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In addition to the exceptional keynotes and faculty presenting the latest case studies and thought leadership content, World Health Care Congress 2006 offers a unique forum where healthcare industry executives can meet companies demonstrating the vanguard of innovation and excellence. The World Health Care Congress "Networking Lounge" is the place where C-suite strategic decision makers gather in a relaxed setting to enjoy refreshments, meals, and even cocktails between sessions, while obtaining deeper and specific information from the supporting organizations presenting World Health Care Congress.

The 2006 Networking Forum will offer lounge areas, an internet café, printer stations, one-on-one meeting spaces, and special moderated, topical roundtable discussion groups to enhance the overall networking experience. WHCC speakers will be on hand to meet you and sign their books. Sponsors will share high quality gifts, promotional samples, and demonstrations of their offerings. Overall, this program is designed to be interactive and inviting. Be sure to schedule your personal meetings in the Networking Lounge and visit all of the organizations and industry thought leaders that help make the World Health Care Congress possible.

Abovehealth focuses on healthcare information technologies, providing comprehensive HIPAA-compliant web-portal solutions for health plans and payers. Abovehealth’s self-service web-portal solutions empower health plans to interact with their constituents for administrative tasks online, reducing or eliminating expensive paper-intensive manual processes, enhancing customer relationships, and providing competitive advantages. www.abovehealth.com (866) 837-4538

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance. Visit us for more information at: http://www.accenture.com/h&ls;

ActiveHealth Management is a technology-driven health management and data analytics company engaged by leading commercial health plans, employers, and government payors to help improve care for those most in need, prevent medical errors, and reduce medical costs. Over 13 million patients nationwide currently benefit from programs powered by ActiveHealth’s patented CareEngine® System.
For more information, visit http://activehealth.net/

Alegent Health is the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa with nine acute care hospitals, over 100 clinic locations, and roughly 8,400 employees. Alegent Health prides itself on providing a higher standard of quality, compassionate care for the body, mind and spirit of every person. www.alegent.org

Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company's business groups provide unique solutions that inform, connect and transform healthcare, delivering award-winning software applications, including electronic health record, practice management, e-prescribing, document imaging, emergency department and care management solutions. For more information visit: www.allscripts.com

American Specialty Health, Incorporated (ASH) is the nation's largest organization for complementary health care benefit programs, health education programs, and health products. ASH and its affiliates contract with 60 health plans nationwide and provide benefit programs to 12.1 million members. Based in San Diego, ASH has 500 employees. www.ashcompanies.com

AstraZeneca is a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare services. It is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies with healthcare sales of $23.95 billion and leading positions in sales of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neuroscience, respiratory, oncology and infection products. In the United States, AstraZeneca is a $10.77 billion healthcare business with more than 12,000 employees. AstraZeneca is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (Global) as well as the FTSE4Good Index.
For more information about AstraZeneca, please visit: www.astrazeneca-us.com

BearingPoint provides business and technology consulting to Global 2000 and government organizations. We help clients strategically tap technology to achieve their desired business results and create enterprise value. Our Health Services practice is invested in and committed to the journey of healthcare transformation. Visit www.bearingpoint.com/healthservices or contact us 1-866-BRNGPNT, healthservices@bearingpoint.com.

Best Doctors

Best Doctors, Inc. is focused on improving the quality and reducing the cost of care delivered to its members. The company achieves these goals through the deployment of a unique physician-to-physician care management process, leading to measurable results: a 22% change in diagnosis and 61% change in treatment. Best Doctors works with self-insured employers and health plans and delivers a progressive care management tool that is seen as a powerful employee benefit.
For more information please visit: www.bestdoctors.com

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is the largest privately owned pharmaceutical company in the world. Boehringer Ingelheim's primary pharmaceutical products treat HIV/AIDs, central nervous system, pulmonary, respiratory, cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and urological health problems. The Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation is committed to providing products that significantly enhance health and quality of life. For more information please visit http://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/corporate/home/home.asp

Booz Allen Hamilton is helping clients drive the evolution of healthcare. A global leader in strategy and technology consulting, Booz Allen brings an integrated and forward-looking approach to healthcare consulting. With our global perspective and four decades of results across all segments of the health industry, we offer seamless end-to-end delivery of innovative solutions to the most complex problems in healthcare. Whether by helping clients to better prepare for public health crises, bring new drugs to market sooner, improve processes to reduce costs, collaborate more effectively across public and private sectors, or drive business strategy, Booz Allen delivers results that endure. For more information, visit www.boozallen.com/health.

