RiverView Health Selects Omnicell Automation Systems to Streamline Medication Management

State-of-the-Art Critical Access Facility Recognized as One of the First to Implement New Omnicell G4 Platform Solution

About RiverViewOmnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMCL) is a leading provider of automated and business information solutions enabling hospitals and healthcare systems to streamline the medication administration process and manage costly medical supplies for increased operational efficiency and enhanced patient safety. Through seamless integration with a hospital's existing IT infrastructure, Omnicell solutions empower healthcare facilities to achieve comprehensive automation of medication and supply management from the arrival at the loading dock to the patient's bedside. Omnicell also provides healthcare facilities with business analytics software designed to improve medication diversion detection and regulatory compliance."Even though we are a critical access facility with limited resources, our patients still deserve the highest level of care afforded by the latest technology," said Jerry Lindsay, Pharmacy Director at RiverView Health. "Through our partnership with Omnicell, our clinicians now have access to industry-defining technology that reduces their administrative responsibilities so they can focus on what they do best-treat patients."The 25-bed critical access facility will be implementing Omnicell G4 OmniRx automated medication dispensing cabinets (ADCs) and SafetyStock(TM) to streamline management of medications in the emergency department and inpatient areas. The Omnicell ADCs will provide the critical access facility with an advanced and flexible automated dispensing system designed to monitor and control drug dispensing, improve regulatory compliance standards and reduce medication errors.About OmnicellFor more information about Omnicell, please visit www.omnicell.comMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMCL), a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions and analytics software for healthcare facilities, today announced the Company has been selected by RiverView Health to enhance medication safety, reduce errors and improve clinician efficiency. As one of the first healthcare organizations to install Omnicell's new fourth generation G4 platform solution, RiverView demonstrates how hospitals can enhance the quality of patient care regardless of size, budget or location, through the implementation of Omnicell's medication automation solutions.SOURCE Omnicell, Inc.Since 1992, more than 2,200 hospital customers worldwide have relied on Omnicell's medication automation, supply chain, and hospital analytics solutions to increase patient safety, improve efficiency and address changing healthcare regulations while providing effective control of costs, charge capture for payer reimbursement and inventory management of medications and supplies.RiverView Health is an independent, community-owned health care organization headquartered in Crookston, Minnesota. RiverView consists of a 25-bed critical access hospital, a 70-bed long-term care facility, a 52-bed chemical dependency treatment center, home care, laboratory services, rehabilitation, community outreach, and a number of primary and specialty care clinics. Services at RiverView clinics include family medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, urology, gastroenterology, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, mental health, and podiatry. The system employs 22 providers, with a total of approximately 565 full and part-time employees.For more information, visit www.riverviewhealth.org."Critical access hospitals are a valuable community resource for underserved patient populations in rural areas. Omnicell is proud to offer our customers the flexibility to tailor solutions to meet their unique needs in diverse care settings," said J. Christopher Drew, senior vice president, field operations for Omnicell. "Our medication management systems and tools are used to strategically empower clinicians at RiverView to extend their track record of providing the best care possible to their patients."

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Learning Care Group Uses WhereScape RED to Quickly Deploy New Information Delivery Platform for Business Intelligence and Analytics

The nation's second largest childcare provider rapidly integrated multiple M&A data sources; Will present its agile data warehousing use case at the TDWI Executive Summit

WhereScape’s products are used in every kind of business intelligence project found in today’s commercial environment: from normal-form enterprise data warehouses and data vaults, through user access layers and tiers of dependent data marts, to standalone data marts and reporting systems.On Tuesday, August 9 from 9:00am – 10:00am PT, Ahmad Malik, Learning Care Group's Director of IT Application Services, will detail LCG's agile data warehouse development use case, Agile Data Warehousing in Support of Learning Care Group Children, at the TDWI Executive Summit in San Diego, CA. In his presentation, Malik, who has more than 15 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining ERP, CRM, data warehousing and BI applications, will discuss LCG's challenge of integrating various data sources for business intelligence and integration purposes after several M&A activities. Additionally, different divisions were using various matrices making it harder to measure and manage company’s progress at various levels.PORTLAND, Ore. -- Learning Care Group Inc., the nation's second largest for-profit childcare provider with more than 1,000 centers in 37 states, has rapidly developed and deployed an integrated information delivery system for business intelligence (BI) and analytics using WhereScape RED, WhereScape's agile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for managing data warehouses. WhereScape RED enabled Learning Care Group (LCG) to quickly integrate a variety of disparate data sources obtained through multiple mergers and acquisitions (M&As) into an agile, scalable, Microsoft SQL Server-based architecture serving the LCG business communities' ever-evolving reporting and analysis needs.About WhereScapeThe session covers how a combination of people, processes and technology helped LCG deliver an information delivery platform in a rapid timeframe. Challenges facing project execution as timelines and budget shrank will be covered. A scalable architecture (people, process and technology) is now in place to continue adding and maintaining agility required to serve the business needs for business intelligence.WhereScape design, develop, sell and support WhereScape 3D, the industry’s first data warehouse planning tool; and WhereScape RED, the industry’s first and best integrated development environment for building, deploying, managing and renovating data warehouses.Our more than 400 customers are active and satisfied users of our technologies, and report that, with WhereScape’s products, they are able to build data warehouses with fewer people, few if any diversions, missed deadlines or unmet user expectations, and in record time: in days or weeks, instead of months or years. WhereScape has offices in Portland Oregon, Auckland New Zealand, and Wokingham UK. For more information, please visit www.wherescape.com.All products or company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.“I found the speed with which Learning Care Group was able to provide data to users without extensive training or a large budget to be very compelling,” said David Stodder, TDWI Director of TDWI Research for Business Intelligence. “Learning Care Group's ability to provide users iterations, gather feedback, and deliver usable data to business users in 10 days is a great accomplishment and will be of great interest to TDWI Executive Summit attendees,” Stodder said.

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