NEWS

Quantros and the American National Standards Institute Offer ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 Standards to Healthcare Providers

Inclusion of globally-recognized QMS and EMS Standards in Quantros ACE allows for more rapid, systematic collection of data and a reduction in administrative costs for healthcare providers tracking ISO compliance

San Francisco, CA - August 24, 2007 - Quantros and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have established a new agreement to enhance the usability of the world's leading standards for quality management (ISO 9001:2000) and environmental management (ISO 14001:2004) by the healthcare community. These standards are now an integral component of Quantros' Accreditation & Compliance Excellence (ACE) application.

Quantros ACE is a Web-based, enterprise-wide application for managing and reporting accreditation, certification and compliance self-monitoring activities that are applicable to healthcare providers. Quantros ACE is designed to automate, streamline and make efficient standards compliance self-monitoring activities that are required of healthcare facilities. Quantros ACE users will now be able to use ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 from within the application to author and create reviews and surveys to collect compliance data, manage compliance activities and work-flow, and generate compliance reports for analysis as part of their quest for ISO certification. In addition there will be a cross-walk between the ISO Standards and agency or regulatory standards. Customers will be able to collect data once and use it to satisfy multiple regulatory and voluntary certification requirements.

Quantros ACE enables healthcare organizations to lower their cost for conducting and supporting standards compliance related processes and activities. This allows healthcare facilities to efficiently pinpoint opportunities for improvement, better target efforts and resources at fixing problem areas, and be able to monitor specific standards for compliance over time. Quantros ACE is growing its library of standards based review/survey templates to assist in and maintain a "state of continued readiness."

"The relationship with Quantros furthers expands and provides an avenue of ready access for healthcare facilities to pursue ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certification," said Bob Feghali, ANSI vice president of business development and chief information officer.. "Having these standards made available through the Quantros ACE application will allow facilities to more effectively monitor compliance with globally recognized requirements for continual quality improvement."

"The addition of ISO standards to the Quantros ACE application represents a further expansion of our solution to support the ever increasing requirements and burden on healthcare providers to efficiently manage accreditation, certification and compliance activities across the numerous accrediting agencies" said Dr. Sanjaya Kumar, President & CMO at Quantros. "Providing the ability for our customers to leverage the most widely recognized ISO standards via the Quantros ACE application allows for greater synergy and efficiency in maintaining compliance. We are excited about the benefit our clients will receive as part of this agreement."

Quantros ACE, including the healthcare-centric ISO standards, is available through Quantros. For more information on this application, please visit the Quantros website at http://www.quantros.com, or email us at info@quantros.cominfo@quantros.com or call (877) 782-6876 to find out more.

About Quantros

Quantros provides real-time knowledge creation solutions for benchmarking, patient safety, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for leading healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Quantros' web delivered applications provide a standard platform for automating resource intensive manual processes. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, more than 1,000 hospitals are licensed to use Quantros' web-based technology solutions.

Quantros team members include physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals. We are a healthcare information management technology company with a difference; our key product decisions are driven by experts in healthcare quality and performance improvement, safety, compliance, risk management and nursing.

Quantros website: http://www.quantros.com

About ANSI

ANSI is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance U.S. global competitiveness and the American quality of life by promoting, facilitating, and safeguarding the integrity of the voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. Its membership is comprised of businesses, professional societies and trade associations, standards developers, government agencies, and consumer and labor organizations. The Institute represents the diverse interests of more than 125,000 companies and organizations and 3.5 million professionals worldwide.

The Institute is the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and is a U.S. representative to the International Accreditation Forum (IAF). ANSI currently has offices in New York City and Washington, DC.