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Raining
Data Corporation
Phone:
(949) 442-4400
Fax: (949) 250-8187
Investor/Financial
Contact:
Brian C. Bezdek, Chief Financial Officer
brian.bezdek@rainingdata.com
Raining
Data Marketing/Press Contact:
Boris Geller, Vice President, Market Development
boris.geller@rainingdata.com
Raining
Data Aggregates Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Information With
New TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server
HEALTHCARE
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SOCIETY (HIMSS), ANNUAL
CONFERENCE, ORLANDO, FL – February 23, 2004
- New
Electronic Health Records Repository Aggregates Data Across
Lab, Hospital and Imaging Equipment with PDA-based Wireless
Accessibility, as Showcased in the HL7-IHE
Interoperability Demonstration
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The XML-based Operational Data Server Delivers Integrated
Information Sharing for Improved Healthcare, Patient Safety,
Public Health Surveillance, Drug Discovery, Clinical Trials
and Other Healthcare Uses
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Packaged Support for HL7, IHE and CDISC, Interoperability
with Microsoft BizTalk and NIST ebXML Registry Delivers Access
to an Unprecedented Range of Patient and Trials-Related Data
Raining
Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA), a long-time provider of scalable,
flexible and reliable data management software, today announced
that its new TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server supports
key standards for enabling streamlined clinical drug trials
and is able to act as a virtual electronic health records (vEHR)
repository. TigerLogic, acting in concert with products from
over 20 different vendors, is the sole vEHR repository for a
demonstration coordinated by the standards organization Health
Level Seven (HL7) and the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
(IHE) initiative that takes place during the annual conference
of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS), in Orlando, Fl., from February 22-26, 2004.
The
TigerLogic XML data repository is a leading operational data
server that uses a patent-pending XML indexing and profiling
technology to aggregate, store, and retrieve data of any type
and from any source as XML files in the mid-tier -- the center
of a data management architecture where information flows between
end user computers and large-scale systems for tracking and
processing health records and lab data.
Moreover,
the TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server delivers built-in
support for healthcare delivery, lab testing, and data management
standards, including: HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
and V3 XML lab messages; IHE’s Retrieve Information for Display
(RID) query; the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium’s
(CDISC) laboratory (LAB), Operational Data Model (ODM), and
Submissions Data Standard (SDS) specifications; and the National
Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) ebXML healthcare
registry, which could serve as a model for providing access
to distributed healthcare documents, making it easier to find
patient records.
“Healthcare
and other life sciences organizations are realizing that embracing
XML provides the interoperability and information flow required
to continue to improve the quality and efficiency of care,”
said Liora Alschuler, project director for the 2004 Joint Demo
and co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents and Marketing Committees.
“Raining Data's TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server is
a key component of this demonstration that uniquely provides
vEHR repository functions. Along with our other participating
vendors, Raining Data is helping us prove that integration,
standards, and XML enable timely and flexible access to a wide
range of information that can save lives.”
The
TigerLogic XML Life Science Data Server's ability to aggregate
and deliver information are featured during the demonstration.
Pulling from and sharing data with products from more than 20
other vendors, including Berdy, Dictaphone, Epic Systems, GE,
Kodak, Microsoft, Misys and others, the TigerLogic server demonstrates
how interoperable systems can be used to deliver better health
care. For example, in the case of botulism reporting, TigerLogic
captures and shares digital CDA forms to decrease the time between
diagnosis and government agency response to what could be bioterrorism.
Similarly, a tumor reporting scenario shows how a patient with
cancerous tumors can get streamlined care, when X-Rays and other
tests are digitally shared among everyone involved in the treatment,
from surgeons, to primary care physicians, to insurance companies
and hospital cancer registries.
The
TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server is designed from the
ground up to provide data consistency across healthcare, pharmaceutical,
and biotechnology information systems throughout various stages
of drug development and trials by utilizing XML forms that adhere
to the CDISC and HL7 standards.
Operational
Data Servers for Life Sciences Systems Interoperability
The HL7-IHE interoperability
demonstration illustrates the criticality of bringing together
HL7, IHE, CDISC and other standards with high-performance, XML-based
data management systems in the digital healthcare enterprise.
