LMS and Best Practices Medical Partners enter agreement for CALM Shoulder Screen risk management tool
August 21 2007 - 7:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
MONTREAL, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LMS Medical Systems
(AMEX:LMZ; TSX:LMZ), a healthcare technology company and developer
of the CALM(R) clinical information system and risk management
software for obstetrics, today announced that it has entered into
an agreement regarding the use of CALM Shoulder Screen(TM) with
Best Practices Medical Partners, LLC, (BPMP). The Lakeland OB/GYN
Group in Florida is the first group of obstetricians to be insured
by a BPMP affiliate and having achieved go live on CALM Shoulder
Screen. According to the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists' list of Red Alert states, Florida offers a
particularly difficult medical malpractice climate. In The Medical
Liability Monitor's 2005 rate review, premium costs of up to
$300,000 were reported for OB/GYNs in this state. Unaffordable
malpractice rates stress the system in a variety of ways and
contribute to the shortage of OB specialists, thereby increasing
risk for mothers and infants. Based out of Fort Lauderdale, FA,
BPMP provides superior clinical risk management services to
organizations at risk for medical liability, including a first
group of obstetricians in the state of Florida. BPMP, as its name
indicates, teams with physician offices who derive value by
implementing best practices and technologies to improve clinical
risk assessment while mitigating associated financial risks.
Shoulder dystocia represents one of the most important causes of
litigation and payouts in obstetrics. The condition occurs when the
baby's shoulder gets stuck behind the mother's pubic bone during
childbirth. Generally viewed in the medical community as
unpredictable and unpreventable, shoulder dystocia is one of the
most feared conditions that can occur during labor and delivery.
Potential injuries include brachial plexus impairment, brain damage
and sometimes death, with associated medical malpractice payouts
ranging from $500,000 to $2 million. "Incentivising the use of CALM
Shoulder Screen by our insured physicians is consistent with our
philosophy of encouraging insured physicians to adopt best
practices," said Richard Welch, President and CEO of Best Practices
Medical Partners. "This technology coupled with complementary
practice improvement strategies will enable us to be as successful
with our new obstetrical malpractice offering as we have been in
our traditional markets." "LMS' risk management tools provide a
proactive, preventive approach to addressing a major challenge in
obstetrics," said Dr. Peter Alvarez, managing partner of the
Lakeland Group. "In addition, its ease of implementation and use
has facilitated its integration into our provision of care on a
day-to-day basis." About Best Practices Medical Partners, LLC: Best
Practices Medical Partners, LLC (BPMP) provides superior clinical
risk management services to the organizations at risk for medical
liability. BPMP is committed to bringing quality and risk
management solutions to organizations that wish to actively address
medico-legal risk. About the Lakeland OB/GYN Group: Lakeland OB/GYN
is comprised of a group of Board Certified
Obstetrician/Gynecologists committed to providing full women's care
for the Lakeland, Florida area in a private, relaxed environment.
We are committed to providing full women's care services including
routineprenatal care and delivery, high risk prenatal care, family
planning, full gynecologic care and surgery, well women visits and
pap smears, infertility, the latest birth control methods,
menopause, and adolescent gynecologic care, amongst others. We also
provide Obstetrical Sonograms in our office with our new 4-D
Ultrasound. About LMS: LMS is a leader in the application of
advanced mathematical modeling and neural networks for medical use.
The LMS CALM Suite provides physicians, nursing staff, risk
managers and hospital administrators with clinical information
systems and risk management tools designed to improve outcomes and
patient care for mothers and their infants during childbirth.
Except for historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements.
Because these forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties, there are important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed implied by the
forward-looking statements including, but without limitation,
economic conditions in general and in the healthcare market, the
demand for and market for our products in domestic and
international markets, our current dependence on the CALM product
suite, the challenges associated with developing new products and
obtaining regulatory approvals if necessary, research and
development activities, the uncertainty of acceptance of our
products by the medical community, the lengthy sales cycle for our
products, third party reimbursement, competition in our markets,
including the potential introduction of competitive products by
others, our dependence on our distributors, physician training,
enforceability and the costs of enforcement of our patents,
potential infringements of our patents and the other factors set
forth from time to time in the Company's filings with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and with the Canadian
Securities Commissions. The Company has no intention of or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
DATASOURCE: LMS MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. CONTACT: about LMS Medical
Systems please contact: Andrea Miller, Communications, LMS Medical
Systems Inc., (514) 488-3461 Ext. 222, Fax: (514) 488-1880, ,
http://www.lmsmedical.com/; Jeff Walker/Grant Howard, The Howard
Group Inc., Toll Free: 1-888-221-0915, ,
http://www.howardgroupinc.com/
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