Decision Critical, Inc. and Sigma Theta Tau International Announce Strategic Business Relationship.

Relationship to Jointly Market Critical Portfolio(TM)

AUSTIN, Texas -- Decision Critical, Inc. (DCI), a leader in the health care education compliance and competency management industry announced today that it has formed a strategic business relationship with the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (the honor society) to jointly market DCI's web-based professional portfolio management application, Critical Portfolio[TM]. The honor society has lent its valuable brand to this product in an effort to bring its benefits to the over 2.9 million professional nurses in the United States. The honor society will be utilizing the Critical Portfolio as its platform for online portfolio services.

"The Honor Society of Nursing has the potential to reach out to the more than 130,000 members worldwide. This partnership creates a tremendous opportunity to advance the mission of the honor society of creating a community of nurses who lead using scholarship, knowledge and technology to improve the health of the world's people," said DCI Founder and CEO Kenneth Dion, RN, MSN, MBA. "We are extremely pleased to partner with the honor society in this endeavor and are proud to be associated with this prestigious nursing organization."

Critical Portfolio presents an electronic solution to the current paper process by providing health care professionals and organizations alike with a single, automated and organized repository of professional development and supporting documentation. The system allows users to access, maintain, report on, and distribute customized portfolios that can include selected elements in the repository. Critical Portfolio maintains vital information such as work history, education, committees, memberships, case logs and certifications, skills and training based on the information the owner wishes to send to the target recipient of that portfolio.

"Our member nurses serve in a wide range of workplace settings and specialty areas that demand excellence in knowledge, scholarship and leadership," said Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International CEO Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, RN, MSN, FAAN. "DCI's Critical Portfolio will greatly enhance our members' ability to track and manage their professional development and advancement while meeting the informational and compliance needs of the institutions they serve."

In addition to this new alliance, DCI currently serves the 44,000 future nurses members of the National Student Nurses Association who are using Critical Portfolio to manage their professional portfolios and career development. Further, the American Nurses Credentialing Center uses DCI's Web-based service as their official online portfolio services platform.

About Decision Critical, Inc. (Decision Critical) - www.decisioncritical.com

Austin, Texas-based Decision Critical specializes in providing a web-enabled learning management system to health care organizations. Customers, who have implemented Decision Critical's technology to deliver, track and maintain current records on the continuing education of their health care professionals includes The Texas Children's Hospital System, MedCath, Inc., and Grand Forks Air Force Base. Decision Critical's systems serve over 350,000 users in over 380 health care organizations nationally and internationally.

About the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International - www.nursingsociety.org

The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health of people worldwide through leadership and scholarship in practice, education and research. Founded in 1922, the Honor Society of Nursing has inducted more than 345,000 members. Members are active in 119 countries and include practicing nurses, instructors, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and others. The society's 446 chapters are located at 542 institutions of higher education throughout the United States, as well as Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan and Tanzania.