[April 23, 2010]

MedVentive Adds Seasoned Healthcare Professional

MedVentive, a market leader of end-to-end solutions that improve patient care while strengthening financial performance for health plans and physician groups alike, is pleased to announce that Michael DeSimone has joined the team to spearhead MedVentive's focus on partner initiatives and channel distribution. Prior to joining MedVentive, Mike was Director of Payer Solutions at IMS where he was responsible for data acquisition and strategic partnerships.

Mike will play a key role in MedVentive's accelerating growth plan by leveraging his more than 20 years of healthcare and informatics experience to build a regional and nationally focused partnership program. His track record for developing relationships that deliver creative solutions to the healthcare industry aligns with MedVentive's own market approach.

MedVentive's comprehensive, proven technology platform engages the entire healthcare continuum through physician collaboration, data transparency, and proactve care improvement on a community basis to measurably increase patient wellness. With a proven ROI, both in terms of increased quality of care and lowering costs, MedVentive clients are leading the industry in achieving real world results.

Mike said, "What attracted me to MedVentive is the opportunity to positively impact how healthcare is delivered - at the plan, provider group, practice, physician, and patient level. With MedVentive, clients are able to easily assess physician performance and identify specific opportunities for improvement across the operational spectrum - utilization, efficiency, pharmacy, and quality. This ability to reduce costs while improving care, quickly and proactively, makes our clients immediately more competitive."

"As part of our strategy for continued growth and expansion, we needed someone who understood the intricacies of the healthcare market, and who could identify the right, value-added partners for our clients and solution offerings. Mike is a perfect match to help us build long-term partnerships that enrich what we offer our clients to solve healthcare's critical challenges. We are very happy to have him join our team," said Nancy Ham, President and CEO.

About MedVentive

For more than a decade, MedVentive has worked with leading provider and health plan organizations to develop and deploy innovative, clinically sophisticated approaches to successfully reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient care. MedVentive offers a fully-integrated suite of business & clinical intelligence and outreach applications that support best-in-class pay for performance programs, physician efficiency profiling and information-sharing, quality intervention, pharmacy management, and point-of-care decision support tools - all built on a risk-adjusted data foundation. Provider groups and health plans use MedVentive technology and services to identify their greatest healthcare improvement opportunities and to act quickly and efficiently to effect change through flexible, tailored solutions. For more information, please visit www.medventive.com.

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