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Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System Selects AT&T Managed Hosting and Professional Services

SALINAS, Calif., Jan 21 /PRNewswire/ — Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare
System (SVMHS) has selected AT&T to provide a fully managed hosting solution
supporting the organization’s http://www.svmh.com Web site, integrating critical
online e-business applications. The AT&T infrastructure will help position
SVMHS on the leading edge of health care and provide its patients with the
most advanced health care available.

Under terms of the multi-year agreement, AT&T will provide SVMHS security
and flexibility in its business operations, plus around-the-clock monitoring
and maintenance of SVMHS’ online applications from AT&T’s San Francisco Bay
Area Internet Data Center (IDC). Through the AT&T BusinessDirect Web portal,
SVMHS also gains around-the-clock online access to up-to-the-minute
information about the performance of its applications. AT&T will also
integrate a customized, secure managed email exchange service solution.

The contract expands a long-standing relationship between the two
organizations, and further positions AT&T as the health care facility’s
primary telecommunications provider.

"We’ve relied on AT&T for almost 30 years now, so they were the logical
choice to meet our hosting needs," said John Fletcher, Salinas Valley Memorial
Healthcare System’s senior vice president/Finance and Information Technology.
"We’ve come to trust AT&T, and knowing that they are managing our critical
networking infrastructure gives us the ability to focus on what we do best –
providing unsurpassed health care service."

"Our relationship with Salinas Valley Memorial has grown over the years,
and we’re extremely proud that we’ve played some small role in helping the
hospital become what it is today — a leader in health care services," said
Jon Peacock, AT&T sales vice president, San Jose. "We’re thrilled that Salinas
Valley continues to select AT&T for its ongoing initiatives to be a healthcare
leader."

AT&T’s managed hosting services also enable SVMHS to meet critical patient
data security requirements as mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Under HIPAA, every health care provider,
health care plan and health care clearinghouse must comply with transaction
code, privacy, identifiers and security requirements.

To develop a HIPAA action plan for SVMHS, AT&T Professional Services
analyzed SVMHS’ physical facility and network security, and reviewed the
client’s security policy in order to identify potential gaps and develop an
improved security policy that the healthcare facility could then easily
implement.

One critical aspect to the deal was that AT&T’s data centers meet HIPAA
requirements and provide SVMHS with confidence in areas such as access control
(media controls), data backup, emergency mode operation, equipment control
(physical security), facility security plan, as well as procedures for
verifying access authorizations to secure locations. AT&T also will work with
SVMHS to provide data storage and disaster recovery services.

About AT&T

For more than 125 years, AT&T (NYSE "T") has been known for unparalleled
quality and reliability in communications. Backed by the research and
development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company is a global leader in
local, long distance, Internet and transaction-based voice and data services.

About Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System

Founded in 1952, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System is a healthcare
district with a broad range of services. Its 253-bed hospital features the
Monterey County Regional Heart Center. This facility performs as many cardiac
procedures as those at major university heart centers. The hospital logged
more than 400 open-heart surgeries and nearly 3,000 catheterizations and
angioplasties last year. The hospital also is the first community hospital in
the nation to serve under a Space Act Agreement with the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA). SVMHS uses new medical technologies from NASA
that provide physicians the ability to transmit and receive 3-dimensional
images of the human body. Additional groundbreaking programs include a
partnership with Stanford University Medical Center’s Clinical Cancer Program,
giving greater and expedited access to additional resources through one of
this country’s leading cancer research and treatment centers.

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