Learn your organization’s performance profile and readiness to address industry change by taking an Org DNA Profiler® survey: http://orgdna.com/profiler/100.

Breakthrough Management Group is a global leader in Performance Excellence and Six Sigma consulting, training, and technology solutions. We help companies increase shareholder value and maximize profits by improving their operational efficiencies.

Our Total Performance Excellence (TPE) framework includes process improvement and design methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean, DFSS, TRIZ, and Strategic Thinking/Planning. Our experience spans all industries, from manufacturing to transactional environments, with a great deal of experience in healthcare.
http://www.bmgi.com/

CALYPSO Healthcare Solutions provides claims payment accuracy services to the Health Payer Insurance industry. Our goal is to discover, recover and prevent claims overpayments. Through a comprehensive discovery and recovery program, Calypso provides root-cause analysis for overpayment prevention and turns overpayments into process improvement and financial recovery opportunities. www.calypsohealthcare.com

Caremark Rx, Inc. is a leading pharmaceutical services company providing comprehensive drug benefit services to over 2,000 health plan sponsors and their plan participants. The company operates a national retail pharmacy network with over 57,000 participating pharmacies, seven state-of-the-art mail service pharmacies, the industry's only FDA-regulated repackaging plant and 23 specialty mail service pharmacies. Call Caremark Connect at 1-800-237-2767 or www.caremark.com.

As a Business of Caring, CIGNA provides employers with benefits programs, expertise and services that improve the health, well-being and productivity of their employees. Serving millions of customers, clients and members in the US and around the globe, CIGNA's operating subsidiaries offer a full portfolio of medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and vision care benefits; group life, accident and disability insurance, and health care coverages for expatriate employees. For more information, visit www.cigna.com.

Cognizant's Healthcare Practice is a strategic partner to leading healthcare and life sciences organizations and helps them navigate today's dynamic healthcare environment by delivering high value IT and business solutions across the healthcare spectrum- pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, payers and provider organizations. Leveraging its industry domain expertise, technical depth, and global talent pool of over 5,000 healthcare-focused associates, Cognizant's Healthcare Practice provides comprehensive solutions covering healthcare IT consulting, transformation services, process optimization/reengineering, business process outsourcing, IT infrastructure services management, IT strategy consulting, regulatory compliance services, and IT applications development and management. Cognizant's customers include 7 of the top 10 life sciences organizations, 3 of the top 5 leading national payers and numerous other leaders in the industry.
Find additional information about Cognizant at www.cognizant.com

Serving the occupational, auto, and group healthcare markets, Concentra provides a continuum of integrated services including occupational healthcare, in-network and out-of-network medical claims review, and re-pricing services designed to provide quality healthcare and services while containing healthcare and disability costs.
www.concentra.com

DoctorsDirect.com, the first nationwide online booking system, will empower patients to find a local GP or specialist, then schedule and pay for appointments solely via the Web. The fully functioning site is scheduled to launch in 10 cities by Summer 2006. CEO Tommy McGloin, former head of AOL’s MapQuest, will unveil this revolutionary service at the World Health Care Congress. For more information, contact Tommy McGloin at 310-738-6005 or Jonathan Straub, President, Business Development at 610-941-2778. www.doctorsdirect.com

E-Duction offers the Health Expense Account (HXA), a solution for both employers and employees seeking to manage escalating healthcare costs. Without added risk to employers, employees can pay for all out-of-pocket healthcare expenses through guaranteed-issue, interest-free payroll deduction. With HXAs, carriers can offer the credit solution that providers need to ensure payment. HXAs make consumer-directed healthcare a reality. For more information visit www.e-duction.com

Fair Isaac Corporation
Precise, accurate and profitable decisions for healthcare. Fair Isaac’s (NYSE:FIC) strategic solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management give businesses the power to automate more processes and apply more intelligence to every customer interaction. Fair Isaac has been quietly powering decisions in a variety of industries worldwide for 50 years. To find out how Fair Isaac can help your organization, email us at info@fairisaac.com, or visit fairisaac.com/healthcare.

