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SEATTLE, July 1 /PRNewswire/ — Adaptis, a leading provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions for health payers, today announced that the company has once again been named to the prestigious and highly anticipated Healthcare Informatics 15th annual Top 100 list. The compilation is published annually in the magazine’s June 2008 issue.
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“The Healthcare Informatics Top 100 is an esteemed listing of the best in the healthcare industry and we are very proud to be counted among this select group,” Adaptis SVP and Chief Business Development Officer Jan Claesson said. “With our customer-focused service and technology offerings we are well- positioned to help health insurers make significant strides in their ongoing pursuit to effectively increase efficiency, improve accuracy and stay current with compliance while controlling escalating healthcare costs.”
Perhaps most representative of the value Adaptis provides health insurers is its relationship with The Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW) which includes more than 230,000 plan members and has quadrupled in size since Adaptis began work with the plan in 1997. In recent years Adaptis helped CHPW effectively launch its medicare Advantage program. According to CHPW Chief Executive Officer Darnell Dent, “We knew it would be a push — enrollment within six months of CMS approving our medicare Advantage plan application; Adaptis teamed with us and we launched in record time. With Adaptis, partnership isn’t just a word; it’s a commitment.”
To compile the rankings, Healthcare Informatics surveys a broad range of companies that provide products and services to the healthcare sector. Only health information technology (HIT) revenues are counted to determine which companies are included in the list. This is the fifth consecutive year Adaptis has been named to this select list. Over the years Adaptis has aggressively expanded its portfolio of BPO solutions and consulting services to position itself to serve growing small-to mid-sized health payer market covering Medicaid managed care, medicare Advantage and Commercial Health Plans.
About Adaptis
Adaptis is a comprehensive source of business process outsourcing solutions focused on local and regional health payers. Their administrative, medical management and decision support services, as well as a client-focused account management approach, deliver proven service performance. Adaptis is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with regional operations centers in Yakima, Washington, Baltimore, Maryland, and through its majority-owned subsidiary, Tela Sourcing Inc., an ISO 9001:2000 certified international facility in Pune, India.
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(425) 222-0779

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PLANO, Texas, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Perot Systems Corporation and New West health Services — Montana’s second largest health services corporation — today announced an agreement in which Perot Systems will host New West’s enterprise core administrative system (CAS), and also will migrate its current Perot Systems DIAMOND 950 (TM) software to Perot Systems Xcelys 5.0 software, all while experiencing uninterrupted health administration for its plans members during the transition. Specific terms of the 5-year deal were not disclosed.
“This agreement is another milestone for New West as we pursue our goal of becoming the best health plan in Montana. Perot Systems’ hosted solutions combined with its Xcelys core administrative software will give us greater product and service flexibility while improving administrative efficiency. After extensive review of other system alternatives, expanding our relationship with Perot Systems is the best business decision. Perot Systems will enable us to focus on what we do best — provide outstanding healthcare benefits for the people of Montana,” said David Kibbe, CEO of New West health Services.
“Our CAS solution combined with our Xcelys 5.0 software provides New West with improved product flexibility for its members. They will experience greater efficiencies in enterprise information management, dynamic healthcare transaction processing, and 24×7 technical and operational support, without having to make a large capital investment,” said Chuck Lyles, president of Perot Systems’ Healthcare industry group.
About New West health Services
New West health Services is a provider sponsored, consumer responsive Montana health service corporation reporting 2007 revenue of $76 million. New West covers over 41,000 Montanans through commercial and managed care health benefits and Medicare Advantage plans. Partnering with Montana physicians and hospitals, New West offers benefit innovation and Montana service through its 95 employees in the Kalispell operations center and Helena headquarters.
Additional information about New West is available at
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 .
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. For factors that could affect our business and cause actual results to differ materially, please refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at , as updated in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed after such Form 10-K, for additional information regarding risk factors. We disclaim any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund request for proposal (RFP) recipients were named today at the second annual Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Conference. The 15 recipients represent a wide range of inventive online solutions designed to address significant health issues, such as childhood obesity, medication reconciliation, gathering and dissemination of mobile health information, diabetes management, and ways to help people manage their health more effectively.
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The recipients are the following organizations:

