Advanced Research Systems, Inc. Announces ATLANTES Messenger Integration Tool Kit.SEATTLE--(BW HealthWire)--July 2, 1999-- New Tool Delivers Integration Solution Maintainable by Non-technical Staff, Accommodates Organizational Changes and Industry Growth Advanced Research Systems, Inc. (ARS), a company offering care management software for clinical management, today announced the introduction of ATLANTES atlantes (ătlăn`tēz) [Latin plural of Atlas], sculptured male figures serving as supports of entablatures, in place of a column or pier. The earliest (c.480–460 B.C. Messenger(tm), an integration tool kit to enable healthcare organizations to seamlessly interface between ARS' software and other applications such as claims and authorizations software. "Critical to the success of managed care organizations is the ability to integrate vast amounts of data from a myriad of disparate systems," said Robert Nakahara, president of Advanced Research Systems. "Also essential is that business users, in addition to information systems personnel, can manage the majority of integration tasks in a timely, cost effective manner. ATLANTES Messenger provides healthcare organizations with the tools to seamlessly interface to other software applications and gives users the tools to manage the process." An Integration Tool Maintainable by Non-technical Staff ATLANTES Messenger can be configured and maintained by non-technical business analysts and care managers to use on a daily basis to manage information exchange. This new product offers significant advantages over traditional interface engines that are expensive and technically complex for day-to-day system users to manage. ATLANTES Messenger supports batch and real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. exchange, and supports both initial conversion and ongoing data exchange. Accommodates Organizational and Industry Growth ATLANTES Messenger accommodates growth and technology expansion in client organizations for rapid response to new marketplace demands, incorporation of other software products and compliance with industry mandates. The system is designed to minimize rework as new data standards and mandates go into effect. The integration tool allows for rapid extension to support additional transport mechanisms, formats and transformation tools and supports ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. , HL7 as well as other standards as they go into effect. It also supports HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, mandates allowing organizations to create changes without costly interface development. An Advanced Integration System ATLANTES Messenger provides a framework to facilitate data and business process integration between the ATLANTES Care Management System and other information systems. ATLANTES Messenger is based on Microsoft technologies including Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. and Microsoft Message Queue A storage space in memory or on disk that holds incoming transmissions until the computer can process them. See messaging middleware. (MSMQ See Microsoft Message Queue Server. ) a message queuing technology that makes it easy to integrate applications, implement a push-style business event delivery environment between applications, and build reliable applications that work over unreliable but cost-effective networks. The system also incorporates ActiveX component architecture that breaks down traditional barriers that make it difficult for information systems to communicate. This object-oriented technology allows for information or messages from one software application to plug into other applications and update them appropriately for immediate use. ATLANTES Messenger supports fixed-width and Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ) data formats. XML is the universal format for data on the Web. It allows developers to easily describe and deliver rich, structured data from any application in a standard, consistent way. ATLANTES Messenger is also scalable to handle high-volume transactions and the processing can be distributed across multiple servers. About ARS Seattle-based ARS, developer of the ATLANTES Care Management System, was founded in 1989 by CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Tracy Maxwell. ARS provides healthcare organizations with a solution for improving patient outcomes while effectively managing the delivery and cost of care. The company has experienced rapid growth in both revenue and employees during the last 18 months. Today, the ATLANTES Care Management System is being used by premier healthcare organizations across the country such as Regence BlueShield of Washington, General American Insurance and the State of Maryland Medicaid program under the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
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