APP Design

ITASCA, IL Sept. 3, 2008 – APP Design, a leader in healthcare connectivity and electronic data interchange, today announced its new membership to the IT network, THISA. As THISA’s eighth member to date, APP Design will extend THISA’s expertise in agile software development, information exchange and analytics .

“Joining THISA enables us to expand our capabilities and depth of our expertise,” said APP Design President Rob Quinn. “APP Design will actively distribute advice and resources of value to others within the network. We are eager to be on both the giving and receiving sides of this partnership.”

With inclusion into the THISA network, APP Design can provide a higher level of technical service while continuing to grow the firm with new marketing initiatives.

THISA member benefits include shared technical resources, access to established best practices, pooled marketing dollars & shared prospecting activities, membership in the National Network, heightened company awareness and prestige, access to member expertise in multiple industries, and improved relationship with vendors.

With such advantages available to THISA members, membership is exclusive. Each prospective affiliate undergoes an extensive evaluation process to determine if their capabilities can successfully be integrated into THISA’s prominent network. APP Design now joins CentriNet, Choice Solutions, Covisia Solutions, Inc., DBLS, GuardEra, I-Access and LANStatus in the group.

THISA President Bert Short said APP Design’s expertise in data analytics and integration of disparate systems will be a perfect balance for other members’ technical experience in security and technology investments.

“APP Design is a significant addition to our network,” Short said. “We look forward to integrating their knowledge and capabilities into the organization, and expect the wealth of resources our partners share to provide immense benefit to APP Design.”

About THISA
THISA is composed of IT consulting companies dedicated to providing advanced compliant-ready information solutions with improved convenience and reduced costs. THISA operates through a network of nine regional providers to offer unwavering customer service for technical expertise on a national scale, involving strategic risk analysis, storage, and enterprise infrastructure design. With a national reach, but a local touch, the alliance has consultants located throughout the U.S. For more information, visit their Web site at http://www.thisa.org.

About APP Design
Since 1997, APP Design has been designing, building, and integrating health care networks and information exchanges. The company focuses on connecting “islands of information” in healthcare to reduce costs and improve service. With extensive experience in healthcare EDI and data analytics, APP Design delivers projects that process millions of transactions 24×7 with a proven history of negligible downtime. APP Design’s vast library of interface and conversion modules enables the staff to quickly implement complex projects with proven, tested software providing their client base the confident commitment of quality and service.

Visit their Web site at www.appdesign.com or THISA member page at http://www.thisa.org/app-design for more information.

Columbus OH – Bostech, the leading provider of standards-based enterprise service bus (ESB) software, announces a partnership agreement with APP Design, a leading provider of technology solutions for healthcare providers.

The formalized partnership agreement establishes Bostech and APP Design as partners unified in solving business integration scenarios with clients in the Healthcare industry.

The deal brings together leading technology and implementation expertise from Bostech and APP Design to serve a growing demand to better integrate healthcare information systems and applications. Bostech technology brings a standards-based enterprise service bus (ESB) into thousands of healthcare, retail and manufacturing-related corporations annually.

Bostech’s ChainBuilder ESB provides powerful functionality to the integration of healthcare applications, including:

• HL7 and EDI X12 graphical messaging editor with drag-and-drop mapping

• HL7 and EDI X12 graphical messaging editor handles standard and variant schemas

• Web Services and tradition protocol support, including TCP/IP HL7 MLLP

• Content Based Routing based on HL7 messages

Bostech’s strategic alliances are founded in pursuing partnerships with healthcare standard experts like APP Design. The expertise of Chicago-based APP Design’s in data analytics and integration of disparate systems to create innovative solutions for healthcare is the ideal complement to Bostech’s middleware solution for healthcare, ChainBuilder ESB.

“The Bostech development staff’s earliest software solutions were created to solve healthcare integrations,” begins David Bourke, CEO at Bostech. “Over the past 10 years we have developed and enhanced each integration solution, also making use of the latest software technologies. Approximately two years ago, our flagship product, ChainBuilder ESB, was redesigned from the ground up to be 100% Java and adhere to the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard. As a result, ChainBuilder ESB is the culmination of years of integration experience and a constant diligence to provide the best integration software on the market today. Enhancing the offering with APP Design’s expertise with the integration of disparate systems is a great value-proposition to healthcare customers.”

Commenting on the agreement with Bostech, Rob Quinn, President of APP Design, said: “The Bostech relationship provides our customers with a highly scalable and flexible architecture for mapping, translating and moving their healthcare documents. We’ve learned that healthcare customers have extremely high standards regarding full-solution software integration, and the best way to meet and exceed these expectations is to partner with healthcare integration experts, like Bostech.”

About APP Design

Since 1997, APP Design has been designing, building, and integrating health care networks and information exchanges. APP Design founders designed and built the first Community Healthcare Information Network in 1993. The company focuses on connecting “islands of information” in healthcare to reduce costs and improve service. With extensive experience in healthcare EDI and data analytics, APP Design delivers projects that process millions of transactions 24×7 with a proven history of negligible downtime. APP Design’s vast library of interface and conversion modules enables the staff to quickly implement complex projects with proven, tested software providing their client base the confident commitment of quality and service. For more information, visit http://www.appdesign.com.

About Bostech

Bostech enables companies to integrate new and existing software applications using a middleware solution. The ChainBuilder ESB solution utilizes graphical interfaces to allow rapid SOA deployment through drag-and-drop functionality coupled with easy to use wizards. Bostech’s core technology has been deployed in companies around the globe including Amazon.com and Aventine Renewable Energy and is embedded by many leading software vendors including MICROS-Retail, Configure One, Digonex and Radley Corporation. With sales and development operations in the United States and China, Bostech Corporation was founded by Brad Bostic and is privately owned. More information on the company can be found on http://www.bostechcorp.com.

APP Design Client HealthxNet now processes over 400,000 transactions per month for over 3,000 users, representing more than 5,000 providers. Albuquerque-based HealthxNet provides Eligibility and Benefits, Claim Status, Pre-authorization, Patient Census and Claims Processing for local payers, Molina Healthcare, Lovelace Health System, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico, and New Mexico Medicaid, along with national payers, such as Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and Tricare.

“APP has helped us build the strong infrastructure necessary to support our 24/7 operations.” says Joseph Speroni, Vice President of HealthxNet. “Their rigorous approach to software development and depth of healthcare experience allows us to integrate new features and data feeds quickly and release confident that they’ll run perfectly first time, every time.”

In operation since 1999, HealthXnet® health information exchange seeks to encourage cooperation, improve administrative efficiencies, and enhance the ability to deliver quality care to its member organizations by streamlining the flow of information among hospitals, health plans, physicians and other healthcare organizations. More information about HealthxNet is available at http://www.healthxnet.com.

APP Design designs and develops healthcare information delivery systems. HealthxNet has been an APP Design client since 2005.

APP Design’s RHIOnet (aka Eliginet) is now processing an average of 4 million transactions per month for Western New York HealtheNet. WNY HealtheNet now has more than 15,000 unique users and transaction volume, a mix of Eligibility, Claim Status, Referral, Pre-authorization, and Reports has been growing consistently since the original roll-out in 2001. Congrats to WNY HealtheNet!

APP Design and Michael Kreitzer & Associates have partnered to jointly address new opportunities in the healthcare and RHIO markets.

We have worked on several projects with Michael and his team over the past several years, having met on the SIRHIN community healthcare project way back in 1994. We have always been impressed by their knowledge of the healthcare industry. Now we’ll be able to use our combined industry and technical expertise to help a new category of clients.