Open Health Tools Accepts Major Code Donation From California HealthCare Foundation

CollabNet providing world-class development environment and
Palamida securing against open source software vulnerabilities
OAKLAND, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Open Health Tools (OHT) today announced it has accepted a donation
from the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) of key software
components from a $10 million health information data exchange
project. CHCF provided the open source-format software code to OHT, a
community of information technology and health care participants, to
help accelerate establishment of regional health information
exchanges, a critical but often missing piece of the health care
delivery system. Information about the Open Health Information
Exchange project (openHIE) can be found at
https://openhie.projects.openhealthtools.org/.

"CollabNet facilitated CHCF's efforts and will support all future
code donations to OHT. We are providing a world-class development
platform and online community services to enable OHT's members and
distributed project teams to collaborate in an open and secure
environment," said Tony de la Lama, vice president of Corporate
Strategy and Marketing at CollabNet. "The CollabNet platform is a
perfect fit for the vision of a global Health Information Exchange
System where health organizations anywhere in the world are able to
collaborate, share code and jointly develop software and new
technology standards."

Palamida conducted software composition analysis on the California
HealthCare Foundation code base and provided a complete inventory of
all open source and third-party projects and versions in use for
identification of known vulnerabilities and intellectual property
ownership. "Open Health Tools is taking an important step towards
expanding the use of open source in the health care market," said Mark
Tolliver, Palamida CEO. "We're proud to have been chosen by OHT to
assure its community that its projects are enterprise-ready."

According to a March 2006 commissioned study conducted by
Forrester Consulting on behalf of CHCF: "Successful development of
open source software for health care will require viable developer
communities. Such communities, which share an interest in a particular
type of software, are the engines that drive open source projects."

CHCF originally supported development of the contributed software
for the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange (SBCCDE), one of the
nation's first regional health information exchanges. The SBCCDE
ceased operations in 2006, but it spurred the federal government's
adoption of a plan to establish regional health information
organizations (RHIOs) throughout the United States. Jonah Frohlich,
CHCF senior program officer explained, "Our experience taught us that
these exchanges can improve quality and access to vital clinical
information when and where it is needed. With the potential for cost
reduction, we hope that more clinics and practices in underserved
communities take advantage of open source products."

CollabNet lowers the barrier of entry for global organizations to
collaborate, code share and co-develop software and technology
standards. CollabNet's secure environment and software development
platform allows projects and project teams to ramp up in days rather
than weeks.

About Open Health Tools

Open Heath Tools is a collaborative effort between national health
agencies, major healthcare providers, researchers, academics,
international standards bodies and companies from Australia, Canada,
the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. Its goal is to
develop common healthcare IT products and services and provide
software tools and components that accelerate the implementation of
electronic health information interoperability platforms, thus
improving patient quality of care, safety and access to electronic
health records (EHR).

About California HealthCare Foundation

The California HealthCare Foundation, based in Oakland, is an
independent philanthropy committed to improving California's health
care delivery and financing system.

About CollabNet

With 1.3 million users, CollabNet leads the software industry
towards a new era of collaborative software development. By connecting
remote teams and integrating disparate development tools, the
CollabNet platform simplifies distributed development, reduces
infrastructure costs by up to 50%, and eliminates silos between
isolated teams to speed innovation. CollabNet is the company behind
Subversion, the world's #1 version control and Software Configuration
Management solution for distributed teams.

About Palamida

Palamida is the industry's first application security solution
exclusively for Open Source Software that uses component-level
analysis to quickly identify and track undocumented code and
associated security vulnerabilities as well as intellectual property
and compliance issues. Palamida solutions enable development
organizations to cost-effectively manage and secure mission critical
applications and products. Customers include Avaya, Cisco Systems,
EMC, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, among others.

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respective owners.

California HealthCare Foundation
Silvina Martinez, 510-587-3149
Communications Officer
smartinez@chcf.org
or
CollabNet, Inc.
Tony de la Lama, 650-228-2514
tonyd@collab.net
or
Patterson & Associates for Open Health Tools
Barbara Stewart, 480-488-6909
barbara@patterson.com
or
Hot Tomato Marketing for Palamida
Erica Zeidenberg, 925-631-0553
erica@hottomato.net
or
Horn Group, Inc. for CollabNet
Anthony Loredo, 646-202-9770
aloredo@horngroup.com

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