Free & Clear, Inc. is a highly specialized tobacco treatment provider for health plans, employers and government organizations. Free & Clear helps its customers improve the health and risk status of their populations and control related costs by reducing the prevalence of tobacco use. More than 50 million people have access to the Free & Clear Tobacco Treatment Program, which is the only commercial tobacco treatment program in the U.S with proof of effectiveness published in multiple peer reviewed, scientific journals over the course of nearly 20 years. www.freeclear.com

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. www.gehealthcare.com

About Performance Solutions

Since 1998, GE Healthcare's Performance Solutions group has combined highly skilled people with proven methodologies and GE best practices to assist healthcare organizations in achieving their strategic goals. Working with Performance Solutions, customers are able to implement a common vision, improve operational, clinical and financial outcomes, maximize market share opportunities and develop strong leadership systems. This comprehensive approach can set hospitals and health systems on a path to true organizational transformation and ultimately raise the quality and safety of patient care. Contact us on the web at www.gehealthcare.com/solutions, or by email at geconsulting@med.ge.com.

For more than 29 years, Genentech has been at the forefront of the biotechnology industry, using human genetic information to discover, develop, commercialize and manufacture biotherapeutics that address significant unmet medical needs. Today, Genentech manufactures and commercializes multiple biotechnology products that have helped patients suffering from serious diseases and conditions, including breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cystic fibrosis, heart attack, stroke, growth hormone deficiency, psoriasis, and asthma. The company is the leading provider of anti-tumor therapeutics in the United States. Genentech has a history of groundbreaking science, and the company invests heavily in research and development.
www.gene.com

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company with a powerful combination of skills and resources that provides a platform for delivering strong growth in today's rapidly changing healthcare environment.

GSK's mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

Headquartered in the UK and with operations based in the US, the new company is one of the industry leaders, with an estimated seven per cent of the world's pharmaceutical market.

GSK also has leadership in four major therapeutic areas - anti-infectives, central nervous system (CNS), respiratory and gastro-intestinal/metabolic. In addition, it is a leader in the important area of vaccines and has a growing portfolio of oncology products. www.gsk.com/index.htm

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.

Health Hero Network develops and markets the Health Buddy® System, which empowers individuals to manage chronic conditions with professional support. The company, based in Redwood City, California, is a leading supplier of telehealth systems of care to government agencies, physician groups and integrated delivery systems, and disease management organizations. www.healthhero.com

Founded in 1983, Health Management Corporation is a leading integrated disease and care management firm providing total health solutions that have a positive impact on clinical and financial outcomes. Our mission statement, “To optimize the health of the members we serve,” sums up our approach. By focusing on an individual’s overall health, not just their illness, they learn how to manage their condition, not the other way around.

In conjunction with our affiliate companies, we support more than 20 million lives through our comprehensive services provided to health plans, employers, and government entities. We offer a complete suite of customizable programs. For more information visit www.choosehmc.com

Healthcare Excellence Institute leads the industry in creating processes that deliver safe and efficient healthcare services. We lead your associates in developing and implementing process change using world class methods like Lean / Toyota Production Systems, Six Sigma and Performance Management. Our approach has delivered visible change and measurable results for healthcare providers in areas such as ED, Revenue Cycle, Pre-Operative Testing, HIM and Bed Management. Visit us for more information at: www.healthcare-consulting.org (877) 434-6784.

