OSHPD DATABASE AVAILABLE THROUGH CAREDATA.COM PCA SOLUTION.

Caredata.com (Nasdaq/NM:CDCM), Atlanta, a leader in the digital healthcare marketplace, is now making available, through its Web-based Patient Care Analyst (PCA) solution, data collected by California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). The OSHPD database is the fourth discharge database to be offered by Caredata.com. PCA is the most comprehensive healthcare analysis system currently available for interpreting discharge data.

For the first time, PCA users will be able to mine discharge information previously available in a "raw" format from California's Healthcare Information Resource Centers. Caredata.com's Internet-based reporting system guides users through the analysis of hospital discharge data and the company's own data while ensuring patient confidentiality through masking and grouping of all patient-specific information. Combining flexible analytical tools with state discharge databases, organizations are able to quickly use the information to make critical business decisions. Healthcare professionals no longer need to design their own research matrixes to evaluate public discharge databases and compare those findings with internal data.

PCA can be accessed at any time from any location using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Research results can be viewed on screen, printed as a report or exported into other popular formats, such as Microsoft Excel and Word. Users can also create and save custom reports and projects. Caredata.com hosts the data and the complex computer systems needed to store and execute the data analysis.

Mark Kaiser, chairman and chief executive officer of Caredata.com, said the PCA tool offers powerful decision support for those engaging in healthcare planning and forecasting. For example, a community hospital can track the movement of patients into and out of different facilities, or can conduct market share analyses by benchmarking and comparing facility performance against competitors and peers.

Today, hundreds of users subscribe to PCA services. Additional uses of the service include the following:

-- Analyzing medical codes by payer, facility, physician, patient demographic or zip code;

-- Creating physician report cards and comparing physician performance; and

-- Reviewing internal patient data by service line, cases, procedures, payer mix and physician.

"By making the OSHPD database accessible through Patient Care Analyst, a true web-based application, we have enabled healthcare professionals to easily access and effectively mine this data through the Internet," said Kaiser. "Navigating public data resources like the OSHPD data (or database) is extremely challenging without a tool like this."

Organizations interested in receiving more information on PCA can visit www.caredata.com on the Internet or contact Caredata.com at 800-590-4545 ext. 6.

About Caredata.com

Caredata.com is a leading provider of healthcare intelligence that drives decision-making among businesses and consumers. Caredata.com's commercial customers use its products and services to make objective comparisons of costs and clinical outcomes, analyze the supply of and demand for healthcare services, assess consumer satisfaction with specific health plans, providers, and pharmacies and verify the background and credentials of physicians.

These capabilities assist Caredata.com's customers in strategic planning, effective contracting, improving the delivery of care and increasing profitability. The Company's headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia. Caredata.com can be found on the Internet at www.caredata.com.

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