Ocuco Acquires EMRlogic Software
Ocuco strenghthens its presence in North America Ocuco has acquired Vancouver-based EMRlogic, provider of the ODPro Practice Management System (PMS) and activEHR certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) software systems. Ocuco is the global software company behind Innovations Lab Management System (LMS) and the Acuitas Practice Management System (PMS). "We're very excited to have acquired a great, U.S.-certified, EHR product," said Leo Mac Canna, CEO of Ocuco. "But we are also very happy to have found such a great software team, and an excellent customer base to complement our own. Since rolling out Acuitas in the U.S. to a Northern Californian group, last December, we have been seeking to establish a major support base in the U.S. Pacific time zone, and grow our team to better support the North American optical retail software market. We already have a strong presence in Canada with FYidoctors, and many Canadian independents have also chosen our Acuitas PMS software. " EMRlogic had been under protection from its creditors for some months. A settlement has been reached and the acquisition secures most of the jobs in the company and a future for the product. Ocuco will honor all software support contracts. EMRLogic's Electronic Health Record (EHR) software product (activEHR) will be enhanced under the new ownership for Stage II Meaningful Use requirements. ODPro will be discontinued and replaced by Acuitas, Ocuco's world class PMS. While development on ODPro will be frozen, critical bugs will be fixed. Support will be provided on ODPro until two years after a like-for-like replacement has been released to market. "We are delighted to provide a safe home with Ocuco for our customers and staff who have invested so much with us over the past few years" said John McCormick, owner of EMRLogic. Almost all of EMRLogic's staff will be retained to form the core of Ocuco's new North American retail software support team. The location has the advantage of being eight hours offset from Dublin, an advantage to a software company with the long-term goal of providing follow-the-sun support to a global customer base.