HealthFair USA is an American organization dedicated to reducing healthcare costs through early detection and prevention of disease. The company has assembled mobile teams of medical professionals across the United States to offer high quality wellness programs to help identify the population at risk of developing illness at its earliest stage. They offer a wide range of corporate wellness services ranging from web-based health risk assessments to advanced biometric testing and health coaching. HealthFair USA is the only mobile wellness company in the United States that has been accredited by the prestigious Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO). This ensures that HealthFair USA provides the same quality of services most are accustomed to receiving only at their local hospitals and clinics. The company was founded in 1999, with their national headquarters based in Orlando, FL. Currently HealthFair USA has a fleet of 13 customized mobile diagnostic coaches, presence in 85 markets throughout the nation, and more than 100,000 participants are tested every year. Currently Services offered are: Online Disease and Health Risk Assessments, Blood Work (Cholesterol, Diabetes, CR-P, Kidney/Liver Function ALT/AST, Thyroid TSH, & Prostate Cancer PSA), Body Mass, Weight, Height, Osteoporosis Bone Mass Ultrasound, Echocardiogram, EKG, Arteriosclerosis Test, Peripheral Arterial Disease, Carotid Artery Ultrasound, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Ultrasound, and Health Coaching.
www.healthfairusa.com

Healthways

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.

Healthy Company 2010 is a comprehensive, mass media program designed to educate the workforce, activate consumerism and improve health. The program of educational vignettes will chronicle “real life” stories of how employers and employees are working together to shape the future of health in America. Through cascading content distribution, from broadcast TV to online venues to community events, Healthy Company 2010 will reach the broadest possible population in the most appropriate language and at the most relevant point.

Healthy Company 2010 sponsors, representing leading companies in multiple industries including consumer products, retail, technology, pharmaceuticals, financial services and insurance are committed to moving from 'talk to action' as they shape the future of healthcare literacy and workforce health.

For more information on Healthy Company 2010, contact Patrick Beers at 800-865-1220.

The Health Sector Management program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business provides current and future health care business leaders the knowledge and skills they need to succeed. Fuqua offers the Health Sector Management concentration in daytime, weekend *and global* executive MBA formats. The Health Sector Management program also partners with Duke Executive Education to offer tailored non-degree programs for health care clients, in addition to Duke Executive Education's roster of open-enrollment management courses. For more information, visit www.fuqua.duke.edu/info/whc.

i3 provides integrated scientific strategies and solutions throughout the biopharmaceutical product lifecycle. It comprises: i3 Research, a therapeutically specialized contract research organization; i3 Drug Safety, engaged in pharmacovigilance and epidemiology; i3 Statprobe, a technologically focused provider of comprehensive data services; i3 Pharma Resourcing, a clinical research-focused staffing partner; i3 Magnifi, providing leading health economics and outcomes services; and i3 DLN, delivering certified education with leading technology platforms. i3 helps companies gain sharper insights that lead to better patient care. For more information, visit www.i3global.com.

IBM

IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences brings together IBM resources, including information technology, deep industry insights, and research expertise, to help clients develop and deliver safer, more affordable and more effective diagnostics, drugs and medical care. For more information, please visit the IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Web site at: http://www.ibm.com/industries/healthcare

IncentOne™ has been consistently recognized as the leading provider of integrated incentive solutions to some of the most progressive organizations, including half of the Fortune 50. Our solutions deliver the rewards, systems and knowledge that give our clients the competitive advantage they need to focus on key business objectives. Whether supporting initiatives to reduce healthcare costs, drive healthy behavior or encourage program participation, IncentOne’s solutions have the maximum impact on client healthcare and wellness initiatives. www.incentone.com

One of the industry's largest health information companies, Ingenix serves 230,000+ customers in the provider, payer, employer, property and casualty insurance, pharmaceutical, life insurance, and public sector markets with 160 software, consulting, and database products. Our unique combination of capabilities, resources, and insight fuels higher levels of performance to create long-term customer advantage.
www.ingenix.com

Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of financial management solutions for consumers, small-businesses and, accounting professionals. We specialize in using deep consumer insights to make complex tasks, such as tax and accounting, simple. Our flagship products include Quicken®, TurboTax®, QuickBooks®, and now Quicken for Healthcare. Learn more at www.intuit.com/quickenhealth.

Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health care organization. Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit, group practice prepayment program serving the health care needs of 8.1 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. KP encompasses Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.; Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; and the Permanente Medical Groups. Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 134,000 technical, administrative, and clerical employees and about 11,000 physicians representing all specialties. www.kaiserpermanente.org

LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. is a leading provider of disease management focused on building partnerships to improve quality of life for individuals, reduce medical costs for payors and provide physician decision-support tools. Its mission is to empower individuals to achieve optimal health. LifeMasters is fully accredited by NCQA for diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma. Its programs are available in the US, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Matria Healthcare is a leading provider of wellness and disease management and productivity solutions to health plans, Fortune 1000 employers and government agencies. We are uniquely positioned to quickly deliver measurable improvements in employee health and reduce healthcare costs. For more information please visit www.matria.com.

Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines that deliver true advances in patient care. The company is widely recognized for its extensive efforts to increase access to medicines through far-reaching programs that not only donate Merck medicines but help deliver them to the people who need them. Since its inception nearly 50 years ago, the Merck Patient Assistance Program has provided free Merck medicines to millions of Americans. Merck also publishes unbiased health information as a not-for-profit service - including MerckSource and the Merck manuals - that are available along with more information on Merck at www.merck.com.

Metavante Healthcare Payments offers a consumer-directed health benefits payment platform plus the country’s leading employee benefits card – electronically accessing FSAs, HRAs, HSAs, transit/parking accounts and dependent care accounts. Metavante provides medical identification cards, combination eligibility/payment cards, and the ability to access multiple benefits accounts from a single card. Metavante also provides a comprehensive FSA/HSA/HRA platform that provides all the technology a financial institution, health insurance company, third-party administrator, or commercial business needs to offer these accounts. Services include account processing, trustee services, checks and debit cards, online and phone access to account information, investment options, regulatory reporting and related data translation and movement between payers, providers and consumers. For more information please visit: www.metavante.com

Monster is the worlds leading on-line career site, with simple, reliable and inexpensive hiring tools to give employers everything they need to hire the right employees quickly and conveniently. To learn more about how Monster Healthcare can benefit your organization visit: healthcaresolutions.monster.com.

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Oracle Corporation is the world's largest enterprise software company, providing enterprise software to the world's largest and most successful businesses and institutions. With annual revenues of more than $10 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100 percent Internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, server, enterprise business applications, and application development, and decision support tools.

Pfizer

Founded in 1849, Pfizer is the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company taking new approaches to better health. We discover and develop innovative medicines to treat and help prevent disease for both people and animals. Through consistent, high-quality manufacturing and distribution operations, our medicines reach patients in 180 nations. We also partner with healthcare providers, governments and local communities around the world to expand access to our medicines and to provide better quality healthcare and health system support. At Pfizer, our colleagues work every day to help people stay happier and healthier longer and to reduce the human and economic burden of disease worldwide. For more information please visit www.pfizer.com

Premier, Inc., a strategic alliance in U.S. healthcare, is owned by more than 200 of the nation's leading hospital and healthcare systems. These systems operate, or are affiliated with nearly 1,500 hospital facilities and hundreds of health care sites. Premier provides an array of resources in support of healthcare services, including group purchasing, with more than $25 billion in annual sales of supplies and equipment. Other resources offered by Premier include insurance programs and performance improvement services of many kinds. For more information, please visit www.premierinc.com.

Press Ganey Associates, Inc. is the United States’ premier vendor of health care satisfaction measurement and improvement services. Press Ganey partners with more than 7,000 facilities to improve the delivery of care through the collection and analysis of patient, employee, and physician survey data. Press Ganey’s comparative databases are the largest in the industry and provide the most meaningful benchmarking. The company also offers comprehensive management reports with actionable data, solution resources, and unparalleled customer service.

About one-third of inpatient hospitals measure patient satisfaction through Press Ganey, with 39% of hospitals with more than 100 beds choosing to partner with the company. In fact, more hospitals select Press Ganey than all other vendors combined. In addition, 1 out of every 11 households will return a Press Ganey questionnaire in 2006.

Press Ganey is proud to be associated with 4 of the 5 health care facility recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige Award—Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, St. Luke's Health System in Kansas City, and SSM Healthcare in St. Louis. For more information please visit: www.pressganey.com

Committed to the transformation of healthcare through innovation, collaboration and thought leadership, PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group is the nexus of industry and technical expertise across all health-related industries, including providers and payers, health sciences, biotech/medical devices, pharmaceutical and employer practices. Through its focus on performance improvement, risk management, regulatory compliance, tax, financial assurance, transaction support and human resource management, PricewaterhouseCoopers help clients address critical issues associated with maximizing stakeholder value, including: revenue enhancement, organizational simplification, mergers, and acquisitions, regulatory demands, crisis management, optimizing current strategies, attracting and retaining talent, and managing risk.Visit PwC at pwc.com/healthcare, or 800-211-5131.

