creative's Avatar Public Health and
clinical software. James Gargiulo, Senior Vice President of Sales
and Marketing, said: "We look forward to our partnership with the
City of Berkeley. It is an opportunity for our company to further
expand and integrate public health data standards and business
processes within our Avatar products. We expect the City to be a
valuable addition to our California User Association." Berkeley is
one of three cities in California that has been designated as a
Public Health jurisdiction. Berkeley Public Health has a mandate to
ensure and enhance the health of the community and to fulfill the
core public health functions, including: monitoring the health of
the Community; preventing epidemics and the spread of disease;
protecting against environmental hazards; preventing injuries;
promoting and encouraging healthy behaviors; responding to
disasters; assuring quality of and accessibility to Health
Services; and advancing community action to improve health. Fred
Medrano, Director of the City of Berkeley Health and Human Services
Department, provided the following statement: "City of Berkeley is
pleased to partner with Creative Socio-Medics on a project to
develop a comprehensive Public Health Patient Information
Management System. We anticipate software products that provide
intelligent solutions to complex business processes and a modern
system with interfaces to important external data systems.
Creative's products were selected after the department conducted an
assessment and requirements study, a search for Public Health
software systems, solicitation of proposals, and a lengthy proposal
evaluation process. We believe this development project has the
potential to enhance Public Health services to our community and it
provides an important opportunity to grow integrated system
solutions in the Department." About Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
Netsmart Technologies, Inc. of Great River, NY, through Creative
Socio- Medics, is an established, leading supplier of
enterprise-wide software solutions for health and human services
providers with over 600 clients, including 26 systems with state
agencies. Creative's clients include health and human services
organizations: public health agencies, mental health and substance
abuse clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and managed care
organizations. Avatar Practice Management and the Avatar Clinician
Work Station, Creative's core products, are full-featured
information systems that operate on a variety of operating systems,
hardware platforms, and mobile devices and offer unlimited
scalability. Statement on Behalf of Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
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outcomes and results may, and probably will, differ materially from
what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements
due to numerous factors, including those described above and those
risks discussed from time to time in Netsmart's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, such statements
could be affected by risks and uncertainties related to product
demand, market and customer acceptance, competition, pricing and
development difficulties, as well as general industry and market
conditions and growth rates, and general economic conditions. Any
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they
are made, and the company does not undertake any obligation to
update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or
circumstances after the date of this release. Information on
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release. DATASOURCE: Netsmart Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Ron
Marge, Netsmart Technologies, 1-800-421-7503, ext. 2026, ; or
Stuart Fine of Carpe DM, Inc., +1-908-490-0075, Web site:
http://www.netsmartech.com/
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