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HIMSS Advisory: Ascential Software to Highlight Business Benefits
of Enterprise Data Integration to Healthcare Payors and Providers
Ascential Software Experts Advise Healthcare IT Executives to Plan Beyond HIPAA
and Prepare for National Health Information Infrastructure
WESTBORO, Mass., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software
Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), the enterprise data integration leader, today
announced that its team of healthcare industry experts will underscore the
critical role of data integration at the Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference and Exposition in Dallas, from February 13 -
17, 2005. Company representatives will be located in booth #35. Ascential
Software provides a complete enterprise data integration solution that can help
leading healthcare organizations achieve regulatory compliance, improve
operations and reduce costs. In addition, data integration is expected to
emerge as a key underpinning of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services' National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII). More than 150
healthcare organizations rely on Ascential Software's enterprise data
integration solution, including Aetna, Anthem, Highmark, PacifiCare, Fortis
Health, NOVANT, Delta Dental, Laboratory Corp. of America, and VNSNY Home Care.
"HIPAA compliance generated an abundance of new electronic data regarding
patient/subscriber profiles, diagnostics, procedures, drug utilization, and
billing," said Helen Gurevich, director of healthcare solutions at Ascential
Software. "Today, healthcare organizations can capitalize on this high-volume,
complex data by seamlessly integrating it with operational and analytical data,
and driving significant business improvements as a result."
Throughout HIMSS, Ascential Software will provide comprehensive, real-time
product demonstrations that highlight unique identification and on-demand data
correction capabilities for patient/provider information generated from
healthcare eligibility inquiry transactions. In addition, Ascential Software
will show how transactional data can be seamlessly integrated with a dynamic
data warehouse, and the consequent value for business analytics.
Data integration is expected to play an important role in building and enabling
the NHII. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Web
site, a lack of standards for content have been identified as a significant
challenge to this initiative, which was undertaken to improve the
effectiveness, efficiency and overall quality of health and healthcare in the
U.S. The NHII entails a comprehensive, knowledge-based network of interoperable
systems of clinical, public health, and personal health information that would
improve decision accuracy by making health information available when and where
it is needed. For example, in the area of bioterrorism detection, the NHII
would enable real-time aggregation of health data in order to identify
patterns.
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM) is a comprehensive data
integration solution that profiles, cleanses, and transforms data from
virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency.
Ascential Software's integrated offering is designed to help companies
streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business
transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of
the best available information. The Suite provides unlimited scalability
through parallel processing, complete meta data management, any-to-any data
source and application connectivity, and delivers on-demand data integration
seamlessly within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture.
About The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
HIMSS is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused
on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information
technology and management systems for the betterment of human health. Founded
in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., and other locations across
the country, HIMSS represents more than 14,000 individual members and some 220
member corporations that employ more than 1 million people. HIMSS frames and
leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy,
educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote
information and management systems' contributions to ensuring quality patient
care. Visit http://www.himss.org/ for more information.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is the leader in enterprise data
integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise
Integration Suite(TM) to confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and
complete business information to improve operational performance and
decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive
end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration complemented by our
professional services, industry expertise, and methodologies.
Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000
customers and partners globally across such industries as financial services
and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged
goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call
1-800-966-9875 (508-366-3888 if calling from outside the US or Canada) or visit
the Ascential Software website at http://www.ascential.com/.
Media and industry analysts, contact Chas Kielt, director of media and analyst
relations, at 1-508-599-7256 or .
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characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's
products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through
deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision of services; the
ability of Ascential Software's products to help healthcare organizations
achieve regulatory compliance, improve operations and reduce costs; and
improvements in operational performance and decision-making. The following
factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from
those described in these forward-looking statements: the ability of the company
to expand its market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration
software market; general business conditions in the software industry, the
technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies; rapid
technological change in the markets served by the company; dependence on
international operations; global and geopolitical instability; compliance costs
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difficulties that the company may experience integrating technologies,
operations and personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed
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filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including, without limitation, the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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CONTACT: Chas Kielt of Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256,
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