Skyscape's Solutions are Honored as "Best Healthcare Solution" at Handango Champion Awards
SKYSCAPE'S SOLUTIONS ARE HONORED AS "BEST HEALTHCARE SOLUTION" AT HANDANGO CHAMPION AWARDS
Industry Experts Recognize Skyscape for Bringing Doctors the Critical Information They Need, in Context, for Their Pocket PC and Palm OS Devices
Hudson, Massachusetts - June 24, 2002 - Skyscape, the leading provider of intelligent, interactive mobile solutions for the healthcare community, today announced that its PediatricDrugs™ mobile solution, the handheld version of Handbook of Pediatric Drug Therapy, was the winner of the Handango Champion Awards "Best Healthcare Solution," for Pocket PC. Skyscape's DrDrugs™ mobile solution, the handheld version of Drug Guide for Physicians, was honored as a Finalist in the "Best Healthcare Solution" for Palm OS®.
Skyscape integrates handheld, knowledge management and Internet technologies to create unique solutions that increase the accuracy and efficiency of both the individual and networked communities of medical practitioners. Skyscape's patented smARTlinkTM solutions have gained tremendous acceptance in the medical community because of their ability to aggregate information from a variety of sources, integrate this information and present it in an easy to use, "in-context" format. These solutions significantly improve the quality and efficiency of medical decision-making at the point-of-care.
"The Handango Champion Awards honor the best in mobile software and the extraordinary companies that make this market so hot," said Laura Rippy, chief executive officer of Handango. "With such an outstanding list of nominees for each category, it was a close race, but Skyscape applications exceeded the expectations of the expert panel of judges."
The awards were presented June 12-14, 2002, in San Antonio, Texas, during the Handango Partner Summit and were sponsored by Microsoft, Nokia, Palm and USAToday.com. Winners were chosen from thousands of applications available from Handango and judged against three finalists in each category. The judges were Leonard Fischer, USAToday.com; Shawn Barnett, Pen Computing; Steven Bush, Brighthand Consulting, Inc.; Wes Salmon, PDABuzz.com; Ronald Rosberg, Early Adopter/ABC Radio - KSFO and KGO AM; Ronny Ko, Bityard Magazine; James Hromadka, VisorCentral and Bill Mann, industry expert.
"We are pleased to work with Handango who is a key partner in our distribution strategy. The Handango network enables us to bring trusted industry-leading Skyscape solutions to a worldwide audience," said Sandeep Shah, founder and CEO of Skyscape, Inc. "Skyscape's recognition at the Handango Championship awards is a testament to our continued success in providing actionable, point-of-care solutions for the mobile professional."
Giving Doctors The Solutions They Need
The two Skyscape-powered solutions that were honored, PediatricDrugs and DrDrugs, are software titles specifically designed to take advantage of the benefits and improved functionality possible with software on handheld devices. PediatricDrugs is a sophisticated pediatric drug information resource based on current clinical experience taken from content in the Handbook of Pediatric Drug Therapy by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. DrDrugs, content by F.A. Davis Company, includes thousands of trade and generic drugs and monographs, hundreds of commonly used combination drugs, and dozens of drug classifications. The direct benefits that result from using Skyscape solutions include instantaneous access to relevant, integrated information at the point-of-care, more informed decision-making, fewer errors in diagnosis and prescription, and more time with the patient.
About Skyscape
Skyscape is the leading provider of intelligent, interactive mobile solutions for the healthcare community. Skyscape utilizes its patented ARTTM (Advanced Reference and Transaction) infrastructure technology to create compelling high-value solutions for handheld devices that reflect and support the intuitive thought processes of the medical practitioner. Skyscape's solutions significantly improve the quality and efficiency of medical decision making-at the point of care-by enabling doctors to diagnose illnesses, determine treatment, prescribe medication, identify drug interactions, calculate dosages and perform all the necessary steps involved with quality patient care.
Skyscape has the largest installed base of paying customers in the industry including individual and communities of medical practitioners at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Stanford Medical School, Partners Health System, Duke University, Mayo Clinic, and Kaiser Permanente. Skyscape's solutions are available on multiple platforms including Palm OS®, Windows® CE, Pocket PC, and Symbian. For more information, visit the Skyscape Website at www.skyscape.com.
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