— BayCare health System, Medication Reconciliation & HealthVault
Integration

— Columbia University, Managing Immunization Information Using
HealthVault

— Columbus Research Foundation, The Columbus Model for Childhood Obesity
Intervention: A Computer-Based Initiative Integrated Into HealthVault

— Intermountain Healthcare Clinical Genetics Institute, Capturing
Electronic Family health History Data to Improve Patient Care

— Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts
University, Remote Monitoring of Body Weight and Food Intake in
Free-Living Individuals

— Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Impact of Automated
Dosing Reminders on Medication Adherence Using HealthVault

— LSU Healthcare Network, LSUHN Medication Reconciliation Evacuation
Response

— MedStar Diabetes Institute at Washington Hospital Center, ehealth2go

— Morehouse School of Medicine, Integrated Mobile health Solution for
Diabetes Care

— Partners HealthCare, Utilization of HealthVault in a Patient-Centric
Diabetes Management Program

— Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Increasing Autonomy in
Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

— St. Joseph health System, Be Well From Birth — e-BabyBook

— St. Joseph Hospital Foundation, EMS Bridge

— St. Vincent’s Birmingham, St. Vincent’s Birmingham successful
management of obstetrics population

— University of Washington, Using Mobile Technologies to Uncover
Barriers to Healthy Behavior in Heart Disease Patients

“The Be Well Fund winners share our vision of using the Internet to empower people to fully engage in managing their health and improving health outcomes,” said Peter Neupert, corporate vice president of the health Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp. “We’re excited to help these organizations turn their ideas into reality and to expand the capabilities and services available through HealthVault.”
Microsoft received nearly 200 proposals from leading academic and research health organizations across the United States, making it one of the most successful Microsoft Research RFPs in the company’s history. Based on the strong interest, Microsoft increased award funding from $3 million to $4.5 million to help bring these proposals to market.
A distinguished panel of judges from across the health field determined the fund recipients. The judging panel consisted of the following:
— Adam Bosworth, CEO of Keas Inc.

— Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives; and
founder of Center for health Transformation

— Mark Liponis, M.D., corporate medical director at Canyon Ranch

— Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., senior vice president for Health
Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine; and professor of
obstetrics and gynecology at Meharry Medical College

— Leslie Norwalk, former acting administrator at the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services; and strategic advisor at Epstein
Becker & Green P.C.

— Marc Pierson, M.D., regional vice president of Clinical Information
and Special Projects; and regional vice president of Medical Affairs
at PeaceHealth

— Brent Ridge, M.D., vice president of Healthy Living at Martha Stewart
Living Omnimedia Inc.

