<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Hann's On Software</title><link>http://hosinc.com</link><description>HOS RSS feed.</description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Ascend 6.1 Release Announcement</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=55</link><description>Following an extensive field test with selected customers, Mediware is pleased to announce the General Availability of the Ascend 6.1.0 release.  This release includes many new features as outlined in the 2010 Product Enhancement Schedule.  The software is currently available to download and install into your environment.  Some of the highlights include:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;•	New changes to report content and formats&lt;br/&gt;•	Enhanced barcode support&lt;br/&gt;•	Corrections to inventory and order management&lt;br/&gt;If you would like Mediware’s assistance with the upgrade, let us know how we can help.  In the mean time, if I can be of any assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.  Thank you for being a Mediware customer.&lt;br/&gt;Sincerely,  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Charles Horton&lt;br/&gt;Program Director – Medication Management&lt;br/&gt;Mediware Information Systems&lt;br/&gt;charles.horton@mediware.com&lt;br/&gt;913-307-1009</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ascend 6.0 Release Announcement</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=54</link><description>Following an extensive field test with selected customers, Mediware is pleased to announce the General Availability of the Ascend 6.0.0 release.  This release includes many new features as outlined in the 2010 Product Enhancement Schedule.  The software is currently available to download and install into your environment.  Some of the highlights include:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;•	Perform automatic clinical check on allergy addition&lt;br/&gt;•	Additional logging for allergy, diagnosis and room/bed changes&lt;br/&gt;•	Enhancements to the MAR and Medication Reconciliation reports&lt;br/&gt;•	Addition of patient pay amounts into patient claim balances&lt;br/&gt;•	Allowance for single item adjustment functions&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If you would like Mediware’s assistance with the upgrade, let us know how we can help.  In the mean time, if I can be of any assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.  Thank you for being a Mediware customer.&lt;br/&gt;Sincerely,  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Charles Horton&lt;br/&gt;Program Director – Medication Management&lt;br/&gt;Mediware Information Systems&lt;br/&gt;charles.horton@mediware.com&lt;br/&gt;913-307-1009&lt;br/&gt;</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mediware Acquisition Adds 320 Pharmacy Facilities</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=52</link><description>LENEXA, KS Nov. 21, 2008 - Mediware Information Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDW), a provider of ClosedLoop™ software for blood and medication management, announced today that it has acquired substantially all the assets of Hann’s On Software (HOS), a pharmacy management software provider based in Santa Rosa, Calif. Mediware’s purchase agreement includes a cash payment of approximately $3.5M, with an additional earn out opportunity based on operational performance. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Commenting on the acquisition, Kelly Mann, Mediware’s president and chief executive officer said: “HOS is a very well run business and this accretive transaction is a good example of how we can strategically use Mediware’s cash resources to expand our ability to deliver patient safety solutions. The addition of the HOS product suite enables us to sell to a larger market and complements our strategy to grow medication management in specialty segments such as small hospitals and behavioral health.  I am particularly excited about the alternate-site infusion and specialty pharmacy tools that Mediware will be able to provide to our customers and the broader pharmacy market.” &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;HOS has been in business for more than 20 years and has more than 300 facilities using its Ascend products to manage pharmacy operations. Most of these customers are either community hospitals with less than 150 beds, outpatient clinics, or alternate-site infusion service providers.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“I am very excited to join with Mediware and look forward to helping expand our combined presence in medication safety software,” said Phillip Hann, Pharm.D., the president and founder of HOS. “While we have focused on different market segments, Mediware is clearly a leader in best of breed medication safety solutions. Their solution philosophy and drive to provide robust products and excellent customer service are absolutely in line with what we have delivered for more than 20 years.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Mediware has traditionally targeted its pharmacy management suite of products to large, sophisticated hospitals and behavioral health facilities that require complex clinical support. With HOS, the company now has products that satisfy the requirements of smaller acute care facilities, home infusion businesses, and specialty pharmacies at a price that is affordable to this segment of the market. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“HOS has great products, a large customer base, a solid solution platform and talented employees that are well respected by their customers,” continued Mr. Mann. “We have been impressed by the strength of their team and with the high customer satisfaction we discovered as a result of our due diligence.