May 27-30, 2008 MUSE International Dallas, TX June 18, 2008 HOW 2008 JWild's Healthcare Optimization Workshop Dedham, MA

Setting your course for MEDITECH 6.0
As we kick off the New Year and plan for what's ahead, MEDITECH's readiness to launch Client/Server 6.0 in 2008 is at the forefront.

The implementation of C/S 6.0 at West Georgia Health System is well underway, and Doylestown Hospital, a stalwart adopter and innovator in the MAGIC community, is well on the road to moving from MAGIC to C/S 6.0. Word out of Canton is that MEDITECH marketing representatives are exclusively demonstrating C/S 6.0 technology to new account prospects now. We recently assisted MEDITECH's Development and Marketing teams in creating an aggressively-virtualized environment for the further development and demonstration of C/S 6.0. With all the excitement, interest, and potential questions about six-dot-oh and what it might mean, we thought it would be useful to summarize some things we know and provide some inputs to your planning processes.  Click here for more (PDF)

We are thrilled to sponsor Ross Perot Sr. as a keynote speaker at this year’s MUSE International conference. Perot Systems is very committed to the MEDITECH community, as demonstrated by their acquisition of JJWild last summer. Mr. Perot welcomes the opportunity to speak to MUSE attendees. Mr. Perot is a passionate advocate for healthcare and will speak on the impact of technology in the healthcare industry. He will be presenting on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 8:15 am at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas, Texas.

 Virtualization: Considerations for Disaster Recovery
According to Murphy’s Law, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. When talking about disaster recovery, this could range from a major power outage to a natural disaster. If an incident like this were to occur at your primary data center, how long would it take you to recover? Without a doubt, a major concern for any IT department is not only implementing a disaster recovery solution, but a manageable one. Click here for more (PDF)

Introducing our MEDITECH Hosting Solution—The best of both worlds
It’s been an interesting late summer/early fall here in Canton, Massachusetts, USA. We were humbled, honored, and ultimately thrilled to be recognized by Perot Systems as the knowledge leader for MEDITECH and an opportunity to expand the offering to include consulting and project implementation. As you have read elsewhere in this newsletter, our technology and consulting teams have been working hard to introduce new solutions and services like SAN Health Checks, technical readiness assessments, server virtualization, and ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) to assist you both in meeting the challenges of 21^st century clinical computing as well as in planning ahead for MEDITECH Client/Server 6.0. Click here for more (PDF)

Customer Engagement: JJWild’s Consulting Services Group Delivers for Norman Regional Hospital
Norman Regional Hospital is a multi-facility system in Oklahoma comprised of a 325-bed acute care facility, inpatient rehab unit, outpatient clinics, and physician office practices. Back in the beginning of 2006, the organization began a large IT initiative to implement the full suite of MEDITECH applications, including MEDITECH’s Advanced Clinical System. It was immediately obvious to Dr. Brian Yeaman, Director of Physician Informatics, and others at Norman Regional that they were going to need an outside consultancy firm to help them oversee the project. Dr. Yeaman felt that whoever managed the task of this new implementation would have to be a dynamic and strong leader who was diligent to every detail and profoundly organized. Norman Regional chose JJWild’s Consulting Services Group to help them with their conversion and implementation of their new MEDITECH HCIS.

JJWild was delighted to receive a wonderful letter of appreciation recently from Dr. Yeaman who stated that he can proudly say Norman Regional received everything they asked for from JJWild’s Consulting Services Group. Dr. Yeaman also commented that “Our JJWild Consultant (Susan Trianosky) was a strong and decisive leader whose leadership and drive to the finish line is what helped keep the teams moving and staying on target throughout the process. Her organization and attention to detail is what kept the project on target and her vast knowledge and understanding of the subject matter was impressive by any standards.”

The project is still running strong and Norman is scheduled to go live in early 2008. We are delighted to be working with Norman Regional to meet this goal.

JJWild Qualifies the Stratus 4400 for MEDITECH
JJWild has completed certification of the Stratus 4400, an affordable 1 or 2 socket system that’s a member of industry’s first fault-tolerant quad-core servers - the Stratus ftServer® family.

Designated “Best Fault-Tolerant Server” for InfoWorld’s 2008 Technology of the Year Awards, the ftServer 4400 system is a smart choice for MEDITECH users where business-critical computing is essential for applications such as Electronic Medical Records and the Advanced Clinical System.

