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ProModel Launches Healthcare VAO Solutions to Serve Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations Seeking to Improve Patient Care and Productivity
June 18, 2003 –– Bethlehem, PA –– ProModel Solutions, a business process optimization and decision support company, today announced the launch of ProModel VAO Healthcare Solutions and named Patrick C. Simonson, CHE, as Vice President and General Manager to lead Healthcare Solutions.
ProModel VAO Healthcare Solutions are designed to help hospitals improve productivity through an innovative combination of ProModel simulation applications, technologies and services enabling hospitals, for the first time, to identify and solve their most immediate operational problems in a timely and cost effective manner. Utilizing ProModel’s simulation technology that has helped drive productivity for nearly half the Fortune 100, VAO (Visualize, Analyze, Optimize) Technology empowers hospitals to visualize their current care environment in action; analyze potential care process and procedure changes to determine the impact before committing resources; and optimize decision-making capabilities and performance levels.
“Our VAO Healthcare Solution is focused on improving the health of hospitals by enabling them to visualize, analyze, and optimize their processes and procedures,” said John E. Dieser, President and CEO of ProModel Solutions. “We are very pleased and fortunate to have someone of Patrick’s caliber to lead our healthcare solutions team.”
Simonson brings a wealth of hospital and healthcare leadership experience to ProModel. He is a Certified Healthcare Executive (CHE) with 23 years of experience in senior management positions in healthcare business development, physician & consulting practices, corporate roles and hospitals. Prior to joining ProModel, Simonson was an executive at Community Health Systems, Inc. and over the last 20 years has served in an executive capacity for multiple healthcare, technology and hospital organizations.
“We have an outstanding combination of healthcare and technology professionals on our team who understand the intricacies of predictive analysis, data-collection, simulation and operating issues in
healthcare and hospital environments,” said Simonson. “I am very excited to join this team and apply what ProModel has successfully done with many of the world’s most admired businesses to hospitals and healthcare organizations.”
ProModel has already seen success with its VAO Solutions in the pharmaceutical arena. In April, ProModel announced that it had signed a strategic collaboration agreement with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). Pfizer acquired a 14% equity stake in the Company and gained access to ProModel’s technology as well as a number of enterprise licenses.
About ProModel Healthcare Solutions
ProModel Healthcare Solutions is a performance optimization and decision support organization serving hospitals and healthcare organizations seeking to improve the effectiveness of patient care productivity. ProModel Healthcare Solutions provides its VAO methodology, simulation technology and industry expertise to clients, enabling them to visualize, analyze, and optimize procedures, patient flow, resource and space allocation, and processes under present and future conditions, in order to predict performance and zero-in on robust, effective change.
About ProModel Solutions
ProModel delivers professional services and innovative technology solutions
that help companies maximize throughput, decrease cycle time, increase productivity,
and manage costs. ProModel has worked with 43 of the top Fortune 100,
including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Ford, UPS, and General Motors. ProModel
has also worked with many of the nation's most progressive hospitals, some
of which include Baylor Health System, Intermountain Health Care, select HCA Hospitals, The Mayo Clinic, and Miami Valley Hospital.
ProModel Solutions is headquartered in Bethlehem, PA and has an additional office in Orem, UT. For more information please
visit www.ProModel.com.