Ball Memorial Hospital to Develop Physicians' Portal with Bowstreet Portlet Factory.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TEWKSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2003

Bowstreet(TM), the leading provider of development tools for adaptive J2EE applications, announced today that Ball Memorial Hospital has selected Bowstreet Portlet Factory, in conjunction with WebSphere Portal, to develop a physicians' portal that will aggregate data and functionality from disparate systems to provide physicians with access to critical data, such as patient, scheduling, and pharmaceutical information, from a single source.

Using Bowstreet Portlet Factory, Ball Memorial will develop custom portlets, such as role-based views into backend data sources including databases and proprietary systems, as well as web searching, calendar functions, local news summaries, and medical news updates. This initiative will provide physicians with access to clinical resources, patient information such as transcripts and rounds details, and links to lab and radiology results. There will also be a collaboration portlet, allowing team members access to organizational charts, corporate white page listings, and email groups.

"Physicians need a single source to access vital data, so we needed a way to bring our applications together. Our physicians' portal will provide information in a fast, effective manner," said Christina Fogle, manager of eSystem support, Cardinal Health and Ball Memorial Hospital. "Bowstreet makes it easy for us to develop these critical portlets, so we don't need J2EE experts on staff to create, maintain or deploy them. Bowstreet Portlet Factory creates personalized views on-the-fly, allowing users to see the information that is relevant to them."

"Businesses want to connect their legacy applications and provide personalized views into multiple, backend systems. Out-of-the-box portlets can't provide such user-specific access. Bowstreet Portlet Factory allows companies to easily create custom portlets that address this need," said Michael George, president and CEO, Bowstreet. "Ball Memorial Hospital is part of a growing trend of organizations that are implementing role-based, adaptive applications to work more effectively and remain competitive."

About Ball Memorial Hospital

Ball Memorial Hospital, the flagship for Cardinal Health System, is a 400-bed hospital in Muncie Indiana, 45 minutes northeast of Indianapolis. Ball Hospital is a not-for-profit facility as well as a teaching hospital, home to the largest medical education program in the state outside of Indianapolis. Founded in 1929, BMH has grown to a regional medical provider that last year served more than 180,000 residents in East Central Indiana.

About Bowstreet

Bowstreet(TM) is the leading provider of development tools for the creation and maintenance of adaptive J2EE applications. With Bowstreet's award-winning automation framework and patented reusable software components, development teams can rapidly build adaptive portlets, Web Services, or J2EE Web applications that stand-alone or integrate directly into an existing infrastructure. Unlike with traditional RAD tools, Bowstreet-built applications are inherently designed for maximum adaptability, allowing for the creation of multiple iterations from a single model without the need for costly reprogramming. The Bowstreet development framework is used by more than 50 companies including Wackenhut, Kroger, Cisco, Dupont, GM, John Crane, Northwestern Mutual, and Sun Microsystems. Bowstreet is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and has offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. www.bowstreet.com.

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