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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Foresight Contact: Sterling Commerce Selects Foresight Corporation
for EDI Validation COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 13, 2003 – Foresight Corporation and Sterling Commerce, a division of SBC, today announced an agreement under which Sterling Commerce will use Foresight technology to include its InStream™ and HIPAA Validator® solutions in its network service. “Sterling Commerce already helps customers meet the privacy and security requirements of HIPAA through the Sterling Information Broker service,” states Jim Hendrickson, vice president, Integrated Network Services, Sterling Commerce. “Using Foresight’s powerful HIPAA validation capability, we now complete our HIPAA solution by addressing our customers’ need for testing HIPAA transactions and code sets.” Sterling Commerce’s E-Community Development HIPAA Document Verification service provides customers assistance to reach out to their business community and tools to validate the transactions and code sets. The newest addition to the Foresight HIPAA Validator product family, InStream, provides live production validation to all seven types of testing recommended by the Workgroup on EDI (WEDI). Designed as a high-performance, scalable solution, InStream has already been deployed by leading health care organizations, including Nationwide Insurance, WebMD, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Fairview Hospital. Sterling Commerce also will use InStream to validate compliance for all types of EDI in addition to HIPAA. “Foresight is pleased to partner with Sterling Commerce to provide its customers with a fast, thorough and proven solution for HIPAA transaction compliance,” says Bob Fisher, president and CEO of Foresight Corporation. “Sterling Commerce recognizes the importance of assuring clean data and the advantage of making this technology easily available through its network service.” About Sterling Commerce Sterling Commerce, a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), is one of the world’s largest providers of business integration solutions. For Global 5000 companies and their customers, suppliers and partners, Sterling Commerce software and services help maximize business performance and improve business metrics through integration of applications, external partner systems and people. With more than 25 years of experience serving more than 30,000 customers in a vast range of industries, Sterling Commerce is a recognized pioneer in electronic commerce through its longstanding expertise in EDI. Today, as customers explore new ways to improve business performance via the Internet, Sterling Commerce continues to innovate its software and services to further the global adoption of e-commerce while offering its customers strategic solutions that leverage existing technology. For more information, visit www.sterlingcommerce.com. SBC Communications Inc. (www.sbc.com) is one of the world’s leading data, voice and Internet services providers. Through its world-class networks, SBC companies provide a full range of voice, data, networking and e-business services, as well as directory advertising and publishing. A Fortune 30 company, America’s leading provider of high-speed DSL Internet Access services, and one of the nation’s leading Internet Service Providers, SBC companies currently serve 58 million access lines nationwide. In addition, SBC companies own 60 percent of America’s second-largest wireless company, Cingular Wireless, which serves more than 22 million wireless customers. Internationally, SBC companies have telecommunications investments in 25 countries. About Foresight Corporation Since 1990 Foresight has provided e-commerce productivity and data validation solutions to many health care organizations and Fortune 500 companies, and today is the marketplace leader in HIPAA transaction compliance with its HIPAA Validator CommunityManager™ (for large community enablement), DeskTop (PC-based), and InStream™ (real-time) solutions. Foresight is proud to partner with many BCBS organizations and payer, facility and provider customers, including Aetna, Fairview Health System, Great West Life, Veritus Medicare Services, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Foundation, McKesson, Oxford Health Plans, Inc., Preferred Provider of Michigan, PNC Bank, Washoe Health Systems, Inc. and WebMD, as well as Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) organizations including: BCBS of Illinois, BCBS of Michigan, BCBS of New Mexico and BCBS of Texas, and many others. For more information, visit the company at www.foresightcorp.com or call 1.888.500.0800. ### HIPAA Validator is a registered trademark and InStream is a trademark of Foresight Corporation. |
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