ChartOne and JATA Partner to Offer An Expanded Portfolio of Services to Customers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002

J. A. Thomas clients will use ChartOne View Manager(TM) Services

technology to provide concurrent remote

review of clinical documentation

ChartOne(TM), Inc., and J.A. Thomas & Associates, Inc. (JATA) have formed a partnership agreement which makes ChartOne's complete range of chart management services directly available to JATA's customers. In return, JATA will offer its own customized services and products directly to ChartOne's customers.

ChartOne offers a wide range of services designed to help hospitals increase profitability and productivity by making it easier to access and manage patient records. ChartOne's services include a wide range of paper based services such as release of information, patient disclosure reporting and file management as well as paperless services including digital chart storage and on-line access of patient records for electronic physician signatures, chart completion and remote coding. JATA's services are designed to improve the quality and efficiency of clinical documentation in order to appropriately enhance performance ratings, and justify reimbursement.

"ChartOne understands the need to offer a broad array of services to meet the growing needs of the hospital's healthcare information management departments and business offices. Our partnership with JATA expands the number of services we can offer our customers to help them address a wider range of business issues," says ChartOne chief executive officer Brian Cahill.

The partnership also includes a licensing agreement that enables JATA to offer ChartOne's View Manager(TM) Services technology to its customers. With View Manager Services technology, JATA will now be able to expand their services delivery model to include concurrent remote review of documentation.

On a per case basis, JATA will utilize View Manager Services to compliment its Compliant Document Management Program(R). The Compliant Document Management Program(R) ensures that clinical documentation reflects appropriate severity and complexity through the application of regulatory guidelines and documentation techniques. ChartOne's View Manager Services will give JATA users the ability to securely access patient information anywhere, anytime, on any platform using a web browser.

"Our new relationship with ChartOne facilitates the expanded delivery of our services to include off-site record review," says JATA CEO Judith A. Thomas. "When our Complaint Documentation Management Program(R) merges with HIPAA compliant remote access we have a win-win operation." The new service model will allow JATA's clinical documentation experts to review medical records on-line, make sure complexity of care is documented accurately, and present clients their findings and recommendations in a timely fashion.

About ChartOne, Inc.

ChartOne offers healthcare organizations a complete range of patient chart management solutions that combine professional services with best-of-breed technologies to meet both short-term and long-term patient chart needs. ChartOne solutions free healthcare organizations to focus on their core competency: patient care, not paper care. With a nationwide staff of expertly trained HIM professionals and more than two decades of experience, ChartOne is the industry leader in patient chart management, delivering services to over 1,300 healthcare organizations throughout the United States. For more information about ChartOne, please visit www.chartone.com.

About J.A. Thomas & Associates, Inc.

Since 1991, JATA or J. A. Thomas & Associates, Inc. has provided hospitals and physicians education and services to promote complete, compliant documentation in the medical record prior to coding. JATA delivers a proprietary information, process and software under the trademarked name Compliant Documentation Management Program(R) or CDMP(R), which has been implemented in over 400 hospitals and 30,000 physician offices nationwide. Through a multi-disciplinary team process (physicians, nurses and HIM coders) and a concurrent clinical review of the medical record, clients achieve the goal of reflecting accurate patient severity / complexity while preventing billing and compliance issues related to inadequate documentation. More information regarding CDMP(R) and JATA can be found at www.jathomas.com or by calling 1-800-683-8734.