North Hampshire Hospital Successfully Deploys SeeBeyond ICAN 5; SeeBeyond Solution Streamlines Patient Data Transfer and Management of Records.

LONDON & MONROVIA, Calif. -- SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), provider of the world's first fully integrated composite application network (SeeBeyond ICAN) for the deployment of advance integration and composite application solutions, today announced that North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust has successfully migrated to the SeeBeyond ICAN 5 Suite. This deployment offers the organization enhanced functionality in areas such as workflow, portals, data management and business activity monitoring.

North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been working to streamline and optimize patient care through the establishment of a master patient index that could be leveraged across disparate systems. Historically, different departments maintained data independently, with most of their clinical systems operating as standalone applications with no common patient index. This not only made it difficult to ensure consistency across hospitals, but also required a significant amount of manual data entry by hospital staff who could otherwise be performing more value added tasks. As a result, the Trust decided to use its patient management system as the basis for the master patient index and set out to integrate the patient management system with its theatre management system. To support this initiative, the Trust needed an integration engine that would support, fast, flexible integration to its iSOFT patient manager system, and selected SeeBeyond's eGate(TM) Integrator platform.

"We wanted to work with a supplier who could provide us with a powerful technology solution as well as the expertise to implement it efficiently and cost effectively," said Helen Reading, IS programme manager, North Hampshire Hospitals. "SeeBeyond, with its strong track record across the healthcare industry, was easily the best choice."

With the SeeBeyond solution now in production, patient demographic data is now transferred automatically from the patient manager system to the theatre system whenever a patient requires a theatre visit. As a result, up-to-date patient data can be accessed immediately, with improved accuracy and consistency due to the deployment of the single central database. The main benefit of the SeeBeyond solution is the reduction in the manual intervention by hospital staff. This means that administrative processes, such as booking patients into theatre slots, can be completed more quickly and efficiently with less error.

Under the U.K. government's National Programme for IT, North Hampshire Hospital and other hospitals in the south of England will soon see the development of a national patient record index, based on the concept of establishing a single view of the patient. Under a contract awarded to British Telecommunications PLC (BT), the SeeBeyond ICAN Suite is being leveraged as a critical component of the solution that will be used to provide a national patient record database and transactional messaging service, which is critical to the NHS Care Records Service.

"SeeBeyond has become the de facto standard at both the national and local level across the U.K. healthcare market," said David Bennett, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SeeBeyond EMEA. "With initiatives such as 'Choose and Book', where a general practitioner can book an appointment for a patient at the hospital of their choice and at a date and time of their choice, we are already seeing the benefits of our technology being used as a critical platform for the NHS spine."

About SeeBeyond

Based on 15 years of software innovation and real-world experience in integrating systems across Global 2000 organizations, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) delivers the industry's first integrated composite application network built on a comprehensive integration platform. Beyond eAI, the SeeBeyond(R) Integrated Composite Application Network Suite(TM) helps organizations rapidly assemble and deploy enterprise-scale end-user applications built on existing systems and infrastructure to dramatically improve business operations. SeeBeyond has more than 1,900 customers worldwide, including ABB, ABN Amro, BHP Billiton, The Cleveland Clinic, Commerzbank, The Dial Corporation, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Daniel, Fujitsu, General Motors, Halliburton, Hertz Corporation, HP, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Samsung, Sprint, Sutter Health and UnitedHealth Group. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com.

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