HARTFORD, Wis. — December 22, 2009 — API Healthcare, the leading provider of human capital management solutions to thehealthcare industry, today announced it has significantly strengthened its human capital management solution suite with the acquisition of Clearview Staffing Software, Inc., a leading technology provider of workforce management solutions to help healthcare staffing agencies recruit, credential, schedule and pay temporary staff.

“The synergy created by adding Clearview’s products to the API Healthcare suite supports our vision of providing an integrated, healthcare-focused solution that addresses the challenges around optimizing workforce utilization,” said J.P. Fingado, president and chief executive officer of API Healthcare. “Hospitals and agencies recognize that there is a great deal of inefficiency and tension inherent in their current relationships. Our combined solutions and technology give us the unique ability to address these issues by maximizing operational efficiencies and streamlining workflows, thereby improving hospital-agency relationships.”

API Healthcare is delivering on its vision to optimize human capital by building a complete suite of solutions focused on making it easier to place healthcare workers in the right place at the right time. Healthcare organizations are able to achieve positive outcomes by managing labor costs while still focusing on patient care.  As Clearview’s applications are integrated with API Healthcare’s applications, both hospital users and staffing agencies will be able to realize additional cost savings and productivity gains.

“By becoming a part of API Healthcare, we are able to join a successful, larger company and have a greater impact on the management of the healthcare workforce,” said David Gorman, president and co-founder of Clearview Staffing Software. “The integration of the API Healthcare and Clearview solutions will enable hospitals and health systems to maximize both internal and external staffing resources. The solutions will also make it easier for agencies and hospitals to work together, resulting in a win/win situation.”

Clearview, based in Dallas, Texas, provides SaaS-based healthcare staffing solutions that allow healthcare staffing agencies to automate the process of recruiting, onboarding, licensing, credentialing, scheduling, managing and paying temporary medical professionals.

API Healthcare headquarters will remain in Hartford, WI and the Dallas office will be a key business center for the corporation.

Learn more about the acquisition.

About API Healthcare

API Healthcare is the leading provider of human capital management solutions to the healthcare industry, including time and attendance, staffing and scheduling, patient classification, payroll, human resource, recruiting and onboarding, business analytics and agency staffing solutions. Founded in 1982, API Healthcare has more than 1,000 installations in North America and Europe. API Healthcare’s Payrollmation® system has been rated by KLAS in the Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards Report (www.KLASresearch.com) as the top time and attendance system for the last eight years (2002-2009). The company’s Web site address is www.apihealthcare.com.

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I am pleased to announce that Clearview Staffing Software has been acquired by API Healthcare. While this decision was certainly not made lightly, I am confident that we’re doing the right thing for both Clearview and our clients.

John Pencsak (JP) and I have dedicated the last 10 years of our lives to building Clearview. We have seen tremendous year-over-year growth as we’ve expanded our product offerings. Over the last couple of years, we’ve been exploring ways to take the company to the next level.  Entertaining a buyer who could provide a greater financial investment and bring complementary solutions to the client base seemed like the next logical step.  After much due diligence, JP and I have determined that API Healthcare is the right fit.  Like Clearview, API Healthcare is focused solely in the healthcare industry and shares our passion for creating dynamic, creative solutions. This acquisition is a smart move that will allow us to be part of a much larger company that is very financially sound and experiencing significant growth. That will ultimately benefit our clients.

The API Healthcare and Clearview solutions are perfect complements to one another. API Healthcare is dedicated to optimizing human capital for hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations; Clearview provides staffing agencies with the tools they need to recruit, credential, schedule and pay high quality temporary medical professionals. However, many of the workflows between agencies and hospitals are manual, inefficient and error prone because there is not a solution that completely automates those processes, until now. The integration of the Clearview and API Healthcare solutions bridges that automation gap. We have an amazing opportunity to redesign the agency/hospital relationship.

This process re-engineering serves the needs of agencies, hospitals, and healthcare workers – it’s a win/win/win situation. We’re looking forward to changing the way agencies and hospitals work together, and we can’t wait for you to learn more.

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