HealthTrio Selected For IBM's ISV Advantage for Industries Initiative to Deliver Healthcare Management Clinical and Administrative Solutions Worldwide

Business Wire, August 3, 2004

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- HealthTrio(TM), a leading provider of e-health and core business solutions for the managed care industry today announced that it has been selected for IBM's ISV Advantage for Industries initiative. The scope of the agreement includes worldwide joint marketing, collaborative selling and business consulting. The ISV Advantage for Industries program provides extensive benefits for a small group of select global industry business partners who are integrating their applications with IBM's open infrastructure to jointly deliver solutions to help customers address their industry-specific challenges.

The alignment of HealthTrio's portal solutions with IBM's industry expertise, hardware, software and services provides a powerful platform for organizations seeking to improve healthcare management by addressing health and wellness issues, reducing healthcare costs and engaging all stakeholders, including patients themselves, in frontline care and wellness programs. Such groups include government health systems, employers, integrated delivery networks, health plans and health maintenance organizations.

The two organizations will jointly market the HealthTrio connect(tm) portal solution worldwide, initially targeting government, health plans and integrated delivery systems in the United States and government health systems throughout the world. IBM global healthcare sales and service professionals will be trained on the joint HealthTrio and IBM offering and will be able to market and deploy comprehensive care management-based solutions featuring HealthTrio's applications coupled with IBM servers (eServer(a), xSeries(a), pSeries(a) and zSeries(a) systems), database and enabling software, (DB2(a) Universal Database and WebSphere(a)MQ and Websphere Application Server) and a comprehensive suite of services and support.

Neil de Crescenzo, Healthcare Industry Leader, IBM Business Consulting Services commented, "We chose to work with HealthTrio, as they have developed leading portal applications for healthcare administration and for clinical information exchange, including their unique Individual Health Record. Fully integrated electronic health records will be essential to help manage healthcare and reduce administrative costs. Integrating HealthTrio's software solutions with IBM's open infrastructure will help our customers rapidly improve their operational efficiency and the quality of care."

"We are honored that IBM has selected us in the care management space for its ISV Advantage for Industries program," said Ralph A. Korpman, M.D., president and CEO of HealthTrio. "The combination of IBM's software, services and hardware with our specialized software products is exciting for government and commercial payors and other managers of care seeking comprehensive, proven solutions. The preliminary response we have received is overwhelming. Our customers need vendors that can help them to reduce administrative expenses and medical losses while empowering their members with health management tools. IBM and HealthTrio share a vision for improving the quality and efficiency of providing health care. IBM enjoys a worldwide reputation for delivering best-of-breed products and services efficiently and professionally. We are absolutely delighted that they have selected us as a worldwide partner in this area."

About HealthTrio

HealthTrio is a leading provider of e-health applications and core business systems for organizations that manage care. Software applications include HealthTrio connect(TM), a rapidly-installed Internet-based communication platform that enables real-time, HIPAA-compliant interactions between health plans, providers, members/patients, employers and brokers. HealthTrio connect provides care management organizations with an opportunity to engage consumers with a broad array of individualized health management tools and services. Once members are engaged and make the commitment to accepting responsibility for their personal health, HealthTrio connect provides online access to health management tools including a personal health record (PHR) while offering providers an electronic health record (EHR) automatically populated from across the care continuum. Together, these create the unique HealthTrio Individual Health Record. The company's comprehensive product offering also includes HealthTrio xpress, a core administrative solution that simplifies the administration of benefit structures, including Consumer Directed Health initiatives. These tools allow health plans to reduce healthcare costs while improving the health of their member population. Both products can be implemented as stand-alone applications or together as a total solution. For more information call 877-571-1988 or visit www.healthtrio.com.

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