Axway and Edifecs Form Strategic Partnership To Benefit Healthcare Payors

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. and BELLEVUE, WA., —In order to provide solutions that make claims and other transaction processing easier for healthcare companies, Axway, recognized leader of collaborative business solutions and Edifecs, leader in data quality and compliance solutions have formed a strategic alliance. The partnership will help healthcare payors and healthcare benefit providers improve workflow, making it easier to manage their businesses and increase their competitive advantage.

By combining Axway's Synchrony™ platform with Edifecs' data quality and compliance adaptors, customers will have a comprehensive business-to-business (B2B) solution that will help them address industry standards. The solution will enable rapidly deployed secure connectivity, specification authoring and publishing, trading partner on-boarding and management, business activity monitoring (BAM), and message format and data content validation. It will also help organizations achieve Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance in transactions and code sets, with support for validation of WEDI-SNIP Types 1-6 out-of-the-box, and support for easily implementing Type 7.

"Axway’s deep expertise in data integration combined with our proven data quality products, addresses a key problem for many organizations – managing business-critical data in motion," said Herb Larsen, senior vice president of alliances at Edifecs. "Axway's and Edifecs' solutions are highly complementary, and together provide unmatched capabilities for managing the complex business-to-business relationships today’s enterprise must support."

The partnership will target organizations providing and administrating healthcare benefits for individuals and companies. These organizations need to:

• Bring on board and successfully manage thousands of trading partners that submit transactions for eligibility, claims, claim status, enrollments, authorizations and premium payments
• Improve workflow for business processes around development and management of HIPAA-compliant and non-HIPAA data files
• Implement efficient and secure platforms for building and managing complex electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions and create the ability to send large files quickly and easily, as well as perform real-time transactions
• Make it easier to do business with them by deploying a flexible and scalable infrastructure to meet the growing needs of their customers and partners
• Be compliant with all types of current and future regulations

"This partnership combines our experience and knowledge to create solutions that make it easier for our customers to process claims and other transactions, be compliant with government regulations, and improve customer satisfaction," said Sia Zadeh, director of business development at Axway. "We’ll bring solutions to the industry that improve business processes, which can, in turn, reduce costs and improve responsiveness."

To learn more about Axway’s award winning healthcare solutions, visit http://www.axway.com/industries-customers/industry/healthcare.

To learn more about Edifecs’ healthcare solutions, visit www.edifecs.com/hc-overview.jsp.

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About Axway

Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company — the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway's comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway's global presence spans 20 countries.

About Edifecs, Inc.

Edifecs helps organizations achieve interoperability and return on investment by simplifying the adoption of standard electronic transactions and deriving business value from trading partner communities. 2008 marks 12 years of Edifecs' expertise in providing innovative technology solutions to over 1000 clients worldwide. Founded in 1996, Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. Edifecs Healthcare customers include 24 BlueCross BlueShield plans, and over 30 Medicaids, state and federal agencies. Company website: www.edifecs.com. Contact: Kevin Pierce 425-452-0622.