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PLANO, Texas, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ health Insurance Connector Authority (Health Connector) and Perot Systems Corporation today announced that the company will provide information technology and business process services to support the state’s innovative program to assist low-income Massachusetts residents in choosing the appropriate plan of coverage for each individual’s unique healthcare needs. The health Connector’s Commonwealth Care program has been deployed to ease the financial burden of health insurance costs and provide benefit coverage options to residents of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Perot Systems’ deep expertise in the healthcare industry combined with its ability to provide world-class technology will improve operational efficiencies and drive down the administrative costs of the program. By providing best-in-class service and technology support, Perot Systems will help the Commonwealth Care program to achieve the landmark goal of providing health care coverage for many of its uninsured residents. The timeframe for the agreement is for three years, and some of the responsibilities will be shared with both Vecna and the Public Consulting Group.
“We look forward to working with Perot Systems. Their significant call center and systems expertise will help us to enhance the program for our members. Our agreement with them will provide strong technological and business process support for the health Connector, as we pursue the goal of providing insurance coverage for the residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” stated Jon Kingsdale, executive director of the Massachusetts health Connector.
“Our goal is to help the health Connector achieve real health insurance reform. We understand that ultimately our clients are the people of Massachusetts, and that we are here to provide the health Connector with the world-class technology and business process solutions it needs to achieve its goal of providing insurance coverage for its residents,” stated Chuck Lyles, president of the Perot Systems Healthcare industry group.
About the Commonwealth of Massachusetts health Insurance Connector Authority
The Massachusetts health Connector is an independent state authority that helps residents find insurance coverage. Its Commonwealth Care program is for residents earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level who are not offered employer-sponsored insurance. There are currently more than 174,000 members.
About Perot Systems
Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information technology services and business solutions. Through its flexible and collaborative approach, Perot Systems integrates expertise from across the company to deliver custom solutions that enable clients to accelerate growth, streamline operations and create new levels of customer value. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Perot Systems reported 2007 revenue of $2.6 billion. The company has more than 23,000 associates located in North America, Europe, MENA and Asia. Additional information on Perot Systems is available at .
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FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CSC announced today that DynPort Vaccine Company LLC (DVC), a CSC company, has received a contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to establish and operate a Phase 1 clinical trial unit for infectious disease therapeutics.
The contract is valued at approximately $32.3 million over a seven-year period. DVC is teaming with Quintiles Transnational Corp. to complete this work.
Under the terms of the agreement, DVC and Quintiles will manage a Phase 1 clinical trial unit to assess the safety of investigational therapeutic products being studied by NIAID, and determine pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of up to four new investigational products per year. As the prime contractor, DVC will provide overall project management, clinical operations management, quality assurance and co-development of protocols. Quintiles will provide Phase 1 clinical research and support services for the implementation and conduct of approved Phase 1 clinical trial protocols.
Trials will include therapeutic candidates for a broad range of infectious diseases. Investigational products tested could include measures to protect against viral (other than HIV), bacterial, parasitic and fungal pathogens, including NIAID priority biodefense pathogens and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
“DVC and Quintiles have an established history of success — both individually and as partners — in clinical trial management of medical countermeasures,” said Dr. Robert V. House, president of DVC. “DVC has successfully advanced eight products into clinical trials in the last 10 years. This represents an expansion of DVC’s capabilities in pharmaceutical product development.”
“Quintiles is pleased to expand our existing government contracting relationship with DVC,” said Oren Cohen, M.D., senior vice president and managing director of Quintiles’ Public health and Government Services business. “Quintiles’ portion of the work on this contract will take place in our new, state-of-the-art, 150-bed Phase 1 clinical research unit in Overland Park, Kan. The facility was dedicated in May 2007 and provides an ideal setting to perform multiple, concurrent clinical trials.”
Work will be performed by DVC at its headquarters in Frederick, Md.

About Quintiles

Quintiles Transnational Corp. is powering the next generation of healthcare by providing a broad range of professional services in drug development, commercialization and strategic partnering for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. With more than 21,000 employees and offices in more than 50 countries, it is focused on providing customer-centric solutions that are the gold standard of the industry. For more information, please visit the company’s Web site at .
