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“MicroMD is a proven, full-function practice management system that we confidently recommend to our members,” said Brent A. Evans, executive vice president and general manager, Oncology Associates. “Microsys has earned a solid reputation for IT innovation and excellent customer service among the 1,800 physician group practices that have achieved improved efficiency and effectiveness with MicroMD.”

“Oncology Associates is noted for careful selection of its business partners,” said Ajit Kumar, Ph.D., president, Microsys Computing, Inc. “In partnership with OA and its clinical and sales professionals, we now have the opportunity to market MicroMD to the 800 private practice physicians in their group purchasing organization. The initial response to MicroMD at the recent meeting of their members in October was very encouraging.”

Blood & Cancer Center, Canfield, Ohio, is a hematology and oncology group practice, an OA purchasing group member, and a MicroMD customer. Their case study was presented at the purchasing group meeting.

“Even with the substantial pricing benefits of OA’s group purchasing, chemotherapy drugs and other pharmaceuticals we use in our practice are very expensive, so managing accounts receivable is essential. After replacing our old practice management system with MicroMD in 2003, we reduced our accounts receivable by a full 20 percent, achieving savings that more than paid for the system,” said Rita Lopez, R.N., practice administrator, Blood & Cancer Center. “In addition, MicroMD has enabled us to improve productivity to that extent that we successfully managed 35 percent growth in patient volume without adding any new administrative staff.”

About Oncology Associates

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Oncology Associates (OA), a division of RC Medical, is one of the nation’s largest specialty group purchasing and physician network services organizations and offers practice management services, consulting and exclusive product agreements with proprietary pricing benefits to more than 800 private practice physicians throughout the United States. The company’s team of experienced clinical and sales personnel has contracted with major pharmaceutical, medical supply and healthcare IT manufacturers – including Amgen, Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Microsys Computing, Inc., and Roche – to offer a diverse portfolio of industry-leading products to members of OA’s group purchasing organization. For more information, call 888-732-7352 or visit www.oagpo.com.

About Microsys Computing, Inc.

Physicians and their practice administrators must have a robust, reliable and affordable practice management system from a dependable partner they can trust. Who can they count on? Microsys Computing, Inc. Since 1982, Microsys has pursued one mission: perfecting practice management software. Its award-winning MicroMD system is a powerful, versatile and full-featured solution that streamlines and automates medical office operations. Developed with Sybase® SQL Anywhere®, and leveraging the networking power of Microsoft® Windows®, with its client-server design, MicroMD scales to support growing medical practices. And the MicroMD Xpres Suite brings the freedom, convenience and productivity of mobile computing to physicians and their patients. More than 1,800 physician practices, spanning 40 different medical and surgical specialties, rely on MicroMD. For more information, call 800-624-8832 or visit www.micromd.net.

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Microsys media contact:
David Aquilina
Strategic Storyteller
612.922.5551

Oncology Associates media contact:
Kelly Desatnik,
Director of Marketing
440.995.1510