SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vitria , a leading provider of business process integration solutions, today announced that Premera Blue Cross, a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association independent licensee for Washington state and Alaska, has selected Vitria’s Healthcare Solutions as the integration infrastructure to simplify, streamline and automate its transaction management processes.
Operating as Premera Blue Cross in Washington state and as Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield in Alaska, Premera Blue Cross offers a large, diverse network of providers, including nearly 20,000 healthcare professionals and 100 hospitals in the state of Washington and 1,000 professionals and 20 hospitals in Alaska. Vitria is providing the company with healthcare-specific solutions and domain expertise with the goal to simplify and automate transaction processes.
“We were looking for a technology partner with experience in implementing healthcare solutions,” said David Young, vice president, information technology, Premera Blue Cross.
“Premera Blue Cross has been dedicated to finding innovative ways to manage healthcare costs while improving information access and overall patient care,” said Robert Golladay, vice president of Vitria’s Insurance & Healthcare solutions group. “We are pleased to add the organization to our growing list of independent Blue Cross Blue Shield plans relying on Vitria:BusinessWare to improve claims processing efficiency,” added Golladay.
About Premera Blue Cross
Our mission is to provide peace of mind to our members about their health-care coverage. We provide health insurance and related services to more than 1.2 million people in Washington and Alaska. Premera Blue Cross has operated in Washington since 1933 and Alaska since 1957. Premera Blue Cross is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Premera Blue Cross is a member of a family of companies based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington that provide health, life, vision, dental, and long-term care insurance, and other related services, in multiple western states.
About Vitria’s Healthcare Solutions
Vitria’s healthcare solutions, based on the Vitria:BusinessWare business process integration platform, streamline healthcare administration, simplify deployment, reduce costs and improve business competitiveness. Leading healthcare companies are using Vitria solutions including Availity, Aventis, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Cardinal Health, Guardian, Humana, Mennonite Mutual Aid, and PacifiCare Health Systems.
About Vitria
Vitria is a leading provider of business process integration solutions. The company pioneered the enterprise application integration market in 1994 and the use of business process management in 1997, and is now the first integration solution provider to solve integration challenges through collaborative applications. With 23 offices around the world, Vitria’s customer base includes such companies as BellSouth, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BP, DaimlerChrysler Bank, Dana, Generali, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, PacifiCare Health Systems, Reynolds and Reynolds, Schneider Logistics, Sprint, Trane, Trans Union, and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veteran’s Affairs. For more information call +1-408-212-2700, email info@vitria.com or visit http://www.vitria.com/.
NOTE: Vitria and BusinessWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vitria Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements relating to new products, future revenue growth, goals and future business opportunities that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: failure to meet financial and product expectations of analysts and investors; risk related to market acceptance of Vitria’s products and alliance partners’ products; deployment delays or errors associated with these and other products of Vitria and partners; the need to maintain and enhance certain business relationships with system integrators and other parties; activities by Vitria and others regarding protection of proprietary information; release of competitive products and other actions by competitors; and economic conditions in domestic and foreign markets. These and other risks related to Vitria are detailed in Vitria’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2003, filed with the SEC on March 12, 2004. Vitria does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements.
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CONTACT: Fred Bateman of The Bateman Group, +1-415-503-1818, orfbateman@bateman-group.com; or Chris Jarvis of Premera Blue Cross,+1-425-918-3368, or chris.jarvis@premera.com
Web site: http://www.vitria.com/
