Netsmart Technologies Signs $900,000 Contract With The State of Nevada's Department of Human Resources
December 02 2003 - 10:10AM
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Netsmart Technologies Signs $900,000 Contract With The State of
Nevada's Department of Human Resources Netsmart Will Implement Its
Avatar Suite of Products to Nevada's Division of Children and
Family Services ISLIP, N.Y., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Netsmart Technologies, Inc. , a leading supplier of enterprise-wide
software for health and human services providers through its wholly
owned subsidiary, Creative Socio-Medics (Creative), today announced
that Creative has been awarded a $900,000 multi-year contract by
the State of Nevada's Division of Children and Family Services. The
contract includes software license, professional services, and
first-year maintenance agreements to install Creative's Avatar
suite of human services software, including practice management and
electronic medical records. Jerry Koop, CEO of Creative said, "We
believe that the contract with the Nevada Division of Children and
Families is significant to Creative in that it's our second
contract with the State," Koop said. He went on to say, "We are
seeing increased case management requirements across treatment
disciplines in the public sector and this win is reflective of this
model." The Division of Child and Family Services provides a
continuum of mental health related services to severely emotionally
disturbed and behaviorally disordered children, adolescents, and
their families. The range of services include psychological,
developmental, and psychiatric assessments; outpatient programming
such as family and child counseling, parent education, and
supportive interactions; in-home therapy, skill building, homemaker
services, and advocacy; medical or psychiatric assistance; crisis
intervention; day treatment; referral and linking to community
based resources; and residential care treatment facilities.
Services are provided through regional programs including the
Northern Nevada Child and Adolescence Center, the Southern Nevada
Child and Adolescence Center, Intensive Family Services, the Early
Childhood Program, Community Based District Offices, and other DCFS
site offices throughout the State. The goal of DCFS mental health
services is to strengthen and empower parent-child-family
relationships and to enhance each child's social and emotional
functioning. The client is the child in the family ... and the
child and the family. The Avatar system is designed to integrate
and automate various business processes and provide a solution to
compliance with HIPAA transaction and code set requirements.
"Success in the state marketplace is indicative of not only the
excellence and flexibility of the Avatar suite of products, but
also the excellent performance of our implementation staff and its
history of client satisfaction," said James Conway, CEO of
Netsmart. About Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Netsmart Technologies,
Inc. of Islip, N.Y., through Creative Socio-Medics, is an
established, leading supplier of enterprise-wide software solutions
for health and human services providers with over 580 clients,
including 25 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. Statements in this press release may be
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as
"anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend" and similar
expressions, as they relate to the company or its management,
identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on
current expectations, estimates and projections about the company's
business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These
statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve
risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict.
Therefore, actual 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 Netsmart's or Creative's website do not
constitute a part of this release. DATASOURCE: Netsmart
Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Ron Marge of Netsmart Technologies,
1-800-421-7503, ext. 2026, ; or Stuart Fine of Carpe DM, Inc.,
+1-908-490-0075, , for Netsmart Technologies Web site:
http://www.netsmartech.com/
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