First Medical Health Plan Selects SeeBeyond Solution Set to Accelerate HIPAA Compliance

Business Wire, Dec 16, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002

SeeBeyond To Deliver Pre-configured HIPAA-Enabling Software And

Implementation Blueprint To First Medical

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBusiness and Application Integration (eAI) solutions, today announced that First Medical Health Plan, a privately held health plan based in Puerto Rico, has selected the SeeBeyond(TM) Business Integration Suite along with the SeeBeyond HIPAA Solution Set for Payers to accelerate its efforts in becoming HIPAA compliant. In addition, the SeeBeyond platform will serve as the health plan's foundation architecture to support ongoing automation, management and optimization of business processes at reduced cost, complexity and time to value.

With 9,000 providers in its network, processing 475,000 transactions per month, serving 70 percent of government employees in Puerto Rico, and growing market share in the private sector, First Medical has identified very specific near-term requirements that must be addressed in order to meet government mandates and maintain its competitive advantage in the industry. As one of the first organizations to select the recently launched SeeBeyond HIPAA Solution Set for Payers, a pre-packaged, process-driven integration solution designed to rapidly enable HIPAA transaction compliance, First Medical is fully committed to automating its processes using the SeeBeyond solution to help enhance customer satisfaction.

"With a need to facilitate the automation and management of key business processes, in addition to achieving HIPAA compliance, reducing costs and improving customer service, First Medical selected SeeBeyond as our strategic integration provider," said Olvin Carballo, Information Technology Director for First Medical Health Plan, Inc. "Helping us to achieve the lowest total cost of ownership with the combination of a completely unified product suite and a comprehensive, HIPAA-focused implementation blueprint, SeeBeyond technology can help First Medical optimize our business operations allowing us to focus on the most important goal - improved customer care."

As a recognized leader in providing integration solutions to healthcare organizations for more than a decade, SeeBeyond continues to offer in-depth, targeted solutions with even shorter time to value for its growing customer base, by delivering the critical enablers and components for successful HIPAA implementations. The SeeBeyond HIPAA Solution Set consists of pre-built, pre-configured software, a HIPAA Implementation Guide that provides a tailored tool-kit, a best practices HIPAA foundation architecture, and pre-packaged HIPAA transactions.

"Recognizing the fact that the SeeBeyond Solution Set surpasses all other competitive offerings currently on the market in terms of comprehensiveness and depth, healthcare organizations such as First Medical will benefit from a best practice business process architecture at reduced cost, complexity and time to deployment," said Eli Perlman, Director of Healthcare Professional Services for SeeBeyond. "Providing a HIPAA-compliant foundation architecture and production-ready HIPAA transactions within 12 weeks, SeeBeyond helps healthcare organizations to quickly solve their immediate HIPAA needs, while laying the foundation for an enterprise-wide integration infrastructure that can scale into the future."

About First Medical Health Plan, Inc.

First Medical Health Plan, Inc. has been offering services to the families of Puerto Rico for the past 25 years. In addition, First Medical offers free choice Group and Individual Plans to government employees and private employers, through its provider's network and over 9,000 health professionals, including GMPs, family doctors, specialists, sub-specialists, hospitals, laboratories, Hi-tech Studies and emergency room services.

About SeeBeyond

As the leading global provider of eBusiness and Application Integration (eAI) solutions, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq: SBYN) provides a unified, comprehensive platform for business integration, enabling a Real-Time Information Network to facilitate the seamless flow of information. Delivering Visibility, Velocity and Value across global operations, the SeeBeyond(TM) Business Integration Suite helps organizations dramatically improve business operations resulting in reduced costs, increased market share and improved customer service. SeeBeyond has more than 1,725 worldwide, including ABN Amro, Bausch & Lomb, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, BMW Group, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Dial Corporation, DuPont, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Meriter Health Services, Pfizer and Sprint. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com.

SeeBeyond is a trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their respective owners.