ICIS Live in 24×7 Magazine

GCQ’s ICIS Live mobile telemedicine solution received coverage in 24×7 Magazine, a publication targeted to biomedical equipment techs and clinical engineers. According to 24×7 Editor Julie Kirst, the magzine doesn’t normally cover products like ICIS Live, but she felt that the system was just the sort her readers would like to know about.

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Medicine On The Move: Healthcare Software Developer Launches Website for Mobile Devices

Global Care Quest’s GCQMobile.com among the industry’s first websites designed to be accessed by physicians and hospitals via smartphone or handheld

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.- “Mobility” is a hot topic in healthcare today, and giving doctors access to patient information via their smartphones and PDAs as easily as they get their email and news headlines is the Holy Grail of medicine. Physicians and hospitals are a step closer to fulfilling that quest with the launch of a new website designed specifically for healthcare professionals with handhelds.

Advanced medical information systems developer, Global Care Quest, Inc. (GCQ) today announced the launch of GCQMobile.com, a specialized version of the company’s corporate website designed for easy access via smartphones, PDAs and other handheld devices. Visitors to the site can read industry news, access product information, request support and even download and install the company’s mobile Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS Mobile) product directly from any PocketPC or WindowsMobile-powered device.

“Doctors are by nature mobile professionals, so they’re increasingly dependent on their mobile devices for everything from email to patient information,” said GCQ Chief Executive Cleve Adams. “If a physician is in a car on his way to the hospital, it just doesn’t make sense to force him to wait until he can find a desktop PC to install or get help with software that’s supposed to be a mobile product,” he said. “With the launch of GCQMobile.com we’ve made it possible to do everything — from information gathering to ICIS Mobile installation and support - directly from the handheld.”

ICIS Mobile is an advanced integration system that collects patient data from numerous hospital IT platforms and equipment and delivers it to physicians over wireless and cellular networks. ICIS Mobile gives doctors the ability use a smartphone or PDA to review everything from lab notes and X-Rays to realtime bedside monitor feeds from virtually any location. The system went public early this year after a highly successful pilot at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. It is currently being integrated at Century City Doctors Hospital and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles to give physicians at those hospitals mobile access to clinical information.

“I think the healthcare market is maturing very quickly and mobile users are coming to expect companies producing mobile healthcare systems to demonstrate the expertise to make every aspect of their product and services accessible from handheld devices,” Adams said. “GCQ and GCQMobile.com are ahead of the rest of the industry in that respect.”

Mobile device users are invited to visit GCQMobile.com. Smartphone and PDA users with PocketPC or Windows Mobile devices can also download a free trial version of the ICIS Mobile product. Users can access the site directly by pointing their browsers to http://www.gcqmobile.com. Mobile visitors to GCQ’s main site at http://www.globalcarequest.com will also be automatically redirected to GCQMobile.com.

About Global Care Quest
Global Care Quest is the developer of the Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS). ICIS performs real time integration and delivery of digital medical records, charting, bedside monitoring equipment and laboratory results to physicians and medical teams via stationary and wireless PCs as well as handheld wireless devices. ICIS improves access to patient data, enhances patient safety, and trims the cost of care by delivering critical patient information when and where it’s needed. Founded in 2005, the company is venture backed by Lexington Ventures and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. For more information on Global Care Quest and ICIS, please contact Global Care Quest, 65 Enterprise, Suite 430, Aliso Viejo, California 92656, tel: (949) 330-7450, email: press@globalcarequest.com. Or visit the GCQ website at www.globalcarequest.com.

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Doctors to Go Mobile With Telemedicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Global Care Quest’s ICIS Live to give doctors mobile access to hospital’s video-conferencing Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. Advanced medical information systems developer, Global Care Quest, Inc. (GCQ) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Childrens Hospital Los Angeles-(CHLA) to give doctors remote access the hospital’s video telemedicine system via notebook computers using GCQ’s new ICIS Live mobile video-conferencing system. Currently physicians go to one of six regional hospitals with a specialized system to use the video system in CHLA’s Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

CHLA’s telemedicine system is a cart-mounted device wheeled bedside that allows physicians to interact with patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals via a video link. Currently the telemedicine capabilities are limited to CHLA and six regional hospitals who also have these systems, requiring doctors to go to the facility in order to utilize it. Under the GCQ-CHLA agreement GCQ will provide its Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS) and Video-conference software module (ICIS Live) to CHLA which will give doctors access to the telemedicine system from any location & office, home or on the road via a notebook or desktop computer and high speed Internet connection.

The GCQ-CHLA agreement is the latest in a series by GCQ that has it providing doctors with mobile access to a broad range of hospital and patient data. Recently the company announced a deal with Century City Doctors Hospital that will give that hospital’s physicians mobile access to patient X-Rays and CT-scans, realtime vitals, and other patient data via smartphones, handheld computers and PDAs.

Six months ago GCQ completed an extensive pilot at UCLA Medical Center where the company provided mobile and desktop access to a broad range of critical care patient information including labs, rounding notes and nurse charting systems, as well as X-Rays, CT Scans and vitals. More than 1,000 physicians at UCLA worked with ICIS during that program.

About Global Care Quest
Global Care Quest is the developer of the Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS). ICIS performs real time integration and delivery of digital medical records, charting, bedside monitoring equipment and laboratory results to physicians and medical teams via stationary and wireless PCs as well as handheld wireless devices. ICIS improves access to patient data, enhances patient safety, and trims the cost of care by delivering critical patient information when and where it’s needed. Founded in 2005, the company is venture backed by Lexington Ventures and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. For more information on Global Care Quest and ICIS, please contact Global Care Quest, 65 Enterprise, Suite 430, Aliso Viejo, California 92656, tel: (949) 330-7450, email: press@globalcarequest.com. Or visit the GCQ website at www.globalcarequest.com.