Quovadx Participates in Developing Accenture Nationwide Health Information Network Prototype

Quovadx Participates in Developing Accenture Nationwide Health Information Network Prototype
Accenture-Led Consortium Shows Benefits of Nationwide Network Are within Reach of U.S. Citizens and Healthcare Community
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2007--Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), a global software and vertical solution company, today announced its Integration Solution division's (ISD) role in the Accenture-led team that developed a fully integrated health information system prototype.
The Accenture solution, which works with legacy clinical systems, is a significant step toward building an interoperable, standards-based network. Quovadx ISD, as part of the Accenture-led team, provided its clinical interoperability solution, leveraging flagship Cloverleaf(R) Integration Suite technology to support secure interoperability, and its Secure Object Client to facilitate physician office connectivity for the networked community. Quovadx also provided implementation services for each of these technologies.
"We are extremely proud to be working alongside Accenture and the other consortium members to create an integrated health information system prototype as part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) program," said Harvey A. Wagner, chief executive officer, Quovadx. "At Quovadx, we feel strongly that clinical data sharing can help improve patient safety and the quality of care while reducing healthcare costs, and we are excited to be part of Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) initiative to facilitate interoperability between healthcare organizations and advance this cause."
The Accenture prototype shows that patient data can be extracted from disparate information systems and converted to a common language that enables sharing between physician offices, medical laboratories, hospitals and other clinical settings - offering a "single view" of a patient's medical information. This approach, which allows the industry to build on existing investments in legacy provider systems, allows rapid implementation of a secure infrastructure to facilitate data sharing.
In November 2005, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded a contract to Accenture to lead the development of a prototype network for secure information sharing among healthcare communities in West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. This region has a wide variety of clinical systems among different provider organizations, much like the majority of the United States.
About Accenture
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. With approximately 146,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$16.65 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2006. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
About Quovadx, Inc.
Quovadx (Nasdaq: QVDX) offers software and services for system development, extension, integration and analysis to enterprise customers worldwide. Quovadx has three divisions, including the Integration Solutions division (ISD), which offers private and public healthcare organizations software infrastructure to facilitate system interoperability and leverage existing technology, the CareScience division, which provides care management and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems and pioneered regional healthcare information organization (RHIO) technology, and the Rogue Wave Software division, which provides software and services for enterprise-class application development and high-performance SOA. Quovadx serves companies in the healthcare, financial services, telecommunication and public sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com.
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CONTACT: Quovadx, Inc.Andrea Lashnits, 720-554-1246andrea.lashnits@quovadx.comorAbby Cohen, 212-850-5710abby.cohen@fd.comSOURCE: Quovadx, Inc.