CareScience to Host Online Clinical Forum on SCIP Data Tracking and Reporting.

PHILADELPHIA -- Web Seminar Will Allow Healthcare Providers to Gain Clarity on SCIP Data Measures and Entry to Effectively Meet New CMS Reporting Requirements

CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc., (Nasdaq:QVDX) providing care management, clinical analysis and clinical quality improvement solutions, will host a Web seminar on April 4, 2006 at 2 p.m., EST to discuss healthcare- provider questions about the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), a national quality improvement project designed to improve surgical care in hospitals. The forum will discuss data tracking and the new SCIP reporting requirements released on March 9, 2006 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and it will also cover support for the collection and reporting of the new SCIP measurements now available in the CareScience(TM) Standards of Care solution.

CareScience representative Helene Verner, RN, BS, will lead the forum. Verner has been the principal contact on behalf of CareScience between the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and CMS, working closely with the two organizations regarding Core Measures verification and data transmission. The objectives for the seminar are to educate participants on:

--The Surgical Care Improvement Project goals and objectives

--The differences between SCIP and Surgical Infection Prevention

--The first data reporting measures required by CMS

--SCIP support now available in the CareScience Standards of Care solution for collecting SCIP data in accordance with CMS requirements

"At CareScience, we believe that clinical reporting should go beyond benchmarking, allowing care providers to transform data into actionable information that improves the efficacy and safety of patient care throughout their organizations," said Thomas Zajac, president, CareScience division, and executive vice president, Quovadx, Inc. "CareScience has pledged to continue our support and coordination with CMS, JCAHO and other leading industry bodies, tracking the changes and demands providers in the industry are facing and offering industry insight and education, as well as relevant products and services, to our customers whenever possible."

CareScience is a proud member of the SCIP Supporting Partners Program and has incorporated newly released CMS SCIP reporting requirements into its CareScience Standards of Care solution. CareScience Standards of Care helps healthcare providers effectively manage and report the reduction of postoperative complications to improve patient safety and meet nationally recognized guidelines. In addition, users can immediately interpret patient level category results as they enter data into the system. The new CareScience Standard of Care SCIP measure set includes all CMS released process measures to support Infection and VTE measures. As CMS releases additional SCIP measures, those measures will be supported in future releases of the CareScience Standards of Care solution as well.

CareScience Standards of Care also allows facilities to reduce the time and resource strain put on their organizations to comply with public reporting requirements by streamlining the data entry, analysis review and submission processes through reduced chart review and point of data entry for all measure sets, both internal and external. Further, CareScience Standards of Care allows for submission of data requirements directly to external organizations electronically, including CMS, JCAHO, IHI, California CHART American Osteopathic Association, State of New Jersey Department of Health, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and in the future The Leapfrog Group and more.

To register for this CareScience(TM) Clinical Forum Web seminar, visit www.carescience.com. Login information will be sent to participants by email on April 3, 2006.

About SCIP

SCIP is a national quality partnership of organizations committed to improving the safety of surgical care through the reduction of postoperative complications. The ultimate goal of the partnership is to save lives by reducing the incidence of surgical complications by 25 percent by the year 2010.

Partners in SCIP believe that a meaningful reduction in complications requires that surgeons, anesthesiologists, perioperative nurses, pharmacists, infection control professionals and hospital executives work together to make surgical care improvement a priority. To learn more about SCIP or the SCIP partnership programs available, please visit http://www.medqic.org/scip/scip_partnership.html.

About CareScience

CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), assists hospitals in translating organizational vision and goals into quality improvement plans that optimize patient outcomes and operational performance, increase staff efficiency and reduce costs. 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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