Quovadx Provides Foundation for Healthcare Interoperability with Intelligent Health Broker.

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- Web Services Extends Interoperability and HIPAA-Compliant, Standards-Based Data Sharing Across the Healthcare Continuum

E[acute accent]Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), a global software and vertical solutions company, today announced the availability of the QUOVADX Intelligent Health Broker (IHB), a web-services based solution that provides a foundation for cost-efficient health interoperability solutions. IHB enables the interoperability of multiple integration paradigms, facilitates the migration to a Web services oriented interface configuration and supports the implementation and deployment of integrated applications. E[acute accent]"We are in the midst of a substantial change in healthcare. The interoperability of healthcare information technology is pivotal to successfully improving patient care and operational efficiencies, meeting growing demands for transparency and lowering the overall cost of care," said Afshin Cangarlu, president, Integration Solutions division, Quovadx. "IHB is built to embrace standards and further drive interoperability across the full spectrum of healthcare, within the healthcare organization and amongst business partners. As such, IHB can best support patient-centric healthcare technology such as electronic health records and the growth of regional and national healthcare information networks." E[acute accent]IHB uses XML and Web services technology to support the integration of applications using multiple interoperability paradigms such as IHE and HL7. Web services technology facilitates the transfer of messages while preserving the inherent business logic in an application, allowing for integration with a broad range of business partners and providing additional flexibility and agility to respond to changing business needs. By applying process level integration based on standards, the costs of integration, application development and data sharing can be reduced. E[acute accent]IHB's Web services foundation preserves the core data and business logic within applications, supporting the extension and continued value of existing legacy IT systems and applications, thereby avoiding discontinuous change and or rewriting of software, and disruptions to critical clinical or administrative functions. Further, IHB's rules engine ensures that workflow is maintained and can be updated to quickly meet changing regulatory requirements by coordinating human interaction, computer-to-computer interaction and enterprise integration. IHB, built on QUOVADX Cloverleaf(R) integration technology, eliminates the need for point-to-point integration, saving valuable resources and easing maintenance. E[acute accent]"IHB was a logical evolution of our existing time-proven Cloverleaf(R) integration technology and supplemental to our Cloverleaf Integration Suite," added Cangarlu. "IHB will support healthcare organizations' need to further extend interoperability with business partners by facilitating message exchange and transaction processing while maintaining patient confidentiality, security and regulatory compliance." E[acute accent]QUOVADX technology is strengthened by expertise and experience of the company's professional services team. The QUOVADX(TM) Professional Services group supports customers with mentorship in planning, implementing and tailoring application solutions to meet individual needs utilizing their extensive experience in integration, process automation and workflow. E[acute accent]IHB is now available; to learn more, please visit www.isd-quovadx.com/products/healthbroker/index.cfm.

E[acute accent]About QUOVADX Health Interoperability Solutions

E[acute accent]Leveraging proven, award-winning Cloverleaf(R) technology, QUOVADX Health Interoperability Solutions simplify and unify technology and information standards, creating system interoperability that meets the day-to-day business needs of the modern healthcare enterprise. Supporting key interoperability initiations, such as e-prescribing facilitation, RHIO-enablement and provider-to-payer direct transaction and data exchange, QUOVADX health interoperability solutions produce significant financial, operational, and clinical improvements through secure data access and exchange, enhanced business process and workflow and network-wide system integration.

E[acute accent]About Quovadx, Inc.

E[acute accent]Quovadx (Nasdaq: QVDX) offers software and services for system development, extension, integration and analysis to enterprise customers worldwide. Quovadx has three divisions, including the Integration Solutions division (ISD), which offers private and public healthcare organizations software infrastructure to facilitate system interoperability and leverage existing technology, the CareScience division, which provides care management and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems and pioneered regional healthcare information organization (RHIO) technology, and the Rogue Wave Software division, which provides software and services for enterprise-class application development. Quovadx serves companies in the healthcare, financial services, telecommunication and public sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com.

E[acute accent]QUOVADX is a trademark and CLOVERLEAF is a registered trademark of Quovadx, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.