Quantros and CACTUS Software Establish Strategic Alliance to Provide Customers With...

Quantros and CACTUS Software Establish Strategic Alliance to Provide Customers
With Comprehensive Provider Performance Monitoring
Relationship Will Provide for Expansive, Real-time HL-7 Data Integration,
Enabling Advanced Analytics Across Patient Safety, Quality, Compliance,
Privileging and Credentialing Information for use in Peer Review, OPPE and
FPPE Initiatives

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantros, Inc., an industry leader in
healthcare data management and decision support solutions for safety, quality,
compliance, and prospective surveillance, today announced a strategic alliance
with CACTUS Software, a leading provider privileging and credentialing
software and services. This relationship will expand the capabilities and
simplify the ability of healthcare providers to more effectively analyze and
evaluate physician performance across all relevant domains.

Areas of direct benefit for healthcare organizations include easing the
compliance burden for OPPE and FPPE requirements from The Joint Commission
(TJC) and providing a new level of practitioner performance insight. For
clients using both Quantros and CACTUS Software (Quantros supports more than
2,000 healthcare organizations today; CACTUS Software supports more than 1,400
healthcare organizations), live HL-7 data streams will provide seamless
transfer and integration of relevant data required for provider performance
evaluations and peer review activities.

In addition Quantros clients will benefit from automatic referential updates
to provider files within Quantros applications thereby eliminating periodic
manual updates. By providing access to a centralized data warehouse across
multiple, relevant data domains (patient safety, quality, compliance, finance
and operations) and availability of key performance measures on providers,
medical staff administrators will be better prepared to monitor and address
practitioner performance and privileges.

"Healthcare providers are faced with transitioning from a traditional, siloed
approach to privileging, credentialing and peer review to more rigorous,
quantitative methods for examining provider performance and compliance," said
Wayne Auer, President and CEO of CACTUS Software. "Our alliance with Quantros
will enable our mutual customers to meet these demands with relative ease.
Seamless, integrated access to core measures data, patient safety incident
data, disruptive behavior data, complaints documentation, medical malpractice
claims information, and compliance with accrediting agency standards in
conjunction with our vast store of credentialing and privileging information
on providers gives medical staff a new, more efficient way to manage
practitioner performance and evaluation."

"The emergence and adoption of Pay for Performance initiatives, transparency
requirements, and the required need for more timely evaluation of practitioner
performance, including proactive monitoring of compliance associated with
privileges, is driving the need for solutions that combine data sets across
previously disparate data sources," noted Tom Leahy, Executive Vice President
for Quantros. "Quantros solutions today amass, process, and house a
tremendous amount of data for its clients that are relevant for practitioner
performance evaluation activities. The relationship with CACTUS Software will
allow performance and credentialing data to be integrated, reviewed, assessed
and evaluated in real-time, thereby assisting healthcare providers to make
informed decisions concerning practitioner performance."

Quantros and CACTUS Software combined serve more than 3,000 unique healthcare
facilities across the United States. This broad market penetration will allow
more than 60% of healthcare organizations to take advantage of this
synergistic alliance right away and in the era of healthcare reform, help
decrease administrative healthcare costs.

About Quantros

Quantros is a leading software and services provider for the healthcare
industry in the areas of safety and risk management, quality and performance
improvement, accreditation and compliance, real-time surveillance and
centralized decision support. Today more than 2,000 healthcare facilities use
Quantros solutions to improve performance and provide a safe, high quality
environment of care.

Quantros is a healthcare information management technology company based in
sound clinical discipline. Key product decisions are driven by experts in
healthcare quality and performance improvement, safety, compliance, risk
management and nursing. Quantros team members include physicians, nurses and
healthcare professionals.

Visit www.quantros.com for more information.

About CACTUS Software

Computer Technology Corporation, dba CACTUS Software is a developer of
provider management software with over 1,400 client locations, which consist
of many of the leading health care providers in the country. CACTUS clients
range from small community hospitals to large teaching hospitals and
integrated delivery systems.

CACTUS has developed and evolved a comprehensive portfolio of products to
serve as clients' system of record for provider management and to improve all
facets of operation.

Visit www.cactussoftware.com for more information.

SOURCE Quantros

Chris Bethell, +1-408-957-3300, ext. 253, Fax, +1-408-957-3320, for Quantros