REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

    News Facts

    -- Shared Health, Inc., one of the nation's largest public/private
health information exchanges (HIE), has built its new clinical data-sharing
platform, the Shared Health Clinical Xchange, on Oracle healthcare
solutions and infrastructure software.

    -- The new platform will greatly expand the types of clinical
information - including encounter data, medications, labs, allergies,
transcription, radiology reports, vital signs and more -- available to
clinicians in real-time.

    -- It also helps payers and employers manage proactive and preventive
health initiatives while enabling consumers to more easily manage their
critical health information.

    -- With real-time access to vital patient data, the Clinical Xchange
platform enables physicians to boost practice efficiency by up to 17
percent (http://tinyurl.com/5legrr) while making more informed care
decisions.

    -- Oracle(R) Healthcare Transaction Base
(http://www.oracle.com/industries/healthcare/htb.html) serves as the
clinical data repository for the Shared Health Clinical Xchange, providing
a highly secure environment and enabling interoperability that allows the
exchange to accept and process many different data domains including
claims, pharmacy and lab result information.

    -- It also helps the Clinical Xchange support multiple data formats
including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Electronic Data Interchange (HIPAA EDI), National Council for Prescription
Drug Programs (NCPDP), Health Level 7 (HL7), Continuity of Care Documents
and flat file.

    -- Shared Health's use of Oracle's Healthcare Transaction Base is
helping to fulfill the promise of interoperability among disparate
healthcare stakeholders. Shared Health is the most comprehensive,
commercially available and fully deployed standards-based infrastructure
that has arisen from the Health and Human Services (HHS) National Health
Information Network prototypes.

    -- Shared Health's Oracle-based service-oriented architecture enables
the organization to quickly and effectively add new applications and
services to its Clinical Xchange platform including analytics components,
patient population modules, disease registry components, and e-prescribing.

    -- Shared Health uses Oracle Identity Management
(http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/id_mgmt/index.html) to maintain
tight control over access management to help ensure compliance with HIPAA
requirements, and has deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters
(http://www.oracle.com/database/rac_home.html) to enable 24/7 availability
of the exchange.

    -- Shared Health is also using Oracle BPEL Process Manager
(http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/index.html) for process
orchestration, Oracle Healthcare Adapter for NCPDP and HL7 message
validation and Oracle B2B for trading partner management.

    Supporting Quotes

    -- "The combination of Oracle technology and consulting services
resulted in a true partnership that enabled Shared Health to build one of
the most comprehensive health information exchanges in the world -- which
today reaches more than 2 million Tennessee residents. Shared Health
Clinical Xchange gives healthcare providers clinically relevant information
and tools to improve patient care and physician efficiency," said Jana
Skewes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Shared Health, Inc.

    -- "Shared Health has built a sound, sustainable business model that
leverages Oracle technology to address real stakeholder problems. The
Health Information Exchange is really the by-product of solving business
problems and Shared Health Clinical Xchange provides a compelling example
of how Oracle solutions are being used to accelerate insights for better
health," said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit.


    Supporting Resources
    --  Oracle in Health Sciences:
        http://www.oracle.com/industries/health_sciences/index.html
    --  Shared Health, Inc.: http://www.sharedhealth.com
    --  Shared Health Announces Clinical Xchange Platform:
        http://tinyurl.com/69bdmh

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