CONVISTA and infoShark Partner to Deliver Critical Data Integration for Healthcare and Human Services.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers CHANTILLY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000 infoShark, inc., a leading provider of software products that enable B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business data integration and CONVISTA, Inc., a premier technology solutions company focused on solution-based services for the Healthcare and Human Services industries today announced a partner agreement. Under the terms of the agreement both companies will jointly provide Healthcare and Human Services enterprises with comprehensive data integration solutions that address urgent business problems associated with the access, exchange and transmission of data over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . This partnership is significant to the Healthcare and Human Services industry because together, infoShark and CONVISTA will enable organizations to streamline transmission of critical data, reduce paperwork volume and related costs, and ultimately offer better service to providers, insurers, and patients. Together infoShark and CONVISTA provide Healthcare and Human Services organizations the technology and industry expertise to implement an efficient, low cost, solution for data integration. "The CONVISTA team has a proven track record in providing quality technology solutions that address the needs of the Healthcare and Human Services sector," says Michael C. Master, infoShark president and 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. . "There is such a critical need for comprehensive data integration solutions in this sector given the enormous volume of insurance, medical, and patient data locked up in disparate data sources. We are delighted to have the opportunity to partner with CONVISTA in jointly delivering quality, cost-effective, XML-based data integration solutions that can be implemented quickly." "A strategic focus for CONVISTA is the creation of integrated organizations that alleviate Alleviate To make something easier to be endured. Mentioned in: Kinesiology, Applied the bottlenecks associated with the disparate systems inherent in the Healthcare and Human Services community," says CONVISTA president and CEO, Joe Petti pet·ti n. pl. pet·tis 1. A woman's petticoat. 2. A pettislip. . "This partnership allows us to quickly implement solutions for customers that need to integrate existing legacy systems with cutting edge web technology in order to share data with internal and external business partners." About infoShark, inc. Headquartered in Chantilly, Va., infoShark is a leading provider of data integration software products that enable enterprises to build a B2B infrastructure for access, exchange, and transmission of 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 over the Internet, or anywhere it's needed. The company's data-centric integration and XML translation and transportation are platform-independent and provide a fast and inexpensive solution for B2B integration. infoShark software is used across a variety of industries by such customers as Qwest, Chase, IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. , Fidelity, Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. , Albertsons, W.L. Gore and Home Hardware. infoShark can be found on the Web at www.infoshark.com. About CONVISTA, Inc. CONVISTA is a premier technology solutions company focused on building web-based Internet/intranet ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). systems. CONVISTA is forefront in the areas of Healthcare Integrated Delivery Systems integrated delivery system Integrated provider Medical practice A coordinated health care system formed by physician groups and hospitals which ↑ efficiency and ↓ redundancy in providing health care; IDSs coordinate delivery of a broad range of health , Business Process Improvement, Disease Management, and Outcome Data Warehouses. CONVISTA Healthcare clientele are Managed Care, Payers, Healthcare and Human Services organizations. CONVISTA can be found on the Web at www.convista.com. |
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