iTech Workshop and Sun River Solutions Announce Partnership

    /24-7PressRelease/ - BANGALORE, INDIA, October 14, 2006 - iTech Workshop (iTech, Bangalore, India) and Sun River Solutions (SRS, Texas, USA) announced a partnership that will enable delivery of complete expEDIum Products and solutions for Billing Service Bureaus, Healthcare Solution Providers, Clearinghouses, Hospitals and Clinics in the state of Texas.

The agreement between iTech and SRS allows the latter to promote a range of products and services from iTech in the Texas healthcare market. iTech offers several products ranging from specific standard healthcare off-the-shelf formats and solutions, that provide direct payer connectivity for web based claims processing for providers, to electronic claims management and medical billing.

With SRS's strong project and account management capabilities, this partnership is expected to capture larger and long-term accounts and projects.

iTech's expEDIum suite includes products like the expEDIum X12N Engine, expEDIum Adapters supporting Healthcare formats such as NSF 2.0, 3.01, DMERC, 3.20D, UB-92 v5.0, v6.0, HCFA Print Images, HCFA and UB92 CSV files, expEDIum ANSI Creator, expEDIum Claims Scrubber and the expEDIum Claims Reconciliation (eCR). iTech has also launched a couple of solutions as part of its 4th generation offerings, including expEDIum Claims Portal (Web based claims processing) and expEDIum Medical Billing Solution (eMBS). iTech has several clients for these products and solutions from the USA and India featuring a large healthcare solutions vendor from Texas who bought 6 expEDIum adapters consisting of 4 server licenses of its expEDIum EDI engine.

Mr. Siva Narayanaswamy, CEO of iTech, said that this relationship will help iTech with last mile access to the Texas healthcare market and allow the offering of other services to select clients, such as low volume billing and claims processing to address various "pain-points" of the providers and billing services companies.

Ms. Savithiri Ramakrishnan, Proprietor of SRS, said she is very excited to join hands with iTech to promote both iTech's products and SRS' services in the Texas healthcare markets. She noted that iTech's products complement SRS' strengths in servicing its healthcare customer base, and expects to further bolster their strategic initiatives going forward. She was very complementary of iTech's management and technical staff, and stated that she was confident of the partnership's complete success.

About iTech
iTech Workshop, with its flagship product the expEDIum X12N / HIPAA Framework is one of the few companies in the world that provides a combination of IT solutions involving Data Integration for Healthcare, web based HIPAA compliant Claims processing and Medical Billing by means of cost-effective, sustainable and robust products and solutions. iTech can be reached through its website http://www.itechws.com. iTech is a Bangalore, India based company.

About SRS
Sun River Solutions is a solutions provider specializing in the healthcare market segment. Their services portfolio covers business and technology consultation electronic health record management, integrated medical billing solutions and software development. SRS can be reached through its website at http://www.sunriversolutions.com. SRS is a San Antonio, Texas, based company.

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