Wednesday, June 14th 2006
Concordant and Kryptiq Partner to Address Growing Demand for Healthcare Connectivity
Agreement will Accelerate Roll-out of Patient and Provider Electronic Connectivity Solutions
NORTH CHELMSFORD, MA—June 14,2006—Concordant, Inc., the leading provider of IT infrastructure services for healthcare communities, announced today a partnership with Kryptiq Corporation, a leader in interoperability and workflow connectivity solutions for healthcare. Concordant will provide IT implementation, integration and deployment services for Kryptiq, which is experiencing tremendous demand for its solutions in secure messaging, electronic prescribing, disease management and document management technologies.
“Our partnership with Concordant addresses the market demand for rapid deployment of an intelligent health information exchange that delivers direct benefit to patient care and physician productivity,” said Malcolm Costello, vice president of marketing at Kryptiq Corporation. “We selected Concordant because of their healthcare focus, extensive experience in Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementations, and excellent customer satisfaction.”
Concordant’s team holds expertise in large and small healthcare IT infrastructure issues and solutions, including an ongoing integration and deployment contract with The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), as well as long-term client relationships with BlueCross and BlueShield of Massachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare and other healthcare providers.
Concordant will be offering implementation services for Kryptiq’s provider solutions, including the CareCatalyst™ patient portal, ClinicalMessenger™ EHR integrated secure messaging, and the DocuTrak™ document management solution. These solutions improve the collaboration of care between providers, health plans and patients, by eliminating the waste associated with traditional paper, phone and fax-based communications.
“This new partnership is trulyexciting to both organizations,” said Stephen Bennett,CEO of Concordant. “We believe that Kryptiq’sapplications for the payer and provider markets fit extremely well intoour solution stack. This collaboration will result in huge value bycombining services and products to securely connect healthcare communities.”
About Concordant, Inc. (http://www.concordantinc.com/) Concordant is the leading provider of IT infrastructure services for healthcare communities. We design, integrate, deploy and maintain your organization’s infrastructure to facilitate the secure and compliant sharing of digital information across your entire enterprise and beyond. Specializing in EHR and connected community implementations,along withthe technology infrastructure that supports them,we are the healthcare IT experts. Concordant – making healthcare more efficient, more effective, and more secure. The Company was recently ranked 13th largest consulting firm in New England by Mass High Tech.
About Kryptiq Corporation (http://www.kryptiq.com)
Kryptiq is the leading provider of interoperability and workflow connectivity solutions for healthcare. Kryptiq streamlines healthcare communications among patients, providers, pharmacies and payers with secure messaging, electronic prescribing, disease management and contract management technologies. By integrating these solutions with existing systems and applications, Kryptiq enables the trusted transport of health information where and when it is needed. Kryptiq’s fast-growing customer base includes many of North America’s top 100 integrated health networks, spans 48 states, plus Washington, D.C., and includes well-known providers and payers such as Providence Health System, Capital Region Healthcare, MeritCare Health System, Eastern Maine Healthcare, BlueCross and BlueShield of Minnesota and Northwest Permanente.
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