Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced that Carego
International has successfully launched new software built with the Progress®
Pacific™ platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to help remote health clinics
improve quality of care in developing regions around the world.
Carego International improves the health status of underserved
populations by advancing healthcare delivery through both innovative
modular facilities and cloud-based IT solutions. While working to bring
turnkey clinics and hospitals to countries like Kenya in the mid 2000’s,
CEO Steve Landman found that existing medical software used by hospitals
wasn’t compatible with local needs, largely due to complexity and an
inability to tolerate frequent Internet service outages common in
developing regions.
After an initial effort using Salesforce.com failed to meet requirements
and translation needs, Carego turned to the Progress
Pacific application development platform. Using the visual
development and cloud capabilities of the Progress Pacific solution, the
company built Carego Complete, an integrated, cloud-based electronic
health records (EHR) Practice Management application that automates
clinical, hospital and business processes for small clinics to large
hospitals. The low-cost, easy-to-deploy and manage solution reduces
redundancy and errors, while improving productivity and quality of
patient care. It also enables the organization’s ability to capture
massive amounts of valuable data that would otherwise go undocumented.
Carego Complete helps medical organizations streamline operations with
its intuitive and user-friendly features, which include patient
scheduling, charting and history, electronic prescriptions, referral lab
tests, billing and more. Because Carego customers operate in developing
areas around the world, it is critical that the Progress solution
enables Carego Complete to function anywhere, and with minimal
management complexity. Carego is currently using Progress Pacific
software to add mobile functionality in future releases of the
application for its existing clientele worldwide.
Executive Quotes:
Steve Landman, CEO at Carego International, said, “By providing
administrative and clinical staff with complete and immediate access to
patient health information, our clients can expedite, personalize and
improve the quality of care for underserved people around the world.
Adoption has been a success everywhere it has been implemented because
the Progress Pacific platform has helped us make and deploy a solution
that is intuitive and easy to explain.”
John Goodson, chief product officer at Progress, said, “This is a great
example of how the cloud and rapid application development technology
can produce real-world benefits for millions of people in an impactful
way. The SaaS model that Carego has adopted with the Progress Pacific
platform is very compelling on a number of fronts, and from a business
perspective it has helped them go to market 50 percent faster than they
would have been able to with another platform.”
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About Carego International
Carego is a technology driven, social impact organization focused on
bringing affordable and effective quality care to those that need it the
most. We are committed to transforming healthcare delivery in emerging
markets through cloud-based open source products, self-contained
facilities and expert consulting services. We believe in empowering
healthcare providers with the tools needed to move healthcare forward –
to a truly electronic, interoperable and efficient healthcare system. By
improving health systems, we help our customers deliver quality care and
improve the health of the populations they are serving. For more
information, visit http://caregointl.com/.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company
that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business
applications on-premise or in the cloud, on any platform or device, to
any data source, with enhanced performance, minimal IT complexity and
low total cost of ownership. Progress Software can be reached at www.progress.com
or 1-781-280-4000.
Progress, Pacific, and Rollbase are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or
affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Any other names contained
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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statements, including, without limitation: (1) Progress’ ability to
release its product development initiatives in a timely manner; (2)
market acceptance of Progress’s product development initiatives; (3)
pricing pressures and the competitive environment in the software
industry and Platform-as-a-Service market; (4) Progress’s ability to
make technology acquisitions and to realize the expected benefits and
anticipated synergies from such acquisitions; (5) economic conditions in
the U.S. and international economies; (6) business and consumer use of
the Internet and the continuing adoption of Cloud technologies; (7) the
receipt and shipment of new orders; (8) Progress’s ability to expand its
relationships with channel partners and to manage the interaction of
channel partners with its direct sales force; (9) the timely release of
enhancements to Progress’s products and customer acceptance of new
products; (10) the positioning of Progress’s products in its existing
and new markets; (11) variations in the demand for professional services
and technical support; (12) Progress’s ability to penetrate
international markets and manage its international operations; and (13)
changes in exchange rates. For further information regarding risks and
uncertainties associated with Progress’s business, please refer to
Progress’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
November 30, 2012 as amended, and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
fiscal quarters ended February 28, 2013 and May 31, 2013. Progress
undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which
speak only as of the date of this press release.
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