OSEHRA Announces Spin Systems As Newest Corporate Member ... Partnership Enables Community To Leverage World Class Expertise

Arlington, Virginia and Sterling, Virginia – OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software, and Spin Systems, Inc., a leader in using analytics to convert complex “Big Data” sets into actionable information, announced today the addition of Spin Systems to the OSEHRA Corporate Forum.

“The use of emerging technology for healthcare data analytics is a pressing challenge that will require many new software tools, skill sets and organizational processes,” said Dr. Seong Ki Mun, OSEHRA Chief Executive Officer and President. "We are excited to be partnering with Spin Systems, Inc. which is a leader in developing these new approaches to advance our objectives in accelerating innovation in open source health information technology.”

Spin Systems provides an array of innovative products, technical services and solutions for Government clients. For the Military Health System, Spin Systems has been instrumental in developing multi-functional healthcare informatics tools. These include large scale data collection, warehousing, aggregation and transmission systems using the Spin Data Aggregation and Collection Application (SDACA).

“At Spin Systems, we pride ourselves on our products. We create powerful and highly flexible tools for rapid development and integration into enterprise architecture and common presentation platform environments.” said, Chief Executive Officer, Wael Ali. “As a member of OSEHRA, we feel the multi-faceted healthcare tools we provide, along with OSEHRA’s dedication to accelerating innovation in electronic healthcare software, makes us a natural and formidable fit. Spin Systems looks forward to working with OSEHRA and contributing to the innovation they continue to provide in electronic healthcare software.”
OSEHRA’s mission is to facilitate, through the use of the best practices in open source software development, the improvement and maintenance of EHR information systems. OSEHRA simply and powerfully establishes an organized framework for users, developers, service providers, researchers, universities and for-profit companies to communicate, collaborate, and share. The codebase improvements developed within the collaborative platform are available thru a free Apache 2 license to the over 2,000 OSEHRA members in academia, industry and government.

The OSEHRA Corporate Forum includes InterSystems, Inc., DSS (Document Storage Systems), Inc., Medsphere Systems Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, AEGIS.net, Inc., The MITRE Corporation, AssureRx Health, Inc., Oroville Hospital, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Spin Systems, Inc.

The OSEHRA open source ecosystem is a transparent, rapid and safe way to accelerate progress in creating an ever improving, and highly functional EHR for the beneficiaries of VA healthcare, and more broadly, the nation as a whole.

About OSEHRA

OSEHRA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software and related technology. Founded in 2011, the organization supports an open, collaborative community of users, developers, and researchers engaged in advancing electronic health record software and related health information technology. OSEHRA hosts software repositories for applications such as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA electronic health record.

About Spin Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1998, Spin Systems is a certified 8(a) small business, with offices in Fairfax, Va., Kansas, Texas and Louisiana with its corporate headquarters _located in Sterling, VA. Spin Systems provides premier products, services and solutions for Federal, Civilian and Commercial clients. Their clients include Nissan North America, Twentieth Century Fox, Charles Schwab, the Department of Justice, and the United States Air Force, to name a few.

For more information: http://www.spinsys.com

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Contact:

Seong K. Mun, PhD

President and CEO

571-858-3205

[email protected]