Recent News: LSS Data Systems Celebrates 25 Years of Successful Business

July 29, 2007 -- LSS Data Systems marked its 25th year as a business with a celebration for families, friends and business partners on the grounds of its Minnetonka facility. The celebration featured rides and treats for the children, a catered lunch and formal presentations marking the important milestone. The mayors of Minnetonka and Eden Prairie (the cities that are home to LSS’s two buildings) were present, along with honored guests from the company’s primary business partners (MEDITECH and MEDITECH South Africa), several physician advisors, and number of long-time friends and business associates.

LSS CEO and Chief Technology Officer Ken Carlson provided a retrospective look at LSS, taking the audience back 25 years before the company’s founding, to 1957, before the integrated circuit was developed when only a dozen or so electronic computers existed. Jumping forward to 1982, the year both LSS and MEDITECH South Africa were founded, there were already over one million personal computers and the FCC had just authorized cell phone technology in the U.S. Bringing us up to the present, he observed that there are roughly a billion personal computers in the world (one for every seven people) and 120 million cell phones; we’ve decoded the human genome; and we can manipulate matter at the atomic level.

MEDITECH President and Chief Operating Officer Howard Messing observed that any company that makes it to its 25th anniversary has achieved something impressive, but it’s even more remarkable for a husband-and-wife team to found and run a company so successfully. He also commented upon the strength of the partnership LSS and MEDITECH have, and the benefits both companies derive from it. “It’s not only LSS that has benefited from our partnership,” Mr. Messing observed. “MEDITECH has, too, from LSS’s involvement with physicians in the clinic and practice environment.” Mr. Messing presented a gift from MEDITECH — a beautiful Lakeside metal bench with a grass and leaf cut pattern, evocative of the company’s founding near Lake Superior.

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