The Be Well Fund is designed to stimulate not-for-profit research and development across a broad range of health disciplines that have the potential to significantly improve health and wellness outcomes. The Be Well Fund helps seed innovative avenues of research and explore the potential for disruptive improvements to health management enabled by reuse and sharing of data among people, families, caregivers, doctors and facilities.
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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WAYNE, Pa., June 10 /PRNewswire/ — InterComponentWare (ICW) announced today the formation of ICW Labs, a Silicon Valley based R&D organization focused on deepening ICW’s use of leading technology as part of its eHealth solutions. ICW Labs will be headed by Thomas Odenwald, veteran SAP technology leader and visionary.
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The new ICW Lab is chartered with expanding the ICW eHealth solution set, which delivers fully interoperable, secure and reliable communication of medical data and associated information throughout the US. The new organization will work in tandem with the ICW product management team also located in San Mateo, CA. ICW’s European development teams, operating from company headquarters in Walldorf, Germany, have been very successful in implementing eHealth solutions for all participants in the delivery of healthcare.
Odenwald brings extensive experience to his new post. At SAP, Odenwald held strategic positions such as founding director of SAP Labs India and was responsible for integrating cutting edge technologies such as open source, Green IT, Semantic Web, RFID and Sensor Networks into the SAP portfolio.
Jeremy Coote, CEO of InterComponentWare Inc., comments on the value ICW Labs will bring to the company’s US efforts: “Our European colleagues have moved quickly and with notable success into the eHealth marketplace. Having a dedicated Lab, headed by Thomas Odenwald and tasked with addressing country-specific needs, will increase our ability to share ICW’s innovative technologies and extensive eHealth experience within the US.”
About InterComponentWare
InterComponentWare (ICW) is a leading international eHealth specialist with networking solutions for creating a longitudinal view of patient information available at the point of care. Among other things, ICW develops and distributes software and hardware components for networking solutions for hospitals and resident physicians, the personal electronic health record LifeSensor, and the health care IT infrastructure of electronic health cards. ICW is a major participant in the national electronic health card initiatives underway in Germany, Austria and Bulgaria. ICW has locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA and Bulgaria.
For additional information, please contact:
InterComponentWare, Inc.
Anne Marie Heil
Tel: 1-610-933-8065
Fax: 1-480-247-5402
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InterComponentWare AG (ICW)
Dirk Schuhmann
Tel: 49 (0)6227-385-133
Fax: 49 (0)6227-385-199
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ANDOVER, Mass., June 9 /PRNewswire/ — Duke University health System is deploying a new advanced authentication capability from Sentillion, called Sentillion Tap & Go(TM), to streamline information systems access for its 14,000 clinical users while maintaining strong data and application security. Duke will deploy Sentillion Tap & Go on over 3,100 shared workstations.
Duke, one of the elite medical centers in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report, is already live on Vergence, Sentillion’s clinical workstation solution which includes Single Sign-On (SSO) and context management. Now with the implementation of Tap & Go physicians and other caregivers will be able to roam throughout a defined work area and sign on to different workstations simply by tapping their standard-issue passive proximity identification badge against a workstation reader. The system will dramatically speed and simplify clinicians’ access to vital patient records and software applications that have become essential to their professional effectiveness.
“It is rare in enterprise IT today to be able to plug and play two disparate pieces of technology,” observed Karen Rourk, Director of Ambulatory EMR and Desktop Development at Duke University health System. “Sentillion Tap & Go makes our identity and access management fully complementary to our physical security system. When we implemented Vergence we experienced a dramatic savings in the amount of time it took caregivers to sign in and access their applications and now with Sentillion Tap & Go we can further reduce the time it takes to authenticate by as much as 50% — something we know our caregivers will appreciate.”
