Sharp HealthCare Selects SeeBeyond to Optimize Processes and Speed Compliance With HIPAA Mandates

Business Wire, Feb 11, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003

SeeBeyond To Serve As eAI Enterprise Standard for Sharp

HealthCare's Technology Infrastructure

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBusiness and Application Integration (eAI) solutions, today announced Sharp HealthCare, an integrated, regional healthcare delivery system based in San Diego, California, has selected the SeeBeyond(R) Business Integration Suite to assist in accelerating its efforts in becoming compliant with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates. Once HIPAA compliance is achieved, the second phase of the partnership will include leveraging the SeeBeyond platform as the eAI standard for the entire Sharp HealthCare technology infrastructure, enabling Sharp HealthCare to achieve considerable organizational and operational efficiencies.

With four acute-care hospitals, three specialty hospitals and three medical groups, plus a full spectrum of other facilities and services, Sharp HealthCare, like many healthcare organizations, faced significant challenges across the extended enterprise in order to meet the government-mandated HIPAA standards. In addition, Sharp HealthCare was also interested in deploying technology that could help it quickly realize the added benefits that could be achieved by complying with the government mandates.

"We chose SeeBeyond for its tremendous experience in the healthcare industry along with its ability to provide business process optimization benefits on top of assisting our efforts toward HIPAA compliance," said Bill Spooner, senior vice president and CIO of Sharp HealthCare. "With our aggressive schedule to meet HIPAA mandates, we felt strongly that the SeeBeyond platform could be deployed rapidly and effectively across the entire organization, in turn providing additional value through resulting operational efficiencies which can result in significant cost savings over the next five years."

SeeBeyond has been a recognized leader in providing integration solutions to healthcare organizations for more than a decade, and in October 2002, introduced the SeeBeyond HIPAA Solution Set to provide customers with HIPAA-specific pre-configured software components, a best practice integration architecture, and a SeeBeyond Implementation Guide. Assisting customers efforts in meeting the HIPAA compliance deadline on time and on budget, customers often deploy the SeeBeyond solution and quickly realize they take advantage of greater returns on the initial investment by leveraging the complete SeeBeyond suite of solutions.

"We are proud to have been selected by Sharp HealthCare to help meet its initial mission-critical requirements of HIPAA compliance, but also because we believe that the benefits of the long-term rollout of the SeeBeyond platform will bring positive operational and financial results that will have a far-reaching effect on the entire organization," said Scott Harper, vice president of Healthcare for SeeBeyond.

For more information on HIPAA, please visit www.seebeyond.com to download the whitepaper entitled, "HIPAA - Climbing the Compliance Mountain".

About Sharp HealthCare

Sharp HealthCare is an integrated, regional health care delivery system based in San Diego, California. Sharp includes four acute-care hospitals, three specialty hospitals and three medical groups plus a full spectrum of other facilities and services. Serving a population of approximately 3 million in San Diego County, Sharp operates 1,847 beds, has approximately 2,541 physicians on medical staffs, 1,587 physicians in medical groups and more than 11,000 employees. The Sharp system represents $852 million in assets and $1.1 billion in income. For more information, please visit www.sharp.com.

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(R) Business Integration Suite helps organizations dramatically improve business operations resulting in reduced costs, increased market share and improved customer service. SeeBeyond has more than 1,780 customers 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, Sprint and Sutter Health. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com.

Note to Editors: SeeBeyond is a registered trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their respective owners.