Shared Health(R) Adds Practice Management Tools to Clinical Xchange(TM) Platform

Clinical Insight(TM) and Condition Tracker(TM) provide macro- and micro-views
to help clinicians transform care

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Shared Health(R), one of the
nation's largest public/private Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), launches
two new technology tools, Clinical Insight(TM) and Condition Tracker(TM),
combining patient data and evidence-based guidelines into a system that helps
physicians operate their practice more efficiently, meet the increasing demand
for performance accountability and provide the best outcomes for their
patients.

Clinical Insight(TM) and Condition Tracker(TM) are new additions to the Shared
Health Clinical Xchange(TM) platform, a web-based system that is the
foundation of the company's Health Information Exchange technology enabling
more than just data sharing. Condition Tracker provides a patient-centric
view of a patient's adherence to evidence-based guidelines for specific
medical conditions, regardless of who administered the care. Clinical Insight
allows clinicians to generate reports that help them evaluate their adherence
to quality and program-specific measures.

With Clinical Insight and Condition Tracker, clinicians:
-- Have a simplified condition management and wellness care process;
-- Can better track patients with chronic conditions and generate
actionable lists;
-- Are able to quickly see other patient care opportunities;
-- Have more accurate performance metrics; and
-- Can offset the spiraling costs and declining reimbursements.

"Today's clinicians must focus on more than providing the best possible care
for their patients. There's an ever-increasing need to provide more
performance metrics for payers. Coupled with spiraling operating costs and
declining reimbursements, it's more important than ever for physicians to find
ways to maximize their practice's income and better manage financial and
medical record-keeping systems," explains Adnane Khalil, Vice President,
Technology, and Chief Information Officer. "With Clinical Insight and
Condition Tracker, clinicians can focus on patient care, while Shared Health
manages increasing demands for accountability and performance that practices
face," he added.

Shared Health Clinical Insight
With Clinical Insight, clinicians can access a practice management tool that
presents a broad view of the care delivered across their patient population.
Clinical Insight allows practices to generate reports that determine
opportunities to provide care for specific groups of patients and ultimately
improve outcomes for all patients.

With Clinical Insight, clinicians can:
-- Drive incentive revenue;
-- Determine evidence-based care opportunities across populations;
-- Manage adherence to program and evidence-based guidelines; and
-- Generate action/call reports to contact patients that need to be seen

Shared Health Condition Tracker
Shared Health's Condition Tracker provides a simpler way to view each
patient's history and key clinical indicators by condition. It's a
collaborative registry that allows clinicians to add procedural and outcome
indicators to each patient's record. As a result, they'll be able to
determine the appropriate course of treatment, identify potential care
opportunities and meet proper quality and performance measures.

Condition Tracker enables clinicians to:
-- Simplify the registry process;
-- Obtain source data from across the care continuum;
-- Sort records and filter by disease and condition; and
-- Complete the patient record to accurately reflect care delivered.

"With both Clinical Insight and Condition Tracker, clinicians can reduce
costs, have more time to manage and treat patients, identify care
opportunities and provide quality health care," Khalil said.

The Shared Health-supported HIE manages the data of more than 2.6 million
patients, has more than 2,500 clinical users and has already shown a 17
percent improvement in efficiencies across clinical care. While many HIEs
house, store and share data, Shared Health's HIE technology enables more than
just data sharing. It offers physicians the ability to analyze the data to
provide better patient treatment and care, improved health outcomes and less
duplicate medical testing and procedures, all reducing overall health care
costs.

Shared Health's technology is also available to hospital systems, offering the
ability to connect with and integrate owned and affiliated community
physicians. By developing a community medical network in which patient
medical information can be shared in both directions, the hospital ensures
highly coordinated, ongoing patient care.

About Shared Health
Shared Health was launched in July 2005 with the mission to transform health
care by offering secure, innovative health information technology (HIT)
solutions. With the records of nearly three million patients in its HIE,
Shared Health's web-based applications securely share and connect medical
information across a patient's network of clinicians, including 2,500
physicians in Tennessee. Shared Health strives to be the clinician's trusted
partner for sharing relevant patient information at the point of care,
enabling both health care professionals and consumers to improve outcomes.
For more information on Shared Health, visit www.sharedhealth.com.

SOURCE Shared Health

Shelly Spoeth, sspoeth@kaisermarketinggroup.com, or Juliann Kaiser,
jkaiser@kaisermarketinggroup.com, +1-770-643-0615, both of Kaiser Marketing
Group