GoldenGate Data Synchronization Powers Critical Healthcare Systems for Innovative Technology Consortium

New York-Based Emerging Health Information Technology (EHIT) Deploys GoldenGate to Support Business Continuity and Real-Time Decision Support on Network System Shared By Tri-State Medical Facilities

San Francisco, Calif. - March 9, 2004 - GoldenGate Software Inc. (www.goldengate.com), a leader in data synchronization, today announced that Emerging Health Information Technology (EHIT) (http://www.ehit.org), a leading provider of advanced technologies to hospitals and healthcare organizations, has deployed the GoldenGate Data Synchronization solution within EHIT's data center in Yonkers, New York. A wholly owned subsidiary of 1000-bed, Montefiore Medical Center (http://www.montefiore.org), EHIT maintains all IT and data functions for one of the very few 100% computerized physician order entry (CPOE) facilities in the country, supporting healthcare providers across the continuum of administration and care, including registration, laboratory, medicine, surgery, pediatrics, oncology and intensive care. EHIT relies on GoldenGate Data Synchronization to ensure disaster recovery capabilities, essential to 100% continuous data availability on its critical infrastructure. GoldenGate also supports sub-second data capture and movement to the EHIT decision support engine, driving informatics for decision support and outcome analysis for patient care management.

In recent years, CPOE and clinical information systems (CIS) have enabled a select number of large hospitals and medical centers to substantially lower costs related to patient registration and administration, and automate a wide range of clinical tasks--including placing medication orders, scheduling diagnostic tests, and screening for drug interactions. For example, using the IDX LastWord(R) system, Montefiore Medical Center has achieved reductions of preventable medication errors greater than 70 percent.

For small and mid-sized hospitals (below 500 beds) however, the technology investment required for CPOE and a comprehensive CIS system can be challenging, both financially and logistically. EHIT has pioneered a business model that promises these institutions access to CPOE, CIS and other cutting-edge healthcare systems by sharing the cost of infrastructure and maintenance among a group of facilities. The financial and logistical barriers have been removed by linking member hospitals through high-speed networks. This consortium model will enable EHIT to build on the state-of-the-art technology systems it developed and implemented in recent years with Montefiore Medical Center.

EHIT launched its consortium-based services and technologies in 2003 with a deployment at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York, including CPOE and other enterprise clinical and administrative functionality using LastWord running on an HP NonStop(TM) platform, as well as a complete fiber optic infrastructure. An expansion of Bronx-Lebanon system is underway, and EHIT is seeking to secure additional deployments in the near future, in conjunction with an agreement with IDX Information Systems Corporation to market the IDX LastWord system to hospitals with less than 400 beds in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

"Sophisticated information technologies are bringing substantial cost savings to healthcare management, and driving many beneficial advancements within critical areas of clinical care," said Jack Wolf, CEO of EHIT. "But if doctors and caregivers are going to rely on automated systems in healthcare settings, it is absolutely essential to have industrial-strength technologies that will stay up and running at all times. GoldenGate is absolutely key to EHIT because it is a cost-effective solution for the data synchronization required to make our systems bulletproof. With GoldenGate synchronizing every transaction on our NonStop/IDX solution, our hospital customers won't have to worry about disaster-related downtime or systems outages."

In addition to supporting business continuity within EHIT's architecture, GoldenGate is also used to continuously synchronize data from the company's HP NonStop databases to a Sybase data warehouse used for decision support and report generation. With this synchronized clinical and administrative data, the EHIT team is able to use a number of tools and applications to produce detailed analytic reports to track patient metrics, length of stay, and other care management data.

"The ability to move data across diverse databases and environments is fundamental to uncovering important information, and gauging performance and outcomes," said Dr. Eran Bellin, EHIT's Director of Medical Informatics. "GoldenGate delivers superior, real-time, synchronization capabilities, and we expect that the GoldenGate platform will continue to play a central role as we expand our statistical and analytical offerings in the future."

"More and more we are seeing data synchronization implemented as a critical piece of the IT infrastructure needed to run businesses," said Chris Purpura, SVP Marketing from GoldenGate. "From banking to financial services, retail, healthcare and beyond, GoldenGate synchronizes billions of transactions on a daily basis to help power the worldwide economy. The innovative use of GoldenGate by EHIT is one example of the power of data synchronization, which is extending advanced healthcare technologies to hospitals and care facilities who might otherwise not be able to access or afford them."

About Montefiore Medical Center
Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is an internationally recognized leader in patient care, education, research and community services. Located in the Bronx, Montefiore provides treatment programs for patients with all major illnesses and has distinguished centers of excellence in heart care, cancer care, children's health, women's health and surgery.

About EHIT
Emerging Health Information Technology ("EHIT") is a leading provider of Healthcare Technology to Hospitals and HealthCare Organizations. EHIT offers a broad range of products and services and a strong relationship-based commitment to our clients. Combining many years of industry and technical expertise, we provide leading-edge technology solutions in response to the complex pressures and demands facing healthcare organizations today. Our priority is to address your most pressing needs rapidly and cost effectively while maintaining the highest level of patient care.

EHIT's experience in supporting the Clinical and Financial Systems needs of major Medical Centers, Medical Departments and Clinical Networks has significantly contributed to positioning EHIT as a leader in the field.

About IDX
Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology solutions to maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care. IDX supports these objectives with a broad range of complementary and functionally rich products installed at 3,300 customer sites. Customers include 138,000 physicians who utilize practice management systems to improve patient care and other workflow processes. IDX Systems are installed at:

380 Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) representing more than 500 hospitals
175 large group practices with more than 200 physicians
665 mid-size group practices with less than 200 physicians

The IDX web strategy includes browser technology, e-commerce and web-based tools - built using Internet architecture - that facilitates access for patients, physicians and care providers to vital health information and data managed by the IDX clinical, administrative, financial, and managed care products. IDX has approximately 2,100 full-time employees.

About GoldenGate

GoldenGate is a leader in Transactional Data Management. Hundreds of businesses worldwide use the GoldenGate platform to manage critical initiatives such as business availability, data integration, business visibility and compliance. By providing the key technology for capturing, transforming and moving transactional data wherever it is needed, GoldenGate helps organizations mitigate risk, respond faster to customer needs, reduce costs and implement real-time operations. Designed to work with today's heterogeneous systems, the GoldenGate platform captures and delivers changes in transactional data at sub-second speeds in high volumes across any environment, including Oracle, DB2, HP NonStop SQL/MP and SQL/MX, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and Teradata. A private company, GoldenGate has completed thousands of installations in 35 countries, working with numerous Fortune 500 companies. Customers include: Bank of America, Bank One, Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Comcast and Dell. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key partnerships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI Worldwide, IDX Systems Corporation, Insession Technologies, HP and DST Innovis. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.goldengate.com or call (415) 777-0200

Contact:
Robin Bulanti
Kulesa Public Relations/ for GoldenGate
robin@kulesapr.com
(650) 340-1986

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