Michigan Physicians Gain From New AMA and MSMS Partnership to Improve Physician Practice...

Michigan Physicians Gain From New AMA and MSMS Partnership to Improve
Physician Practice Efficiency

EAST LANSING, Mich., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Michigan physicians
are the first in the nation to gain increased access to health information
technologies (HIT) through a new partnership announced today by the American
Medical Association (AMA) and Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) with
Compuware's Covisint subsidiary. This partnership builds on MSMS's
nation-leading "MSMS Connect" and comes just days after the AMA announced its
agreement with Covisint to develop an AMA web-based portal.

The partnership will increase the number of products and services available to
Michigan physicians. MSMS Connect currently has a portfolio of services that
help to improve patient care, facilitate efficient medical practice and ease
the adoption of HIT. Later this year, through the AMA partnership, MSMS
members will be able to access even more secure tools and information in
support of improved patient care and efficiency.

"Our partnership with the AMA is very exciting for Michigan physicians because
we are now able to pool our efforts to deliver a broader range of resources to
help physicians in their practices," said Gregory J. Forzley, MD, chair of
MSMS board of directors and Medical Director of Informatics at Saint Mary's
Health Care in Grand Rapids, Mich. "Physicians can select the products and
services they need to help increase their efficiency, quality of care, and
patient safety through one online portal."

Available offerings will include the latest and most useful tools and
information for ePrescribing, electronic health records, and practice and
revenue management to provide very practical and tangible help to practicing
physicians. The new physician-friendly portal will allow for personalized
content, search capabilities and learning and networking opportunities that
will not require great technological expertise to implement.

"Through this collaboration with MSMS, Michigan physicians will provide
feedback that will help improve the program for physicians nationwide," said
AMA Board Chair Joseph M. Heyman, MD. "By working together, we can develop a
better portal with the products and services to help simplify physicians'
day-to-day routines so they can focus on what they do best - caring for
patients."

The AMA platform will be launched nationally in 2010.

About MSMS:
The Michigan State Medical Society is the professional association of more
than 15,000 physicians in Michigan. The mission of the MSMS is to promote a
health care environment that supports physicians in caring for and enhancing
the health of Michigan citizens through science, quality and ethics in the
practice of medicine. Visit the MSMS website at http://www.msms.org for more
information.

About AMA:
The American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by uniting
physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional and public
health issues. Working together, the AMA's quarter of a million physician and
medical student members are playing an active role in shaping the future of
medicine. For more information on the AMA, please visit www.ama-assn.org

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About Compuware Corporation:
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SOURCE Michigan State Medical Society

David Fox of the Michigan State Medical Society, +1-517-336-5731,
dkfox@msms.org; or Leah Dudowicz of the American Medical Association,
+1-312-464-4813, leah.dudowicz@ama-assn.org