Testing the Waters, Lancaster General Contracts Accenx to Assess Environment for Costs, Risks and Potential Effectiveness of ICAN Upgrade
Irvine, CA May 31st, 2005 - Accenx Technologies, Inc., a leader in business activity monitoring and integration solutions, and provider of the RyTRAK Software Suite which improves business process performance, announced today that Lancaster General has contracted them to provide an integration environment assessment to determine the costs, risks and effectiveness of upgrading to ICAN 5.0, prior to implementing the solution.
Currently running eGate today, Lancaster General wanted an in-depth understanding of all the requirements, efforts, time, costs, and risks associated with upgrading to ICAN 5.0 before making the investment and commitment. Accenx, a Platinum Sun/SeeBeyond Service Partner, will provide a full objective assessment of Lancaster’s environment, including a migration strategy, an analysis of risks and effects of an upgrade in light of ongoing integration issues, an architecture overview with hardware and software requirements including process optimization, a backup and recovery strategy, a fail-over strategy and disaster recovery options, staffing and training needs for ongoing support, and a detailed time and costs estimate for completing the project for all interfaces. Accenx will perform most of the assessment remotely minimizing costs and expenses.
Accenx has perform assessments for several healthcare organizations including Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Baystate Health System, Children’s Hospital of Seattle, Medical College of Ohio, and Inova Health, and is currently assisting the Cleveland Clinic Health System in their migration to ICAN 5.0.
About Lancaster General
Lancaster General is a non-profit, accredited hospital and healthcare system that has been meeting the healthcare needs of Lancaster County residents for more than 100 years. With a reputation for excellence, Lancaster General has received several awards including the 2005 HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Patient Safety TM, U.S. News and World Report’s best 50 hospitals in the US award for heart and heart surgery and hormonal disorders in 2004, and Hospital and Health Network Magazine’s “Most Wired” Award in 2000 - 2004. Lancaster General has 563 beds, 470 physicians and surgeons, and its Emergency Department treats more than 68,000 patients a year.
About Accenx Technologies, Inc.
A leader in business activity monitoring solutions and integration, Accenx helps healthcare organizations manage and improve their business processes, with clear vision of those processes, through innovative products and high quality integration solutions. Accenx recognizes that information flowing on the network and through business processes is the life blood of organizations. If it is blocked or stopped, the health of the organization is in danger. Accenx develops reliable, cost effective solutions that solve clients’ toughest integration and IT challenges and facilitate the seamless flow of information to improve productivity, efficiency and return on investments. Established in 1997, Accenx has over 100 customers internationally, in healthcare, insurance, e-commerce, utilities and retail industries. For more information please visit www.accenx.com
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