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Health Language and HCL Technologies Partner to Offer ICD-10 Conversion Solution
Health Language Medical Terminology Tools Will be Incorporated into HCL's End-to-End ICD-10 Solution
DENVER, Colorado and SUNNYVALE, California, September 23, 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Health Language, Inc. (HLI) (http://www.healthlanguage.com/),
the global leader in medical terminology management, and HCL Technologies
(http://www.hcl.in/), one of the leading global IT services providers, today
announced a partnership that will utilize HLI's Language Engine(R)
(http://www.healthlanguage.com/products/language-engine.html) as part of
HCL's end-to-end ICD-10 conversion solution, which encompasses gap
assessment, conversion roadmap, remediation, testing, deployment and
training. This combined service offering will enable hospitals and health
systems, payors and independent software vendors (ISVs) to meet the Oct. 1,
2013 deadline for conversion of legacy coding systems from ICD-9 to ICD-10,
as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
HLI's scalable Language Engine integrates and manages the
latest medical terminologies (
http://www.healthlanguage.com/products/content.html) within healthcare
applications to enable effective and interoperable use of accurate clinical
information, administrative codes and consumer friendly terminology. It
provides access to current versions of more than 100 clinical and
administrative code sets including SNOMED CT, ICD-9 and ICD-10, LOINC, CPT,
RxNorm, HCPCS and others, and allows incorporation and mapping of local
content to standards.
HCL, which is currently working with hospital systems, payors
and healthcare product vendors to facilitate transition to the new standard,
will employ the HLI Language Engine in the remediation phase of its complete
ICD-10 conversion solution. "We selected HLI as the language engine because
Health Language is the world leader in nomenclature, with a decade of vast
experience servicing hospitals and payors," said Pradep Nair, Senior Vice
President, Healthcare, HCL Technologies. "The synergy of our expertise in
service and Health Language's comprehensive medical terminology management
tool is a powerful combination. We believe joining forces will facilitate an
easier transition to the new ICD-10 nomenclature for the segments of the
healthcare marketplace that we mutually serve."
The companies expect the partnership to benefit mutual
customers by laying the groundwork for future clinical and administrative
technology initiatives that go beyond the government mandate. "We are
building a competitive advantage for our customers by enhancing the value of
data and lowering the cost of the transaction," continued Nair. "HCL believes
in true transformation directed at core processes and HLI shares that
vision."
"Health Language is proud to partner with a global leader in
IT services to help healthcare entities lower the cost and simplify the
ICD-10 conversion across the provider-payor continuum," explained Health
Language CEO George Schwend. "Our combined strengths will enhance the value
of the data that will enable hospitals, payors and ISVs to run their business
more efficiently. We look forward to joining forces to reduce the burden of
this critical transition and urge healthcare entities to start the migration
process now."
About Health Language
Denver-based Health Language, Inc. (HLI) develops and delivers
state-of-the-art software solutions that automatically incorporate medical
vocabulary and coding standards into healthcare information technology (HCIT)
applications. HLI's Language Engine (LE) allows centralized access to medical
terminology standards and generates mappings to create a common pool of
standardized codes and concepts that enhance patient safety, facilitate
clinical outcomes analysis and accelerate reimbursement. It also provides
standards for modeling, storing, updating and distributing information
consistently for interoperability between hospitals, regions and countries.
For more information, visit http://www.healthlanguage.com or call
+1-720-940-2900.
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company,
working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their
businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in
1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation
and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including
software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and
R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore
infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic,
multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial
Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare.
HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our
64,557 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL
Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$
2.7 billion (Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended as on 30th June 2010. For
more information, please visit http://www.hcltech.com.
About HCL
HCL is a $5.3 billion leading global technology and IT
enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and
HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage
start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational
enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom
& package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems
integration, and distribution of information and communications technology
(ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL
team consists of over 71,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who
operate from 29 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL
has partnerships with several leading Global 1000 firms, including leading IT
and technology firms.
