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SunGard Availability Services Partners with Orchestrate Healthcare to Improve Availability of Electronic Medical Records

Posted on: Friday, 3 April 2009, 08:30 CDT

Companies to Help Healthcare Organizations Improve Access to Electronic Medical Records Data during an IT Systems Outage

WAYNE, Pa. and GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard Availability Services has formed a partnership with Orchestrate Healthcare, a leading provider in healthcare technical consulting services, to help healthcare organizations improve information availability for electronic medical records (EMR). Together, SunGard Availability Services and Orchestrate Healthcare will help hospitals develop and execute cost-effective business continuity plans that address the requirement to access EMR data in the event of an IT systems outage to safeguard quality of care.

Driven by the U.S. Government's newly passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which requires healthcare organizations to implement certified electronic health record technology, providers have a renewed focus on IT systems in order to maximize funding, avoid penalties and reduce errors to improve patient safety. Together, SunGard Availability Services and Orchestrate Healthcare provide healthcare organizations a holistic approach to planning and recovery that allows IT and hospital operations to recover together after a systems outage.

Recently honored with a "Best in KLAS" achievement award for technical services, Orchestrate Healthcare delivers cost-effective technical and consulting services for a wide range of healthcare technical services projects. SunGard Availability Services will offer a full portfolio of AdvancedRecovery solutions, managed IT services, consulting services, and business continuity management software tailored to the needs of healthcare organizations. SunGard Availability Services expects to release these products by June 30, 2009.

"As a leading provider of information availability solutions, SunGard is on the forefront of issues affecting continuity and recovery for the healthcare industry," said Charlie Cook, president, Orchestrate Healthcare. "The synergy we have developed with this partnership between Orchestrate Healthcare and SunGard will benefit our clients by offering more cost-effective solutions during this challenging economic time."

"Orchestrate Healthcare's proven track record, paired with its expertise in the healthcare industry, complements SunGard Availability Services' portfolio of offerings," said Glenn Boland, national vice president, healthcare, at SunGard Availability Services. "This referral partnership helps SunGard provide cost-effective solutions that address the healthcare industry's unique, 24/7 demands for information availability."

Visit SunGard Availability Services (Booth #951) and Orchestrate Healthcare (Booth #368) at HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition 2009, April 4-8, in Chicago, Ill.

About Orchestrate Healthcare

Orchestrate Healthcare, the leader in Healthcare Technical Consulting Services, offers expert consulting services for healthcare technical projects. Orchestrate Healthcare works alongside internal IT department staff to provide technical services expertise, project management, project methodologies and process improvement. Orchestrate Healthcare earned the "Best in KLAS" Award for Technical Services in 2008 and has proven IT and healthcare expertise and a demonstrated knowledge of the competitive marketplace that enables them to bring its customers the best solutions. http://www.orchestratehealthcare.com

About SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With four million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. To learn more, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call 1-800-468-7483.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world's 25 largest financial services companies.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 472 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and AdvancedRecovery are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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