Source: Informatica CorporationFebruary 14, 2012 07:00 ET

UMass Memorial Standardizes on Informatica Platform to GainInsight and Understanding of Patient PopulationLeading Healthcare System Leverages Informatica Data Integration Platform for Integrated View ofPatients, Providers and Encounters

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- News Facts:

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world’s number one independent provider of dataintegration software, today announced that UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest healthcare systemin Central and Western Massachusetts, is using the Informatica Platform to power a unified view of itsmillions of patients, tens of thousands of providers and millions of encounters across its academicmedical center - four hospitals and more than 60 outpatient clinics.Transforming the way data is used at UMass Memorial, the Informatica Platform will help theintegrated healthcare delivery organization improve decision making and clinical outcomes, measureand grow its patient population, accurately evaluate its position with respect to becoming anAccountable Care Organization (ACO), and ultimately maximize its return on data.Like many large healthcare systems, UMass Memorial’s ability to achieve integrated views and engagein analytics has traditionally been impeded by significant data quality challenges and a complex andfragmented systems environment - with over 100 critical and non-critical applications.To address its challenges, UMass Memorial is using its Informatica implementation - specificallyInformatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition and Informatica Data Quality - to integrate its clinical,financial and administrative data, regardless of location, format or volume, and to enable the use oftrusted, high-quality data for reporting on the patient population served by the health system and therelationship of each patient to the health system. The Informatica solution enables UMass Memorial’s primary care patient population project tocorrectly measure the total active patients visiting UMass Memorial’s primary care physicians, a taskthat was previously impossible due to incomplete, unreliable and duplicative information; conflictingdata formats; and siloed systems.As part of its data governance strategy, UMass Memorial is using Informatica Data Quality to automatethe reconciliation of patient-provider relationships with data stewardship for review of exceptions.Supported by the skills, knowledge and experience of Informatica Professional Services, UMassMemorial rationalized patient and provider records, profiled and resolved underlying data qualitychallenges and produced a reliable record of its patient care population - a report the organization hadbeen trying to generate for more than a year - in justsevenweeks. Thus, this has opened the door forUMass Memorial, after years of unsuccessful effort, to be able to engage in more accurate primary carepatient analysis.The Informatica solution will also help strengthen UMass Memorial’s relationships with its providerpopulation, including referring physicians, who will benefit from more efficient business processes andclinical services.Earlier this year, UMass Memorial also deployed the Informatica EMR Data Migration Foundation as akey component of its five-year, $140 million Cornerstone initiative to replace legacy clinical and

financial applications throughout its healthcare delivery network.

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"Using the Informatica Platform, we will know who our primary care patients are and how many ofthem there are, whether the volume of patients is rising or decreasing, how many we are treating in anambulatory or acute care setting and what happens to those patients as they move through thehealthcare system," said George Brenckle, senior vice president and chief information officer, UMassMemorial Health Care. "We will also be able to examine which providers they saw and at whichlocation. This data will be vital in the development of the strategy to improve clinical outcomes, growthe patient population and increase efficiency.""Healthcare organizations have formidable information management challenges, as do enterprises of alltypes that have grown by mergers and acquisitions, and UMass Memorial has a foot in both of thesecamps," said Richard Cramer, chief healthcare strategist, Informatica. "In turning to the InformaticaPlatform, UMass Memorial now enjoys an authoritative and trusted view of clinical and financialperformance across an extended and multifaceted enterprise. This view is not only increasing UMass’return on data, but it is also paying valuable dividends to patients, providers and administrativedecision-makers alike."

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Success Story: UMass Memorial Health Care Unlocks Trustworthy, Actionable, AuthoritativeInformation Assets to Grow Patient Population with InformaticaInformatica PowerCenter Advanced EditionInformatica Data Quality

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of dataintegration software. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data todrive their top business imperatives. Worldwide, over 4,630 enterprises depend on Informatica to fullyleverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For moreinformation, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connectwith Informatica at http://www.facebook.com/InformaticaCorporation,http://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica and http://twitter.com/InformaticaCorp.

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