Misys Healthcare Systems and HealthFlash Partner to Offer Physician's Self-Assessment for HIPAA Compliance

Business Wire, August 12, 2002

Business Editors & Medical Writers

ATLANTA & RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002

HealthFlash(TM) and Misys Healthcare Systems have announced a partnership aimed at helping physicians with assessing and reaching compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Under the terms of the two-year agreement, Misys, one of the largest vendors of IT-related services to the U.S. healthcare market, will offer HealthFlash's HIPAAsteps(TM) - in addition to HealthFlash's suite of compliance and accreditation software - to its customer base of more than 85,000 physicians and 1,200 hospitals. HIPAA privacy and security regulations requires significant planning and work on the part of virtually every healthcare practitioner, regardless of size, to comply with the rigorous requirements for safeguarding protected health information by April 2003.

HealthFlash's HIPAAsteps is an inexpensive Web application with easy-to-use features that helps physician practices comply with the HIPAA privacy and security requirements without expensive technology. HIPAAsteps evaluates the impact of the privacy & security regulations on small individual practices, and guides an office through the needed changes to meet HIPAA compliance. HIPAAsteps offers online training for privacy officer and staff, complying with one of the HIPAA requirements. HIPAAsteps provides all of the materials, guidance and record keeping for physician practices to become and remain compliant with HIPAA and leads the provider organization and the privacy officer through evaluating and understanding organization data flow, on-line staff training, and gap analysis between current policies, procedures and the regulatory requirements.

"With less than a year to the deadline dictated by the federal government, Misys is pleased to present a tool set that can assist physician practices in their privacy compliance effort," said Misys Healthcare Systems CEO Tom Skelton.

About Misys Healthcare Systems

Misys Healthcare Systems is a division of Misys plc - one of the world's largest independent application software products companies. Misys Healthcare Systems is among the top five healthcare IT companies in the United States.

The company designs, develops, and supports a comprehensive suite of information products for hospitals, commercial laboratories, physician practices and home care providers that serve the healthcare IT industry's broadening spectrum of needs. Misys Healthcare Systems' three business units have a well-established customer base with 85,000 physicians, 1,200 hospitals, 600 home care providers, and hundreds of laboratories, clinics, managed services organizations and other related organizations using the company's products and services. For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com.

About HealthFlash

HealthFlash has emerged as a leader in providing software solutions for collaboration on strategic initiatives to include HIPAA and accreditation management efforts for the healthcare industry. Whether the healthcare organization is an integrated delivery system, hospital, physician group, health maintenance organization or an ancillary healthcare provider, HealthFlash brings software solutions to senior management with tools that focus on strategic initiatives and managing organizations more efficiently. HealthFlash's software applications assist healthcare organizations with projects, accreditation, compliance, and document management. HealthFlash's software suite allows hospitals, managed care organizations, and other healthcare entities to manage their compliance process for JCAHO, NCQA and URAC standards, HIPAA and CMS regulations, and other programs being mandated by federal and state agencies -- providing better management of their compliance, accreditation, and strategic projects through a single enterprise-wide application. HealthFlash is being used by Yale New Haven Health Systems, WellPoint Health Networks (NYSE: WLP), Kaiser Permanente, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, and Catholic Healthcare Partners among many other healthcare providers.

Prior to HealthFlash, healthcare organizations did not have a centralized, efficient way to manage projects key to record keeping and government regulatory compliance. HealthFlash offers flexible, efficient and secure solutions to promote collaboration and accountability among team members of healthcare systems by managing all information related to projects, performance measurement, tasks, meeting and documents. For more information, contact 678.566.4726, email sales@HealthFlash.net or visit www.HealthFlash.com.

HIPAAsteps(TM) is a registered trademark of HIPAAdocs Inc. and is used by HealthFlash under license from HIPAAdocs, Inc. All other products and brand names as they appear in this release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.