Autonomy Meaning Based Healthcare Business Wins Coveted 'Greatest Market Potential' Award

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Autonomy Meaning Based Healthcare (MBH) received the prestigious 2010 Healthcare IT Summit Innovation Award for "Solution With Greatest Market Potential." Autonomy was selected for this award by attendees at the 2010 Healthcare IT Summit, including leading healthcare delivery organizations and insurance providers such as Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Johns Hopkins Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, and CIGNA.  The prestigious accolade mirrors the outstanding response Meaning Based Healthcare has garnered from customers, analysts, and the press, increasing market momentum for Autonomy's transformative healthcare technologies.

"The opportunity to automate this industry is staggering," said Sue Feldman, Research Vice President at IDC. "The U.S. alone spends 16.4% of its GDP on healthcare, and even so is unable to connect the dots between research, patient records, clinical studies, and practice guidelines ... Auminence promises to make real-time diagnosis recommendations by detecting patterns in information from multiple sources and then producing suggested best matches for the patient."

Autonomy Meaning Based Healthcare platform is a comprehensive set of clinical diagnosis and information governance technologies designed to help Healthcare Delivery Organizations (HDOs) provide higher quality care at lower costs. Autonomy Meaning Based Healthcare leverages the company's proven track record of working with some of the world's largest HDOs as well as the company's unique ability to automatically understand and process all forms of unstructured healthcare information. Today Autonomy is a significant player in the healthcare market, with over ten years of experience in providing groundbreaking technology to HDOs including the American Medical Association, BlueCross BlueShield, Kaiser Permanente, Loma Linda University Medical Center, NHS, and Sutter Health.

Autonomy is a leading provider of software for unstructured information, and the market leader in information governance technologies. Its Meaning Based Healthcare platform is an ideal solution for the new era in healthcare.  

Please visit www.autonomyhealth.com to learn more about Autonomy Meaning Based Healthcare.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market.  Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis.

Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking Group, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.

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