SeeBeyond HIPAA Transactions Accepted By EHNAC; Healthcare Organizations Can Use SeeBeyond Solutions To Build Compliant Systems, Leverage Investment In eBusiness Infrastructure.

Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--April 16, 2001

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBI software solutions, today announced that its HIPAA transactions have been accepted by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission's (EHNAC) Standard Transaction Format Compliance System as syntactically correct and therefore validated for acceptance by any trading partner. HIPAA compliance has been named a top priority by healthcare organizations in surveys of industry participants over the last several months. This certification underscores SeeBeyond's dedication to providing the premier solution for eBusiness Integration within the healthcare sector.

"At SeeBeyond, we see HIPAA as more than a mandate; it's an opportunity for healthcare organizations to leverage their investment beyond compliance and build an eBusiness infrastructure," said Scott Harper, vice president of healthcare for SeeBeyond. "For example, the healthcare industry underwrites $23 billion in supply chain costs today. Industry analysts estimate that by building the eBusiness infrastructure mandated by HIPAA, those costs can be cut by $11 billion. That's the kind of opportunity we want our customers to realize."

The EHNAC Standard Transaction Format Compliance System (STFCS) has been created as a response to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which requires all U.S. healthcare entities to send electronic administrative information via electronic data interchange (EDI) in a single standard. EHNAC seeks to accredit entities that send or receive HIPAA regulated transactions, or that transport or process EDI transactions between two or more trading partners in the health care community.

The Smart Solution for HIPAA Compliance

Most organizations covered by HIPAA mandates will need to adapt their current information infrastructure to comply with the regulations. SeeBeyond's HIPAAware(TM) software solution provides the functionality to assist in establishing external HIPAA transaction compliance, while requiring minimal internal system modifications. SeeBeyond's approach simplifies and reduces the cost of becoming HIPAA transaction compliant, while providing a flexible infrastructure to respond to changes in the federal regulations. SeeBeyond's HIPAAware offering:

-- provides connectivity with, and between, the diverse systems and
applications that participate in the HIPAA transactions.

-- supports the translations and field mapping features needed to comply with
nationally mandated transaction standards while preserving local autonomy.

-- includes the pre-built message structures for all current HIPAA
transactions, and an intuitive user interface for mapping proprietary, internal
messaging formats to the appropriate HIPAA transactions.

-- allows organizations to EDI-enable their integration infrastructure without
purchasing separate EDI modules for all their applications.

-- provides a single enabling technology for business-to-business (B2B) and
business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce.

-- provides pre-built validation rules for the standard HIPAA transactions.

-- provides the ability to maintain internal numbering for providers, health
plans and employers, and simply cross-indexes these internal numbers to the
nationally assigned identifiers for external communication.

About SeeBeyond

As the leading global provider of eBI(TM) solutions, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) enables the seamless flow of information within and among enterprises in real time. The SeeBeyond eBI Suite offers a rapidly deployable and infinitely scalable infrastructure for application integration, business-to-business connectivity and business processes optimization. SeeBeyond has more than 1,400 customers worldwide, including ABB, ABN Amro, Barnes & Noble.com, Bausch & Lomb, BHP, Daimler-Chrysler, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Daniel, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer and Sprint. Key global business and technology consulting partners include Accenture, EDS, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, KPMG Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers and answerthink. Software partners include BroadVision, Onyx Software, Oracle, SAP and Siebel Systems.

SeeBeyond has global headquarters in Monrovia, Calif. and sales and marketing headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com.

Note to Editors: eBI and HIPAAware are trademarks of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. All other trade names are the property of their respective owners.