CareScience Quality Manager Builds Momentum in Second Quarter; QUOVADX Division Signs New Agreements, Expands Relationships with Leading Healthcare Organizations.

PHILADELPHIA -- CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX) providing care management, clinical analysis and clinical quality improvement solutions, today announced the signing of new customer agreements and the renewal and extension of current customer relationships during the second quarter. These agreements deliver a range of solutions including its flagship product, the CareScience Quality Manager, and its components and associated consulting solutions.

During the quarter, CareScience signed new agreements with Deaconess Billings Clinic and Maury Regional Healthcare System for the use of the CareScience Quality Manager, a key component of the CareScience Care Management Suite, at their respective facilities.

Additional customers expanding their use of CareScience products and services during the quarter include:

--Brookwood Medical Center, Alabama

--Mt. Carmel Hospital, Ohio

--MedStar Health, Maryland

--Temple University Health System, Pennsylvania

--Tulsa Regional Medical Center, Oklahoma

--Sisters of Mercy Health System, Main

--St. Anthony's, Illinois

--Saint John Ascension, Indiana

--St. Vincent Santa Fe, New Mexico 

--Bronson, Michigan

--Carolinas Health, North Carolina 

--Memorial Health, Colorado

--North Arundel Hospital, Maryland

--St. Anthony's Healthcare, Illinois

"We are excited that our new customers will now be able to take advantage of the in-depth analysis and process improvement that our Care Management Suite can deliver, and, as always, we are gratified to continue our work with our existing customers," said Thomas H. Zajac, president, CareScience. "These agreements illustrate the critical value derived from proven care management technology and services and the effect it can have on improving clinical process and the quality of patient care, while simultaneously improving operational and financial efficiencies."

CareScience Quality Manager, a key component of the CareScience Care Management Suite, is used by hospitals and health systems across the country to isolate, prioritize and quantify clinical process improvement opportunities, and to implement strategies for adopting best-practices that will have a real-world impact on patient care.

The CareScience Care Management Suite is an ASP-based software and services solution for hospitals and healthcare organizations helping physicians, managers and clinicians identify optimum treatment protocols, improve clinical quality and efficiency, streamline reporting and data aggregation and reduce complications and medical errors. From improving clinical outcomes performance and uncovering care process efficiencies, CareScience solutions support its client efforts to deliver the "business case for quality," a model that asserts that healthcare providers, payers, as well as healthcare consumers, prefer to deliver and receive quality care and that health systems delivering quality care will benefit from both higher revenue and lower costs.

The solution leverages CareScience copyrighted, statistical methodologies for risk adjustment, developed at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine and Wharton School of Business. Coupled with CareScience expert consulting and mentoring services, the solution allows for significant financial, operational, and clinical improvements through care management and care process improvement.

About CareScience

CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), is one of the nation's leading providers of care management services and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems and a pioneer in community-wide clinical data exchange. CareScience supplies the people and technology to help its customers ensure that high-quality care is delivered, throughout the healthcare system, through clinical data access and clinical process transformation. For more information, please visit www.carescience.com.

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