About DVC
DynPort Vaccine Company LLC (DVC) manages product development programs and provides consulting, technical and program management services to U.S. government agencies and companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. For more information, visit . DVC is part of CSC’s North American Public Sector business unit’s Government health Services Division. CSC’s expertise in providing health services to government agencies has grown over the last five decades to offer commercial best practices integrated to meet federal, state and local healthcare requirements. Services range from optimizing claims processing to operating disease surveillance systems to vaccine development and management. CSC’s ideas and solutions are improving the quality of healthcare with better information for better decisions to save lives and money.
About CSC
CSC is a leading information technology (IT) services company. CSC’s mission is to be a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services.
With approximately 90,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC’s own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC reported revenue of $16.5 billion for the 12 months ended March 28, 2008. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at .
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal (United States Government) funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID), under contract number HHSN272200800024C. Pursuant to section 507 of P.L. 104-208 and Section 508 of P.L. 105-78, 100% of the total of this project’s costs are financed with Federal funds. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the United States Department of health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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RESTON, Va., July 8 /PRNewswire/ — Brabeion Software, a leader in IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) Management, today announced that the health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has selected Brabeion as its IT GRC tool to aid in the development and coordination of the Common Security Framework (CSF). HITRUST will use key components of Brabeion’s acclaimed IT risk and compliance software and knowledgebase to assist in mapping the HITRUST CSF to regulations and industry control frameworks. Additionally, Brabeion will aid in providing assistance in format design of the CSF.
The HITRUST CSF is a comprehensive set of tools to aid organizations that create, store, access or exchange electronic health, financial, and other sensitive information in protecting their information assets and managing related risks, costs and complexities. The HITRUST CSF is comprised of three components — an Information Security Implementation Manual, a Standards and Regulations Cross-Reference Matrix, and a Readiness Assessment Toolkit.
“The magnitude, complexity and number of diverse organizations involved in developing the HITRUST Common Security Framework make it a very significant undertaking with many coordination challenges. The only way to meet our goals is to adopt a tool that can create the mappings, linkages and delivery format required as well as coordinate the numerous individuals developing and reviewing the various CSF components - and Brabeion is the best choice to aid in completing the task at hand,” said Daniel S. Nutkis, CEO of HITRUST.
Healthcare organizations are facing multiple challenges with regards to information security, including costs, complexities and inconsistencies surrounding regulations and standards, and the auditing of these across people, process and technologies. HITRUST is fostering the industry collaboration needed to solve these urgent problems. Leading health care organizations, professional services firms, information security specialists, liability insurers and other organizations have joined together to actively participate in the HITRUST CSF program.
“The HITRUST effort promises to transform information security programs within the entire healthcare industry. Both Brabeion and HITRUST share the same vision to provide organizations with a better way to manage risk, demonstrate compliance, and improve operational efficiency. We are excited to leverage our practical experience in IT GRC to play a hands-on role in this significant effort,” commented Julian Waits, CEO of Brabeion.
The HITRUST CSF is expected to be available in January 2009 for any organization that creates, accesses, stores or exchanges personal health and financial information. The Information Security Implementation Manual and Standards and Regulations Cross-Reference Matrix will be made available in both PDF and XML versions.
Brabeion Software is the only company to provide a complete IT GRC management software solution and has gained public recognition as a leader over the past year by Fortune 500 companies and industry analysts. The Brabeion Polaris IT GRC Management Suite manages policies, automates IT control monitoring, and measures what actually occurs against what business policies, internal governance, and regulatory sources demand.
About the HITRUST
The health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) was born out of the belief that information security should be a core pillar of, rather than an obstacle to, the broad adoption of health information systems and exchanges. Security is critical to the broad adoption, utilization of and confidence in health information systems, medical technologies and electronic exchanges of health information. This, in turn, is critical to realizing the related promise of quality improvement and cost containment in America’s healthcare system. HITRUST is collaborating with healthcare, business, technology, and information security leaders to establish a certifiable framework that can be used by any and all organizations that create, access, store or exchange personal health and financial information. Beyond the establishment of the first-ever common security framework, HITRUST is also driving adoption and widespread confidence in the framework and sound risk management practices through awareness, education, advocacy and other outreach activities. For more information, visit .
About Brabeion Software
Brabeion, the leading software provider in IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC), helps organizations demonstrate governance, dramatically reduce risk and improve compliance while lowering costs. Brabeion’s Polaris Suite is the first IT GRC solution to trace the full lifecycle of risk and compliance impacts from business and legislative requirements through to policy, implementation procedures and controls with automated audits and assessments. It is powered by comprehensive information risk and audit content developed and maintained by our team of domain experts, through strategic alliances with organizations including PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, IT Governance Institute and others. Brabeion Polaris puts you in control of your governance, risk and compliance profile at every level and stage of your business process.
