VIEW(SM) Search Engine Optimizes the Accuracy of Capital Equipment Budgets for VHA Members

IRVING, TX, Sep 02 (MARKET WIRE) --
VHA Inc., the national healthcare alliance, today unveiled VIEW(SM), a
new, one-stop web-based search engine for capital equipment that is
available for VHA members. VIEW is designed to help hospitals solve their
struggle with developing accurate budgets due to the complexity and broad
range of capital equipment categories and pricing.

VIEW provides members with the information necessary to improve the cost
accuracy of forecasted capital equipment needs and benefit from the
advantages of more accurate and efficient planning. Capital equipment
includes big-ticket items such as MRI and CT scanners and smaller items
such as defibrillators.

To offer VIEW to its members, VHA has partnered with two industry-leading
organizations -- Attainia, the leading provider of capital budgeting and
equipment planning software and MD Buyline, the leader in healthcare
technology and information services.

VIEW users will benefit from:

-- Increased budget accuracy without changing member's current process
-- Information on over 24,000 items from 1,700 suppliers
-- Access to equipment list pricing, and Novation contract pricing
-- Group-buy opportunity alerts
-- Ability to print and include VIEW-obtained information in capital
budgets
-- Embedded access to MD Buyline reports for all MD Buyline subscribers

"VHA is excited to offer our members this effective and time-saving
real-time tool that contains all the information our members need to help
guide them through the capital procurement process," said Nik Fincher,
senior director, VHA Capital Asset Services. "We want our members to be
informed buyers. To VHA, the best member is a well-informed member."

VIEW provides the platform for VHA capital asset analytics applications
and is fully complimentary with the other Attainia application available
to VHA members.

About VHA - VHA Inc., based in Irving, Texas, is a national health care
alliance that provides industry-leading supply chain management services
and supports the formation of regional and national networks to help
members improve their clinical and economic performance. With 16 offices
across the U.S., VHA has a track record of proven results in serving more
than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and more than 23,000 non-acute care
organizations.

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VHA
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