CitiusTech Achieves Unique Distinction – Largest Number of HL7 Certified Professionals

Feb. 21, 2008 - PRLog -- Sarasota, FL — CitiusTech, a leading global provider of healthcare technology services, announced today that it has conducted one of the largest HL7 certification programs to date in January 2008. The HL7 certification program was conducted by the HL7 Organization – the leading ANSI-accredited healthcare Standards Developing Organization (SDO). As part of the certification, 26 CitiusTech technology professionals received the coveted HL7 Control Specialist certification. With the addition of these certified professionals, CitiusTech now has the highest numbers of HL7 certified professionals in the Healthcare IT services industry.

“Enhancing the healthcare domain expertise of our technology team through training and certification in standards such as HL7, DICOM and X.12 is a core part of our strategy of building standards-based products and solutions for our leading healthcare technology clients,” said Bimal R. Naik, SVP Projects, CitiusTech.

“HL7 Standard versions 2.X and 3.0 are playing a key role in clinical information integration. Strong competency in HL7 enables CitiusTech to offer robust and scalable healthcare technology solutions,” said Michael Henderson, past co-chair of the Control/Query Technical Committee of HL7 and founding member of the HL7 Query Task Force, who has assisted CitiusTech in its certification roadmap. “I think that initiatives such as these are very useful to any company in the HIT space to significantly increase the capabilities and skills of their engineers”

More information on CitiusTech and its HL7 capabilities is available on the CitiusTech website - www.citiustech.com/interoperability, by email (sales@citiustech.com) or by phone +1 (877) CITIUS 1.

About CitiusTech
CitiusTech (www.citiustech.com) is a specialist provider of technology and business services to healthcare technology companies, healthcare services companies, providers and payers. We offer a range of product engineering and technology services - from solution design and development to testing, integration, and technical support. CitiusTech brings strong healthcare domain expertise across technologies, applications and standards. Our ability to provide this expertise, together with our world-class service quality and our global resource base, enables us to offer a distinctive value proposition to our global healthcare clients.


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For more information:
Amar Badlani
Manager Business Development
amarb@citiustech.com
Tel: +1 877 CITIUS 1
Off: +1 781 452 0709

Website: www.citiustech.com