“Healthcare
and pharmaceutical markets are leading the use of technology
to improve the quality and efficiency of medical care. As a
member of the HL7 and CDISC organizations, we know how important
it is to establish a seamless flow of information across the
healthcare enterprise,” said Boris Geller, Vice President of
Market Development for Raining Data. “Bringing together data
in the right form at the right time is what our TigerLogic XML
Life Sciences Data Server was built for. We're enabling hospitals,
CRO’s, PCP’s, pharmaceutical firms, and other healthcare and
drug research organizations to efficiently aggregate information
across their enterprises and improve continuity of care, patient
safety, public health, research, and reporting.”
The
TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server fosters interoperability
between systems through its open application programming interface,
allowing it to be connected to any source in a healthcare enterprise
without modification. This, in turn, simplifies the process
of combining related health information -- such as the number
and type of patient complaints from a hospital ER front desk,
ECG and X-Ray imaging servers, and the doctor diagnoses from
Dictaphones -- across different systems into a reusable collection
of data available in a standard XML format. This is a sweeping
innovation for an industry that is rapidly moving away from
stacks of paper and proprietary data management systems.
Operational data servers also enhance the performance of data
delivery, allowing healthcare organizations to react quickly
during emergencies. The TigerLogic XML repository addresses
performance in two ways. First, its query engine aggregates
and retrieves data at speeds often hundreds of times faster
than most other database alternatives. Second, its XML transformation
engine makes it possible to bring data to nearly any device
without additional programming, a capability that Raining Data
is showing during the HL7 – IHE demonstration at HIMSS, when
electronic patient records are wirelessly displayed on personal
digital assistants (PDAs) right at the show floor.
Pricing
and Availability
TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server is immediately available
on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Solaris platforms. Software
license fee pricing starts at $25,000 per server and varies
based on selected platforms and configurations. Support for
HL7 CDA, IHE RID queries, CDISC, and other healthcare XML standards
is bundled with the product.
About
Raining Data
Raining Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA), headquartered in Irvine,
California, has been providing reliable data management and
rapid application deployment solutions for developers of database
applications for more than two decades. Raining Data's flagship
products include: 1) high-performance TigerLogic™ XML Data Management
Server (XDMS), which provides flexible, scalable and extensible
storage and retrieval of critical business data across a variety
of structured and unstructured information sources, delivering
mid-tier scalability and transactional integrity of enterprise
databases as well as dynamic extensibility and ease of use,
mostly found in repositories and file systems; 2)D3®,
mvEnterprise® and mvBase® family of powerful Pick®
based hierarchical multi-dimensional database management systems
that are the choice of more than a thousand application developers
worldwide; 3) the Pick Data Provider for .NET™ which allows
D3, UniData® and UniVerse® database platform
users to take advantage of the .Net Framework by utilizing Microsoft
Visual Studio® .NET by serving as a bridge between an application
and the data source; and 4) Omnis Studio®, a powerful, cross-platform,
object-oriented RAD tool for developing sophisticated thick-client,
Web-client or ultra thin-client database applications.
The
Raining Data customer installed base includes more than 500,000
active users, representing over 20,000 customer sites worldwide
with a significant base of diverse vertical applications. With
approximately 150 employees in four countries, the company has
an extensive distribution channel, 24x7 customer support and
a strong international presence. More information about Raining
Data Corporation and its products can be found at www.rainingdata.com
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Except
for the historical facts contained herein, the foregoing release
contains forward-looking statements regarding the use, market,
compatibility and interoperability of operational data servers
and the ability for the TigerLogic XML Life Sciences Data Server
to perform certain functions, support certain standards and
to meet certain needs, including those of pharmaceutical and
healthcare providers. Actual results could differ materially
from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties,
including but not limited to the market acceptance of TigerLogic
XML Life Sciences Data Server and other products and updates,
the success of the Company’s research and development efforts
to develop new products, technical risks related to the Company’s
products and updates and other risks and uncertainties. Please
consult the various reports and documents filed by Raining Data
Corporation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
including but not limited to the Company’s most recent reports
on Form 10-KSB and Form 10-QSB. All forward-looking statements
are made as of the date hereof and the Company disclaims any
responsibility to update or revise any forward-looking statement
provided in this release.
Raining
Data, Pick, D3, mvEnterprise, mvDesigner, mvBase,
Omnis and Omnis Studio are registered trademarks and TigerLogic
is a trademark of Raining Data Corporation. All other trademarks
and registered trademarks are properties of their respective
owners.
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