Sentillion Tap & Go is a patent-pending, advanced authentication capability that leverages standard passive proximity cards to deliver the simplest sign-on process in the healthcare industry today. Sentillion Tap & Go is easy to adopt because it leverages the same badge that organizations use for physical access. Caregivers can now use one badge for entry into the parking lot, building access, as well as single sign-on to their workstation.
With Sentillion Tap & Go, users perform a two-part authentication at the beginning of their shift by tapping their passive proximity card against a card reader and entering their password or providing other verifiable authentication such as a fingerprint biometric. Once this two-part authentication is completed, Sentillion’s technology initiates an authentication grace period. During the grace period, the user can access any other shared workstation in a defined area, such as the emergency department, simply by tapping their badge against a reader. Users only need to perform the two-part authentication when their grace period expires or when they move to an area of the hospital with a different Sentillion Tap & Go policy.
Sentillion’s identity and access management solutions are the most widely deployed in healthcare and are used daily by more than 350,000 caregivers in 560 hospitals across North America and the United Kingdom, including Eisenhower Medical Center, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Sisters of Mercy health System, Sharp HealthCare and Texas Children’s Hospital. Sentillion is responsible for the largest SSO deployment in healthcare, which presently provides access to 182 clinical applications for 42,000 users across 34 hospitals and continues to expand in all three areas.
About Duke University health System
Duke University health System is a world-class health care network that provides a complete continuum of health services to residents of North Carolina’s research triangle area and beyond. Duke University Medical Center — the hub of the health system — is consistently ranked among the top 10 health care organizations in the country. The health System also includes two respected community hospitals, Durham Regional Hospital and Duke health Raleigh Hospital; primary and specialty care clinics; home care; hospice; skilled nursing care; wellness centers; and community-based clinical partnerships.
About Sentillion
Since 1998, Sentillion has been revolutionizing healthcare IT with award winning, industry recognized identity and access management technology. Sentillion has successfully combined patented technology with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry to deliver the most comprehensive set of solutions for single sign-on, user provisioning, clinical workstations and virtualized remote access. Sentillion recently was recognized as the number one single sign-on (SSO) vendor in the KLAS Top 20: 2007 Year-End Report. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass. For more information, visit .
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SEATTLE, June 9 /PRNewswire/ — Adaptis, a leading provider of business process outsourcing solutions for health payers, today announced that it will host a symposium at Institute 2008 - the America’s health Insurance Plans (AHIP) annual meeting. The Friday, June 20 breakfast meeting session will provide health payer executives with best practice strategies for effectively responding to major market transformations including: regulations, consumer expectations, competition and emerging trends. As a major Institute 2008 sponsor, Adaptis will also be exhibiting June 18 - 20 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, CA. Its health care practice leaders will be on hand at booth #413 to answer questions and discuss the company’s breadth of services.
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Adaptis will facilitate a discussion on the role of health plan leaders to set vision and manage change within their organizations so that management and staff are prepared to respond effectively to ongoing market transformations. “Health payers face an unprecedented period of change that touch all aspects of their business operations,” Adaptis Senior Vice President and Chief Business Development Officer Jan Claesson said. “As a company that knows the ins and outs of how to expertly manage change while ensuring success, we are well acquainted with the tools, strategies and planning needed to maneuver through even the most disruptive changes successfully.”
About Adaptis
Adaptis is a comprehensive source of business process outsourcing solutions focused on local and regional health payers. Proven service performance and a client-centric account management approach underlie their administrative, medical management and decision support services. Adaptis is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with a regional operations center in Yakima, Washington, and through its majority-owned subsidiary, Tela Sourcing Inc., an ISO 9001:2000 certified international facility in Pune, India.
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Cheryl Isen, Isen and Company, for Adaptis
(425) 222-0779

