PLANO, Texas, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perot Systems Corporation (http://www.perotsystems.com) today announced that it has been awarded an extended contract with athenahealth, Inc. , a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices. The new five-year agreement further strengthens and extends the seven year relationship between the two companies. The agreement calls for Perot Systems to provide business process services relating to revenue cycle and clinical data capture services.
“Our relationship with Perot Systems has allowed us to focus on what we do best, providing innovative services to our medical group clients that increase operational and clinical outcomes,” stated athenahealth Executive Vice President and COO, James MacDonald. “We look forward to continuing to provide our clients with a diverse range of services with the help of Perot Systems while also expanding athenahealth’s operational leverage.”
Perot Systems’ seven year relationship has helped athenahealth deliver high quality and cost effective services to their customers that have produced higher customer satisfaction and financial results. The extension also strengthens Perot Systems’ position as a global leader in revenue cycle services, specifically in the business process solutions and the IT services space.
“The extension with athenahealth confirms their level of trust with Perot Systems,” stated Anurag Jain, President of Perot Systems’ insurance & business process solutions and applications solutions groups. “We take great pride in our relationship with athenahealth. Our goal is to continue to use our expertise and global delivery model to provide athenahealth with flexibility and focus that helps strengthen their leadership position. We look forward to growing with athenahealth in the coming years. “
Perot Systems is a market leader in delivering revenue cycle business process services. Our portfolio for our healthcare revenue cycle management customers includes global delivery of business process, applications and infrastructure solutions.
About athenahealth
athenahealth is the leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices. The Company’s service offerings are based on proprietary internet-based practice management and electronic medical record (EMR) software, a continuously updated payer knowledge-base and integrated back-office service operations. For more information, visit http://www.athenahealth.com or call (888) 652-8200.
About Perot Systems
Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information technology services and business solutions. Through its flexible and collaborative approach, Perot Systems integrates expertise from across the company to deliver custom solutions that enable clients to accelerate growth, streamline operations and create new levels of customer value. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Perot Systems reported 2007 revenue of $2.6 billion. The company has more than 23,000 associates located in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. Additional information on Perot Systems is available at http://www.perotsystems.com/
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. For factors that could affect our business and cause actual results to differ materially, please refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at http://www.sec.gov/, as updated in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed after such Form 10-K, for additional information regarding risk factors. We disclaim any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
CONTACT: Alex Rapp of Perot Systems Corporation, +1-972-577-7808,
alex.rapp@ps.net
Web site: http://www.perotsystems.com/
http://www.athenahealth.com/
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