For more information, please visit http://www.hcl.com
Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking
statements, which involve a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and
other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in such forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward looking
statements, including but not limited to the statements containing the words
'planned', 'expects', 'believes', 'strategy', 'opportunity', 'anticipates',
'hopes' or other similar words. The risks and uncertainties relating to these
statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding
impact of pending regulatory proceedings, fluctuations in earnings, our
ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services, Business
Process Outsourcing and consulting services including those factors which may
affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, customer acceptances of
our services, products and fee structures, our ability to attract and retain
highly skilled professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a
cost effective and timely manner, time and cost overruns on fixed-price,
fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on
immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced
demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in
telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and
integrate potential acquisitions, the success of our brand development
efforts, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the
companies / entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal
of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions
on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use
of our intellectual property, other risks, uncertainties and general economic
conditions affecting our industry. There can be no assurance that the forward
looking statements made herein will prove to be accurate, and issuance of
such forward looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by
the Company, or any other person, that the objective and plans of the Company
will be achieved. All forward looking statements made herein are based on
information presently available to the management of the Company and the
Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may
be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.
For details contact:
Jodi Amendola
Amendola Communications for Health Language
+1-480-664-8412, ext. 11
jamendola@acmarketingpr.com
Kirsten Paragona
Director of External Communications, HCL
+1-857-350-5393
kparagona@hcl.com
Danielle Millerick
BluePoint Marketing for HCL
+1-781-861-7800
dmillerick@bluepointmktg.com
Source: HCL Technologies Ltd
For details contact: Jodi Amendola, Amendola Communications for Health Language, +1-480-664-8412, ext. 11, jamendola@acmarketingpr.com; Kirsten Paragona, Director of External Communications, HCL, +1-857-350-5393, kparagona@hcl.com; Danielle Millerick, BluePoint Marketing for HCL, +1-781-861-7800, dmillerick@bluepointmktg.com
Health Language and HCL Technologies Partner to Offer ICD-10 Conversion Solution
Health Language Medical Terminology Tools Will be Incorporated into HCL's End-to-End ICD-10 Solution
DENVER, Colorado and SUNNYVALE, California, September 23, 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Health Language, Inc. (HLI) (http://www.healthlanguage.com/),
the global leader in medical terminology management, and HCL Technologies
(http://www.hcl.in/), one of the leading global IT services providers, today
announced a partnership that will utilize HLI's Language Engine(R)
(http://www.healthlanguage.com/products/language-engine.html) as part of
HCL's end-to-end ICD-10 conversion solution, which encompasses gap
assessment, conversion roadmap, remediation, testing, deployment and
training. This combined service offering will enable hospitals and health
systems, payors and independent software vendors (ISVs) to meet the Oct. 1,
2013 deadline for conversion of legacy coding systems from ICD-9 to ICD-10,
as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
HLI's scalable Language Engine integrates and manages the
latest medical terminologies (
http://www.healthlanguage.com/products/content.html) within healthcare
applications to enable effective and interoperable use of accurate clinical
information, administrative codes and consumer friendly terminology. It
provides access to current versions of more than 100 clinical and
administrative code sets including SNOMED CT, ICD-9 and ICD-10, LOINC, CPT,
RxNorm, HCPCS and others, and allows incorporation and mapping of local
content to standards.
HCL, which is currently working with hospital systems, payors
and healthcare product vendors to facilitate transition to the new standard,
will employ the HLI Language Engine in the remediation phase of its complete
ICD-10 conversion solution. "We selected HLI as the language engine because
Health Language is the world leader in nomenclature, with a decade of vast
experience servicing hospitals and payors," said Pradep Nair, Senior Vice
President, Healthcare, HCL Technologies. "The synergy of our expertise in
service and Health Language's comprehensive medical terminology management
tool is a powerful combination. We believe joining forces will facilitate an
easier transition to the new ICD-10 nomenclature for the segments of the
healthcare marketplace that we mutually serve."
