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Perot
Systems Teams with Medicity to Deliver Delaware’s
Statewide Health Information Network
Plano, TX, November
14, 2006—Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER)
has teamed with Salt Lake City-based Medicity, Inc.
to build the first statewide health information exchange
for the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN).
The six-year contract, with two automatically renewing
two-year extensions, was awarded in competitive bidding
in October.
The DHIN Clinical Information Exchange
Utility is designed to help the state of Delaware
monitor public health, allow providers to better manage
patient care, and provide consumers with tools to
become more engaged in their own healthcare. The DHIN
expects the network to support more than six million
secure, fast, and reliable health information exchanges
per year. The first phase of the project involves
three hospitals, several physician offices, and a
clinical laboratory network, and is expected to be
operational within six to nine months.
Perot Systems will work with Medicity
and the state of Delaware to develop, implement and
operate the network to deliver real-time clinical
information sharing among all healthcare providers,
hospitals, labs and pharmacies across the state. Medicity
will provide its innovative Regional Health Information
Organization (RHIO) software platform with its flexible
health information exchange architecture. Perot Systems
will provide state-of-the-art data center services
from its Plano Technology Center, technical and provider
help desks, and outreach training; as well as on-site
customer service.
“Perot Systems offers DHIN
market-leading best practices and tools, and extensive
experience in the healthcare industry. This combination
of expertise and resources will give Delaware the
predictable technology environment to reliably connect
physicians, hospitals and other organizations in the
statewide network,” said Chuck Lyles, president
of Perot Systems’ healthcare industry group.
“We are pleased about our collaboration with
Medicity and the DHIN, and look forward to delivering
an information network that will bring great benefit
to the residents of Delaware.”
“We are pleased to have Perot
Systems working with us on this first project,”
said Kipp Lassetter, Medicity CEO. “Medicity
brings to the Delaware initiative years of experience
acquiring data from disparate systems in the care
community and distributing it to physicians in the
way they want to receive it. Using our platform, DHIN
will be able to deliver results to physician electronic
medical record systems, physician practice printers,
faxes, and a DHIN sponsored web application.”
Perot Systems now serves more than
590 hospitals with information technology, clinical
transformation and financial optimization solutions.
The company is a recognized leader in the healthcare
industry and is known for its innovative approach
to helping providers execute strategic transformational
initiatives to improve patient care. Perot Systems
associates worldwide provide business and technical
services for all segments in the healthcare marketplace.
About Perot
Systems
Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information
technology services and business solutions. Through
its flexible and collaborative approach, Perot Systems
integrates expertise from across the company to deliver
custom solutions that enable clients to accelerate
growth, streamline operations and create new levels
of customer value. Headquartered in Plano, Texas,
Perot Systems reported 2005 revenue of $2.0 billion.
The company has more than 20,000 associates located
in North America, Europe, and Asia. Additional information
on Perot Systems is available at www.perotsystems.com.
This press release contains
forward-looking statements that are subject to known
and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed
or implied by such statements. Among many factors
that could affect our business and cause actual results
to differ materially are that we may bear the risk
of cost overruns for custom software development and
implementation services, our contracts generally contain
provisions that could allow customers to terminate
the contracts and sometimes contain provisions that
enable the customer to require changes in pricing,
and some contracts contain fixed-price provisions
or penalties that could result in decreased profits.
Please refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, as filed
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and
available at www.sec.gov, for additional information
regarding risk factors. We disclaim any intention
or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future developments,
or otherwise.
Perot Systems Corporation
2300 West Plano Parkway
Plano, TX 75075
+1 972 577 0000
www.perotsystems.com
MEDIA CONTACTS:
PEROT SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Sharon Lakes
+1 972 577 6012
sharon.lakes@ps.net
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