Leading healthcare provider will use Lawson system to help improve staff development and streamline business processes

Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced that HealthEast Care System has selected Lawson Strategic Human Capital Management, including applications from the Lawson Talent Management and Human Resource Management suites. The enterprise software system includes Lawson Compensation Management, Goal Management and Talent Acquisition applications as well as the Lawson Process Flow Integrator and Business Intelligence suites. The system will help the healthcare provider automate its business and personnel processes and improve efficiencies that will help reduce operating costs. The contract was signed during Lawson’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended May 31, 2009.

HealthEast Care System is one of the largest healthcare providers in the east metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minn. It operates a network of integrated care through its four hospitals, 14 clinics and outpatient services. HealthEast is dedicated to providing compassionate care through traditional medicine, new technology and integrative therapies.

HealthEast launched a plan to consolidate and automate its business and personnel processes to help improve efficiency and provide greater transparency and rapid access to information across its entire network. In addition to helping HealthEast improve staff productivity and lower HR administrative costs, the Lawson applications also will help the health network create cross-functional processes by helping to simplify reporting with improved data access.

"Our mission is to deliver high-quality, compassionate, cost-effective care. The Lawson system essentially offers a single system to support our core business strategies and our HR-related activities to support that mission,” said Ginny Sullivan, vice president of Human Resources for HealthEast. "One of our key challenges is to better manage our most vital resource – our people – in a highly competitive industry during a challenging economic time. The Lawson applications and Lawson’s approach to talent management are well-suited to help us better align our people with our patient care and business objectives.”

"Healthcare providers need affordable business systems to help them control escalating labor costs and improve productivity so they can pursue their patient care mission," said Jim Catalino, general manager, Healthcare, for Lawson.