TriZetto’s New QNXT™ Application Hosting Services Offer Flexible Options to Meet the Requirements of Any Payer Organization

The TriZetto Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TZIX) today announced the availability of new QNXT™ Application Hosting Services, a flexible solution that allows healthcare payer organizations that utilize the QNXT administration platform greater financial flexibility and reduced risk as they continue to evolve to meet the demands of a rapidly changing healthcare benefits market. This new solution offers QNXT users TriZetto’s proven application hosting services, to provide access to advanced applications, infrastructure and application management while reducing risk and capital expenditures.

This new offering leverages TriZetto’s ten years of application hosting experience, servicing over 10 million healthcare payer members across all lines of business in its application management and hosting centers. QNXT Application Hosting Services can dramatically reduce the added costs, resources and risks typically associated with implementing, operating and maintaining IT applications and infrastructure.

“TriZetto’s QNXT Application Hosting Services provides not only the infrastructure, connectivity, data delivery and security expected in a full-service data center, but we go beyond that by leveraging our unique healthcare and QNXT knowledge to help customers maximize the operation and value of their systems,” said Rob Scavo, president of TriZetto Core Administration Solutions.

QNXT Application Hosting Services provides a wide range of value-added managed application services specific to the QNXT application suite, including application and development support, environment management, incident management, change management, performance tuning, and capacity planning. QNXT Application Hosting Services also include:
Application Management and Support: From client delivery managers to application support specialists, TriZetto has the depth and breadth of healthcare and application-specific expertise to ensure smooth daily operations and assist customers in exploiting the full capabilities of the QNXT system.
Release Management: QNXT Application Hosting Services provide implementation of major upgrades and the planning and deployment of service packs and product enhancements through our Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based change management process.
Service Level Management: TriZetto backs it application hosting commitments with industry- leading service levels which are continuously measured, monitored and reported back to the customer.
On Demand Environments: TriZetto can quickly build multiple environments—both temporary and long-term—in order to enable customers to perform such tasks as training and testing without interfering with the production environment.
Application and Database Monitoring: Over its 10 years of hosting large enterprise applications, TriZetto has developed automated monitoring systems and tools to ensure system performance for customers.
Code Management: TriZetto offers a code-review process to ensure that custom code meets agreed standards and is appropriately documented.
Electronic Data Interchange: TriZetto helps customers comply with governmental standards regarding EDI and offers connectivity with trading partners.

About QNXT

QNXT is part of TriZetto’s suite of enterprise administration systems. It supports medical and dental claims processing and offers comprehensive consumer-directed health capabilities with advanced HSA/HRA functionality. System capabilities also include a full range of functionality geared to support the administrative demands of payers with single or multiple lines of business, including group contracting, benefits management, eligibility and enrollment, premium billing/accounts receivable, provider network management and contracting, utilization and case management, claim processing and customer service. Designed to encompass an “n-tier” environment and service-oriented architecture, QNXT offers the flexibility and functionality that payers need in order to achieve optimal growth and efficiency, with a low total cost of ownership. QNXT enables customers to span the chain of healthcare decision-making and ensure that the right people have the right information in real time.

About TriZetto

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management™. With its technology touching nearly 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.

Contacts

Investors:
The TriZetto Group, Inc.
Brad Samson, 949-719-2220
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Media:
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