Phase Forward to Present at CDISC 2006 Interchange Conference; Company's Lincoln Technologies Executive and CDISC Founder to Lead Two Key Sessions.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Phase Forward (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, will lead two sessions at the CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) 2006 International Interchange Conference on Tuesday, September 26. The conference will be held at the Marriot Bethesda North in North Bethesda, Maryland, September 25-29. Session details are as follows:

WHO: Wayne R. Kubick, CDISC Co-founder and Technical Director,
   Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, Phase Forward
   Lincoln Technologies
   WHAT: Session 1, "Production Standards"
   WHEN: Tuesday, September 26, 8:15-10:00 a.m.

   WHO: Mr. Kubick (Session Chair) and Sally Cassells, Vice
   President, Clinical Systems, Phase Forward Lincoln Technologies
   WHAT: Session 2, "Roadmap Step 1 - Harmonizing LAB, SDTM LB & ODM
   Models"
   WHEN: Tuesday, September 26, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

In the introductory keynote session, Mr. Kubick will provide a status update on each of the CDISC production standards and the CDISC roadmap for harmonization. Mr. Kubick will then serve as session chair for the panel titled "Roadmap Step 1 - Harmonizing LAB, SDTM LB & ODM Models." The panel will include Ms. Cassells and senior technical representatives from Covance, Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Bayer and will discuss the progress of a CDISC project aimed at harmonizing the ODM, SDTM and Lab models.

Phase Forward's involvement in CDISC 2006 underscores the company's commitment to the data standard and the essential role it plays in improving medical research and associated areas of health care within the industry. A founder of CDISC, Mr. Kubick is deeply committed to the standard, serves on the CDISC Technical Coordinating Committee and leads the Submissions Data Standards (SDS) team. Ms. Cassells was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Clinical Data Management and served as its Chair in 2003, and was also a founder of the CDISC ODM committee.

For additional conference information, visit: http://www.cdisc.org/events/index.html. Members of the media interested in speaking with Phase Forward at CDISC 2006 should contact Juli Greenwood at CHEN PR at 781-672-3137 or [e-mail].

About Phase Forward

Phase Forward is a leading provider of integrated data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. The company offers proven solutions for electronic data capture (InForm(TM)), clinical data management (Clintrial(TM)), clinical trials signal detection (CTSD(TM)), strategic pharmacovigilance (WebVDME(TM) and Signal Management), adverse event reporting (Clintrace(TM)) and applied data standards (WebSDM(TM)). In addition, the company provides services in the areas of application implementation, hosting and validation, data integration, business process optimization, safety data management and industry standards. Phase Forward's products and services have been utilized in over 10,000 clinical trials involving more than 1,000,000 clinical trial study participants at over 230 organizations and regulatory agencies worldwide including: AstraZeneca, Boston Scientific, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Eli Lilly, Food and Drug Administration, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, National Institutes of Health, Procter & Gamble, Quintiles, sanofi-aventis, Schering-Plough Research Institute, Serono and Servier. Additional information about Phase Forward is available at www.phaseforward.com.