CorSolutions Provides Care Management's Most Comprehensive Intelligence Solution on One Platform.

Health/Medical Writers

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001

New and Expanded Partnerships Power Intelligence, Maximize Health

Improvements and Reduce Care Costs

CorSolutions, the premier healthcare management company enabling proactive patient care, today announced a new partnership with Wellsource, the nations' original and most respected risk assessment company. The company also announced an expansion of long-standing partnerships with QualityMetric Inc., and Integrated Healthcare Information Services. CorSolutions will integrate data analysis, health risk assessment and predictive modeling solutions from the three partners into one platform to provide the market's most comprehensive healthcare intelligence solution, helping its customers to best predict and assess health risks, and in turn, shape care management programs that optimize health and reduce costs.

By integrating three of the industry's most advanced strategies, CorSolutions has created the market's premier multi-source intelligence platform to provide customers with the deepest understanding of their members' overall health risk and individualized program needs. CorSolutions translates this deep understanding into patient-centric care management programs that deliver timely interventions, extending the quality of health and slowing the progression of chronic illnesses. The new platform will be available to customers immediately.

"Our customers have increasingly asked us to provide a suite of services that can overcome the limitations of products currently offered in the predictive modeling and risk assessment space," said Richard Vance, M.D., chief medical officer for CorSolutions. "By integrating premium solutions from highly regarded industry partners, we drive our customers' ability to accurately anticipate their member needs and to base their healthcare programs on patients' future needs, resulting in better health outcomes and, ultimately, a reduced cost of care."

The CorSolutions platform is based on Integrated Healthcare Information Services' new ImpactPro(TM) System. ImpactPro is a powerful predictive modeling application that integrates episode grouping tools (ETGs(TM) and ERGs(TM)) from Symmetry Health Data Systems. Incorporating personalized health status assessment data from QualityMetric, Inc., healthcare's foremost provider of practical and scientifically sound measurement solutions, further enhances the intelligence platform. Finally, CorSolutions will leverage its new partnership with Wellsource to round out the offering with self-reported patient information.

"Intelligence is the key to early identification and intervention of those that are likely to develop costly illnesses," said John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D., QualityMetric's CEO and chief scientific officer. "Through partner integration, CorSolutions' intelligence platform marks a significant step toward proactively aligning services with patient needs and fundamentally improving quality of care."

"The culmination of our intelligence platform is one step in a series of analytical offerings and expanded services that put CorSolutions at the forefront of proactive care management," said L. Peter Smith, CorSolutions' chief executive officer. "As today's healthcare market demands an integrated approach to total patient health, we will continue to bring together the industry's top solutions providers to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of care delivery through patient-centric, technology-enabled services."

About CorSolutions

CorSolutions Medical, Inc. is a premier health care management company that enables proactive patient care. Its multi-condition management approach helps patients with asthma, diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to maintain healthy lifestyles, enhancing their overall quality-of-life. CorSolutions' technology-driven service offerings range from education and wellness tools to long term chronic care management programs, optimizing the health and care of patients across all acuity levels.

Using the exclusive MULTIFIT(SM) approach of physician-directed, nurse-mediated, patient-managed care, CorSolutions consistently delivers measurable health improvements and significant cost-savings for its customers. The company currently has more than 100 contracts representing 45 million commercial and 1.5 million Medicare risk members throughout the country. Based in Buffalo Grove, IL, CorSolutions has grown from $5 million in annual revenues in 1995 to more than $45 million in 2000. For more information, visit the company's corporate Web site at www.corsolutions.com.

Episode Treatment Groups(TM), (ETGs(TM)) or (ETG(TM)) is owned by SymmetryHealth Data Systems, Inc(R) and is used under a grant of license. Episode Treatment Groups(TM) (ETGs(TM)) are protected under United States Patent 5,835,897. United States and International patents pending.