Infor Healthcare Helps Boost Patient And Provider Matching Accuracy With NextGate Integration

Infor Selects NextGate MatchMetrix Platform for EMPI and Provider Registry

New York, NY (Marketwired) - Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced the availability of Infor Cloverleaf with NextGate, a leading provider of Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) and identity management solutions. The NextGate EMPI and Provider Registry application offers users superior matching accuracy to resolve patient and provider identities across disparate systems, helping to eliminate duplicate records that hinder effective data sharing.

MatchMetrix is NextGate's master data management platform upon which domain-specific registries, including EMPI and Provider Registry, are created. The flexible and integrated technology platform resolves identity matching uncertainties to enable more accurate exchange of healthcare information in support of the patient-centric, meaningful use, and interoperable initiatives, including ACO and HIE.

"Being selected by Infor, a company that is highly respected in the healthcare industry, is a great validation of the advanced and sophisticated capabilities of our MatchMetrix technology," said Andy Aroditis, president and CEO, NextGate. "Together, our solutions provide the infrastructure required to integrate critical technology that helps our customer organizations maintain accurate views of patient and provider data across disparate systems to coordinate care and reduce operational inefficiencies."

The Infor Cloverleaf Integration and Information Exchange Suite modernizes the exchange of healthcare data within an organization, with partners, and across communities of care. The suite delivers a secure, standards-based infrastructure that integrates a wide variety of clinical document types, as well as the widely deployed Infor Lawson Financial Management and Supply Chain Management systems.

"The accurate identification and matching of patient and provider records is a critical requirement in today's increasingly complex and interconnected patient care delivery, and a source of significant economic advantage," said Steve Fanning, vice president, Healthcare Industry Strategy, Infor. "NextGate's EMPI and Provider Registry deliver precision, scalability, and usability required by our healthcare customers worldwide, and complements our powerful portfolio of clinical integration, finance, supply chain, human capital and analytic capabilities."

About NextGate
NextGate provides Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) and identity management registry solutions that integrate, index and coordinate data across systems to provide unified views of data, expedite decision processing, and streamline operational efficiency. NextGate solutions reduce the potential for costly errors caused by mismatched data. NextGate's innovative MatchMetrix® Technology Platform serves as the foundation for the company's advanced, enterprise-class registries, and provides an integrated environment to develop customer and domain specific solutions that expand as requirements evolve. For more information visit: www.nextgate.com.

About Infor
Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

Infor customers include:

• 19 of the top 20 aerospace companies
• 12 of the top 13 high tech companies
• 10 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies
• 84 of the top 100 automotive suppliers
• 23 of the top 50 largest US public hospitals
• 31 of the top 50 industrial distributors
• 26 of the top 35 global retailers
• 5 of the top 9 brewers