Availity Selects SAVVIS IT Infrastructure Services to Support Global
Software as a Service Transaction Processing Model
Leader in Healthcare Information Exchange Deploys Hosting,
Network, and Managed Security Services Underpinning More than One
Million Transactions per Day
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 29, 2008 --
SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global leader in IT infrastructure
services for business and government applications, today announced an
agreement to provide hosting, network, and managed security services to
Availity, L.L.C, a national leader in electronic health information
exchange.
Availity is one of the nation’s largest
information exchanges that process medical information. Through a
software as a service (SaaS) model, the company handles more than 500
million transactions annually between health care professionals and
providers across the U.S. As a result, Availity requires multiple
security layers and reliable network services to underpin its large
enterprise applications.
Under the terms of the three year agreement, SAVVIS will provide
Availity with a variety of network, hosting, and professional services,
including SAVVIS Foundation Hosting which allows customers to maintain
control of their operating system (OS) but eliminates burdens such as
server hardware procurement, racking and stacking, space and power
management, and onsite support.
In addition, SAVVIS will provide comprehensive managed security services
consisting of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and log management
services that provide customers with an easy method for storing and
searching system logs and triggers alerts to help them respond to
security threats in real-time. Services will be delivered from SAVVIS’
data centers in Dallas and Atlanta.
More than 47,000 customer organizations, including 95% of the healthcare
provider practices in Florida alone, use Availity’s
secure portal and EDI services daily to complete important transactions
such as eligibility and benefits verification, claim submission, claim
status inquiry, and electronic health record retrieval.
“The SAVVIS team quickly familiarized
themselves with our personnel, our IT infrastructure challenges, and the
requirements of our mission critical business applications,”
said Mark Kloker, Senior Director of Service Assurance for Availity. “In
addition to providing the SaaS IT infrastructure underpinning our
transaction processing, they provide us with dedicated privacy and
security managers to help administer security measures, which are an
essential part of our business and our compliance with HIPAA.”
“We are committed to providing a level of
support and service that is unmatched for an enterprise deployment of
this scale,” said Bryan Doerr, SAVVIS’
Chief Technology Officer. “SAVVIS has the
SaaS infrastructure and IT resources to support Availity’s
critical applications and ensure its customers process reliable, secure
transactions every day.”
About Availity, L.L.C. –
Patients. Not Paperwork.®
Availity optimizes the flow of information between health care
professionals, health plans, and other health care stakeholders through
a secure internet-based exchange. The Availity Health Information
Network encompasses administrative, financial, and clinical services,
supporting both real-time and batch exchange via the web, business to
business (B2B) integration, and electronic data interchange (EDI).
Availity is the recipient of several national and regional awards,
including Consumer Directed Healthcare, A.S.A.P. Alliance Innovation,
eHealthcare Leadership, Northeast Florida Excellence in IT Leadership,
E-Fusion, Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations for
Excellence (TETHIE), and AstraZeneca-NMHCC Partnership. For more
information, including an online demonstration, please visit www.availity.com.
About SAVVIS
SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS) is a global leader in IT infrastructure
services for business applications. With an IT services platform
spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS is an industry leader
in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and
application services. These solutions enable customers to focus on their
core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT systems and
operations. SAVVIS’ strategic approach
combines virtualization technology, a global network and multiple data
centers, and automated management and provisioning systems. For more
information about SAVVIS, visit: http://www.savvis.net
SAVVIS Forward-Looking Statements
This document may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning
of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results
may differ materially from SAVVIS’
expectations. Certain factors that could affect actual results are set
forth as risk factors in SAVVIS’ SEC reports
and filings, including its annual report on Form 10-K and all subsequent
filings as well as the risk that potential product cost and performance
benefits may not be realized for any particular customer. SAVVIS assumes
no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements.
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