15 Health Care Organizations License PeopleSoft Applications; PeopleSoft Named to Healthcare Informatics Top 100 List, Forms Health Care Special Interest Group.PLEASANTON Pleasanton, city (1990 pop. 50,553), Alameda co., W Calif., a suburb of the San Francisco–Oakland area, in a vineyard and dairy region; inc. 1894. Wine and cheese are produced, and there are publishing and stone-quarrying industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 1995--PeopleSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) today announced that over the past six months it has signed 15 new contracts with leading health care organizations for its client/server An architecture in which the user's PC (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). software applications. Since it began to focus on the health care market in late 1993, PeopleSoft (PeopleSoft, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, www.peoplesoft.com) A software company that specialized in enterprise-wide applications for client/server environments. Initially specializing in human resources, its package offerings covered the gamut including financial, distribution, manufacturing has experienced rapid growth, signaling mounting demand for its products in the fast-changing industry; to date, the company has over 60 health care organizations as customers. Reflecting this success, the company was recently named to The Healthcare Informatics Same as information technology and information systems. The term is more widely used in Europe. Top 100 listing of the largest application software vendors in the health care industry, as measured by health care-specific revenue. PeopleSoft is one of only a handful of client/server business application vendors to make the list. In addition, PeopleSoft recently formed a Health Care Special Interest Group dedicated to addressing the needs unique to this market. "Today's health care organizations are under tremendous pressure to reduce costs while improving service," said Ken Horowitz Ho·ro·witz , Vladimir 1904-1989. Russian-born American pianist noted for his interpretations of Chopin and Liszt. Noun 1. Horowitz - Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989) , PeopleSoft's vice president of health care. "PeopleSoft is the only provider of true client/server business applications targeting this market, and the company has achieved impressive results in providing solutions that address the critical needs of human resource, financial, and materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, departments." With the addition of these new customers, PeopleSoft now delivers its business applications to more than 60 major health care organizations -- representing over 120 hospitals, 70 HMOs and PHOs, as well as hundreds of skilled nursing facilities skilled nursing facility n. Abbr. SNF An establishment that houses chronically ill, usually elderly patients, and provides long-term nursing care, rehabilitation, and other services. and clinics, outpatient services outpatient services Hospital-based services Managed care Medical and other services provided, to a nonadmitted Pt, by a hospital or other qualified facility–eg, mental health clinic, rural health clinic, mobile X-ray unit, free-standing dialysis unit Examples , nursing homes, rehab hospitals and centers, physician group practices, and home health companies -- throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of . The following companies have signed new contracts for PeopleSoft enterprise solutions in the areas of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , financials, and materials management: -0- Allina Health System Lehigh Valley Hospital AvMed-SantaFe Maimonides Medical Center Ball Memorial Hospital Manor Care, Inc. BC Info Health Sentara Health System Capital Health System Thomas Jefferson University Children's Hospital of Wisconsin UniHealth Coram Health Care, Inc. University of Wisconsin Hospital/Clinics HEALTHSOUTH -0- Customer Showcase: UniHealth Chooses PeopleSoft For HR Management
Based in Burbank, California, UniHealth is one of the nation's
largest voluntary nonprofit healthcare networks serving a population
of over 11 million in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. In 1994,
UniHealth began a corporate-wide migration to client/server computing
by identifying 16 of the company's information systems to be
converted.
UniHealth purchased PeopleSoft Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits
Administration, and Pension Administration in March, 1995. These
applications will run on a Sun SPARC server and 486 PC clients on
ORACLE. PeopleSoft will be the first client/server business
application to go into production, and the company is using the
PeopleSoft implementation as the driving force behind putting a local
area network (LAN) into place corporate-wide.
According to Robin Byers, UniHealth's administrative director of
HRIS, "Replacing our mainframe-based, in-house developed human
resources systems, as well as a number of outsourced functions, with
PeopleSoft's client/server applications will save UniHealth an
estimated $4.1 million over 5 years."
Initially, over 120 users in the human resources department will
access the system regularly. Part of UniHealth's vision for the
future is to provide access to each of the company's 11,000 employees
through PCs and kiosks for direct deposit, W4, and address changes,
as well as enable them to apply for job openings within the
organization, answer climate surveys, and remind their superior it is
time for a performance appraisal.
