Health Benchmarks® Inc, a strategic partner of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, is a leader in the development of health provider pay for performance solutions and delivers real-world health outcomes research, analysis and consulting services to managed care organizations and pharmaceutical companies.

Health Dialog is a leading provider of care management and one of the fastest growing privately held firms. The firm helps physician groups, health plans, and other payers improve healthcare quality while reducing costs. Services include disease management, predictive modeling, outreach, health coaching and more. Health Dialog helps individuals have more effective relationships with their physicians and become more engaged in their healthcare choices. For more information please visit www.healthdialog.com.

Healthways provides total population health management solutions aimed at lowering costs and improving quality of care for health plans the government and employers. We deliver integrated health and care support programs, including health risk screening and support, condition and disease management and high-risk care management to more than 2 million people. Through innovation, collaboration and a relentless pursuit for flawless execution, we have returned more than $1 billion in healthcare savings to our customers. For more information, visit www.healthways.com.

Healthwise is a nonprofit organization that has been helping people make better health decisions since 1975. Consumers use Healthwise online, print and call center information over 70 million times each year. Healthwise pioneered information therapy (Ix)-delivering the right information, to the right person, at the right time. www.healthwise.org 1.800.706.9646

ikaSystems provides comprehensive enterprise-wide technology solutions that enable managed care organizations, third party administrators (TPAs), Medicare and Medicaid programs to automate all the key transactions and business processes in the managed care cycle and to adopt a more competitive footprint. ikaSystems also provides managed care organizations with a broad spectrum of technology outsourcing and consulting services.

Today, ikaSystems demonstrates industry leadership through a comprehensive suite of robust, modular, cost-effective and rule - and role-based transactional medical and business intelligence systems built with state-of-the-art technology. Using ikaSystems' suite of HIPAA-compliant, Web-based managed care products authorized users can securely move critical medical and administrative data across distributed networks.

Using ikaSystems' solutions, brokers/agents, members, employers, providers, and health plan administrative staff work seamlessly in a real-time, Web-enabled environment. The ikaEnterprise system is ikaSystems' flagship product. It is a full-service, comprehensive system that automates all the key transactions in the managed care cycle. The system consists of five stand-alone, self-service Web portals that are tightly integrated with business intelligence and transactional systems: core claims adjudication, disease and utilization management, medical and business intelligence, HEDIS® reporting and consumer-directed healthcare. This integrated solution provides a Web-based infrastructure for healthcare organizations, insurance carriers and third party administrators.

The Leapfrog Group is an initiative driven by organizations that buy health care who are working to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality and affordability of healthcare for Americans. It is a member supported effort aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America's health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded. For more information visit: www.leapfroggroup.org

By partnering with clients and listening to their needs, McKesson Health Solutions delivers unique solutions that enable payors, providers and patients to come together to transform the business and process of care.

McKesson Health Solutions helps organizations bolster their care management processes, control chronic health conditions, guide level-of-care decisions, determine risk and forecast future needs, and manage their claims payment cycle. For more information please visit: www.healthsolutions.mckesson.com

MedVentive solutions effect meaningful, measurable change in quality and cost of patient care through a suite of fully-integrated quality intervention, analytic, pharmacy management and point of care capabilities. Founded by physicians, MedVentive has been at the forefront of innovative and clinically sophisticated Pay For Performance solutions. MedVentive's analytical products actively identify opportunities for care improvement and through unique intervention workflow, allow secure physician alerts and patient communications. To learn how MedVentive capabilities deliver demonstrable results, log on to www.medventive.com.

Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Together with its industry partners, Microsoft helps healthcare and life sciences organizations improve health and reduce costs through innovations that are simple by design, improve collaboration and take advantage of existing investments. Please see our website at www.microsoft.com.

Morrisey Associates, based in Chicago, is a full service Microsoft Solution Provider developing high-quality, customized software for healthcare since 1987. Morrisey is a leader in providing Web-based applications for physician credentialing and integrated care management. Morrisey's software is currently installed in more than 800 hospitals, centralized verification organizations (CVOs) and managed care organizations across the United States. www.morriseyonline.com

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Advancing Health Care Quality, Efficiency and Transparency for Better Decision Making

We are a leading provider of online health information, advanced analytics and provider performance solutions that help improve patient outcomes, customer satisfaction and cost savings. Our solutions for payers, providers, employers and members utilize multiple data sources, adhere to consistent methodologies and industry-accepted standards, and support a full range of quality improvement programs. For more information, visit www.webmdqualityservices.com or www.vips.com.