The companies expect the partnership to benefit mutual
customers by laying the groundwork for future clinical and administrative
technology initiatives that go beyond the government mandate. "We are
building a competitive advantage for our customers by enhancing the value of
data and lowering the cost of the transaction," continued Nair. "HCL believes
in true transformation directed at core processes and HLI shares that
vision."
"Health Language is proud to partner with a global leader in
IT services to help healthcare entities lower the cost and simplify the
ICD-10 conversion across the provider-payor continuum," explained Health
Language CEO George Schwend. "Our combined strengths will enhance the value
of the data that will enable hospitals, payors and ISVs to run their business
more efficiently. We look forward to joining forces to reduce the burden of
this critical transition and urge healthcare entities to start the migration
process now."
About Health Language
Denver-based Health Language, Inc. (HLI) develops and delivers
state-of-the-art software solutions that automatically incorporate medical
vocabulary and coding standards into healthcare information technology (HCIT)
applications. HLI's Language Engine (LE) allows centralized access to medical
terminology standards and generates mappings to create a common pool of
standardized codes and concepts that enhance patient safety, facilitate
clinical outcomes analysis and accelerate reimbursement. It also provides
standards for modeling, storing, updating and distributing information
consistently for interoperability between hospitals, regions and countries.
For more information, visit http://www.healthlanguage.com or call
+1-720-940-2900.
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company,
working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their
businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in
1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation
and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including
software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and
R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore
infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic,
multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial
Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare.
HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our
64,557 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL
Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$
2.7 billion (Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended as on 30th June 2010. For
more information, please visit http://www.hcltech.com.
About HCL
HCL is a $5.3 billion leading global technology and IT
enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and
HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage
start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational
enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom
& package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems
integration, and distribution of information and communications technology
(ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL
team consists of over 71,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who
operate from 29 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL
has partnerships with several leading Global 1000 firms, including leading IT
and technology firms.
For more information, please visit http://www.hcl.com
Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking
statements, which involve a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and
other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in such forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward looking
statements, including but not limited to the statements containing the words
'planned', 'expects', 'believes', 'strategy', 'opportunity', 'anticipates',
'hopes' or other similar words. The risks and uncertainties relating to these
statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding
impact of pending regulatory proceedings, fluctuations in earnings, our
ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services, Business
Process Outsourcing and consulting services including those factors which may
affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, customer acceptances of
our services, products and fee structures, our ability to attract and retain
highly skilled professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a
cost effective and timely manner, time and cost overruns on fixed-price,
fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on
immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced
demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in
telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and
integrate potential acquisitions, the success of our brand development
efforts, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the
companies / entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal
of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions
on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use
of our intellectual property, other risks, uncertainties and general economic
conditions affecting our industry. There can be no assurance that the forward
looking statements made herein will prove to be accurate, and issuance of
such forward looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by
the Company, or any other person, that the objective and plans of the Company
will be achieved. All forward looking statements made herein are based on
information presently available to the management of the Company and the
Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may
be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.
For details contact:
Jodi Amendola
Amendola Communications for Health Language
+1-480-664-8412, ext. 11
jamendola@acmarketingpr.com
Kirsten Paragona
Director of External Communications, HCL
+1-857-350-5393
kparagona@hcl.com
Danielle Millerick
BluePoint Marketing for HCL
+1-781-861-7800
dmillerick@bluepointmktg.com
Source: HCL Technologies Ltd
For details contact: Jodi Amendola, Amendola Communications for Health Language, +1-480-664-8412, ext. 11, jamendola@acmarketingpr.com; Kirsten Paragona, Director of External Communications, HCL, +1-857-350-5393, kparagona@hcl.com; Danielle Millerick, BluePoint Marketing for HCL, +1-781-861-7800, dmillerick@bluepointmktg.com