In addition, the 4400’s value and performance will allow MEDITECH users to utilize Stratus’ “always on” IT solutions in more of their organization and - at the same time - minimize the number of servers they need to support.

For more information on the new Stratus 4400, please contact your JJWild representative

New Customer Partnerships
JJWild is pleased to welcome the following organizations to the JJWild family:

• The Methodist Hospital, Indiana
• Nevada Regional, Missouri
• Dorminy Medical Center, Georgia
• Children’s Specialized Hospital, New Jersey
• Nevada Regional Medical Center, Missouri
• Dorminy Medical Center, Georgia
• P&S Surgical Hospital, Louisiana

Peter Stone joins JJWild as Vice President of Managed Services
We are delighted to announce that Peter Stone has joined JJWild as Vice President of Managed Services. Peter will focus on business development for our full managed services product line which includes our new MEDITECH Hosting Solution introduced by Jim Fitzgerald in our November issue of Inside Perspective. Peter has worked in healthcare for nearly 30 years and has held healthcare sales management, channel sales management, product management, and business development positions at Data General and EMC Corporation. Peter was instrumental in building the MEDITECH partnerships at both Data General and EMC. Please join us in welcoming Peter to JJWild.

JJWild’s Healthcare Optimization Workshop and MEDITECH’s CIO Workshop
Start planning now to attend our Healthcare Optimization Workshop (HOW ’08) on Wednesday, June 18 in Dedham, Massachusetts. It’s being held the day before MEDITECH’s annual CIO Workshop being held in Canton, Massachusetts on Thursday and Friday, June 19 and 20, 2008. So plan now to attend both events!

Our 6^th annual Healthcare Optimization Workshop is an educational and informative event that encourages dialog about the strategic issues that face MEDITECH healthcare leaders. Sessions are packed with in-depth perspectives on hot topics in the industry today. Additionally, you’ll have valuable time to network with colleagues, JJWild executives, and our leading industry business partners.

Space is limited so if you are interested in attending HOW ’08 or would like to learn more about the day’s activities, please contact your JJWild representative.

Perot Systems Acquires JJWild
Perot Systems Corporation announced August 13, 2007 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JJWild, Inc., the preferred provider of integrated healthcare delivery solutions for organizations using the MEDITECH Healthcare Information System. Perot Systems will acquire the Canton, Massachusetts-based company for $89 million, subject to certain adjustments and offsets.
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MEDITECH adds Advanced Clinical Systems Resources section to their website
We are pleased to announce that JJWild is named on the MEDITECH web site as a consulting firm having experience with MEDITECH customers and MEDITECH's approach to Advanced Clinical implementations.

To qualify, JJWild met with MEDITECH management and presented our company philosophy about Advanced Clinicals, our consultants' expertise and experience, and our approach and methodology in working with clients. Additionally, we presented white papers that described our ACS services:

• ACS Readiness Assessment
• Clinical Process Redesign
• Physician and Clinical Adoption

To navigate to the ACS section of MEDITECH's website, go to www.meditech.com, click on customers, and then click on the "Advanced Clinical Resources" link.

If you are interested in any of the three white papers that describe the above services or are seeking assistance with Advanced Clinicals, we invite you to contact us at editor@jjwild.com.

JJWild becomes Platinum Partner with BridgeHead
In recognition of JJWild's extensive expertise and investment in infrastructure and professional services to support BridgeHead Software technology, BridgeHead announced on June 20, 2007 that JJWild has been elevated to a Platinum Partner and has earned certification at this program level. A long and successful relationship between JJWild and BridgeHead has enabled JJWild to become the largest volume partner of BridgeHead backup and disaster recovery products in the healthcare space.

The BridgeHead-JJWild relationship is based on a mutual commitment to providing solutions for users of the MEDITECH HCIS.

BridgeHead's ISB (Integrated Serverless Backup) and IDR (Integrated Disaster Recovery) techniques, developed with and specifically for MEDITECH, have been key components in over 100 JJWild installations. The ISB and IDR products from BridgeHead exploit SAN (Storage Area Network) technology and ensure recoverability of MEDITECH data, an important function that is not provided by generic backup products.

