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Compuware Covisint and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Announce Strategic Partnership to Build Michigan Healthcare Portal
  
All Major Healthcare Participants--Including Patients, Employers, Healthcare Organizations and Physicians--to Benefit From Michigan Blues’ Improved Quality and Efficiency
DETROIT--August 4, 2005--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) subsidiary Covisint and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) today announced a strategic partnership to deliver a statewide healthcare portal in Michigan. The portal will enable healthcare professionals, groups, agents and members to improve the automation of routine business practices and shared access to information over the Internet. "I am so pleased to see two Michigan companies working together on a project that can increase both the quality and affordability of health care in our state," said Governor Jennifer M. Granholm. "Information Technology can play a key role in lessening medical errors, improving safety and reducing costs by providing better information for consumers and providers. I applaud this strategic partnership between Covisint/Compuware and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and look forward to working with them as the Michigan Health Information Network is developed." The Covisint Portal platform is one part of BCBSM’s commitment to invest $200-$300 million to modernize its technological infrastructure, simplify processes and enable cost savings. A nonprofit corporation, BCBSM is Michigan’s largest health insurance provider, serving more than 4.7 million members. "BCBSM is excited to pioneer secure technology that improves healthcare quality and efficiency," said William Smith, Senior Vice President and CIO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. "Covisint’s strategic partnership will help improve the services we offer and our future vision of collaboration between healthcare providers and payors securely over the Internet." Compuware Covisint is building and integrating a secure, efficient and scalable portal platform for BCBSM, including the configuration of hardware and software. This portal platform will save time and money, provide secure interoperability and facilitate process improvement affecting areas such as benefits administration and claims management. It will do this by applying state-of-the-art, proven technologies for secure collaboration with sensitive, BCBSM back-end applications and enabling the integration of third party, hosted applications and single-sign-on access to multiple applications and environments. The Covisint Portal platform will handle both today’s needs and future BCBSM business strategies. Among the portal’s projected applications are benefits information, claim submissions, medical records, e-prescribing, electronic explanation of benefits, electronic reporting and other applications custom-designed for healthcare providers and groups, agents and members. "Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is an industry leader, and we are pleased to partner with them on their vision to improve healthcare and reduce costs," said Bob Paul, President and CEO of Compuware Covisint. "This watershed announcement for healthcare builds upon Covisint’s success in the automotive industry and strategically replicates and broadens our business value. To have the North American automotive industry and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan on the same platform will create compelling opportunities in the future." Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware Corporation, enables the integration of vital business information and processes between partners, customers and suppliers. Covisint uses an industry-centric approach leveraging deep expertise and state-of-the-art technology to address industry-specific needs. Blue Cross Blue Shield of MichiganBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, a nonprofit corporation, provides health care benefits to just over 4.7 million members through a variety of plans: Traditional Blue Cross Blue Shield; Blue Preferred, Community Blue and Healthy Blue PPOs; Blue Choice Point of Service; Blue Care Network HMO, and Blue HSASM plans compatible with health savings accounts. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofit corporations and independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. For more information, visit http://www.bcbsm.com/ Compuware CorporationCompuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com/.
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