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CUPERTINO, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire/ — ForeScout Technologies, a market leader in clientless network access control (NAC) and policy management solutions for large enterprises, today announced that Lehigh Valley Hospital and health Network (LVHHN), a premier academic community hospital and health services provider in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has deployed the CounterACT(TM) family of appliances to mediate access to its health services network.
According to Brian Martin, Information Security Manager for LVHHN, “Our network users — including doctors, nurses, specialists, and visiting guests — were bringing their own, sometimes infected computers into work. Some of these computers weren’t compliant with our security policies and needed OS updates, security patches or anti-virus software installed. Others were hospital property that had been used off-site, picked up malware, and began setting off alarms when they reconnected to the Lehigh network. We wanted a way to control these conditions and let users self-correct the problems.”
Martin and his colleagues began looking for a network access solution that would also detect and respond to malicious behavior that a simple intrusion detection solution would not pick up. After evaluating solutions from various NAC and infrastructure providers, the organization chose ForeScout’s CounterACT.
“I was bowled over by the detection capabilities of CounterACT,” said Martin. “That you get a two-in-one intrusion prevention and NAC solution in CounterACT just makes it that much better. Plus, you hear about NAC being tricky and difficult to deploy: that hasn’t been the case for us. The deployment was one of our smoothest. It took under a week and is now protecting over 20,000 endpoints.”
Today’s health enterprises — like Lehigh Valley — face a steady influx of vulnerabilities introduced by guests and employees who are able to bypass physical security and gain network connection inside the perimeter defenses. CounterACT addresses this problem by enforcing network security policies across all managed and unmanaged network devices, including desktops and laptops as well as non-OS devices such as VoIP phones, handhelds and network printers, without the need for a software agent of any kind.
“The Lehigh Valley health deployment demonstrates, once again, that CounterACT over-delivers on its promise to ease deployment and deliver best-in-class network access control with built-in intrusion prevention,” said Ray Wizbowski, vice president, ForeScout. “At ForeScout, we continue to exceed our customers’ requirements, helping them buy into a NAC platform and strategy that fits their security requirements today, while giving them a cost-effective policy compliance platform they can rely on in the future.”
CounterACT combines clientless network access control (NAC) and signatureless intrusion prevention to ensure all connected and connecting devices are in compliance with network security policies and are free of self-propagating threats. CounterACT seamlessly integrates into any network environment without requiring costly upgrades or infrastructure changes, and enables enterprises to tailor enforcement actions to match the level of policy violations, ensuring user disruption only occurs when it is warranted or required by the IT staff.
About ForeScout Technologies, Inc.
ForeScout specializes in network policy management for enterprises looking to secure their networks without needlessly punishing end users. The company’s network appliances are in service in over 450 enterprises in 37 countries, with customers from Banking, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology and Transportation. Its flagship product, CounterACT(TM) is the world’s most deployed NAC solution: it is fast and easy for administrators to deploy, manage and maintain and offers users zero-disruption. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, ForeScout has an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel and offers a global sales and support network. For more about ForeScout and CounterACT, visit .
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 18 /PRNewswire/ — Laura Moya of Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto and Martha Solis from Roosevelt High School in Fresno each won inaugural Comcast Founders Scholarships of $10,000 for college today at a Comcast special recognition ceremony with elected officials on the steps of the California State Capitol. In addition, Lauren Berger of Modesto Christian High School in Modesto, Marcos Ceballos of Yerba Buena High School in San Jose, John Van Houten of Laguna Creek High School in Elk Grove and Joshua Winfield of Floyd I. Marcus High School in Concord each won laptop computers for college. All six students were among the 173 California high school seniors who have won a 2008 Comcast Leaders and Achievers(R) Scholarship and who were invited to the first-ever California recognition ceremony.
Each student who attended the celebration of education at the capitol received their $1,000 Comcast Leaders and Achievers(R) Scholarship from their local legislators or Comcast executives, and then had a group photo taken with the legislators from the districts where scholarship winners live. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the four winners of the laptop computers and the two winners of the inaugural $10,000 Comcast Founders Scholarships — instituted in honor of Ralph J. Roberts, who has served as Director and Chair of the Executive and Finance Committee of the Comcast Board of Directors since November 2002 — were announced.
Speakers at the event included California Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and Steve White, Regional Senior Vice President, Comcast - California. In addition, the students and their families also received a tour of the State Capitol and tickets to attend tonight’s Sacramento River Cats vs. Fresno Grizzlies baseball game. For a complete list of California scholarship recipients, visit: . Interviews and photos with students, elected officials and Comcast executives are available upon request.
“I am so pleased to join Comcast in recognizing these outstanding high school seniors throughout California,” said Superintendent Jack O’Connell. “A powerful way that business can support our schools is to recognize and encourage the many programs that are improving student achievement. Comcast understands this. With their incredible support, we are celebrating education in our community at this very special event and throughout the year.”
“Education is key to the future of our children, our communities and our workforce,” stated Steve White, Regional Senior Vice President, Comcast - California. “At Comcast, we are committed to doing our part to ensure we invest in our children through scholarships, educational tools, and by honoring those individuals that make a difference to improve our educational systems to ensure that children have the foundation necessary to succeed in school and beyond.”
About the Comcast “Leaders And Achiever’s(R) Scholarship Program”
This year in California, Comcast is recognizing 173 young people with scholarships — for a total of $173,000 in grants — as part of Comcast’s 2008 national Leaders and Achievers(R) Scholarship Program. Each student receives a $1,000 grant.
