Press
OZ Systems' Director of Business Development is Raising PKU awareness.
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - Biotechnology Industry Organization, On the Road - www.bioontheroad.org
Following Wednesday’s Keynote Luncheon, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California met with John Adams Jr., a Phenylketonuria (PKU) patient who was diagnosed with the disease as a newborn.
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OZ Systems featured on Genetic Alliance website
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Genetic Alliance
Meet Your Neighbors
The founders of OZ Systems saw a healthcare information management system that needed help, so in 1996 they started OZ to respond. They address this need one child at a time to ensure appropriate and timely follow-up care for patients.
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Newborn Hearing Screening Programme secures Northgate partnership until 2010
Thursday, March 20, 2008 by The British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management.
eSP has been acknowledged as one of the most successful clinical systems in the NHS and is used across England, handling approximately 600,000 babies per year.
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England Celebrates Two Million Newborn Hearing Screens
OZ Systems provides eScreenerPlus™
the information management system for England’s NHS programme
BBC News Reports:
'A Hearing Aid Transformed Joe's Life'
Thursday, September 13, 2007 Story by Jane Elliott / BBC News, health reporter.
Looking at seven-year-old Joe Duffill now it is hard to believe that he was once a very quiet and solitary little boy.
Today he is outgoing and confident and his parents put the dramatic personality change down to his hearing aids, which he wears each day. Joe was born with a severe, but undiagnosed hearing loss. About 840 babies, like Joe, are born each year in England with hearing loss in both ears and 500 with a loss in one ear.
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OZ Systems Provides eSchoolPlus™,
the School Readiness Certification Data System to the Project
Dallas Morning News Reports: State Creates Ratings for Early Childhood Centers
Texas first in nation to assess how well pre-kindergarten programs teach kids
Friday, August 24, 2007 by STACI HUPP / The Dallas Morning News.
Pam Flentroy teaches Adalia Loredo, 3, how to use scissors at the Bock ChildCare Group Center in Dallas, one of 19 area centers
to get state certification. Texas has become the first state to rate preschools, day-care centers and Head Start programs on how well
they prepare children for kindergarten.
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Alaska’s Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program Partners
with
OZ Systems: First in Nation to Successfully Integrate Screening Programs
2006, Anchorage, Alaska – The State of Alaska contracted with OZ Systems to provide an integrated Child Health Screening Record information system for their newborn metabolic screening (NBMS) and Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs.
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OZ Systems Steps Up Engagement with Newborn Screening
June, 2007 – Dallas, Texas – Every year, the health and well-being of more than one million babies born on three continents is protected by the information management systems and tracking applications developed by OZ Systems of Dallas, Texas and Geneva, Switzerland.
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OZ Systems' New Business Director of Newborn Screening
March 2007 - OZ Systems' new business director of Newborn Screening, John Adams at the recent American College of Medical Genetics
meeting in Nashville. John, a PKU dad and volunteer Treasurer of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, participated
with other consumer advocates.
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OZ Systems Partners with Innovative Pre-K Initiative
April 27, 2006 – Houston, Texas – OZ Systems was selected by the State Center for Early Childhood Development (State Center) to provide a web-based information system to support data collection and the implementation of a School Readiness Certification System in Texas Early Education Model (TEEM) project classrooms across the state.
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Texas Outsources EHDI Operations to OZ Systems
September 2005 – Austin, Texas – The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) extended its long-standing contract with OZ Systems to continue running the daily operations of its Texas Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (TEHDI) program.
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Iowa Department of Public Health Renews Contract with OZ Systems
October, 2005 – Des Moines, IA – The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) renewed its existing contract with OZ Systems today. Under a state law enacted in 2004, the IDPH launched a statewide Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program to dramatically improve the long-term cognitive and social outcomes for babies born with hearing loss. The law requires birthing facilities to screen newborns for hearing loss prior to hospital discharge.
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Texas Part C Agency Contracts with OZ Systems
August 2005 -
Austin, Texas – OZ Systems is partnering with IDEA Part C programs in Texas to implement a three-year statewide HRSA-funded project. The project’s goal is to ensure all infants with identified hearing loss receive appropriate intervention services by six months of age.
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OZ Systems Demos Public Health EDI at HIMSS Conference
February 13, 2005 – Dallas, Texas – OZ Systems demonstrated a prototypic 21st Century Health Care System for interoperability across clinical and public health systems at the 2005 Annual HIMSS Conference.
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OZ Systems CEO and VP Appointed to HL7 Special Interest Groups
2004 ANN ARBOR, Mich.- OZ Systems CEO Ken Pool and VP Terese Finitzo were appointed to key Health Level 7 (HL7) Special Interest Groups (SIG) for Public Health and for Pediatrics Data Standards.
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Electronic Linkage Established
between eSP™ and England’s Electronic Birth Registration
October 28, 2002 – Nottingham, England - The National Health Service (NHS) in England selected OZ Systems to implement the largest newborn hearing screening program in the world following a year long pilot project to refine the program’s business requirements.
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