ePartners Announces ePartnersMD Solution Series for the Healthcare Industry

Leading Microsoft Consultancy Delivers Unprecedented Solutions for Healthcare Organization

SEATTLE, March 8, 2006 — ePartners (www.epartnersolutions.com), a leading Microsoft consultancy with 23 offices in North America and London, announces today ePartnersMD — a suite of Microsoft-based IT and business solutions tailored specifically for the healthcare industry. ePartnersMD is a part of the ePartners Solution Series, a suite of software and services that cater specifically to select micro-verticals. ePartnersMD, created exclusively for the Microsoft platform, focuses on healthcare-specific business issues and processes not previously addressed by other solution providers.

“The healthcare industry continues to face intense challenges including rising costs, declining profitability and widespread inefficiency,” says Howard Diamond, Chief Executive Officer of ePartners. “ePartnersMD, created with Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint, presents a new opportunity for healthcare providers to improve the quality and control the costs of healthcare.”

The technology behind ePartnersMD is the result of extensive development to the Microsoft Dynamics suite of financial, human resources, materials management and relationship tools, as well as custom integration to industry-standard clinical and billing systems. By leveraging proven Microsoft technologies and healthcare-specific business process knowledge, ePartnersMD delivers secure HIPAA compliant solutions that help healthcare providers streamline information flow, control costs and improve patient care.

ePartnersMD is broken into 5 groups, including:

• ePartnersMD KPI Dashboard Aggregate — analyzes and tracks the key performance indicators that impact the success of a healthcare organization. ePartnersMD Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboards enable organizations to track specific metrics and goals that are critical to the success of a healthcare organization.
• ePartnersMD Relationship Management — builds lasting patient, physician and partner relationships with highly integrated customer service and support. ePartnersMD Relationship Management integrates with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and other solutions so employees always have access to comprehensive customer information they need.
• ePartnersMD Human Resources and Payroll — aligns the workforce with critical business processes. ePartners HR and Payroll enables healthcare organizations to attract the best employees, manage all personnel related processes, track meaningful benefit programs, manage payroll, offer employee self-service capabilities, and deliver the information managers need to make better decisions. It also integrates with solutions from leading payroll service providers such as ADP, so employee information and payroll data can be easily shared.
• ePartnersMD Financial Management — integrates and automates financial processes to unleash efficiency, reduce costs and improve profitability. ePartnersMD Financial Management includes a wide-range of functionality including general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable modules to bank reporting, cash flow management and easy reconciliation.
• ePartnersMD Materials Management — seamlessly manages and monitors healthcare goods and services from requisition to procurement and inventory management. This fully automated solution enables management and administration professionals to efficiently procure, store, move and manage healthcare goods and services.

“ePartnersMD is what you get when you combine 15 years of experience implementing and customizing proven Microsoft technologies with a world-class team of healthcare IT professionals,” says Bruce Steele, Executive Vice President of Strategy for ePartners. “The end result is a scalable user-friendly solution set that helps our clients improve the quality and control the cost of healthcare delivery in ways that were out of reach in the past.”

“ePartners is a trusted partner that shares our vision and commitment to deliver innovative, integrated business solutions that are easy-to-use, and address key functional issues critical to healthcare organizations,” says Paul Smolke, Managing Director of Healthcare Industry Strategy for Microsoft Dynamics. “We’re excited that we’ve been able to combine the power of Microsoft Dynamics with ePartners’ industry expertise to offer end-to-end functionality tailored to meet the demands of today's difficult healthcare environment.”

For more information about ePartnersMD, including case studies, visit http://www.epartnersolutions.com/industries/healthcare.aspx or call 888-883-9797.

About ePartners, Inc.
After more than a decade of arming its customers with a competitive advantage, ePartners has established itself as one of the leading Microsoft Business Solutions consultancies in the world. From aligning their clients’ business and IT strategies; to improving business processes; and deploying and supporting solutions that accelerate business results, no other Microsoft Business Solutions partner offers more comprehensive information technology solutions and services than ePartners. Last year alone, more than 400 leading companies spanning 45 industries turned to ePartners for strategic business solutions and consulting services. ePartners is backed by Needham Capital Partners, Mobius Venture Capital, Texas Growth Fund, Austin Ventures, Liberty Mutual, Madrona Venture Group, Rustic Canyon Partners, Capital Resource Partners, and Charterhouse Group.

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