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The addition of HOS and IMS, which was acquired in November 2007, expands Mediware’s total customer base to more than 1400 facilities worldwide. These include large academic, community acute care, behavioral health and specialty care hospitals, as well as blood and plasma centers, and centralized transfusion service providers.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- More -&lt;br/&gt;Executives from both Mediware and HOS will be attending the upcoming American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) convention, December 8-11 in Orlando, FL. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;About Mediware &lt;br/&gt;Mediware delivers blood and medication management software systems that encapsulate information supporting patient therapies, reinforce patient safety practices and improve efficiencies to lower costs.  Mediware’s customers include prestigious hospitals, clinics, correctional institutions, blood centers and other public and private health care institutions throughout the world.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Mediware’s medication management suite of products includes the WORx pharmacy management software system that has been installed by many of the most prestigious hospitals in the United States. Other products include MediREC for medication reconciliation; MediMAR for bedside medication verification; MediCOE for electronic ordering. Mediware also has a UK-based medication management business, JAC, which has more than 50% market share.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;About Hann’s On Software &lt;br/&gt;Hann’s On Software is a provider of software and services that address the needs of the pharmacies in small hospitals, behavioral health facilities, and the expanding alternate-site/home infusion and specialty pharmacy markets. The company currently markets the Ascend pharmacy management software system and has more than 300 customers throughout the United States.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;###&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as the same may be amended from time to time (the "Act") and in releases made by the SEC from time to time.  Such forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors disclosed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2008, which may cause the actual results of the Company to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  The Company disclaims any obligation to update its forward-looking statements.&lt;br/&gt;</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Come See a Demo of the New Ascend Software</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=48</link><description>&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come and see a demo of the new Ascend software. Visit us at:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nhia.org/AC08/index.html"&gt;The NHIA Conference in Phoenix&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;March 9th-12th, 2008&lt;br /&gt;Booth #326&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Please Join Us At Our User Group Meeting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sunday, March 9th, 2008&lt;br /&gt;7:30 PM to 8:30 PM&lt;br /&gt;Booth #326&lt;br /&gt;Directly following the Grand Opening of the NHIA Exposition and Reception at the Phoenix Convention Center&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Please RSVP to Robin Marcus 707-547-1711 x240 or rmarcus@hosinc.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Visit Us at the NHIA Conference in Phoenix</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=49</link><description>March 9th-12th, 2008, Booth #326</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Information regarding Daylight Saving Time</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=39</link><description>All of our software products obtain the date/time from either the local workstation or the server, depending upon the function of the code. This means that as long as the operating system’s date/time is correct, dates/times in our software will be correct. Our products DO NOT have a separate clock function outside the clock already built into Windows. Nor does our software perform any adjustments based on your time zone. The date/time we use, is either that of the local computer or server, again depending upon the function. We do recommend that you obtain the latest service packs for your Windows operating system to ensure your computers apply the latest DST rules. These service packs are available from Microsoft. These updates are part of the Microsoft Windows updates process and, if unsure, you should check with your local IT support to verify your computers are updated. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Date/times values that are stored in the database should require no updates and retain the same value after DST. For example, an order with a stop date of 4/1/2007 10:00 requires no update/change to the database since that is the correct time the order needs to stop. At this time, no software program updates from Hann’s On Software are needed to handle the changes to DST.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Here is a link to Microsoft's Steps For Preparing For Daylight Saving Time Changes:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues&lt;br/&gt;</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title /><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=38</link><description>Hann's On Software introduces a new, modern, user-friendly web-site for thier custmers. The new web-site design was developed by Hann's On Software's own Michal Cook and Dajin Huang. The new web-site is easier to navigate through and provides customers w/ a personal sign in page that details account information, current license information, tech-support help&lt;br/&gt;Visit this page frequently to learn about products updates and download the latest software. Users should check this site at least once a month for the most current drug and pricing updates.