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Philadelphia, Pa. July 22, 2003
Roche Diagnostics Launches Innovative Technical and Consultative
Solutions to Healthcare Providers
Roche Diagnostics of Indianapolis, Ind., the leader in providing
actionable healthcare information, announced today at the American
Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Clinical Lab Expo, the
development of Healthcare Solutions - a group of technology and
professional services created for the healthcare industry. Healthcare
Solutions from Roche Diagnostics provides innovative technical and
consultative solutions to the complex problems faced by today's
healthcare providers and consumers.
Healthcare Solutions from Roche Diagnostics offers the broad set
of Value Improvement ProgramSM services to hospitals,
laboratories and physicians that provide actionable solutions to
the challenges of cost management, business growth, information
technology and large scale program management.
"Roche recognizes and understands the challenges facing today's
healthcare providers," said Dick Aderman, Senior Vice President
and General Manager, Roche Centralized and Molecular Diagnostics.
"The creation of Healthcare Solutions from Roche Diagnostics
allows us to help organizations overcome these challenges and maximize
opportunities to provide 'actionable healthcare information' to
their providers and patients in the most cost effective, profitable
manner."
To differentiate its Cost Management Value Improvement Program,
Healthcare Solutions has formed an exclusive alliance with TISMO®,
Inc., a leading provider of Activity Based Costing (ABC) solutions
to the healthcare industry. Through this agreement, Roche's Healthcare
Solutions personnel will have exclusive use of the CostXplorer®
Activity Based Costing tool to help customers improve efficiencies
and productivity throughout their organization.
"We are excited about the relationship with Healthcare Solutions
from Roche Diagnostics. Their consulting professionals truly understand
the value of Activity Based Costing and have proven experience in
delivering cost-management solutions to the healthcare industry,"
said Jackie McDowell, Director of Business Development, TISMO®.
Other cost management solutions, in addition to Activity Based
Costing, will focus on areas such as optimal facility configuration
and design, performance metric targeting, and Six Sigma principles
for leadership and education.
Business Growth Value Improvement Programs focus on expanding business
opportunities through strategic planning, outreach marketing and
CareEvolve™- a laboratory-to-physician web portal.
Information Technology Value Improvement Programs focus on assessing,
selecting, integrating, and connecting information technology solutions
across the hospital, laboratory, and physician settings. Add to
those the availability of robust and large-scale project management
support from certified project management professionals, and Healthcare
Solutions has an unprecedented suite of technology and professional
services to help customers improve and grow their business.
"By leveraging our existing expertise in diagnostics, recruiting
top consulting talent from the healthcare industry, and forming
strategic relationships with TISMO®, CareEvolve™
and others, we have created a powerful, innovative set of solutions
for our customers. This new approach provides diagnostic laboratories
with a better alternative to large-scale consulting firms, niche
healthcare consulting organizations and independent industry consultants,
" said Raymond Young, Vice President, Services, Roche Centralized
Diagnostics.
About TISMO®
Formed in 1998 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, TISMO®
is an independent, global cost and performance management
company specializing in the design, education, and implementation
of Activity Based Costing (ABC) solutions, a core component of Activity
Based Management (ABM). TISMO®, through the use of
their proprietary ABC tool, CostXplorer, delivers cost and productivity
solutions to healthcare providers to accurately quantify and control
costs, improve operations, and gain a competitive advantage in their
market. For further information please visit the TISMO®
website at www.tismo.com.
About Healthcare Solutions and Roche Centralized Diagnostics
Healthcare Solutions is a part of Roche Centralized Diagnostics,
a business area of Roche Diagnostics. Roche Centralized Diagnostics
is a leading force in developing and supplying new technologies
and integrated solutions that help clinical laboratories to operate
efficiently and cost effectively. For more information about Healthcare
Solutions, please visit http://us.labsystems.roche.com/services/solutions
or call 1-800-845-2612.
About Roche and the Roche Diagnostics Division
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world's
leading innovation-driven healthcare groups. Its core businesses
are pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is number one in the
global diagnostics market, the leading supplier of pharmaceuticals
for cancer and a leader in virology and transplantation. As a supplier
of products and services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment
of disease, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to
improving people's health and quality of life. Roche employs roughly
62,000 people in 150 countries. The Group has alliances and research
and development agreements with numerous partners, including majority
ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai. Roche's Diagnostics
Division, the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics with a uniquely
broad product portfolio, supplies a wide array of innovative testing
products and services to researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals
and laboratories world-wide. For further information, please visit
our websites www.roche.com and
www.roche-diagnostics.com.
VALUE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS is a trademark of a Member of the Roche
Group. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
TISMO is a trademark of TISMO, IN.
CareEvolve is a trademark of Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc.
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