Outcome to Present at DIA's 6th Canadian Annual Meeting

Business Wire, Nov 4, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Outcome Sciences, Inc. d/b/a Outcome (OUTCOME), the leading provider of patient registries, studies, and technologies for evaluating real-world outcomes, today announced that Richard Gliklich, M.D., President and CEO of OUTCOME, will be speaking on Friday, November 7, 2008 from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM EST at the Drug Information Association[R] (DIA[R]) 6th Canadian Annual Meeting - Benefit and Risk Management: An Evolution in Progress. The conference is being hosted at the Westin Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario from November 5-7, 2008.

Dr. Gliklich's presentation, entitled "Unleashing the Value of Real-World Data and Methods to Improve Health Care Data and Methods to Improve Health Care Decision Making," will address the intersection and contribution of real-world data to decision making across all interested parties. Dr. Gliklich will also discuss the divide between the perceptions of decision makers, the state of the research, the ability of researchers to communicate how far the industry has evolved, as well as the disconnect that arises from decision makers utilizing these data to answer questions that might otherwise go unanswered.

The DIA's 6th Canadian Annual Meeting will cover a number of important issues facing Health Canada, the pharmaceutical industry, health academia and the health care system. For more information please visit, http://www.diahome.org.

About OUTCOME

OUTCOME is the leading provider of patient registries, studies, quality improvement programs, and integrated technologies for evaluating real-world outcomes. OUTCOME provides services and technologies focused on evaluating the safety, effectiveness, and quality of healthcare products and services. The company has designed, developed, and managed an industry-leading number of patient registries, including many of the largest and most well-recognized programs for disease outcomes and patient safety.

OUTCOME is also an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) DEcIDE Research Center, a component of the "Effective Health Care" initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. OUTCOME was selected by the AHRQ to lead the effort to create the patient registries handbook "Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide," which was released in May 2007. For more information, please visit http://www.outcome.com.

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