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Informatica Solution for Healthcare Helps Ensure Mandatory HIPAA compliance By 2003 and Provides Platform for Company-Wide Analytics

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today introduced the Informatica Solution for Healthcare, a solution that leverages the industry-standard data integration platform to help healthcare organizations comply with the mandatory Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. The Informatica Solution for Healthcare -- which incorporates real-time data integration, pre-built transformations to validate and implement HIPAA transaction sets, and a real- time analytics delivery platform -- will help healthcare organizations such as hospitals, HMOs, physician's networks and insurance providers gain HIPAA compliance while also creating a foundation for enterprise-wide business analytics.

HIPAA is a federal mandate requiring all healthcare organizations that maintain or transmit electronic health information to follow certain standards and requirements to ensure the consistency and privacy of patients' medical records by October 2003. Its primary goal is to provide better access to health insurance, limit fraud and abuse, and reduce administrative costs.

For more information, please visit http://www.informatica.com/bi_hipaa.htm