The Leaders and Achievers(R) Scholarship Program, one of the Comcast Foundation’s signature community investment programs, recognizes high school seniors for their leadership skills, positive attitude, academic achievement and various community service activities including mentoring and tutoring younger students, volunteering at hospitals and participating in relief efforts. The Leaders and Achievers(R) Scholarship Program reinforces Comcast’s commitment to developing young leaders and provides them with every opportunity to achieve their goal.
In 2008, the program will grant more than $1.9 million, recognizing 1,965 students attending high schools in Comcast communities across the country. Since its inception in 2000, the program has awarded close to $10 million in college aid to more than 9,000 high school seniors.
Each year, Comcast works with high school principals, guidance counselors and school administrators to select the scholarship recipients. The Leaders and Achievers(R) Scholarship Program is managed by Scholarship Program Administrators — an independent, not-for-profit organization that manages corporate and corporate foundation scholarship programs. For more information on the Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program, visit .
About the Comcast Foundation
The Comcast Foundation was established by Comcast Corporation in June 1999 and is the company’s chief source of charitable support to qualified non-profit organizations. The Foundation primarily invests in programs that work to create a positive, sustainable impact within our communities in the areas of volunteerism, literacy, and youth leadership development. Since its inception, the Comcast Foundation has donated more than $43 million to organizations in the communities that Comcast serves. More information about The Foundation and its programs is available at — click on “About,” then “In the Community”.
About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation () is the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services. With 24.7 million cable customers, 14.1 million high-speed Internet customers, and 5.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast’s content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNet networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast’s Internet business. Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
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DALLAS, May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Zix Corporation (ZixCorp(R)), , the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced that L.A. Care, the nation’s largest public health plan, will be offering the Company’s PocketScript(R) e-Prescribing Service through its new health I.T. Incentive Program. ZixCorp is one of several vendors that will be available through the program.
L.A. Care launched the health I.T. Incentive Program in October 2007 as an addition to its Rewarding Results physician incentive program. The health I.T. Incentive Program runs for one year only and will reward physicians for adoption and sustained utilization of healthcare technology, including e-prescribing. The L.A. Care Program reimburses eligible physicians up to $3,000 for e-Prescribing. Physicians must write a minimum of 80 electronic prescriptions per month for three consecutive months to qualify for reimbursement.
“Health information technologies, such as e-prescribing, promise substantial improvements in quality of care, administrative efficiency and patient satisfaction. L.A. Care designed the health I.T. Incentive Program to assist practices that have made or are interested in making an investment in technology such as e-prescribing,” said Dr. Elaine Batchlor, Chief Medical Officer at L.A. Care. “L.A. Care partnered with ZixCorp in 2006 to offer life-saving e-prescribing technology to qualified physicians in Los Angeles County and we are excited to offer this technology through our new incentive program. At L.A. Care, we strive to improve patient care by making e-prescribing accessible to health care providers, who often have limited resources to invest in patient care technology.”
“L.A. Care fully understands that e-prescribing technology can be a critical tool in the prevention of adverse drug events and we are honored to be part of the new health I.T. Incentive Program,” said Rick Spurr, chief executive officer for ZixCorp. “While our payor customers continue to invest in our e-prescribing technology to improve patient safety and to lower pharmacy spend, they also realize the value of establishing an electronic connection with the doctor to deliver real-time, patient-specific decision support. This valuable decision support delivered to the point-of-care provides the opportunity for even further, dramatic improvements in the quality and cost of healthcare.”
ZixCorp’s PocketScript(R) e-prescribing service enables physicians to order prescriptions through a secure wireless mobile PDA or secure Web site and deliver them electronically to the patient’s preferred pharmacy. PocketScript provides clinical decision support at the point-of-care with real-time access to a drug reference guide as well as patient-level eligibility, formulary, and co-pay information. This allows the prescriber to select the most cost-effective prescription based on the patient’s benefits. The application also provides comprehensive drug-to-drug and drug-to-allergy interaction alerts based on patient-specific dispensed drug history. Through partnerships with RxHub, RelayHealth and SureScripts, PocketScript delivers end-to-end connectivity within the healthcare system to reduce unnecessary costs, improve patient safety and convenience, and enhance practice efficiency.
About L.A. Care
L.A. Care health Plan is a local public agency and health plan serving residents of Los Angeles County through a variety of programs including Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids. With more than 750,000 enrolled members, L.A. Care is one of the largest health plans in California and is the nation’s largest public health plan. L.A. Care is a leader in developing new programs through innovative coalitions and partnerships designed to support public health, the safety net, and health insurance coverage for vulnerable populations. For more information, please visit .
About Zix Corporation
ZixCorp is the leading provider of easy-to-use-and-deploy email encryption and e-prescribing services that Connect entities with their customers and partners to Protect and Deliver sensitive information in the healthcare, finance, insurance and government industries. ZixCorp’s hosted Email Encryption Service provides an easy and cost-effective way to ensure customer privacy and regulatory compliance for corporate email. Its PocketScript(R) e-prescribing service saves lives and saves money by automating the prescription process between payors, doctors and pharmacies. For more information, visit .
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LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ — Internet developments that brought us sites such as
Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are now set to revolutionise healthcare,
according to a new research report from online news service and publisher,
E-Health Insider.

