WESTBORO, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software Corporation , the enterprise data integration leader, is helping more than 300 healthcare organizations -- including nine of the ten largest U.S.-based healthcare enterprises -- improve and enhance their operational performance while facilitating compliance with HIPAA regulations.
One Ascential Software customer is The ODS Companies (ODS), a multi- faceted organization that provides dental, medical, and professional health care insurance products, along with a variety of business services including dental practice management software and benefits administration. "Today's healthcare enterprises face tremendous pressures to lower expenses while maintaining the highest levels of patient care. This challenging goal means we have to quickly and accurately identify areas for process improvements," said Val Taylor, IS development supervisor at The ODS Companies. "Ascential DataStage(TM) TX helped us integrate transactional data from several sources across the enterprise to build an accurate, complete and timely foundation for strategic decision-making while enabling us to comply with stringent HIPAA regulations."
Many of the world's leading healthcare organizations rely on Ascential Software for powerful data integration solutions and services to help improve patient care, reduce operations costs and ease regulatory compliance. Ascential Software's healthcare customers include:
-- Applera Corporation -- Apria Healthcare -- Baxter Healthcare -- Coventry Healthcare -- Emory Healthcare -- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield -- Express Scripts -- Medco -- Partners Community Healthcare -- The Regence Group
Ascential Software recently received the HIPAA Conformance Certification Organization's (HCCO) Platinum Certification for providing data integration solutions that facilitate compliance with federal healthcare regulations. HCCO is a nonprofit organization serving the healthcare community with practical guidelines, accreditation standards and services for complying with The United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
"HIPAA compliance can be challenging, but it has prompted healthcare organizations to work with data in new ways," said Helen Gurevich, director of healthcare solutions at Ascential Software. "By integrating transactional, operational and analytical data from across the enterprise, healthcare organizations are realizing significant opportunities to optimize performance beyond just compliance, such as identifying areas for patient service improvements and becoming a more consumer-focused healthcare enterprise."
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM) is a complete data integration solution that profiles, cleanses and consolidates data from multiple sources, applications and systems, and transforms it into valuable strategic information for public and private sector enterprises. The suite enables unlimited scalability through parallel processing, complete meta data management, any-to-any connectivity and real-time data integration. Ascential Real-time Integration Services(TM) extends the reach and enables the seamless interoperability of Ascential Software's data integration solutions within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture (SOA).
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise data integration solutions to organizations worldwide. Customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to integrate and leverage data across all transactional, operational and analytical applications with confidence in the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of critical information. Ascential Software's powerful data profiling, data quality, data transformation, parallel processing, meta data and connectivity solutions enable customers to reduce total cost of ownership and increase return on IT investment. Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Ascential Software has offices worldwide and supports more than 3,000 customers in such industries as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, consumer goods, retail and government. For more information about Ascential Software call 1- 800-966-9875 (508-366-3888 if calling from outside the US or Canada) or visit the Ascential Software Web site at http://www.ascential.com/.
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