Brabeion is a member of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group Technology Council, Information Security Forum (ISF), PCI Vendors’ Alliance and Oracle’s GRC Vendor Alliance. For more information, visit .
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REDMOND, Wash., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic collaboration with RelayHealth, McKesson Corp.’s connectivity business, to accelerate and improve the relationship between doctors and patients. Together, Microsoft HealthVault and RelayHealth will enable affordable patient connectivity with doctors’ offices and hospitals so patients can have security-enhanced, easy online access to medical care, information and records.
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HealthVault will provide physicians using RelayHealth’s Software as a Service (SaaS) platform with the technology to facilitate enhanced online patient service and communications. Physicians can easily employ the RelayHealth service, which includes electronic prescribing, through a Web browser as the initial step toward clinical automation of their practice. The service is also designed to integrate with electronic medical record systems already in use. For patients, the combined solution allows access to their personal health information and an online interaction with their personal physician.
“Until now, the ability for consumers to access and share appropriate health information online has not been possible, and as a result, personal health records (PHRs) have not been broadly adopted or consistently used,” said Pamela Pure, president of McKesson Technology Solutions. “Our relationship with Microsoft can change that. HealthVault offers consumers a convenient and accessible way to store and manage their healthcare and wellness data in one central place. The RelayHealth network then connects the consumer’s portfolio of information with the care provider and unifies the management of the personal health record.”
Pure added that RelayHealth’s security-enhanced network makes it easy for physicians to review clinical data and share appropriate information with their patients or other clinicians efficiently.
“This new relationship enables us to connect the personal health record to the care process so the information can be better utilized,” Pure said.
RelayHealth’s core services enable patients to schedule healthcare appointments online, request prescription refills, pay bills, obtain results and even visit their doctor online using security-enhanced webVisit(R) consultations for non-urgent care. HealthVault is a consumer health platform that allows people to collect, store and share health information with family members and participating healthcare providers.
“Together, Microsoft and RelayHealth will make it easier for consumers and doctors to exchange information that is a part of our everyday lives, such as ordering and filling prescriptions, receiving lab results and other important exchanges that impact our health and well-being,” said Peter Neupert, corporate vice president of the health Solutions Group at Microsoft. “Using the Internet to better connect patients and providers is a big step toward engaging people in their health decisions and ultimately improving the quality of patient care.”
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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TORONTO, July 2 /PRNewswire/ — It is with great pride that Medgate announces that the U.S. Government National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Medgate’s Industrial Hygiene and Employee health Software for use across its entire operation.
NASA sourced, selected, and procured Medgate’s software offering via Medgate’s recently awarded U.S. Government GSA schedule contract. After an initial implementation at one space center, NASA will roll out the software system across all NASA space, flight, research, test, and assembly facilities.
“NASA is the world leader in space and flight technology,” says Mark Wallace, President of Medgate Inc. “It is a privilege to have been selected as their health and safety business partner. Medgate commits that its product and team will have the ‘right stuff’.”
NASA will join a prestigious group of U.S. Government clients already utilizing Medgate health and Safety Software, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Library of Congress, and the Federal Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
About Medgate
Medgate Inc. develops the industry’s most advanced Workplace health and Safety Software, used by leading government agencies, hospitals, and Fortune 500 corporations to cut costs, boost productivity and improve the health and safety of their employees. For more information, visit:
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., June 30 /PRNewswire/ — TMG health announced today that Jack Tighe, President and CEO, was named the recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award in the Philadelphia Region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global level who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Jack Tighe was selected as a finalist from several hundred nominations by a panel of independent judges. “It is an honor to be named the winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. It would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of each and every TMG health employee and the support they receive from their families.” We are also fortunate to have a large number of clients that trust us with the administration of their government sponsored health plans and partner with us to maintain a high level of compliance and operational performance.
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its 22nd anniversary this year. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
About TMG Health
TMG health is a technology-enabled, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services firm providing a variety of administrative services to the Medicare and Medicaid health plan markets. As the leading vendor in this field, TMG health provides operational outsourcing solutions and information systems for health plans, providers and insurers. TMG health is the most experienced vendor in the market and has the broadest solution set serving over 36 health plans in all 50 states. TMG Health’s client base consists of one of the nation’s largest PBMs for Part D administration insurance carriers, 14 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, several national start-up PFFS plans for individuals and group retirees, and the fastest growing PFFS plan and the fastest growing Special Needs Plan (SNP) in the nation. TMG health serves over 1.5 million Medicare and Medicaid members. Benefits of partnering with TMG health include state of the art systems, rapid implementations, reduced capital costs, fixed operational costs and proven regulatory compliance.
