United Physicians Selects Compuware Covisint's Collaborative Platform for Healthcare
Independent Physician Association (IPA) to Increase Efficiency and Simplify Application Access by Leveraging Covisint's Secure Healthcare ExchangeDETROIT--September 25, 2006--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced that United Physicians, P.C., the largest independent physician organization in Michigan, will use Compuware Covisint to establish a physician desktop portal. Through this hosted solution, United Physicians will more effectively collaborate with its 1,700 members regardless of technical sophistication, size, infrastructure or regulatory compliance limitations.
United Physicians will leverage Covisint's proven platform of a portal framework, federated identity management, HL7 messaging engine and patient context synchronization. The single sign-on component of Covisint's integrated portal saves time and enables secure access to multiple third-party applications, patient records and administrative and clinical workflows.
"This physician portal is another significant step in our continuing effort to usher our membership into greater use of technology solutions that improve quality and efficiency," said Steven Grant, M.D., F.A.C.P., President and Chief Executive Officer of United Physicians. "Covisint brings great expertise and understanding of the healthcare landscape, making for a strong partnership and a smooth process to establish and manage."
"United Physicians is tapping Covisint's model to take what were formerly redundant, inefficient and repetitive tasks and turn them into a competitive advantage," said Bob Paul, President and COO of Compuware Covisint. "All IPAs can immediately benefit from Covisint's expertise and advanced technology to help them become better at what they do."
Covisint connects more than 8,000 healthcare users representing 420 healthcare organizations with its hosted healthcare solution providing secure, reliable and real-time access to healthcare information. Covisint provides a collaborative healthcare framework, physician portals, messaging, unstructured-data management and security services. Combined, these capabilities will help healthcare entities--regardless of size, location or technical sophistication--collaborate and communicate effectively.
United Physicians, P.C.
United Physicians is a physician organization of 1,700 independent doctors practicing in Southeast Michigan. United Physicians facilitates physician participation in health care plans and provides services that promote quality and efficiency in the practice and business of health care. Visit www.unitedphysiciansgroup.com.
Compuware Corporation
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