Compuware Covisint Extends Commitment to Healthcare Industry with Acquisition of Hilgr... ( Combined Offering Positions Covisint...)

Compuware Covisint Extends Commitment to Healthcare Industry with Acquisition of Hilgraeve, Inc.

Date:2/5/2008

Combined Offering Positions Covisint as a Leader in Physician Connectivity

DETROIT, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) today announced that it has acquired privately held Hilgraeve, Inc. of Monroe, Mich. This acquisition makes Compuware Covisint the world's largest on-demand collaboration platform for lab and prescription data sharing. Through Hilgraeve technology, physician practices will now enjoy the ability to rapidly connect to Covisint and securely share key patient information, reducing the cost and improving the quality of healthcare.

"As a practicing physician in a rural community for 17 years, I know that access to key information has always been a barrier to delivering the highest quality and most efficient care," said Dr. Tom Stevenson, Chief Medical Officer for Covisint. "With Covisint, physicians can now receive comprehensive and accurate information about their patients, regardless of geography or technical ability."

Hilgraeve has helped enterprises connect complex systems for more than 25 years and has served as a standard part of every Microsoft Windows operating system for the past decade. Recently, the company has focused on solving connectivity problems in the healthcare, automotive and financial industries. In the healthcare industry in particular, physicians use Hilgraeve solutions to connect to practice management systems and to securely communicate with electronic medical records systems and healthcare payers.

"The healthcare industry must control costs and increase efficiency, and we have been working closely with physicians to help achieve this," said Jeff Beamsley, President for Hilgraeve, Inc. "By joining Covisint, we will improve the future of healthc
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