"We have been looking forward to an opportunity to articulate just how important JJWild's involvement is in deploying BridgeHead products, and we are pleased to welcome them as a Platinum Partner," said Tony Cotterill, President and Chief Executive Officer of BridgeHead Software. "SAN-based solutions can be complex and few healthcare organizations have the internal experience to integrate and manage data recovery, storage management, and the unique aspects of MEDITECH software. JJWild's services are key in making this sophisticated offering cost-effective and easy to operate."
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Ashland Community Hospital launches PCS & CPOE with help from JJWild
One of our JJWild Advanced Clinical Specialists recently joined the Ashland Community Hospital Patient Care team in Ashland, Oregon to assist with their Patient Care System (PCS) and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) project. The successful completion of this project will position Ashland Community Hospital for organizational success with future upgrades and implementations to continue to improve their quality of care. We applaud Ashland’s dedication and commitment to patient care.

JJWild becomes VIP Enterprise Partner with VMware
JJWild is pleased to announce that we are officially a VMware VIP Enterprise Partner and are on our way to becoming a VMware GOLD VAC partner. As of this date, we have five JJWild VMware Certified Engineers (VCPs) and our sales force includes multiple VMware Certified Sales Professionals (VSPs) as well. Our entire organization is excited to be able to offer our MEDITECH customers a suite of VMware products and services for their enterprise needs. Look for more news and information on virtualization technology from our Product Management team in the next issue of Inside Perspective.

JJWild listed in Healthcare Informatics "Top 100 Healthcare IT Companies"
JJWild appeared in Healthcare Informatics annual ranking of the Top 100 Healthcare IT Companies by Revenue. JJWild ranked number #35 on the list published in their June issue. We could not have achieved this milestone without the support of all our customers, and we thank you.

We would also like to congratulate MEDITECH who ranked 17th on the list. MEDITECH continues to climb up in the rankings, moving from a ranking of 22 in last year’s issue.

JJWild Attends VMworld
Thirteen JJWild Engineers, Managers and Support Staff attended VMworld on September 10-13 in San Francisco for customized training and certification education to incorporate into our JJWild MEDITECH virtualization offering.

Key members of the group visited with our partner, VMware, to align our sales teams to support the rollout of virtualization for our MEDITECH customers. In addition, we launched strategic plans with our partners, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Stratus Technologies to provide our customers with a complete suite of virtualization infrastructure offerings.

JJWild is positioned to deliver virtualization services using VMware by leveraging our VMware partnerships and more than ten in-house VCP VMware Certified Professionals.

New Customer Partnerships
JJWild is pleased to welcome the following organizations to the JJWild family:

• Monongahela Valley Hospital, Pennsylvania
• Connally Memorial Medical Center, Texas
• The Methodist Hospital, Indiana
• Prime Health-Montclair Hospital Medical Center, California
• Heartland Spine & Specialty, Kansas
• Doctor’s Hospital, Texas

JJWild Chairman retires
After forty-one years of building – and embodying – a customer-focused, employee-friendly culture founded on the merits of business partnership, our Chairman, John J. (Jim) Wild Jr., has retired. We will all miss Jim's sense of humor, generous personality and natural manner. We appreciate Jim's quest for research and development of new technologies for our MEDITECH clients and JJWild, and we will continue his legacy.

Congratulations, Jim, on your retirement. We know you will stay in touch, and we look forward to seeing you again soon. All the best from your JJWild family.

Customer testimonial: JJWild delivers for Halton Healthcare Services (HHS)
Halton Healthcare Services Inc, (HHS), part of LHIN 6 Mississauga, Ontario, is a multi-site healthcare organization serving the communities of Milton, Oakville, Clarkson, and Halton Hills.

During the February, 2007 HIMSS conference, Vert Rayner, Director of IT at HHS approached JJWild with a dilemma: HHS was running out of disk space. They had acquired new servers and a storage area network, but the scheduled resources that Vert had arranged for the configuration and data migration were suddenly not available. Vert was given last minute notification at the conference that his project timeline would have to be pushed back well beyond the date when disk space would run out.

Within a day, JJWild provided HHS with a quote for the professional services required for the install of the new servers, a storage area network, and MEDITECH VPN (which provides MEDITECH remote support connectivity), and confirmed the scheduled date for an engineer to arrive onsite. The JJWild engineer was onsite the following week, and the upgrade was completed smoothly and on time.

Vert commented, “I was very pleased with JJWild's quick response and their understanding of our sense of urgency. They have a large pool of engineering talent to draw from and were able to quickly adjust their schedule and provide quality people on very short notice. We were duly impressed with the way JJWild stepped up and helped us out of this crisis. On the basis of this experience, JJWild will be the company we approach first in the future for all MEDITECH technology purchases.”

