COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Collexis Holdings, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and
knowledge discovery software, announced today that the Asklepios Group, which
operates hospitals and highly specialized rehabilitation clinics in Europe and
the United States, has incorporated the voice and video communication
functionalities of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, providing
information about the availability of experts and direct voice and video
communication possibilities.
"Utilizing SharePoint and new technologies from the unified communications
stack, we've worked with Collexis to connect Asklepios caregivers to existing
expertise and knowledge within their network -- meaning that patients reap the
benefits of faster access to the best of what the healthcare institutions have
to offer," said Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Worldwide Health, Microsoft.
"Increased communication between physician and patient as well as between
healthcare providers is an important factor in enhancing the satisfaction of
patients and staff while still helping improve treatment quality at affordable
prices."
Collexis' proprietary "Fingerprinting" technology analyzed scientific and
medical texts to develop Expert Profiles of Asklepios' physicians and
researchers. The result is a detailed "Knowledge Map" of the Group's shared
expertise. Working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Asklepios
providers can instantly search a central knowledge and skills management
system in order to better diagnose and treat patients. Within seconds,
providers can then draw on the experience of a colleague in another Asklepios
clinic for advice on a disease, diagnosis or therapy.
The Collexis expert profiling solution in combination with the unified
communication functionalities from Microsoft redefine the concept of medical
cooperation, but also provides concrete benefits for patients, in the form of
shorter waiting times and routes on the way to diagnosis and improved
treatment success.
"Using these new technologies from Collexis and Microsoft, Asklepios is
breaking new ground with this innovative form of medical knowledge management,
and we also aim to underline our market-leading role as Europe's largest
private clinic operator," explains Dr. Tobias Kaltenbach, Chief Executive
Officer of Asklepios Kliniken.
With more than 32,000 employees in more than 100 facilities in Europe and
the United States, Asklepios needed a way to make professional information,
past experience with patients, disease patterns and treatment methods quickly
available to doctors across the organization. The project was undertaken
within the framework of the Asklepios Future Hospital, a program which aims to
set new standards of quality and efficiency in the Healthcare service and to
implement consistency throughout all processes. Microsoft Corp. and SyynX
Solutions, a Collexis subsidiary, belong to the more than 20 companies that
work with Asklepios in this program.
"We are pleased to see Asklepios, Collexis' initial healthcare customer,
expand its engagement with the addition of Microsoft Office Communications
Server 2007. Together with the Collexis Expert Profiling system, internal
knowledge that is invariably bound up with individuals will be made available
to the entire community in the most advanced manner that will benefit the
patients and the physicians," explains Christian Herzog, General Manager of
Life Sciences for Collexis Holdings, Inc.
The Asklepios Group of Hamburg, Germany -- a Collexis HealthCare customer
since 2005 -- began its engagement with the implementation of the Expert
Profiling system to develop and maintain a central knowledge and skills
management system to enhance collaboration among its clinics and providers.
The solution was implemented by Collexis' German subsidiary SyynX Solutions.
In addition to Asklepios, Collexis is bringing its innovative technology
to other healthcare providers, research organizations and universities
world-wide, including the National Institutes of Health, Mayo Clinic
Libraries; Johns Hopkins University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the
University of California, San Francisco; the University of South Carolina;
Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the World Health Organization.
About Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic search and
knowledge discovery software is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina
(USA) with major operations in Cincinnati, Ohio, Geldermalsen, the Netherlands
and Cologne, Germany. Collexis now offers the world's first pre-populated
scientific social network for life science researchers, www.biomedexperts.com.
Collexis' proprietary technology builds conceptual profiles of text, called
"Fingerprints," from documents, Websites, emails and other digitized content
and matches them with a comprehensive list of pre-defined "Fingerprinted"
concepts to make research results more relevant and efficient. This matching
of concepts eliminates the ambiguity and lack of priority associated with word
searches. The results are often described as "finding needles in many
haystacks." Through this novel approach, Collexis can build unique
applications to search, index and aggregate information as well as prioritize,
trend and predict data based on sources in multiple industries without the
limitations of language or dialect. Collexis' current clients in the public,
private and academic sectors include the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins
University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of California, San
Francisco; the University of South Carolina; Erasmus University Library;
Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the World Health Organization; Wellcome
Trust; the National Institutes of Health; and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Shares of Collexis common stock are traded under the symbol CLXS on the OTC
Bulletin Board (OTC BB). For more information, visit www.collexis.com.
About the Asklepios Future Hospital Program
The objective of the Asklepios Future Hospital (AFH) Program is to set new
standards of quality and efficiency in the healthcare service and to implement
consistency throughout all processes. The program focuses on people, companies
and technologies with the ambition to play an active role in shaping the
future of healthcare. More than 25 partners from industry and the healthcare
sector have so far joined the AFH program. In April 2008, the Asklepios
Future Hospital was assigned the award "Ort im Land der Ideen" (Landmarks in
the Land of Ideas) for its sustainability within the healthcare sector.
For more information, visit www.asklepios-future-hospital.com
Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements made in this press release may constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on
management's current expectations and include known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors, many of which the company is unable to
predict or control, that may cause the company's actual results or performance
to differ materially from any future results or performance expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements. These statements involve risks and
uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties associated with the company's
collaboration with Asklepios and Microsoft. These risks and uncertainties are
in addition to other factors detailed from time to time in the company's
filings with the SEC, including the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its
transition report on Form 10-KSB for the period ended June 30, 2008. The
company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements made by the
company are not necessarily indicative of future performance. The company is
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