TMG health is a privately held corporation located in suburban Philadelphia with a National Operations Center in Northeastern Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit .
About the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards
The Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) awards program was created and is produced by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) Award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. The program honors entrepreneurs through regional, national and global award programs in over 125 cities and 40 countries.
About Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young, a global leader in professional services, is committed to enhancing the public’s trust in professional services firms and in the quality of financial reporting. Its 114,000 people in 140 countries pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality, and professionalism in providing a range of sophisticated services centered on our core competencies of auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions. Further information about Ernst & Young and its approach to a variety of business issues can be found at . Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, a U.K. company limited by guarantee, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited does not provide services to clients. Ernst & Young LLP is a U.S. client-serving member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited.
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REDMOND, Wash., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — To improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivered to medically underserved D.C. residents, the District of Columbia Primary Care Association (DCPCA) will use Microsoft Amalga, the unified intelligence system, to enable the sharing of data among local hospitals and six community-based health centers that are part of a newly formed District of Columbia Regional health Information Organization (D.C. RHIO).
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DCPCA joins the Wisconsin health Information Exchange (WHIE) as the second organization to select Microsoft Amalga to allow the security-enhanced exchange of information between hospital systems and community health centers for optimal patient care.
“The sharing of medical information among D.C. health centers and local hospitals is uncommon,” said Sharon Baskerville, CEO of DCPCA. “Using Amalga to aggregate and share clinical data, we will break down the barriers, enabling these providers to improve clinical decision-making, minimize redundant work, reduce costs, and most important, provide higher-quality care to the neediest in our communities. We expect to create a sustainable business model in the RHIO marketplace.”
Announced by DCPCA in May, the D.C. RHIO will connect six health centers — representing 21 locations — and two hospitals, Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center, with the purpose of improving both the quality and accessibility of healthcare for vulnerable members of society. The six health centers are Bread for the City, Family and Medical Counseling Service, La Clinica del Pueblo, Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care, So Others Might Eat (SOME), and the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
Implementing Amalga will give physicians at Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center real-time viewing of up-to-date patient information stored in systems of the RHIO-affiliated health centers. This capability will allow DCPCA to help achieve its overall goals for the RHIO, including improving chronic disease management, quality monitoring and research ability; minimizing duplicative work (e.g., lab tests); reducing costs; evaluating critical health indicators on an ongoing basis; and giving patients security-enhanced online access to their health information.
“I congratulate Microsoft on its participation in the D.C. RHIO,” said Dr. Garth Graham, deputy assistant secretary for Minority Health, Department of health and Human Services. “Information technology in healthcare has the ability to transform our current health segments into a true healthcare system that serves the needs of all consumers and brings timely information to appropriate providers caring for consumers as patients. During this time, when we are just beginning to develop the interoperable networks, it is crucial that today’s medically underserved communities are included in these efforts.”
WHIE also has implemented Microsoft Amalga to accomplish its vision of “improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and accessibility of healthcare and public health.” WHIE’s Emergency Department (ED) Linking Project is a pilot project that has 11 Milwaukee metropolitan hospitals providing data to the exchange with clinicians in the first three emergency departments now reviewing data from the exchange on all patients as part of day-to-day clinical practice.
“With WHIE, ED clinicians have a perspective of their patients’ history previously unknown to them,” said Kim R. Pemble, executive director for WHIE.
Tools in WHIE, such as Clinician Communication Messages, enable communication among clinicians and set the stage for community-level, patient-centric care plans.
“Very early feedback from ED case managers already reflects significant value of WHIE in connecting patients with ongoing care services,” Pemble said. “The addition of Medicaid claims information, planned for July 2008, will provide pharmacy information and other data to further enhance the value to clinicians.”