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The developers at Hann's On Software have designed a new, modern, user-friendly web-site for our customers.</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hann's On Software and Pyxis Develop New Interface</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=37</link><description>&lt;html&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;title&gt;New Page 1&lt;/title&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hann's On Software (HOS) and Pyxis developed an interface&lt;br/&gt;between the HOS inpatient pharmacy program, Ascend-IP, and Pyxis Visual Med to&lt;br/&gt;provide advanced medical technology to help reduce medication errors and improve&lt;br/&gt;patient safety. Ascend-IP and Pyxis Visual Med are now able to support better&lt;br/&gt;clinical care and reduce health care costs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Pyxis Visual Med is a modular Computerized Physician Order&lt;br/&gt;Entry (CPOE) system that integrates physician and nursing clinical&lt;br/&gt;decision-making with data maintained in the electronic patient record.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ascend-IP receives legible prescriptions and dosage&lt;br/&gt;calculations that are based on patient specific information from Pyxis Visual&lt;br/&gt;Med. This will help to improve communication between physicians, nurses and&lt;br/&gt;pharmacy, reduce medication errors and prevent adverse drug event (ADEs) at the&lt;br/&gt;point of prescription. In addition, Pyxis Visual Med reviews all MD&lt;br/&gt;prescriptions and can suggest alternate courses of therapy as needed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;As well as interfacing with Pyxis Visual Med, Ascend-IP can&lt;br/&gt;interface with ADT, Financial, Laboratory, CPOE, Automated dispensing systems,&lt;br/&gt;and more. For a more complete list of vendors Ascend-IP interfaces with and for&lt;br/&gt;more information on other HOS products please contact our sales and marketing&lt;br/&gt;department at x300.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hann's On Software provides software to healthcare&lt;br/&gt;facilities and enables pharmacists, physicians and nurses to order, distribute,&lt;br/&gt;and administer medications to their patients in a manner that promotes optimal&lt;br/&gt;safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Hann's On Software provides Ascend-IP (for inpatient/hospital&lt;br/&gt;facilities), Ascend-HI (for home infusion/home care/outpatient businesses), and&lt;br/&gt;the Ascend Interface Engine (for communicating with other healthcare software&lt;br/&gt;vendors).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/html&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Automatic Charges and Credits for Ascend-IP Users</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=28</link><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana size=2&gt;Ascend-IP users can now greatly reduce entry of &lt;br/&gt;billing credits for medications. The new feature automatically reverses any &lt;br/&gt;charges following an order's discontinuance, or a patient's discharge.  All of &lt;br/&gt;our ADT interfaces have also been updated with an option to automatically &lt;br/&gt;reverse charges following interface mediated discharges, virtually eliminating &lt;br/&gt;credits for scheduled medications when patients go home. One HOS client &lt;br/&gt;estimates this new feature is saving them 1-2 hours of time per day!&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana size=2&gt;A second feature allows Ascend-IP to automate the &lt;br/&gt;generation of charges for scheduled medications. With this option turned "on", &lt;br/&gt;users don't have to tell the program how many scheduled doses to charge &lt;br/&gt;for...the program does it for them. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana size=2&gt;The HOS Charge interfaces can also be set to &lt;br/&gt;automatically transmit or process charges the day after the doses were &lt;br/&gt;administered. Pharmacy does not have to deal with complicated charge processing &lt;br/&gt;procedures, or "end-of-day" down time. Charge processing/transmission can be &lt;br/&gt;pre-scheduled to occur at the same time each day, automatically and &lt;br/&gt;unattended!&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two new interfaces: HBOC and Cerner</title><link>http://hosinc.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=29</link><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana size=2&gt;Hann's On Software has implemented two new &lt;br/&gt;interface interface for Ascend-IP, one with HBOC and another with Cerner's &lt;br/&gt;laboratory system. These interfaces add to the impressive list of vendors that Hann's On Software can &lt;br/&gt;interface with.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana size=2&gt;The HBOC interface is a "read-time" ADT interface &lt;br/&gt;for maintaining patient demographics, and a fully automated billing interface. &lt;br/&gt;The billing portion of the interface transmits pending charges to HBOC &lt;br/&gt;automatically each day, without user intervention!&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana size=2&gt;The HOS Cerner interface automatically populates &lt;br/&gt;the Ascend-IP's "laboratory results" tables, with laboratory data created by &lt;br/&gt;Cerner. This provides pharmacists with timely access to laboratory results &lt;br/&gt;without their having to review the chart, or obtain paper reports from the &lt;br/&gt;laboratory.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description><author>Hann's On Software</author><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>


