From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: MANAGED CARE SYSTEM
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Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:22:12 GMT
Expires: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:00:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  December 18, 1992

CONTACT:   Ellen Williams                Donald Stinnett
           Trego Systems                 Franciscan Health System of Cincinnati
           (510) 937-7853                (513) 853-5925

TREGO SYSTEMS SIGNS FIRST AGREEMENT FOR MANAGED CARE SYSTEM WITH FRANCISCAN
HEALTH SYSTEM OF CINCINNATI 

SUMMARY: Trego Systems of Walnut Creek, CA announced the signing of their first
customer, Franciscan Health System of Cincinnati, who will be installing
CaseServ - Trego's managed care system.  Trego is dedicated to providing the
most comprehensive provider based managed care solution on the market today.


WALNUT CREEK, CA -- Trego Systems finalized an agreement with Franciscan Health
System of Cincinnati of Cincinnati, Ohio to install the CaseServ managed care
application in each of the System's three Cincinnati hospitals; Providence, St.
Francis-St. George, and Emerson.

According to Don Stinnett, Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial
Officer at Franciscan, "We have chosen a vendor who is defining what
"state-of-the-art" means in the managed care area of information systems.
CaseServ is the only product on the market today that will administer
capitation arrangements. The system is the cornerstone for Franciscan Health
System of Cincinnati becoming "managed care friendly", both with our patients,
as well as with the insurance carriers".

Franciscan will be using the CaseServ application to monitor all aspects of the
System's managed care business, including anticipated capitation arrangements.
NeXT workstations will be placed in strategic locations throughout the
institutions to facilitate access to managed care contract information,
eligibility lists, decision support capabilities, and care protocols.  CaseServ
will be interfaced to the hospital's patient accounting system on a daily
basis.

"This agreement with Franciscan marks a very important milestone in our
company's history," said Ellen Williams, president and CEO of Trego.
"Franciscan believes strongly in our product vision and understands the
competitive advantages which will result from having CaseServ as a resource for
their institutions.  Their desire to participate as our initial implementation
site and first customer is just one example of their proactive approach to the
radically changing healthcare delivery environment.  We are very proud of the
fact that they have chosen us as their partners."

Trego Systems was founded in 1991 in order to address the evolving systems
needs of healthcare providers in the increasingly complex managed care arena.
Headquartered in the highly volatile California healthcare marketplace and
maintaining a regional office in Atlanta, Georgia, the company is focusing its
efforts on building comprehensive solutions for meeting the challenges faced by
all of the parties involved with managed care contracts in provider
institutions.  Taking full advantage of the best technology offers, the system
runs on a client/server UNIX workstation platform, utilizing NeXTSTEP, the
premier graphical user interface and object-oriented development environment,
and incorporates all current healthcare standards including HL7.

NeXT Computer, Inc. designs and markets the industry-acclaimed NeXTSTEP
object-oriented software environment, and designs, manufactures and markets
UNIX-based workstations that run NeXTSTEP.  NeXTSTEP and NeXT workstations are
used by medium and large organizations to develop and deploy mission-critical
applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software.  NeXT is
headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, California, 94063.


--
Nathan Janette	# "As I walk I hear my longing thoughts subsiding.
Dept MB&B	# Upon your cross I bleed the thoughts that I've been hiding.
Yale Univ/HHMI	# I'm all used up; there's not much more for me to give.
New Haven, CT	# Echoes of the life that we all want to live."

nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu