[August 22, 2011]

Liaison Making Healthcare Customers Successful in Complying with HIPAA 5010

Liaison Technologies, a global provider of cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, announced today that its Professional Services for Healthcare offerings are successfully helping healthcare organizations navigate their data integration challenges to meet HIPAA 5010 compliance requirements. Liaison's services encompass multiple tiers of enterprise needs and value propositions, including compliance, business performance improvement, alignment and strategy innovation, and leadership. Liaison is fully supportive of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Medicare FFS Program's National 5010 Testing Week being held August 22-26, 2011, to help customers reach their compliance objectives.

A key part of the offering is Liaison's solution for HIPAA 5010, the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) compliance program - 4010A1 to 5010 - that all healthcare providers, payers, clearinghouses and vendors must comply with by January 1, 2012. Liaison is leveraging its core competencies in data integration, data transformation and enterprise-wide data harmonization to assist hospitals, HIT vendors, physician practices and clearinghouses in rapidly achieving CMS compliance regardless of their current platform.

"HIPAA 5010 compliance is looming over the healthcare industry, with compliance mandated at the end of the year," said Alice Westerfield, Liaison VP of Professional Servies. "Liaison is in a unique position to help healthcare organizations meet this compliance deadline by leveraging our strong history of professional services offerings, demonstrated data mapping and transformation excellence, experienced consulting experts and IT implementers, expertise in cloud-based services, and proven solutions."

Other benefits of Liaison's Professional Services for Healthcare include:

• Having an assured revenue stream leading up to, and beyond, December 31, 2011, with the ability to operate business without financial interruption;
• Providing a vendor-neutral strategy and project leadership to assist customers with developing an enterprise integration plan for connecting trading partners, software vendors and internal IT/clinical/conversion teams;
• Protecting asset investments, legacy processes/edits; and
• Helping healthcare organizations gain precious time toward the pending ICD-10 conversion, which includes clinical transformation, code mapping and edits/reports refinement, when the 5010 foundations are completed.

Liaison's Professional Services for Healthcare suite is comprised of these specific services:

• 5010 compliance assessment to include multiple layers such as syntax, balancing and edits;
• A comprehensive inventory of impacts to systems, trading partners, mapping and processes;
• Co-management of the 5010 conversion program's progress, vendor compliance and end-to-end testing;
• Recommended alternatives, which will be unbiased, vendor-neutral, feasible, rapid and practical; and
• Participation in regional and national testing efforts such as "National 5010 Testing Week" and future tests.

Liaison is a leader in cloud-based integration and data management with more than 600 customers in the healthcare industry. Liaison solutions provide an advanced platform for the secure exchange of patient data between providers, payers, patients and other healthcare organizations.

More information about Liaison's Professional Services for Healthcare suite is located at http://liaison.com/solutions/industries/healthcare/compliance/5010.

About Liaison Technologies

Liaison Technologies is a global integration, data management and data security company. It provides unique and high-value services to move, transform and manage business information in the cloud, and to protect data to help organizations master complex security challenges and meet compliance mandates. With a comprehensive array of business-to-business and application-to-application integration and data transformation services, as well as on-premise and cloud-based data security solutions, Liaison's practitioners implement data management infrastructures adapted to each client's specific business requirements. Headquartered in Atlanta, Liaison has offices in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.liaison.com.

Liaison and the Liaison logo are trademarks of Liaison Technologies, Inc. All other names or product names mentioned in this release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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