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Unibased Systems Architecture Selects DST Technologies' AWD to Deliver Healthcare Process Automation and Work Management

"We are pleased to work with Unibased to bring innovative process solutions to healthcare providers," said John Vaughn, Vice President, DST Technologies. "DST has a 20 year track record of helping clients enhance productivity, quality and customer service. We are excited about applying our experience to help healthcare integrate, standardize and improve the processes that impact their bottom-line and patient satisfaction."

DST Technologies' AWD solution is a comprehensive business process management solution used by high performance organizations in various vertical industries to manage high volume processing, sophisticated work management, and process integration.

"I look forward to working with DST Technologies and healthcare providers to identify ways that AWD and our RMS, ORMS, and ForSite2020 applications drive innovation," said Larry Covington, President, Unibased. "This relationship will maximize the vast industry knowledge of both companies to help healthcare systems more efficiently manage resources in support of their patients, attain operational excellence and reduce the estimated $145 billion of annual waste in the healthcare industry resulting from administrative inefficiency and excess paperwork."

About DST Technologies, Inc.: DST Technologies, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc. Through sophisticated information processing and computer software services and products, DST Technologies helps clients improve productivity, increase efficiencies and provide higher levels of customer service. For clients in a variety of industries, including mutual funds, brokerage, healthcare, insurance and video/broadband, AWD has helped reduce the cost of operations while increasing the speed and accuracy of business processing and customer service through business process management technology. For more information about AWD, visit www.dstawd.com.

About Unibased Software Architecture, Inc.: Celebrating its 23rd year in the HIT industry, Unibased Systems Architecture's reputation for product quality, reliability, and supporting services has no equal. Unibased and its products have maintained the highest rankings from the KLAS^TM independent reporting for the last eight years. Unibased is often referred to as the "perfect vendor" by its clients. Unibased markets various products that are open, scalable, integrated client/server and web-enabled solutions, designed to meet the unique needs of sophisticated enterprise organizations. Unibased also has major solution offerings in the air travel market, providing real-time production scheduling, human resource, security and financial systems.

In the HIT industry, Unibased offers ForSite2020 as an integrated solution that provides alternative access management techniques, including scheduling, EMPI, and registration, and tracks patient resource needs from pre-access through follow-up. ForSite2020 also monitors the effectiveness of clinical programs, financial productivity, and capacity management. ForSite2020 has an integrated module which addresses surgery procedure(s) and surgeon scheduling, pre-admission activity monitoring, surgeon preferences, suite utilization, materials management, clinical worker training and certification, perioperative charting, and surgery based EHR. ForSite2020 results in significant improvements in physician and patient relations by including a physician portal, consumer portal, automated order creation, a business intelligence offering labeled ForSite Analytics, and revenue cycle functions such as validation of patient demographics, patient's current insurance eligibility checking, assurance of medical necessity compliance, and estimation of the patient's out-of-pocket expense based upon scheduled and ordered services. All Unibased solutions are supported by integrated automatic data collection processes such as bar coding, facsimile collection and retention, optical and intelligent character recognition and document image collection and storage, all linked to the appropriate patient and administrative records.

Unibased products and services are available through direct sales, marketing partners, value-added resellers and system integrators. Unibased Systems Architecture is a private corporation founded in 1986, and is based in Chesterfield, Missouri. Visit Unibased on the web at www.unibased.com.

News media contact:
Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.
Stephanie D. Speth, 800-489-6069, ext. 143
Email: speth@unibased.com