Covisint Expands Healthcare Footprint, Debuts Cloud-based Solution Internationally

HIMSS Conference & Exhibition --Covisint Corporation (Nasdaq: COVS), provider of the leading cloud engagementplatform, today expanded its healthcare platform globally to support thegrowing international need for secure health information exchange. Covisintsigned a five-year strategic partnership with the Indonesian-based AptusPacific Indonesia in the debut of Covisint's global healthcare expansion.The international market poses both unique challenges and opportunities inproviding healthcare quality measurement, claims administration and servicedelivery. Poor healthcare automation systems often result in expensive andinefficient workflows that cause delays in care delivery and reimbursement.Leveraging the Covisint platform, Aptus will deploy Health InformationExchange Indonesia, a flexible solution that will meet health provider andpayer organizations where they already are in their technology adoption – acritically important factor in international markets.Together, Aptus and Covisint will automate inefficient processes in theinsurance, hospital and physician markets as a first step in healthinformation exchange for Indonesia, which is predicted to grow to the world'sseventh-largest economy by 2030 (up from 16^th today). The Indonesian market –which is reflective of many Asian-Pacific regions – represents a robust growthopportunity for technology due to a rapidly expanding middle class and theneed for an improved healthcare delivery system supporting large and growingpopulations.The Covisint and Aptus partnership will provide the expertise and ability tomeet rigorous international regulations and privacy standards that will driveincreased efficiency across the healthcare value chain, including serving: * Care delivery organizations and physicians, who will gain the ability to improve workflow automation, reducing time to reimbursement and administrative costs while enabling organizations to invest more time and money back into patient care. * Payer organizations, who will now be able to automate communications with providers for improved efficiency. Currently communications between payer and providers are processed via phone, fax or currier transport of medical and administrative records. Moving message-handling to electronic workflows means improved profit due to efficiency with higher provider and beneficiary satisfaction. * Patients, who will enjoy greater efficiency in handling claims and timeliness of care delivery, leading to better care and higher patient satisfaction."Given the state of technology adoption in Indonesia, the Covisint platformprovides a timely, high-value solution driving the automated, secure andefficient exchange of health information into a market where, previously,manual operations existed," said Almer Joesoef, President Director of AptusPacific Indonesia. "The Covisint platform – which is proven across the U.S.healthcare industry, as well as other global industries – will enable us toachieve a major corporate priority to improve the quality and efficiency ofhealthcare services. We will be marketing and implementing Health InformationExchange Indonesia to support public and private health systems and insurancemarkets across Indonesia.""Healthcare globally depends on secure, scalable and effective communicationbetween providers, payers and others across the entire care continuum," saidDave McGuffie, Covisint CEO and President. "This partnership – built on Aptus'cultural and political understanding of the Indonesian healthcare market,combined with Covisint's proven and scalable technology platform – willdeliver significant value to the Indonesian market. Covisint will continue towork with key customers and partners to expand its healthcare footprintglobally."Covisint delivers high value to accountable care stakeholders by supporting acomprehensive health information technology roadmap that helps improve healthoutcomes, increases efficiencies and fills the gaps left by existingtechnology investments. Covisint's agnostic platform, which works with orwithout an existing EMR system, enables the free, secure flow of informationwith the customer in full control, helping healthcare providers and payersmaintain data independence and control.CovisintCovisint provides the leading cloud engagement platform for creating andenabling new mission-critical external business processes. Our solutionsenable organizations to connect, engage, and collaborate with the criticalexternal audiences that define their success--including customers, businesspartners, and suppliers. Covisint allows its clients to establish a secure,reliable, integrated presence in the cloud, and offer the kind of engaginginformation experiences that people everywhere have come to expect. Learn moreat www.covisint.com.