The Cleveland Clinic Leverages SeeBeyond ICAN 5 for Electronic Prescri

The Cleveland Clinic Leverages SeeBeyond ICAN 5 for Electronic Prescribing

    Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
    HIMSS 2005 Annual Conference

    DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2005--

SeeBeyond Included As Supporter and Sponsor of e-Prescribing NCPDP-HL7 Interoperability Standards Demonstration at 2005 HIMSS Conference
    SeeBeyond (Nasdaq: SBYN), provider of the world's first fully Integrated Composite Application Network (ICAN) suite for advanced integration and composite application solutions, today announced that The Cleveland Clinic, a world leader in providing patients with excellence in all aspects of their healthcare, is leveraging SeeBeyond ICAN 5 as the integration engine to enable its Electronic Prescribing (e-Prescribing) program. A rapidly emerging application in modern health information systems throughout the world, e-Prescribing is playing a key role in reducing medication errors, improving patient care and reducing operational inefficiencies.
    Helping to reduce medication errors, improve patient care and reduce operational inefficiencies, e-Prescribing is rapidly emerging as a key component of 21st Century Healthcare Information Systems throughout the world. In the United States, National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) SCRIPT is the primary messaging standard used for electronically communicating prescription-related information between prescribers and community pharmacies, while healthcare provider organizations utilize HL7 medication messages to process both inpatient and outpatient information. e-Prescribing depends on the bi-directional mapping and translations of new prescription messages, medication history and medication code sets using both industry messaging standards. To bridge this gap, the sponsoring organizations for both HL7 and NCPDP have embarked on a multi-phase standards coordination initiative to enable enterprise-based physicians and pharmacies to interoperate with community-based prescribers and pharmacies.
    See the results of the first phase of this project at the HL7 HIMSS 2005 Exhibit: "Interoperability for the 21st Century Healthcare System". Sponsored in part by SeeBeyond, this exhibit will demonstrate how standards are helping to make interoperability a reality in the context of clinical information exchange including e-Prescribing, electronic health records, clinical trials, context management and more. As one of the participants in the e-Prescribing demonstration, The Cleveland Clinic will leverage the SeeBeyond integration platform to process e-Prescribing orders and reports, and demonstrate the flexibility to integrate with several ePrescribing Pharmacy Network Providers.
    Processing more than three million prescriptions per year, The Cleveland Clinic is leading the charge in making e-Prescribing a reality. In the later half of 2004, The Cleveland Clinic transitioned from printing or calling in prescriptions to a patient's pharmacy, to electronically transmitting medication orders directly to the patient's pharmacy via pharmacy network providers. Using the HL7 to NCPDP standard mapping implementation, The Cleveland Clinic Health System's Clinical Integration Team is now distributing e-Prescribing orders to three pharmacy network providers, during the HIMSS & NCPDP conferences.
    For more information about the HL7 HIMSS 2005 Exhibit, please visit booth #3919 at HIMSS 2005, or visit http://www.hl7.org/ctl.cfm?action=himss.home. For more information about SeeBeyond's solutions for healthcare or its work with The Cleveland Clinic, please visit booth #6427, or visit www.seebeyond.com/industries/health.asp.

    About The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. The Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. U.S. News & World Report consistently names The Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation's best hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey. Approximately 1,200 full-time salaried physicians at The Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Florida represent more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties. In 2003, patients came for treatment from every state and nearly 90 countries. The Cleveland Clinic website address is www.clevelandclinic.org.

    About SeeBeyond

    Based on 15 years of software innovation and real-world experience in integrating systems across Global 2000 organizations, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq: SBYN) delivers the industry's first integrated composite application network built on a comprehensive integration platform. The SeeBeyond(R) Integrated Composite Application Network Suite(TM) helps organizations rapidly assemble and deploy enterprise-scale end-user applications built on existing systems and infrastructure to dramatically improve business operations. SeeBeyond has approximately 2,000 customers worldwide, including ABN Amro, BHP Billiton, The Cleveland Clinic, The Dial Corporation, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Daniel, Fujitsu, General Motors, Halliburton, Hertz Corporation, HP, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Samsung, Sprint and Sutter Health. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com.

    SeeBeyond is a registered trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation in the United States and select foreign countries. SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Network Suite is a trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. The absence of a trademark from this list does not constitute a waiver of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation's intellectual property rights concerning that trademark. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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