MedSpeed Selects ORTEC to Help Manage Complex Routing Needs, Improve Customer Service Levels

Scalability and Configurability of ORTEC Routing and Scheduling Solution
Drives MedSpeed's Selection

May 10, 2011 - ATLANTA, GA - MedSpeed, an ISO-certified technology-enhanced healthcare transportation services provider, has selected ORTEC to maximize the efficiencies of its routing and scheduling processes. MedSpeed designs and executes centralized transportation outsourcing solutions for integrated healthcare delivery
networks and other health systems, independent clinical laboratories, institutional pharmacies and blood banks and helps its healthcare customers improve and standardize service, reduce costs and focus on core goals. Using ORTEC's Routing and Scheduling solution, MedSpeed intends to provide an even higher level of service to its healthcare customers through efficient management of its strategic, tactical, operational and real-time routing decisions.

MedSpeed focuses exclusively on healthcare, transporting patient- and business-critical materials such as laboratory specimens, pharmaceuticals, radiology films, medical records and supplies. Medical transportation requires meticulous monitoring and management of safety regulations, temperature and timing. MedSpeed turned to ORTEC because it needed an end-to-end routing solution with the flexibility and scalability to handle these complexities.

"After a detailed evaluation of various solutions, we determined that ORTEC's Routing and Scheduling was the best solution to meet our customers' healthcare transportation needs and the needs of MedSpeed," explains Jake Crampton, CEO, MedSpeed. "We strive to provide the highest level of service possible at the best value and consistently look for technology and business improvements that can help us achieve that goal. The ORTEC Routing and Scheduling solution will enable us to continue to provide the most cost-effective, technologically advanced solution ."

"We consider it a great privilege to work with MedSpeed, a company with a sharp focus on improving efficiencies and customer satisfaction levels through technological innovation," says Don Addington, ORTEC President of the Americas. "By configuring the Routing and Scheduling solution to address MedSpeed's unique business attributes, we will help them achieve both of those goals."

About ORTEC

ORTEC is a leading provider of strategic, tactical and operational route planning and scheduling, services planning, and pallet and load building software solutions. Our solutions and consulting services result in optimal route plans, real-time fleet scheduling and visibility, more efficiently built pallets and fuller truckloads. In addition, ORTEC solutions enable increased delivery forecasting accuracy and improved customer service. ORTEC provides best-of-breed, custom-made and ORTEC SAP-embedded and certified solutions, supported by global strategic partnerships. In the area of advanced planning solutions, ORTEC has over 1,350 customers worldwide, over 550 employees and offices in Europe, North America, Asia and the Pacific Region. For more information about ORTEC visit www.ortec.com/us.

About MedSpeed

MedSpeed is an ISO-certified, technology-enhanced healthcare transportation partner that supports health systems, such as integrated delivery networks, hospitals, accountable care organizations, blood banks and laboratories, at the highest levels. For more than ten years, MedSpeed has successfully applied a sophisticated analytical and process-oriented, operations-focused approach to healthcare transportation to improve margins by cutting costs and inefficiencies and improving care delivery. Governed under the principles of Lean Six Sigma, MedSpeed consistently delivers operational quality, economic value and strategic advantage to its customers.

ORTEC Contact:
Shaunna Morgan
ORTEC
404-736-9827
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