TORONTO, ON and CHICAGO, IL, May, 2008 – Medworxx, the makers of a strategic software platform that hospitals use to communicate, aggregate, and analyze knowledge, announced their strategic partnership with Simulation Education Services, Inc. (SES), a leading provider of emergency preparedness training, exercise, and assessment solutions for public and private organizations.

The best business practices from SES, driven by Joseph L. Cappiello, President and CEO, who previously served over 10 years as the Vice President for Accreditation Field Operations at The Joint Commission, combined with the Medworxx Emergency Readiness System (ERS) will ensure a successful Emergency Management program for hospitals. There is an enormous amount of information, data exchange, cooperation and coordination that is required between hospital departments and facilities, the assembly of a dedicated team required to bring these elements together, and the building of strategic and tactical relationships with the community. The Medworxx/SES partnership brings those elements together in a practical and robust platform.

“Medworxx delivers a technology for ERS that is built on a proven, deployed architecture”, said Dan Matlow, President & CEO, Medworxx. “Our goal was to combine our technology with strong domain expertise. SES provides the best-in-class domain expertise to complement our best-in-class technology; the beneficiaries of this relationship will be our combined family of customers.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Medworxx and SES will work together on the creation, operation and maintenance of an emergency readiness advisory council. Council members will include healthcare veterans that can provide strategic guidance for both companies and play a role in the commercialization of new emergency management tools for the healthcare industry, while furthering the market adoption of each company’s existing products and services. The advisory council will be led by Joseph L. Cappiello, the President and CEO of SES.

As the nation's premier healthcare accrediting body, The Joint Commission has mandated that a hospital must conduct, at a minimum, one annual community wide exercise and one patient movement exercise every year. SES' proprietary exercise model puts a hospital’s preparedness and response network to the test and ensures that it not only meets but exceeds such de facto emergency management standards.

“Our relationship with SES empowers hospitals to leap over the emergency management standards compliance hurdle because they are now not only energized with the right technological tools but the process that optimizes that toolset. An exercise is only as good as the deficits it reveals. The occurrence of a natural or man-made disaster is not the time to discover that your hospital is poorly prepared”, said Sina S. Amiri, Manager of Business Development at Medworxx.

“This relationship fits perfectly into our commonly shared goal of assisting healthcare organizations to improve resiliency in the face of disasters. Disasters take many forms but an aligned, robust and scalable strategy is the best defense an organization has to face any situation that may confront it. This union provides organizations with a complete strategies and solutions set to prepare for such situations”, said Joseph L. Cappiello, President & CEO of SES.

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