TriZetto's Mike Jenner Available for Comment

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Dec. 8, 2008 - Following a general election in which healthcare reform was front and center, payer organizations find themselves under more pressure than ever to control costs and improve service. An in-depth white paper released today by The TriZetto Group, Inc. brings welcome news about an approach to information technology under which health plans can help:

• Accelerate return on investment and new product introductions with software implementations that are 22 percent faster;
• Improve employee productivity and constituent access with software problem resolution that is 23 percent faster; and
• Reduce capital outlays, budget uncertainty and total cost of ownership with low, predictable monthly costs.

The approach is called application hosting, or application outsourcing, and by 2007, 49 percent of health plans had adopted this approach for at least one information system.*

"Under application hosting, information systems are hosted and managed by a software vendor or other third-party, freeing payer staffs to focus on other aspects of their IT organizations or refocus on more strategic tasks," explained Mike Jenner, TriZetto's senior vice president of business services. "Since 2005, more than 65 percent of new customers of TriZetto's Facets® core administration system have chosen to have us host and/or manage this application, rather than deploy and manage it in-house. This trend is due in part to TriZetto's investment of more than $100 million over the last eight years in people, processes and technology to provide the very best application hosting services."

TriZetto's white paper, "The Trend Toward Healthcare Application Hosting," draws on extensive research, as well as the experiences of five payer organizations, to explore the historical rise of application hosting, its approaches and benefits. Further, the TriZetto white paper provides a framework to help health plans determine if application hosting is right for them.

TriZetto's application hosting white paper is available by request at salesinfo@trizetto.com. Requests by news media for the white paper or for interviews with Jenner may be directed to Schwartz Communications at 781-684-0770 or trizetto@schwartz-pr.com.

About TriZetto

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management™. With its technology touching more than half of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of health benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. The company provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers. Healthcare payers include national and regional health insurance plans, and benefits administrators that provide transaction services to self-insured employer groups. The company’s payer-focused information technology offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., TriZetto can be reached at 949-719-2200 or at www.trizetto.com.

*Galimi, Joanne, Gartner, Inc., "Healthcare Payer IT Budget, Staffing Study Results, 2007," Feb. 17, 2008.

CONTACTS:

Government Relations Contact::
The TriZetto Group, Inc.
Brad Samson
949-719-2220
brad.samson@trizetto.com

Media Contact:
Schwartz Communications
Melissa Bruno
781-684-0770
trizetto@schwartz-pr.com