Microsoft Amalga addresses a common and critical challenge of healthcare providers — integrating vast amounts of clinical, administrative, and financial information that flow in and out of disparate information systems, and tailoring that information for use by physicians, analysts, laboratory technicians, nurses and administrators. Amalga takes advantage of the hospital’s investment in health information technology solutions and makes it possible for the whole health system to gain quick access to data and turn information into critical knowledge that facilitates better decision-making and improved patient outcomes.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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BOSTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — DIA 44th Annual meeting –
– Responding to continued growth in clinical trials as well as the increasing linkages across life sciences, diagnostics and healthcare, Oracle today announced the formation of a new Global Business Unit focused on software applications for the health sciences industry. Neil de Crescenzo has been named Senior Vice President and General Manager for the business unit.
– The Oracle health Sciences Global Business Unit will build on Oracle’s proven track record in the sector. Today, 20 of the 20 top pharmas and 14 of the 15 top U.S. hospitals run Oracle.
– The Oracle health Sciences Global Business Unit will help health sciences organizations discover, develop and successfully market innovative products and services to prevent and cure disease, enhance quality of life and meet their shareholder and stakeholder expectations.
– Oracle today offers the sector’s most comprehensive suite of software applications for clinical development. These products can be deployed individually or together and include Oracle Clinical, Oracle Remote Data Capture, Oracle Thesaurus Management System, Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System, Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub and Oracle’s Siebel Clinical Trial Management System.
– Oracle’s application platform for health sciences helps companies bring together all the critical aspects of the clinical development, safety and pharmacovigilance processes into a single, open platform built on state-of-the-art technology.
– Oracle’s clinical applications provide a streamlined system for managing large volumes of patient data collected during clinical trials. They offer features for modeling any kind of clinical study, automatically storing components for reuse in a flexible global library.
– The company also offers Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base, which helps healthcare companies simultaneously improve patient care and control costs by providing a foundation for interoperability and integration of existing and new systems.
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– “Accenture believes the industry needs to move to a more integrated set of clinical capabilities to realize the strategic value of the data available to support research and development,” said Arjun Bedi, Global Lead of Accenture’s health & Life Sciences R&D practice. “We welcome efforts like Oracle’s to bring together and enhance the necessary components to enable such a capability. With our range of services and the right software components, we can help our clients realize more business value from their R&D investments.”
– “There is a dramatic transformation taking place today in life sciences, diagnostics and healthcare in order to accelerate insights for better health. The creation of the Oracle health Sciences Global Business Unit signals Oracle’s commitment to this important sector and our focus on delivering value to health sciences organizations by offering them a comprehensive set of capabilities and superior ownership experience,” said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle health Sciences Global Business Unit.
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CHICAGO, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Allscripts, the leading provider of clinical software and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that it will offer qualified medical staff members of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, Calif. preferred pricing on the company’s Electronic health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solutions.
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Hoag Hospital, in its commitment to enable excellent quality care and services, is leveraging the recent Stark and Anti-kickback reforms to assist Orange County physicians in the adoption of Electronic health Records in their private practices. Hoag believes it is important to promote open, interconnected, interoperable Electronic health Record applications that help improve the quality of patient care and efficiency in the delivery of health care to patients. To facilitate this, Hoag has signed an agreement with Allscripts to subsidize its EHR-PM solutions for independent members of its medical staff, a major step in the hospital’s community-wide initiative to electronically link hospital services, physicians and other healthcare providers to offer truly integrated patient care.
“The leading hospitals across the country are increasingly coming to the conclusion that connectivity with the physicians who practice in their communities and refer the bulk of their patients is critical to delivering higher quality patient care and also to a strong business model,” said Allscripts Chief Executive Officer Glen Tullman. “The cornerstone of the community model is immediate access to patient information, anytime and anywhere, and we are proud that Hoag Hospital, a national leader in quality patient care, has selected Allscripts to help deliver on that vision.”
Allscripts Electronic health Record and Practice Management for small and medium-sized physician practices are easy-to-deploy, physician-centric solutions that improve the delivery of safe, cost-effective, high-quality care by automating common tasks such as prescribing and refilling medications, ordering and viewing tests, and documenting care. Allscripts combines the power of an integrated Electronic health Record and Practice Management solution to provide one full-circle, seamless patient information management source. Built on a single intelligent platform, the Allscripts solution will link business and clinical operations of each practice, and provide caregivers instant and secure access to the complete patient record.
Hoag staff physicians who select Allscripts will access the Electronic health Record and Practice Management solutions over the Internet via Application Service Provider (ASP) hosting and support. The ASP model provides a simple, affordable means of delivering vital patient information to caregivers without the upfront costs of purchasing new equipment to host the solution themselves. Because the ASP model also speeds deployment, it is becoming an increasingly important option for mid-size and independent practices.
