Information Builders Offers Integrated Health Intelligence Platform With New Clinical Management Reporting and Analytics Solution

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - April 6, 2009) - Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the availability of the first module of its Integrated Health Intelligence (IHI) platform, a new Clinical Management Reporting and Analytics (CMRA) application. IHI CMRA provides healthcare organizations with an enterprise platform for clinical BI with pre-built performance management scorecards and dashboards; secure, role-based, self-service operational reporting; advanced ad hoc analytics; and enterprise search.

Administrators, clinicians, staff, and analysts in hospitals and healthcare providers are challenged to access and share data because they rely on disparate systems with clinical data spread across multiple applications, which at best only provide information from an individual episode and departmental perspective. Information Builders IHI CMRA provides an enterprise BI platform for delivering clinical information across departments, service lines, episodes, and patients to improve patient care and operational efficiency.

"Our first priority is patient care, but it's key to provide it effectively to everyone who needs it," said Morie Mehyou, assistant vice president of Information Management and Decision Support at Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC). "Our work with Information Builders is an integral part of our daily management activities, which improved productivity, enabled better care, and allowed us to make more investments in healthcare programs that benefit our patients."

IHI CMRA includes clinical dashboards and scorecards, pre-defined reports, and visual analytics built on top of a robust data-model. The application addresses users' reporting and analysis requirements in four key areas: clinical performance management, analytics, operational reporting, and enterprise search. Specific capabilities in each area include:

--  Clinical performance management -- Enables executives and
    administrators to quickly identify underperforming areas, spot trends, and
    justify changes in budget, staffing levels, and resource utilization
    through pre-built dashboards, scorecards, and performance metrics
--  Analytics -- Enables data-driven, evidence-based decision support with
    easy-to-use guided ad hoc analytics and pre-built reports. End users with
    little or no training can examine data across many dimensions - by patient,
    service, department, provider, payer, and more. This provides end users
    with the ability to identify best practices, enable smarter service
    planning, find process improvements, develop ways to increase revenue, and
    more
--  Operational reporting -- Extends information to the point-of-care
    providing self-service operational reporting for clinical staff and
    administrators. By extending reporting capabilities to everyone who impacts
    operations, individuals make better-informed decisions, resulting in higher
    productivity, cost-efficiency, and processes improvement
--  Enterprise search -- Provides users with a Google-like interface that
    can search across structured and unstructured data for clinical research.
    Once records have been identified, the user may leverage intuitive tools to
    further analyze the results of the search to uncover relationships between
    symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, outcomes, or various demographic groups
    that they never knew existed
    

"The need for clinical personnel to quickly have access to accurate information is increasingly important as healthcare organizations strive to eliminate medical errors, improve clinical outcomes, and productivity," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO, Information Builders. "BI and integration technologies are making it possible for everyone involved to make better decisions to improve the quality of patient care in our country."

Leading healthcare organizations use Information Builders WebFOCUS and iWay Software to bill for more revenue, reduce costs, and gain better visibility into operations to improve patient care. The University of Virginia Department of Medicine, Clarian Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Jefferson Regional Medical Center all work with Information Builders to streamline information and track financial, clinical, and operational performance. In 2008, Information Builders saw more than 100 percent growth in its healthcare business.

The Integrated Health Intelligence Clinical Management Reporting and Analytics application is available immediately with pricing starting at less than $200,000.

About Information Builders

Information Builders' award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world's most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders' iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Together, these products give Information Builders' customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs.

Information Builders' customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. More information is available at http://www.informationbuilders.com.

Contact Information: Press Contacts: Kathleen Moran Information Builders (917) 339-6313 Karyn Martin Emerge PR (617) 729-3173