eHealthcareWorld Features High Tech Stars; ``Technology: Putting Care Back in Healthcare''.

Business Editors

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001

Kintera Inc. (www.kintera.com), the leader in Internet marketing services for nonprofit organizations, Monday announced their keynote participation in the forthcoming eHealthcareWorld Conference together with Microsoft and Verisign.

As the industry's fastest-growing e-health conference, eHealthcareWorld is on the cutting edge of the next phase of the healthcare revolution. Providing a forum with a focus on the Internet and emerging technologies as they relate to the health-care industry, eHealthcareWorld events set the pace of the e-health transformation.

On May 23-25, an eHealthcareWorld Conference will be held at the San Diego Convention Center, with pre-conference session taking place on May 22. Dr. Harry Gruber, CEO of Kintera, has organized a keynote panel discussion on the theme "Technology: Putting Care Back in Healthcare." Joining Gruber on the panel on Thursday, May 24, from 4 to 5 p.m., will be Doug Patterson, director of Healthcare Services, Verisign Corp. (NASDAQ:VRSN), and Richard Noffsinger, Worldwide Healthcare Group Manager, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT).

The three panelists will address the theme of the discussion from different, but complementary, perspectives. Patterson will focus on security and privacy, Noffsinger on software solutions, and Dr. Gruber on the role of Internet marketing in healthcare.

"Today, with ever-increasing pressures on medical funding, modern Internet technology is poised to bring back philanthropy as a significant component in healthcare support," said Dr. Gruber. "Healthcare providers are looking to the Internet to expand their communications capabilities with patients and their families, yielding greater customer satisfaction and ultimately increased revenues from both services and donations."

"A growing number of leaders in the healthcare and technology industries have recognized that the time has come to develop and articulate the vision of a greatly improved health care a system that is enabled -- and even transformed -- by the Internet and other emerging technologies," said Janet Marchibroda, executive director of the eHealth Initiative (eHI), a national advocacy and trade organization representing an alliance of stakeholders in the health care technology community.

eHI will hold its first ePolicy Conference at the San Diego Convention Center on May 22, prior to the opening sessions of eHealthcareWorld's Spring 2001 event. eHI's purpose is to provide a unified voice for the common technology-related interests of the health care industry, promoting the rapid adoption of Internet-enabled and other emerging technologies that will ultimately lead to improved health care for all Americans. Through its efforts, eHI aims to improve how healthcare is delivered in the U.S. by promoting the use of technology to advance clinical care, reduce medical errors, increase economic efficiencies and improve the consumer's experience with the healthcare system.

To this end, the eHI's ePolicy Conference will highlight how purchasers and health plans are using technology to improve health care. In addition, a panel of key industry leaders will explore both consumer views of the quality of healthcare information on the Internet and industry efforts to drive improvement in this arena. Finally, in three critical sessions, eHealth public policy perspectives will be shared by Representative Pete Stark (D-CA), Kenneth Kizer, MD, MPH, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, and Bruce Fried, partner and chair of the Health Law Practice at Shaw Pittman.

"We are proud to have Harry Gruber, CEO of Kintera, Doug Patterson from Verisign, and Richard Noffsinger from Microsoft address the topic of bringing the care back into healthcare at eHealthcareWorld. These speakers will reveal the power of technology to transform consumers' experience of the health care enterprise," said Wendy Borow-Johnson, who is both chairperson of the conference and of eHI. "It is critical that technology companies in the health space support the movement for continuous quality improvement of our nation's health system," echoed Dorothy Webman, co-chair of the event. The co-chair women agree, "Backing of major technology companies in this space is a sign that the time has come to use state-of-the-art technologies to enable improvement in the quality and outcomes of health care services in the United States."

Other conference highlights include a Women's Leadership Forum sponsored by the NWHRC (National Women's Health Resource Center), an eVenture Forum and a meeting of the eHealth Initiative. For more information about the San Diego conference and other eHealthcareWorld events, visit http://www.ehealthcareworld.com/.

About Kintera

Kintera is an Internet marketing service provider offering advanced fundraising solutions to nonprofit organizations. Kintera's innovative solutions leverage the power of the Internet to enrich user experiences when interacting with nonprofit organizations, thereby enhancing donor recruitment, cultivation and stewardship programs. Kintera's end-to-end Internet services meld traditional fundraising with online marketing solutions to augment overall fundraising activities.

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