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Connecticut Hospital Association Partners with Quantros™ to Collect, Report and Analyze Quality Program Data

Partnership Highlights Increasing Hospital Association Adoption of Quantros Platform for Quality Indicator Reporting to The Joint Commission and CMS

November 13, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - Quantros, a leading provider of real-time quality, safety and risk management, and accreditation and compliance solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it is partnering the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) to assist in enhancing their quality and regulatory compliance offerings. Under this agreement, CHA will integrate Quantros RRM™, a Web-based application for meeting quality program requirements and regulatory reporting needs, to support The Joint Commission Core Measures and The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality compliance reporting performed by CHA’s member hospitals. CHA will leverage the Quantros solution as part of their Toward Excellence In Care (TEIC) program.

To date CHA has supported The Joint Commission and CMS programs with its own application, but sees the move to Quantros technology as a significant benefit for its member hospitals. This partnership will provide new benefits to TEIC clients such as Interater Reliability Reports for measuring abstraction quality across abstractors and clinical uploads to reduce abstraction time and burden. In addition, Quantros offers optional functionality such as automated concurrent reporting via a live ADT interface to more rapidly address quality variances while the patient is still in the hospital.

"We went through a thorough review of the top vendors offering outsourced platform services for submitting Core Measures data to The Joint Commission and CMS, and Quantros provided the most comprehensive solution,” says Brian Fillipo, M.D., Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety, at CHA, “The decision to partner with Quantros is based on our ongoing desire to provide our hospitals with the best possible solutions for their continued quality indicator success.”

With this partnership, Quantros now supports three of the nine hospital association ORYX™ Core Measures vendors with its proven Core Measures platform. Quantros RRM currently supports all the Core Measures sets outlined by The Joint Commission.

“Connecticut Hospital Association has been a long-standing Performance Measurement Systems Vendor and its decision to leverage the Quantros platform and solution for Core Measures is a true honor,” according to Tom Leahy, Vice President of Business Development for Quantros. “Quality and safety improvement within the healthcare provider setting continue to garner more and more attention as pressure mounts to ensure reimbursement performance, accreditation status, and a safe patient environment. Quantros continues to expand its support of these efforts through relationships like the one established with the Connecticut Hospital Association.”

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 Connecticut Hospital Association

The Connecticut Hospital Association has been dedicated to serving Connecticut’s Hospitals since 1919. Through state and federal advocacy, CHA represents the interests of Connecticut’s not-for-profit hospitals on key healthcare issues in the areas of quality and patient safety, access and coverage, workforce, public health, and hospital reimbursement.

Connecticut Hospital Association website: http://www.chime.org