MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 22, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Auxilio, Inc. (OTCBB:AUXO), a leading provider of Document Services in Healthcare, announced today that it has entered into an agreement for the renewal of its Outsourced Document Services with California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) in San Francisco. CPMC has been a customer of Auxilio since 2005. The new agreement extends the relationship between the organizations for another five year period.
Under the terms of the extended agreement, Auxilio will continue to provide CPMC with their full complement of document services, tools and technologies. To further capitalize on Auxilio's track record of service excellence and increased productivity for CPMC employees, their team of trained experts and management staff will remain onsite as the outsourced Document Services Department at CPMC.
"We are pleased to extend our relationship with Auxilio for another five years," stated Craig Vercruysse, Chief Information Officer of CPMC. "Auxilio has significantly improved our document process, providing visibility as well as giving us the ability to make decisions and drive change in our document landscape across our health system. We look forward to their continued support of our joint initiatives to more cost effectively manage our document processes to ensure the maximum benefit for our community while at the same time take a leadership role in environmentally responsible document production," added Vercruysse.
"We are honored and thankful that CPMC made the decision to extend their agreement with Auxilio. We look forward to driving further improvement in their process and to providing more value to employees in the hospital campuses, enabling them to focus on the high quality of care they provide," stated Etienne Weidemann, President and CEO of Auxilio. "We are also proud to be collaborating and providing resources and tools to support CPMC with their 'Green' document services initiative," added Weidemann.
About California Pacific Medical Center
California Pacific Medical Center is one of the largest private, not-for-profit, academic medical centers in Northern California and is a Sutter Health affiliate. We are a tertiary referral center providing access to leading edge medicine while delivering the best possible personalized care. We provide a wide variety of services, including acute, post-acute and outpatient hospital care; home care and hospice services; preventive and complementary care and health education. Through our medical education program and our Research Institute, physicians at California Pacific are able to bring health care innovation to the bedside.
The Medical Center enjoys a rich history of caring for the people of San Francisco since it is comprised of the three oldest hospitals in the city. At every stage of life, California Pacific is here to provide a continuum of care for our community and to set the standard for "What a Medical Center Needs to Be." Our mission is to serve our community by providing high quality, cost-effective health care service in a compassionate and respectful environment, which is supported and stimulated by education and research.
About Auxilio
Auxilio provides healthcare document services including situational analysis, strategy development and implementation. The company helps health systems streamline and align processes and infrastructure to create manageable, dependable document management programs that reduce cost and increase productivity. Auxilio's Image Management programs guarantee our clients immediate measurable savings, a fully outsourced process, and unparalleled service. Auxilio's target market includes medium to large hospitals and health care systems. Customers served by Auxilio include health systems such as Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Scottsdale Healthcare, St. Joseph Health System, MemorialCare and Huntington Hospital.
For more information, see the company's website at http://www.auxilioinc.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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