R.F. Nozick and Associates and Vedant Incorporated Form Strategic Healthcare Services Partnership

PHOENIX, AZ -- (Marketwire) -- 05/21/09 -- R.F. Nozick and Associates, the leader in clinical laboratory compliance validation, has integrated its proven and industry leading Operational Qualification (OQ) validation process into Vedant's TestStream® automated testing solution to produce a new, highly efficient, quality-assurance methodology for Blood Bank and Donor applications. Leveraging an in-depth understanding of specifications and requirements mandated by the FDA, AABB, ISBT and other regulatory organizations, the R.F. Nozick team now offers a uniquely integrated automated validation solution that assures a complete state of application safety and control while simultaneously reducing system maintenance costs. With TestStream, R.F. Nozick validation test routines can be executed at any time the client chooses, providing repeatable and consistent validation compliance without adding any additional labor cost.

Vedant Incorporated has over two decades of experience delivering automated quality-governance solutions to healthcare-provider customers worldwide. TestStream was developed to specifically meet the individual quality-governance requirements of both individual and interfaced healthcare system applications for all major vendors. The testing efficiency coming from such an application-specific design brings orders-of-magnitude increases in test coverage, with far less labor than required with traditional manual- or tool-based approaches. TestStream allows clients to test and validate new patches and service releases delivered by software vendors in far less time than any alternative, giving laboratory personnel critical continuous assurance of the quality and stability of their healthcare system regardless of modification scale or frequency.

The Vedant and Nozick partnership collectively brings laboratory system analysis expertise unparalleled in the industry. Our partnership's founding mission is to assure the highest possible levels of patient safety through delivery of exceptional clinical laboratory system compliance solutions. Releasing incorrect product in a Blood Bank can often have severe negative impact on patient welfare, as well as become a financial liability for hospitals. The unrivaled comprehensiveness that results through coupling Vedant's TestStream with the regulatory knowledge and expertise of R.F. Nozick brings clients the highest levels of laboratory patient safety and validation cost-efficiency.

About R.F. Nozick and Associates

R.F. Nozick and Associates was founded in 1995 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company is a leader in clinical laboratory solutions for the implementation and upgrade of Blood Bank software systems. The R.F. Nozick team carries almost 30 years of healthcare experience, with special expertise in clinical laboratories and information technology. R.F. Nozick maintains a high level of expertise with current regulatory requirements and instructs both laboratories and software vendors in how to comply with regulations mandated by the FDA, HCFA (HIPAA), CAP, JCACHO, AABB, ISBT, and other regulatory organizations. www.rfnozick.com

About Vedant Incorporated

Vedant Incorporated, founded in 1989, is a privately held, U.S.-based corporation headquartered in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Vedant's business focus is the continued innovation of unparalleled quality-governance solutions for today's heterogeneous IT environments, with a specific emphasis on automated quality-lifecycle management of acute healthcare systems. Vedant provides its customers thorough, exceedingly reliable, and easy-to-use testing solutions. These solutions provide superior levels of quality governance of business-critical applications, mitigate the risk of system changes, and contribute significant ROI to organizations by reducing risk, maximizing IT investments, and optimizing testing methodologies and results to provide the highest levels of patient safety. www.vedanthealth.com