CareScience to Host Healthcare Industry Leaders at 2005 National Conference.

PHILADELPHIA -- National Experts to Address Patient-Safety, Improving Healthcare Quality and Medical Errors Reduction at Leading-Quality Healthcare Conference

What:  CareScience 2005 National Conference, "Quality in Motion:
       Achieving Success through Care Management Innovation." The
       CareScience 2005 National Conference will be organized around
       four key session tracks covering topics critical to quality,
       operational and financial initiatives, including:

        --  Quality and Performance Improvement: Sessions will draw
            from the experience and success of colleagues and national
            leaders in translating data into meaningful information
            used by clinicians to improve care processes, reduce
            complications, improve compliance with evidence-based
            medicine and improve information handling.

        --  Leadership & Strategy: This track will focus on
            interaction with industry leaders to learn how they drive
            their organizations to build the necessary environment for
            quality, and achieve significant clinical, operational and
            financial impact.

        --  Pay for Performance: Sessions will discuss and evaluate
            the most common forms of incentives applied to date
            including Cost Differentials, Reduced Administrative
            Oversight and Overhead, Public Disclosure and Payment
            Differentials.

        --  Patient Safety: This track will focus on the application
            of clinical outcomes data as well as other data that is
            linked to patient safety, quality and clinical results.

    During the conference, CareScience will present the 2005
CareScience "Top Performer" awards to those facilities that
demonstrated leadership and outstanding overall clinical outcomes in
specific clinical care areas. The award recognizes care process and
clinical outcomes as measured by quality and efficiency, including
such metrics as complication rate, mortality and length-of-stay.
    The conference will provide an open environment for the discussion
of industry growth, innovation, and achievement in the areas of
quality and care management, regulatory and public reporting and
patient safety.

Who:   Attendees will include 200 - 250 healthcare industry
       executives, physician leaders, care managers and quality
       managers.

    Featured speakers include:

        --  Robert Wachter, MD, Professor, UCSF Medical Center

        --  Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare
            Research and Quality (AHRQ)

        --  Pamela Austin Thompson, MS, RN, FAAN, Chief Executive
            Officer, American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)

        --  Bruce Fried, Esq, Sonnenschein, Nath, & Rosenthal LLP

        --  John Latham, PhD, MBA, Managing Partner and Founder of
            Genitect, LLC

        --  John Vinyard, Senior Partner and Founder of Genitect, LLC

        --  Francois de Brantes, MBA, Program Leader, Healthcare
            Initiatives General Electric, Corporate Health Care &
            Medical Services

        --  Fred L. Brown, F.A.C.H.E., Chairman of JCAHO's Board of
            Commissioners, Quovadx Director

        --  Ronald A. Paulus, MD, MBA, Chief Healthcare Information
            Officer, Quovadx

    Quovadx chief healthcare officer Dr. Ron Paulus, CareScience
president Tom Zajac and speakers are available for interviews by
appointment.

When:  Sunday, March 13, 2005 - Wednesday March 16, 2005
       The full agenda can be found online at:
       http://www.carescience.com/conference2005/agenda.html

Where: The Westin Mission Hills Resort and Spa
       Palm Springs, California