Consulting engagements
Civista Health (Maryland)
Civista Health and JJWild have enjoyed a strong, long-term relationship that began with the initial implementation and project management of the MEDITECH Healthcare Information System about four years ago. Today, Civista Health continues to work hand-in-hand with JJWild utilizing many of our consultants for the ongoing application optimization of the MEDITECH modules. Civista will continue to leverage JJWild's relationship with MEDITECH and deep expertise in the healthcare industry to bring additional value to the organization.

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (Indiana)
Several of our JJWild Consultants have recently begun working with Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center on their MEDITECH Client/Server implementation to support hospital operations and their quest for the best clinical care. JJWild Consultants will work with the Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center's core teams during these early stages of the implementation to accelerate the internal development of MEDITECH-specific knowledge within the teams, as well as to work through many of the early design decisions necessary to achieve a successful and timely implementation of the MEDITECH application suite. JJWild is delighted to be working with Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center on this important initiative.

New customer partnerships
JJWild is pleased to work with the following organizations and we welcome them to the JJWild family:

• Hazel Hawkins (California)
• Windber Hospital (Pennsylvania)
• Prime Health-Anaheim General Hospital and Prime Health-Paradise Hospital, Cathedral (California)
• Richmond University Medical Center (New York)
• Mile Bluff (Wisconsin)
• Scarborough Hospital (Ontario, Canada)

JJWild welcomes John Ebel as Product Manager of our Information Lifecycle Management Solution Suite
Please join us in welcoming John Ebel as JJWild's Product Manager for the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solution suite. John will be focused on definition, development, launch, and ongoing management of technologies, services, and support offerings that complement MEDITECH's Scanning and Archiving Module and provide a single enterprise ILM solution supporting MEDITECH, PACS, Microsoft, and email archiving.

John joins JJWild with extensive solution development, sales, and delivery experience, most recently at Kreg Corporation where he developed and delivered service-oriented solutions to healthcare executives. Prior roles have incorporated the full range of product management responsibilities for companies such as Egenera, Sybase, and IBM. John holds a BS degree from Cornell University and a MBA degree from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts.

HOW '07 recap
JJWild held its fifth annual Healthcare Optimization Workshop (HOW '07) at the Hilton in Dedham, Massachusetts on June 20, the day before MEDITECH's CIO Technology Workshop.
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Huntington Hospital Implements Disaster Recovery Solution
JJWild was pleased to partner with Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California to orchestrate their Disaster Recovery solution, working with our technology partners and Huntington’s internal IT staff. We are happy to share the case study here in its entirety.
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New Customer Partnerships: JJWild is pleased to welcome the following organizations to the JJWild family
Medical Center of Newark, LLC (Ohio)
Quachita Medical Center (Arkansas)
Rutherford Hospital (North Carolina)
St. Joseph’s Health System-Covenant (California and Texas)
Rapid City Regional Hospital (South Dakota)

Consulting Engagements
Norman Regional Hospital, Oklahoma
Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Ontario

Meadville Medical Center in Pennsylvania Success Story
JJWild was delighted to help Meadville Medical Center in Pennsylvania with their move to OSAL and SAN (Storage Area Network) design. Mark Mahoney, CIO of Meadville Medical Center, shared his experiences in the following note:

JJWild managed the efforts of their business partners Dell, EMC, and BridgeHead to meet all of my expectations and complete the design in a timely and very professional manner. Partnering with JJWild, I pushed everyone involved to meet or exceed my timetable and design goals. They all performed excellently.
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Alexian Brothers Health System in Illinois Success Story
Recently, Brad Tate, one of our Supply Chain consultants, assisted Alexian Brothers Health Systems in Arlington, IL with their Go-Live of MEDITECH's Materials Management module. The Go-Live occurred on July 1st. Brad was happy to provide on-site assistance to Alexian Brothers over the holiday weekend to ensure that the only fireworks during that weekend occurred at Fourth of July parties and festivities, and not in the hospital! JJWild's services included Go-Live support and installation of handheld devices and printers. Because of a true working partnership between JJWild and the Alexian Brothers Health System team, there was a successul Go-Live on July 1st. Congratulations to Brad and the Alexian Brothers Health System!

Alberta’s RSHIP has been recognized as “a national leader in the application of healthcare IT.”
With the help of JJWild, the 106-acute facility organization is embarking on Phase Two of their IT program including the implementation of MEDITECH’s Advanced Clinical System.
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