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November
18, 2004
QS
Customer recogized for "Excellence
in Public Health"
EHRs
Give Public Health Davies Award Winners
An Ounce of Prevention and a Pound of
Cure for Health Management
HIMSS announces three award recipients
of the first Public Health Davies Award
CHICAGO
(November 17, 2004) - Pennsylvania's
National Electronic Disease Reporting
System (PA-NEDSS), South Dakota's
Electronic Vital Records and Screening
System (SD-EVRSS) and the Utah Statewide
Immunization Information System (USIIS)
are the first winners of the Nicholas E.
Davies Award of Excellence for Public
Health. The winners will be featured
presenters at the Davies Symposium to be
held at the 2005 Annual HIMSS Conference
& Exhibition in Dallas, Texas on
Feb. 13-17.
The SD-EVRSS
serves a vast community including the
public requesting copies of birth, death
or marriage certificates or other
records; and hospitals, healthcare
professionals and medical examiners who
are required to report information to
the South Dakota Department of Health
and state and federal agencies in
implementing programs to improve the
health of the state's citizens.
According to Kathlene Mueller, manager
of the Office of Data, Statistics and
Vital Records, the essential purpose of
the EVRSS is to improve the timeliness
and quality of vital event information
reported to the South Dakota Department
of Health.
At the
core of SD-EVRSS is QS Technologies' QSTVRS
Vital Records product. The
flexibilty of QSTVRS supports not only
Vital Records Events in South Dakota,
but also Newborn Hearing and Metabolic
Screening.
The
Davies Award program was originally
created by CPRI-HOST in 1995. The
program honors Dr. Nicholas Davies, an
Atlanta-based physician who was
committed to improving patient care
through the use of health information
technology.
About
HIMSS:
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society) is the
healthcare industry's membership
organization exclusively focused on
providing leadership for the optimal use
of healthcare information technology and
management systems for the betterment of
human health. Founded in 1961 with
offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., and
other locations across the country,
HIMSS represents more than 14,000
individual members and some 220 member
corporations that employ more than 1
million people. HIMSS frames and leads
healthcare public policy and industry
practices through its advocacy,
educational and professional development
initiatives to promote information and
management systems' contributions to
ensuring quality patient care. Visit www.himss.org
for more information.
QS
Technologies, located in Greenville, SC,
is a national provider of software for
public health and vital records
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