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Karen Colson
karen @ summa-tech.com
412.258.3294
Pittsburgh, PA (May 4, 2010) - Summa, a provider of IT consulting and system integration services and solutions, is launching two new practice areas that modernize customers' current IT solutions to meet their changing business needs in the areas of Healthcare Interoperability and Software as a Service (SaaS) / Cloud Integration.
The business of healthcare is changing in ways that will require greater organizational agility. Summa's Healthcare Solutions Practice improves collaboration and integration between patients, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, ISVs and medical device manufacturers.
"Agility in adapting business processes is a critical area for hospitals and insurance companies as they seek ways to cut costs and offer better quality of care for patients. Our solutions utilize Business Process Management (BPM) and Connectivity technologies to augment the customer's current integration environment with modern standards-based approaches. This gives providers the ability to broadly adopt integration of electronic healthcare and medical records throughout formerly unconnected siloed systems inside and outside of their organization," said Audrey Dunning, CEO of Summa.
"The formalization of this new practice is preceded by Summa's experience and success within a variety of healthcare engagements. In just the first quarter of 2010, Summa has helped customers in the industry embrace SOA and BPM, developed HL7 integration product strategies, and worked to modernize a healthcare banking operation," said Jeremy Smith, Practice Manager for Healthcare Solutions at Summa.
Summa's SaaS / Cloud Integration practice assists customers in looking at the considerations unique to SaaS integration projects. Summa sees SaaS integration as more challenging than traditional application integration due to the intricacies of integrating with a system hosted off premise. Summa's cloud practice addresses the key considerations related to planning and implementation of SaaS projects.
"SaaS Integration is often underestimated in complexity and effort. SaaS solutions will need to be integrated with existing business processes, which may be a non-trivial task dependant on the product, existing processes and process improvements. Summa's experience in SOA and BPM and our understanding of SaaS applications positions us to provide quick time to value to customers who have SaaS integration needs," said Rick Kotermanski, CTO of Summa.
Summa is presenting two sessions at Impact 2010, IBM's annual Smart SOA conference, that demonstrate solutions in Healthcare and SaaS / Cloud Integration, "UPMC Modernizes Healthcare Interoperability with WebSphere Process Server" and "Highmark Modernizes Healthcare Insurance Sales Process with WebSphere Message Broker". In addition, Summa is hosting a Birds of a Feather session on "The Transformative Role of IT in Healthcare" and a joint SaaS session with IBM on "Accelerate Your Cloud CRM Deployments with WebSphere". Summa is also an Impact sponsor and will be exhibiting in the industry zone, booth # IZ16.
For more information on the Healthcare Solution Practice and SaaS / Cloud Integration practice, contact us at 412-258-3322 or sales@summa-tech.com, or visit http://www.summa-tech.com/healthcare and http://www.summa-tech.com/saas.