APP Design

(June 6, 2001) – APP Design announced today that Health-eConnex has chosen APP Design’s Eliginet platform and integration services to meet the needs of the payers and providers of GlobalCare in Southern California. Eliginet will support the electronic translation and transmission of eligibility records for GlobalCare’s 200,000 covered lives.

“Eliginet provides an extremely cost effective and time saving solution for us.”, says Ray Pedden, Executive Vice President of Health-eConnex. “Before Eliginet, it took 7 people almost a month to transfer eligibility information between our systems. Now our people can upload their information, and have it translated and back in less than 30 minutes.”

“This application shows the flexibility of the Eliginet platform”, said Dave Warren, Director of Development. “Even though this is not the usual transaction display application, we were able to use the modularity of the Eliginet platform to get Health-eConnex running in less than 30 days.”

About HealtheConnex – HealtheConnex is a connectivity provider with extensive experience in Internet communications and applications, with a focus on medical provider claims issues, managed care operations and payment distribution.

About APP Design – APP Design is dedicated to bringing high quality, HIPAA-ready solutions to the healthcare industry. APP Design’s focus is on the secure electronic exchange of information necessary to reduce administrative and clinical costs while improving the quality of health care.

APP Design’s core product, Eliginet, is a secure platform for delivering information from multiple disparate sources to the desktop using Internet technologies. This proven, cost-effective isolation helps healthcare organizations reduce costs, address security and HIPAA compliance issues, and speed the delivery of information between partners.

APP Design is pleased to announce that the Western New York Healthcare Coalition, WNYHealtheNet, has chosen APP Design’s Eliginet platform and integration services to meet the needs of the payers and providers of Western New York State. Eliginet will support the electronic transmission of HIPAA transactions and deliver them to providers via the World Wide Web. WNYHealtheNet intends to provide HIPAA compliant:

• 270/271 Eligibility Inquiry and Response
• 276/278 Claims Status Inquiry and Response
• 278 Referral Inquiry
• 278 Referral Request
• 278 Pre-authorization Inquiry
• 278 Pre-authorization Request
• 835 Remittance Advice

to three regional payers Medicare and NY State Medicaid. WNYHealtheNet incorporates, four provider networks, three regional payers, 3,000 providers, and over one million covered lives.

About WNYHealtheNet — WNYHealtheNet is a not-for-profit corporation whose purpose is to support the innovative development and application of information technology and resources in healthcare through an inter-organizational information systems network.

About APP Design — APP Design Inc., is a group of architects, designers, and developers dedicated to bringing high quality, HIPAA-ready solutions to the healthcare industry.

APP Design’s Eliginet product is a secure platform for delivering information from multiple disparate sources to the desktop using Internet technologies. This proven, cost-effective isolation helps healthcare organizations reduce costs, address security and HIPAA compliance issues, and speed the delivery of information between partners. Eliginet’s focus is on the secure electronic exchange of information necessary to reduce administrative and clinical costs while improving the quality of health care.