Titled ‘Web 2.0 in the health Sector: Industry Review with a UK
perspective’ the report concludes that new applications based on social
health networks and content generated by health service users themselves -
such as reviews of doctors and hospitals - will rapidly evolve to challenge
existing healthcare systems and create new ways of delivering our healthcare.

The research report details how the application of web 2.0 technologies
is now driving far-reaching changes in healthcare systems in the UK, USA and
Europe, a trend it terms e-health 2.0. The report says those who ignore the
deep trends of e-health 2.0 risk missing the early stages of a social,
economic and technological tectonic shift in healthcare planning and
delivery.

Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS, says in his foreword
to the report: “This publication summarises some of the effects of the
revolution and identifies directions in which the revolution will drive in
future. The report of the revolution will, like all reports of revolutions,
please some people and frighten others, but the accuracy and insights are
important for all.”
Produced by award-winning online health IT news service E-Health Insider
‘Web 2.0 in the health Sector: Industry Review with UK Perspective’, examines
how participatory networked web 2.0 technologies - exemplified by Facebook,
YouTube and Wikipedia - are being applied to healthcare.

The report argues that e-health 2.0 will first and foremost be
consumer-led. health is consistently one of the most searched for subjects
online. The application of web 2.0 technologies into health is already
challenging traditional doctor-patient relationships and beginning to place
far greater power in the hands of consumers. These changes are likely to be
rapid and may prove highly disruptive.

The 108-page research report - the most comprehensive undertaken from a
UK perspective on e-health 2.0 - states that a wide range of applications
have already been developed and are in use in health, with early signs of a
groundswell of participation in the traditionally conservative healthcare
sector.

E-Health Insider Research Editor and report author Lindsey Birnsteel,
said: “Though important, this is not just about user generated content
through social networking tools, Wikis, blogs, video clips, or mash-ups. Web
2.0 technologies are now being used for new interactions between patients and
providers.”
Birnsteel pointed to the UK service Patient Opinion as a standard bearer
in connecting public feedback into the development of health services. “With
Patient Opinion the views of the public are being directly fed back into the
NHS to drive service improvements.”
Twenty e-Health 2.0 companies and organisations leading this fast
emerging sector are profiled through questionnaire and follow-up interviews.
The profiles provide a broad cross section of the wide range of e-health 2.0
applications already available. Organisations profiled are drawn from the
USA, UK, India and Germany, and range from small start-ups to giants
including Microsoft and NHS Choices.

The profiles provide a snapshot of innovation across healthcare: from
organisations providing online communities for patients with specific
conditions, tools for chronic disease management, sites that enable patients
to rate the quality of care they receive, together with tools to enable
clinicians to better search for and share research data.

According to Sir Muir, “All health services will be influenced by the
third healthcare revolution in which information technology plays an
important part.”
The report calls on leaders from all areas of healthcare to be aware of
the ways e-health 2.0 is beginning to redefine the practice and business of
healthcare.

It concludes that although at an early stage an e-health 2.0 revolution
is now underway, and makes a series of recommendations for healthcare
providers, commissioners and policy makers on how to make the most of the
opportunities created.

Editors Notes

An executive summary of the ‘Web 2.0 in the health Sector: Industry
Review with UK Perspective’ report is available at
http://www.e-health-insider.com/img/ehi_reports0332/EHI-ehealth_20_research_r
eport_2008_Exec_Summary.pdf.

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online news service focused on health IT. Launched in 2001 the service has
over 22,000 registered readers from across the NHS and IT industry.

‘Web 2.0 in the health Sector: Industry Review with Market Analysis’ is a
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/ehi%5Freports/. The report is priced at
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