Children's Memorial Hospital Selects Corechange's Coreport to Centralize Access to Hospital Information

Enterprise Portal Deployment Helps Streamline Application Access and Reduce Administrative Time for Hospital Employees

Boston - 2002-09-08 - Corechange, Inc., a global provider of portal framework software, today announced that Children s Memorial Hospital of Chicago has deployed Corechange s Coreport to provide centralized, secure access to vital healthcare applications throughout its organization. The Coreport enterprise portal enables the 3,000 doctors, nurses, administrators and referring physicians associated with the hospital to quickly and easily access information, freeing up extra time they can devote to patient needs and the overall goal of better patient care.

The Coreport solution creates a single, pervasive window into the extended enterprise that allows employees to log onto the computer once to gain access to all authorized applications through a personalized user interface. This one-time access eliminates the need for employees to enter multiple passwords in order to move from one application to another, decreasing the administrative time required to retrieve information. In this way, the Coreport solution has defined and optimized the customer interface into the Hospital s enterprise systems.

In our fast-paced, information intensive environment, caregivers and administrative employees are constantly moving from one application to another in order to provide patients with the immediate care they need, said Stanley Krok, chief information officer, Children s Memorial Hospital. We needed to integrate dozens of disparate legacy applications across a complex environment of shared computers, disconnected departments and numerous passwords. Coreport was a solution that could offer us all of this in a single product.

Coreport s personalized user interface also masks the complexity of the IT system, letting employees see only the information that is relevant to them. In addition, Coreport s secure single sign-on access will assist us in addressing the Hospital s need to meet regulatory requirements for privacy and security of patient information put forward by the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

To date, the Hospital has deployed the enterprise portal to 550 shared desktops, affecting 1,300 hospital personnel. The portal will be deployed to the remaining half of the hospital staff this quarter.

Today s businesses and healthcare organizations are faced with an overwhelming amount of information and increasingly complex regulations for privacy and security, said Charles F. Kane, president and CEO, Corechange. Our comprehensive enterprise portal software provides organizations, such as Children s Memorial Hospital, with the ability to have one, pervasive view into all of their information-rich applications and systems, giving them the power to unify and personalize that information for increased efficiency.

Children's Memorial Hospital's selection of Corechange technology is evidence of the value Coreport delivers to the healthcare industry by accelerating access to clinical information, improving productivity and quality. To further extend the benefits of Coreport to healthcare organizations, Corechange recently entered into a worldwide distribution agreement with GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, who integrate Coreport into their Centricity Portal. On Thursday, May 9, Children's Memorial Hospital, Corechange and GE Medical Systems Information Technologies will discuss the benefits of enterprise portals in the healthcare industry at the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) CIO Forum in Scottsdale, Arizona.

About Children s Memorial Hospital

Children's Memorial physicians see more than 200,000 patients a year, and is one of only five pediatric institutions in the country to have a research center devoted solely to children. For the ninth consecutive year, US News & World Report has ranked Children's Memorial among the nation's top pediatric hospitals. The American Nurses Association also recently recognized the hospital as the first hospital in the state and the first pediatric hospital in the nation - to receive its prestigious Nursing Excellence Magnet Award.

About GE Medical Systems Information Technologies

GE Medical Systems Information Technologies provides healthcare systems with advanced software and technologies to improve their clinical performance. The Company s expertise spans the areas of cardiology, patient monitoring, image management, clinical communications, clinical information systems and Six Sigma-based management tools to enable a real-time, integrated electronic medical record. GE Medical Systems Information Technologies is a business of GE Medical Systems, an $8 billion global leader in medical imaging and technology. Additional information about GE Medical Systems can be found at www.gemedicalsystems.com.

About Corechange

Corechange, Inc. delivers infrastructure software to develop, deploy and manage enterprise portals on a global scale. The company s Coreport product provides a no-compromise approach to integrating existing documents, content, applications, components, and services to deliver a best-of-breed portal solution. Coreport, the secure, scalable Microsoft-powered enterprise portal framework, provides a rich, highly personalized, role-based user experience. Corechange has a worldwide customer base, including American Electric Power (AEP), Credit Suisse First Boston, UnumProvident Corporation, EMC, Ericsson, Philips, Hitachi, Krispy Kreme, and Royal & SunAlliance. The company s strategic partners include Microsoft, Nortel Networks, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, and Aether Systems. Corechange is headquartered in Boston, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

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