NOVALIS TO CUT 38 LOCAL WORKERS.(BUSINESS)

Byline: CLAIRE HUGHES Business writer

Despite a recent forecast of light staffing cuts, more than a third of the workers at the local office of Novalis Corp. will lose their jobs due to the firm's sale to the California-based TriZetto Group.

Thirty-eight of Novalis' 105 Albany-based employees have been notified their jobs will be eliminated in the next two to eight months, said Lisa Reale, marketing director for Novalis, which develops software for the health care industry. Novalis employs about 400 people, including staff in Maryland and Arkansas.

Most of those losing their positions are computer programmers, she said. TriZetto already has an office …