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian is a 498-bed, not-for-profit, acute care hospital with more than 1,000 physicians on staff. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission and designated as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Hoag offers a comprehensive mix of health care services, including Centers of Excellence in cancer, heart and vascular, orthopedics and women’s health services. A National Research Corporation Consumer Choice Award endorses Hoag as Orange County’s most preferred hospital based on overall quality of health care services and places Hoag in the top five percent of hospitals nationwide.
About Allscripts
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The company’s unique solutions inform, connect and transform healthcare, delivering improved care at lower cost. More than 40,000 physicians and thousands of other healthcare professionals in clinics, hospitals and extended care facilities nationwide utilize Allscripts to automate everyday tasks such as writing prescriptions, documenting patient care, managing billing and scheduling, and safely discharging patients, as well as to connect with key information and stakeholders in the healthcare system. To learn more, visit Allscripts at .
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts’ actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts, see the Company’s 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at .

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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 19 /PRNewswire/ — Integrated Behavioral health (IBH) has selected BlueThread Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server-based enterprise content management (ECM) solutions and K2 software for process-driven applications, to improve operational efficiency and optimize claims processing.
IBH processes behavioral health and EAP claims for 20 of the Fortune 100 companies, 6,000 mid-to-small-sized employers and manages more than 1.5 million covered lives in the United States. The now-deployed implementation has enabled IBH to process most claims within 24 hours and exceed service-level agreements (SLAs) with its members.
When IBH began its search for comprehensive ECM software, the company required a comprehensive solution that could give it the processing power and flexibility mandated by America’s largest healthcare insurers. After reviewing solutions from traditional ECM vendors, IBH partnered with BlueThread Technologies (BlueThread), a leading provider in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server-based ECM solutions.
Working with the skilled IT group at IBH, BlueThread deployed its SmartDesk desktop and K2 solution to maximize IBH’s productivity, lower cycle times and improve customer service levels. “We have an unbelievable problem-solving tool,” said Doug Miller, IBH Director of Information Systems. “The solution provides the flexibility to allow our company to problem solve and dynamically change processes as needed, and we now know the status and location of every piece of work and content. All of the necessary paperwork is immediately available to case workers and processed with nationally established professional protocols.” Miller continues, “SharePoint, SmartDesk and K2 has not only changed the way IBH does business … it has become the only way we do business.”
“Health plans are under unprecedented market pressure to improve the consumer experience and provide better responsiveness when processing claims,” said Dennis Schmuland, M.D., U.S. health plan industry director, Microsoft Corp. “SmartDesk from BlueThread is a great example of how health plans can take full advantage of the built-in ECM capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, along with its familiar, easy-to-use and widely supported platform, to quickly solve some of their most critical business issues.”
Prior to implementing the BlueThread solution, IBH had large backlogs, hundreds of file cabinets full of client charts, and its business was growing rapidly. Since deploying SmartDesk, IBH’s operations have doubled without adding full-time employees and now processes most claims within a single day. Ed Bosanac, Dr.P.H., Office of the President, said, “The BlueThread/ SharePoint Server solution has allowed IBH to work more efficiently, more accurately and permitted our company to capitalize on leading edge technology. The bottom line is that the solution BlueThread brought to the table improves IBH’s position in the market place.”
About Integrated Behavioral health (IBH)
Located in Costa Mesa, CA, IBH is one of the leading managed care providers of mental health services in the Country. IBH has a complete network of providers, care managers and customer service agents providing behavioral health services and claims payment for its customers. IBH competes with the country’s largest managed healthcare companies and differentiates itself on the service it provides to its employer groups and members.
IBH operations efficiently process behavioral health and EAP claims for 20 of the fortune 100 companies, 6000 mid-to-small sized employers and manage more than 1.5 million covered lives in the US.
About BlueThread Technologies Inc.
BlueThread, Inc. ( ) is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that specializes in integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that provide tangible business benefits. A Microsoft Gold Partner, BlueThread specializes in the financial services and insurance industries. BlueThread principals are experts in many technology and project management disciplines, and have successfully implemented over 200 ECM systems over the past 20 years for some of America’s largest companies.
About K2
K2-based solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100. K2, a business unit of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and has offices all over the world. SourceCode, K2 and K2 blackpearl are registered trademarks or trademarks of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries.
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