Compuware Covisint Wins Healthcare Award Trifecta, Earning Third Consecutive 'Best Demonstration of Value/ROI' Recognition
Clinical and Executive Attendees Conferred the Designation at Healthcare IT Summit
DETROIT, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq: CPWR) today announced that its Covisint subsidiary earned its third
consecutive "Best Demonstration of Value/ROI" Innovation Award at the
Healthcare IT Summit 2008. Clinical and executive attendees cast their votes
at the San Diego conference, formerly called Gartner Healthcare IT Summit.
The IT Executives' Choice Award was conferred through the votes of
approximately 200 of North America's leading healthcare executives, CIOs and
physicians. During the Summit, Covisint presented case studies demonstrating
the extensive return on investment Covisint provides to the healthcare
ecosystem, including health plans and systems, health information exchanges,
labs, physician organizations and even entire U.S. states.
Covisint provides healthcare IT value by securely integrating and
connecting physicians with all other major stakeholders in the healthcare
ecosystem. Unlike traditional systems, Covisint provides physicians with
secure and simple access to lab, formulary and consult information, disease
management tools and other clinical and administrative data. Covisint also
provides physicians with popular social media connectivity and a
single-sign-on platform that handles regulatory issues while also offering a
24 x 7 helpdesk serving seven languages.
"Healthcare organizations everywhere face the difficult balancing act of
simultaneously improving both patient care and efficiency," said Brett Furst,
Covisint Vice President for Healthcare. "This ROI award again demonstrates
that Covisint's software-as-a-service approach provides deep value to the
entire healthcare spectrum. We are pleased to receive this important
recognition year after year from clinical and executive attendees."
The Healthcare IT Summit is widely regarded as one of the industry's most
comprehensive healthcare IT and business conferences, attracting the key
people who directly influence healthcare IT buying decisions. This year's
event was attended by all nine of Gartner's world-renowned healthcare
analysts, and keynoted by Dr. Robert Kolodner, National Coordinator, Health
Information Technology for the Department of Health and Human Services. Other
speakers presented from Google, Microsoft and University of Texas. The Summit
offered a uniquely interactive forum facilitating dialogues between Senior IT
and business executives from both payer and provider organizations and the
world's leading healthcare technology providers.
Covisint's on-demand collaboration platform helps virtual communities
securely access, use and share time-sensitive information. Covisint solves
business problems by streamlining and automating processes globally --
connecting state and nationally based communities, organizations and systems
in the healthcare, automotive, financial services and public sectors. Learn
more about Covisint at www.covisint.com.
Healthcare IT Summit
The Healthcare IT Summit brings together Gartner analysts, IT executives
from healthcare insurer and provider organizations, and leading technology
providers for uniquely collaborative discussions on today's pressing business
and IT issues, best practices and the latest tools and technology that will
improve the performance of your business. Additional information about Vision
Events can be found at www.healthcareitsummit.com.
Vision Events
Vision Events, a division of United Business Media, is a leading producer
of highly focused business events that bring resellers and end users together
with leading and emerging technology providers in private boardroom
appointments and case study presentations to form strategic partnerships and
secure new business in the technology sector. Additional information about
Vision Events can be found at visionevents.com.
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation makes IT rock around the world, helping CIOs
optimize IT performance to achieve business goals. Compuware solutions
accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of
critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire
IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity
throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's
leading IT organizations, including 92 percent of the Fortune 50 companies.
Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com.
