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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Systems/Enterprise:
MICROSOFT, ECLIPSYS ANNOUNCE
MULTIYEAR STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
Eclipsys Corp and Microsoft Corp announced a multiyear strategic alliance
to
advance Eclipsys' SunriseXA enterprise solutions based on the Microsoft
platform and .NET technologies. The goal of the strategic alliance is to
provide innovative healthcare enterprise solutions that integrate with a wide
array of legacy applications, are easier to implement and maintain, and are
more adaptable to current and future customer needs -- at a lower total cost
of ownership.
As a cornerstone of this alliance, the two companies will collaborate on
marketing, sales and software development efforts. Microsoft and Eclipsys
share a common technology vision that centers around the development of
software based on industry standards such as Extensible Markup Language (XML)
and Web services. These standards enable healthcare enterprises to deploy the
most open and flexible solutions possible for their mission-critical
businesses.
Specifically, in addition to creating and executing go-to-market sales and
marketing campaigns, the alliance will deliver enhanced value to Eclipsys'
customers by embedding Microsoft's .NET Framework, smart client technology and
Web services into SunriseXA, thus providing users with richer, connected and
more productive experiences across desktop and mobile devices.
"With this strategic alliance, Eclipsys is well-positioned to meet the
needs
of healthcare customers now and in the future," said Paul L. Ruflin, president
and CEO of Eclipsys. "The coordinated sales, marketing and development effort
between Eclipsys and Microsoft is a very powerful combination. This alliance
agreement heightens our business agility and increases our delivery capacity
at a time of significant investment in the next generation of health system
solutions."
"Eclipsys joins a growing number of companies across many industries that
are
finding the Microsoft platform and .NET to be the right choices to improve
developer productivity and to deliver flexible applications faster," said
Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president of the Platform Strategy and
Partner Group at Microsoft. "Microsoft .NET technologies allow healthcare
organizations to achieve a lower total cost of ownership by easily integrating
legacy applications with new technologies and enabling them to share
information across organizations and platforms."
The Microsoft-Eclipsys alliance comes at an important time in the
healthcare
technology industry as momentum increases for the deployment of advanced
clinical information technology that helps improve patient safety and reduces
medical errors. Solutions for computerized physician order entry (CPOE), such
as the SunriseXA advanced clinical solution, transform user workflow by
automating communication among clinicians. This eliminates paper- based
processes and aids clinical decision-making by providing immediate, secure
access to medical content and patient records at the point of care or
virtually anywhere. More important, because these solutions automate
communication, they are shown to improve patient safety and care delivery.
These efforts are supported by patient safety advocates such as The Leapfrog
Group and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, which recommend
CPOE and automation to reduce the thousands of medical errors estimated to
occur annually. Combined with regulatory compliance requirements, these
factors will be instrumental in shaping the future of healthcare delivery.
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