PeopleSoft and Client/Server in the Health Care Market
There is a "survival of the fittest" struggle taking place in
the health care industry in which all organizations are re-examining
every aspect of their services and becoming more cost conscious than
ever before. As a result of countless mergers and acquisitions, many
single-unit hospitals, once dedicated solely to healing the sick,
have evolved into integrated health care delivery systems, comprised
of a variety of multi-site hospitals, clinics, medical centers,
medical colleges, skilled nursing facilities, and managed care
organizations. These integrated delivery systems have increasingly
complex needs, and therefore require industrial strength solutions
that are uniform, flexible, easy-to-use, and cost-effective. More
and more, client/server systems are becoming the information systems
of choice for meeting the dynamic reporting, data-analysis, and
management needs of this market.
Because its client/server applications are designed to support
large, dynamic, and rapidly changing organizations, many leading
health care suppliers are turning to PeopleSoft to support their
strategic goals. PeopleSoft addresses the unique needs of the market
through its dedicated health care marketing unit.
About PeopleSoft's Health Care SIG
The recently formed Health Care Special Interest Group was
established to provide customers in various stages of implementation
a forum to share implementation successes and ideas with each other
and PeopleSoft health care experts. The group previously met in
Northbrook, Illinois at the corporate headquarters of Caremark
International, a PeopleSoft HRMS customer.
PeopleSoft provided a review of current and future product
additions, focusing on applications especially suited for health care
organizations, as well as an explanation of recent technical
enhancements. A number of customer-led roundtable discussions
focused on end user reporting, affirmative action compliance, project
management, and the upgrade process provided valuable insight for
other customers.
The next bi-annual Health Care SIG meeting will be held in
September, 1995, at PeopleSoft's annual users' conference in Orlando,
Florida.
About PeopleSoft, Inc.
PeopleSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSFT) was established in 1987 to
provide innovative software solutions that meet the changing business
demands of enterprises worldwide. A client/server applications
pioneer and market share leader, PeopleSoft develops, markets, and
supports a complete suite of enterprise applications for accounting,
materials management, distribution, manufacturing, and human
resources. PeopleSoft's innovative use of technology empowers
individuals to make informed decisions and manage constant change.
With several hundred Fortune 1,000 customers around the world, the
company has been recognized for both its award-winning customer
service and remarkable growth. PeopleSoft was listed by Fortune as
one of the fastest growing companies in America in 1994 and 1995, and
by Forbes as one of the 200 best small companies in America in 1994.
PeopleSoft product and service information can be located on the
World Wide Web at http://www.peoplesoft.com.
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Note to Editors: PeopleSoft, PeopleCode and PeopleTalk are
trademarks, and PeopleTools and PS/nVision are registered trademarks
of PeopleSoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
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PeopleSoft, Inc. New Healthcare Customers Announced August 14, 1995 Customer Name and Location Products Licensed Allina Health System, Minnetonka, MN HRMS
AvMed-SantaFe, Gainsville, FL Financials
HRMS
Purchasing
Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, IN Financials
HRMS
Materials Management
BC Info Health, Vancouver, BC Financials
HRMS
Capital Health System, Harrisburg, PA HRMS Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Financials Coram Health Care, Inc., Denver CO HRMS
HEALTHSOUTH, Birmingham, AL Financials
HRMS
Materials Management
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA HRMS Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY HRMS Manor Care, Inc., Silver Spring, MD Payroll Sentara Health System, Norfolk, VA HRMS Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA Financials UniHealth, Burbank, CA HRMS
University of Wisconsin Hospital/Clinics Financials
Payroll
Materials Management
CONTACT: PeopleSoft, Inc. Ken Horowitz, 404/814-5500 ken_horowitz@peoplesoft.com or The Horn Group Marsha Greeley Greeley, city (1990 pop. 60,536), seat of Weld co., N Colo., at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; inc. 1885. It is a rail and trade center for a rich irrigated farm area. , 415/579-6400 marsha@horngroup.com |
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