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QUANTROS & HEALTHGATE ENTER AGREEMENT TO CONTINUE TO ADVANCE PATIENT SAFETY

Quantros, The Market Leader In Medical Errors Data Management, Offers HealthGate's Interactive, Informed-Consent Application Through Quantros Distribution Channel

MILPITAS, CA - September 30, 2006 - Quantros, Inc., a pioneer in web-based medical errors/incident reporting and analysis and HealthGate Data Corp., a provider of highly specialized software applications for the healthcare industry, today announced a collaborative relationship. This definitive agreement provides Quantros client hospitals access to HealthGate's interactive informed consent solution, InteractiveIC™, which is a cost-saving risk management tool designed to reduce healthcare provider risk and liability.

InteractiveIC provides comprehensive, interactive tutorials that test and record patient understanding in preparation for upcoming procedures. Quantros will distribute and offer InteractiveIC as part of its Safety and Risk Solution set.

"This agreement allows Quantros to continue providing key solutions that help make our healthcare systems safer," says Sanjaya Kumar, MD, President and CMO of Quantros. "Our solid partnership offers critically important education to patients prior to surgery or procedures. This is a significant benefit to Quantros customers and helps us fulfill our marketplace promise of continued leadership within the hospital safety and risk management arenas."

"The inclusion of our InteractiveIC tool in Quantros' Safety and Risk Solution set not only extends the performance of critical patient safety tools for hospitals, but also assures that patients are provided the best information to make sound decisions about their care," said Bill Reece, President and CEO of HealthGate. "Our relationship with Quantros is a very positive move."

About InteractiveIC

InteractiveIC empowers patients to actively participate in their care and course of treatment which promotes successful outcomes and better health. InteractiveIC allows healthcare providers to deliver comprehensive patient education in a convenient and easily accessible format. This helps enhance communication between provider and patient, encouraging better compliance and improved understanding of treatment directions.

InteractiveIC meets certain CMS/Joint Commission and other regulatory requirements concerning medical procedure-based patient education. Each procedure presents a step-by-step multimedia tutorial, richly illustrated with medical images, animations, and descriptive text to create an unsurpassed patient education experience.

InteractiveIC:

  • Improves compliance with pre-operative and post-operative instructions
  • Documents and certifies the educational process
  • Manages patients' understanding about an upcoming procedure
  • Increases patient referrals by serving as a marketing differentiator
  • Improves patient satisfaction and reduces risk

About Quantros

Founded in 1996, 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: www.quantros.com

About HealthGate Data Corp.

HealthGate Data Corp., founded in 1994, brings innovative clinical and technology applications to the healthcare market, focusing on collaborative and interdisciplinary content management solutions. HealthGate's Collaboration Engine offering (CE) allows physicians and committees to collaborate asynchronously anytime, anywhere. HealthGate's CE eliminates committee work during standardization of care documents, policies and procedures, order sets, care plans, and other documents across the entire organization. HealthGate's Quality Architect™ solution combines evidence-based clinical guidelines, order sets, and other point-of-care tools with national quality measures from accrediting bodies such as Joint Commission, CMS, and HealthGate's own evidence-based quality indicators. HealthGate's InteractiveIC™ is a cost saving solution designed to reduce healthcare provider risk/liability and to inform patients on anticipated medical procedures. Call HealthGate at 800-434-4283 for more information.

HealthGate website: www.healthgate.com

 

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