Health Language and HCL Technologies Partner to Offer ICD-10 Conversion Solution

DENVER, Colorado and SUNNYVALE, California, September 23, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Health Language, Inc. (HLI) (http://www.healthlanguage.com/), the global leader in medical terminology management, and HCL Technologies (http://www.hcl.in/), one of the leading global IT services providers, today announced a partnership that will utilize HLI's Language Engine(R) (http://www.healthlanguage.com/products/language-engine.html) as part of HCL's end-to-end ICD-10 conversion solution, which encompasses gap assessment, conversion roadmap, remediation, testing, deployment and training. This combined service offering will enable hospitals and health systems, payors and independent software vendors (ISVs) to meet the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for conversion of legacy coding systems from ICD-9 to ICD-10, as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

HLI's scalable Language Engine integrates and manages the latest medical terminologies ( http://www.healthlanguage.com/products/content.html) within healthcare applications to enable effective and interoperable use of accurate clinical information, administrative codes and consumer friendly terminology. It provides access to current versions of more than 100 clinical and administrative code sets including SNOMED CT, ICD-9 and ICD-10, LOINC, CPT, RxNorm, HCPCS and others, and allows incorporation and mapping of local content to standards.

HCL, which is currently working with hospital systems, payors and healthcare product vendors to facilitate transition to the new standard, will employ the HLI Language Engine in the remediation phase of its complete ICD-10 conversion solution. "We selected HLI as the language engine because Health Language is the world leader in nomenclature, with a decade of vast experience servicing hospitals and payors," said Pradep Nair, Senior Vice President, Healthcare, HCL Technologies. "The synergy of our expertise in service and Health Language's comprehensive medical terminology management tool is a powerful combination. We believe joining forces will facilitate an easier transition to the new ICD-10 nomenclature for the segments of the healthcare marketplace that we mutually serve."

The companies expect the partnership to benefit mutual customers by laying the groundwork for future clinical and administrative technology initiatives that go beyond the government mandate. "We are building a competitive advantage for our customers by enhancing the value of data and lowering the cost of the transaction," continued Nair. "HCL believes in true transformation directed at core processes and HLI shares that vision."

"Health Language is proud to partner with a global leader in IT services to help healthcare entities lower the cost and simplify the ICD-10 conversion across the provider-payor continuum," explained Health Language CEO George Schwend. "Our combined strengths will enhance the value of the data that will enable hospitals, payors and ISVs to run their business more efficiently. We look forward to joining forces to reduce the burden of this critical transition and urge healthcare entities to start the migration process now."

About Health Language

Denver-based Health Language, Inc. (HLI) develops and delivers state-of-the-art software solutions that automatically incorporate medical vocabulary and coding standards into healthcare information technology (HCIT) applications. HLI's Language Engine (LE) allows centralized access to medical terminology standards and generates mappings to create a common pool of standardized codes and concepts that enhance patient safety, facilitate clinical outcomes analysis and accelerate reimbursement. It also provides standards for modeling, storing, updating and distributing information consistently for interoperability between hospitals, regions and countries. For more information, visit http://www.healthlanguage.com or call +1-720-940-2900.

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 64,557 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.7 billion (Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended as on 30th June 2010. For more information, please visit http://www.hcltech.com.

About HCL

HCL is a $5.3 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom & package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of information and communications technology (ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team consists of over 71,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 29 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has partnerships with several leading Global 1000 firms, including leading IT and technology firms.

For more information, please visit http://www.hcl.com

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    For details contact:

    Jodi Amendola
    Amendola Communications for Health Language
    +1-480-664-8412, ext. 11
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    Kirsten Paragona
    Director of External Communications, HCL
    +1-857-350-5393
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    Danielle Millerick
    BluePoint Marketing for HCL
    +1-781-861-7800
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SOURCE HCL Technologies Ltd