FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Contact: Bill York
Phone: (703) 352-9482
Date: September 9, 2003

 

PSI INTERNATIONAL, INC. AWARDED

CDC CONTRACT

 

FAIRFAX, VA --- PSI International, Inc. (PSI) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to code their adverse drug event cases (ADEC) generated under their National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).  Under this contract, PSI will electronically receive ADECs from CDC, medically code them using the International Conference on Harmonization-approved Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA), validate suspect drugs, perform quality assurance, and electronically return the coded records to the CDC. PSI has processed over one million adverse event reports and coded over twelve million terms in MedDRA for the FDA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the pharmaceutical industry.

 

"This is the maiden opportunity for PSI to work directly with the CDC, thus providing us an entrée into an agency that is strategic to PSI’s Health Science niche business," stated Nazim Dhanani, PSI’s President.  "We are delighted to provide MedDRA services to yet one more organization within the HHS whose vital mission is to prevent and eradicate diseases around the globe. Our efforts to focus PSI’s energies on applying information technology services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries are yielding substantial benefits to our customers and PSI.”

 

According to Bill York, PSI’s Director of Business Development, “The ADEC contract is evidence of PSI’s unmatched credentials in providing medical coding services and solutions to our Government and commercial clients.”  He stated, “It is a great honor for PSI to participate in the NEISS program.  It will improve patient safety by providing a mechanism for receiving, storing, and processing information from the active surveillance of adverse events experienced in the emergency rooms across US.”

 

PSI International, Inc. Background Information

PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. is a Fairfax, Virginia-based company that has provided innovative information technology solutions for over 20 years to government and private sectors focusing on scientific, pharmaceutical, biotech and regulatory industries around the world.  The company specializes in integrating information technology services with subject matter expertise in health and social sciences.  For more information on PSI’s ADE and MedDRA services, please visit www.MedDRAHelp.com.