Resolution Health Inc. ("RHI") is a healthcare data analytics company that produces and implements targeted patient and physician communications and profiling analyses to help companies reduce health care costs and improve health care quality. RHI clients include health plans/insurers, large self-insured employers, TPA's, disease management companies and pharmacy benefit management companies (PBM's).

RISARC, a healthcare consulting firm, began in the healthcare industry offering an array of consulting services including Eligibility, Billing and Appeals on payer accounts. RISARC has since expanded to provide system solutions. RISARC now offers several solution modules which include:
The Admission Error Tracking System (AETS): A Management system that automates registration error-tracking and RMSe-bubble: RISARC’s revolutionary system that provides interoperability of healthcare information, centralized access and communication of data in a secure environment.

SAS is the market leading provider of clinical and business intelligence to the healthcare and life sciences industries. SAS(r) software is used for a variety of applications in more than 1,000 U.S. healthcare organizations and virtually all pharmaceutical companies, enabling them to turn complex data into the business intelligence needed to produce the most successful outcomes.

SBTI is the leading Lean Six Sigma firm with a history of 60+ major deployments. We provide the knowledge needed to link Lean Sigma with your strategy bringing quick and effective results. We help you drive the initiative to improve patient care, safety and satisfaction while simultaneously reducing costs. Building Better People. Building Better Hospitals. ®

Source 1 HTMT offers Contact Center Services, Back Office Processing, and Information Technology Services across diverse markets, with operations on-shore, near-shore and off-shore, utilizing the right technology and favorable pricing to provide clients with comprehensive and high-quality solutions with benefits that are real, measurable and sustainable. www.sourceonehtmt.com

Reed Group is an independent medical information and clinical case management services company focused on workplace health and productivity, based in Westminster, Colorado. Reed Group publishes the industry-standard disability duration guidelines, The Medical Disability Advisor and provides integrated disability case management service for non-occupational and occupational leaves, with advice-to-pay services, and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) administrative services to employers. For more information on Reed Group, please contact Marty Reader at 866.889.4449 or visit www.reedgroup.com

The Wall Street Journal is the leading business newspaper, providing in-depth national and international coverage of the markets, the economy, industries, politics and regulation. And because business doesn't only influence one's career, the consumer-focused Personal Journal section analyzes how the day's news affects the business of time-pressed readers' lives. Just as it has for over 110 years, The Wall Street Journal continues to publish respected and useful news, making it the most influential and trusted newspaper in the nation. www.wsj.com

TMG Health is the most experienced provider of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to the Medicare, Medicaid and retiree health plan market. TMG operational outsourcing solutions and information systems benefit health plans, providers and insurers with state of the art systems, rapid implementations, reduced capital costs, fixed operational costs and proven regulatory compliance. Visit us at www.tmghealth.com

TriZetto is distinctly focused on accelerating the ability of healthcare payers to lead the industry's transformation, by providing premier information technology solutions that enhance its customers' revenue growth, increase their administrative efficiency and improve the cost and quality of care for their members. TriZetto payer-focused information technology offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., TriZetto can be reached at 800-569-1222 or at www.trizetto.com

UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving approximately 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health. Visit us at www.unitedhealthgroup.com to learn more.

UnitedHealth Group established the United Health Foundation in 1999 as a nonprofit, private foundation with a mission to support the health and medical decisions made by physicians, health professionals, community leaders and individuals that lead to better health outcomes and healthier communities. The foundation supports a variety of projects and activities to further this mission. Visit us at www.unitedhealthfoundation.org to learn more.

WebMD (NASDAQ: WBMD) is the leading provider of health information and services to consumers and healthcare professionals. Private portals from WebMD enable employees and health plan members to make more informed benefit, treatment and provider decisions. Our Total Health Management(tm) solutions integrate individual user data (including personal health information), plan-specific data from our employer or health plan clients, and much of the content, decision-support technology and personal communication services available through our public portals for a personalized user experience. www.webmd.com

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