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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. Visit us for more information at: http://www.accenture.com/h&ls;

ActiveHealth Management is a technology-driven health management and data analytics company engaged by leading commercial health plans, employers, and government payors to help improve care for those most in need, prevent medical errors, and reduce medical costs. Over 13 million patients nationwide currently benefit from programs powered by ActiveHealth’s patented CareEngine® System.
For more information, visit http://activehealth.net/

Alegent Health is the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa with nine acute care hospitals, over 100 clinic locations, and roughly 8,400 employees. Alegent Health prides itself on providing a higher standard of quality, compassionate care for the body, mind and spirit of every person. www.alegent.org

Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company's business groups provide unique solutions that inform, connect and transform healthcare, delivering award-winning software applications, including electronic health record, practice management, e-prescribing, document imaging, emergency department and care management solutions. For more information visit: www.allscripts.com

BearingPoint provides business and technology consulting to Global 2000 and government organizations. We help clients strategically tap technology to achieve their desired business results and create enterprise value. Our Health Services practice is invested in and committed to the journey of healthcare transformation. Visit www.bearingpoint.com/healthservices or contact us 1-866-BRNGPNT, [email protected].

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is the largest privately owned pharmaceutical company in the world. Boehringer Ingelheim's primary pharmaceutical products treat HIV/AIDs, central nervous system, pulmonary, respiratory, cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and urological health problems. The Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation is committed to providing products that significantly enhance health and quality of life. For more information please visit http://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/corporate/home/home.asp

Cognizant's Healthcare Practice is a strategic partner to leading healthcare and life sciences organizations and helps them navigate today's dynamic healthcare environment by delivering high value IT and business solutions across the healthcare spectrum- pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, payers and provider organizations. Leveraging its industry domain expertise, technical depth, and global talent pool of over 5,000 healthcare-focused associates, Cognizant's Healthcare Practice provides comprehensive solutions covering healthcare IT consulting, transformation services, process optimization/reengineering, business process outsourcing, IT infrastructure services management, IT strategy consulting, regulatory compliance services, and IT applications development and management. Cognizant's customers include 7 of the top 10 life sciences organizations, 3 of the top 5 leading national payers and numerous other leaders in the industry.
Find additional information about Cognizant at www.cognizant.com

Fair Isaac Corporation
Precise, accurate and profitable decisions for healthcare. Fair Isaac’s (NYSE:FIC) strategic solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management give businesses the power to automate more processes and apply more intelligence to every customer interaction. Fair Isaac has been quietly powering decisions in a variety of industries worldwide for 50 years. To find out how Fair Isaac can help your organization, email us at [email protected], or visit fairisaac.com/healthcare.

Free & Clear, Inc. is a highly specialized tobacco treatment provider for health plans, employers and government organizations. Free & Clear helps its customers improve the health and risk status of their populations and control related costs by reducing the prevalence of tobacco use. More than 50 million people have access to the Free & Clear Tobacco Treatment Program, which is the only commercial tobacco treatment program in the U.S with proof of effectiveness published in multiple peer reviewed, scientific journals over the course of nearly 20 years. www.freeclear.com

For more than 29 years, Genentech has been at the forefront of the biotechnology industry, using human genetic information to discover, develop, commercialize and manufacture biotherapeutics that address significant unmet medical needs. Today, Genentech manufactures and commercializes multiple biotechnology products that have helped patients suffering from serious diseases and conditions, including breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cystic fibrosis, heart attack, stroke, growth hormone deficiency, psoriasis, and asthma. The company is the leading provider of anti-tumor therapeutics in the United States. Genentech has a history of groundbreaking science, and the company invests heavily in research and development.
www.gene.com

Health Dialog is a leading provider of care management and one of the fastest growing privately held firms. The firm helps physician groups, health plans, and other payers improve healthcare quality while reducing costs. Services include disease management, predictive modeling, outreach, health coaching and more. Health Dialog helps individuals have more effective relationships with their physicians and become more engaged in their healthcare choices. For more information please visit www.healthdialog.com.

Health Hero Network develops and markets the Health Buddy® System, which empowers individuals to manage chronic conditions with professional support. The company, based in Redwood City, California, is a leading supplier of telehealth systems of care to government agencies, physician groups and integrated delivery systems, and disease management organizations. www.healthhero.com

Founded in 1983, Health Management Corporation is a leading integrated disease and care management firm providing total health solutions that have a positive impact on clinical and financial outcomes. Our mission statement, “To optimize the health of the members we serve,” sums up our approach. By focusing on an individual’s overall health, not just their illness, they learn how to manage their condition, not the other way around.

In conjunction with our affiliate companies, we support more than 20 million lives through our comprehensive services provided to health plans, employers, and government entities. We offer a complete suite of customizable programs. For more information visit www.choosehmc.com

Healthways

Healthways provides total population health management solutions aimed at lowering costs and improving quality of care for health plans the government and employers. We deliver integrated health and care support programs, including health risk screening and support, condition and disease management and high-risk care management to more than 2 million people. Through innovation, collaboration and a relentless pursuit for flawless execution, we have returned more than $1 billion in healthcare savings to our customers. For more information, visit www.healthways.com.

i3 provides integrated scientific strategies and solutions throughout the biopharmaceutical product lifecycle. It comprises: i3 Research, a therapeutically specialized contract research organization; i3 Drug Safety, engaged in pharmacovigilance and epidemiology; i3 Statprobe, a technologically focused provider of comprehensive data services; i3 Pharma Resourcing, a clinical research-focused staffing partner; i3 Magnifi, providing leading health economics and outcomes services; and i3 DLN, delivering certified education with leading technology platforms. i3 helps companies gain sharper insights that lead to better patient care. For more information, visit www.i3global.com.

IBM

IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences brings together IBM resources, including information technology, deep industry insights, and research expertise, to help clients develop and deliver safer, more affordable and more effective diagnostics, drugs and medical care. For more information, please visit the IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Web site at: http://www.ibm.com/industries/healthcare

One of the industry's largest health information companies, Ingenix serves 230,000+ customers in the provider, payer, employer, property and casualty insurance, pharmaceutical, life insurance, and public sector markets with 160 software, consulting, and database products. Our unique combination of capabilities, resources, and insight fuels higher levels of performance to create long-term customer advantage.
www.ingenix.com

Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of financial management solutions for consumers, small-businesses and, accounting professionals. We specialize in using deep consumer insights to make complex tasks, such as tax and accounting, simple. Our flagship products include Quicken®, TurboTax®, QuickBooks®, and now Quicken for Healthcare. Learn more at www.intuit.com/quickenhealth.

Matria Healthcare is a leading provider of wellness and disease management and productivity solutions to health plans, Fortune 1000 employers and government agencies. We are uniquely positioned to quickly deliver measurable improvements in employee health and reduce healthcare costs. For more information please visit www.matria.com.

Mercer Oliver Wyman is a leader in financial services strategy and risk management consulting. The firm's Health Insurance practice works with executives and management teams on a wide-ranging issues of strategic impact. We help our clients define a road map for future growth and optimize performance of their current operation in the ever challenging and dynamic healthcare environment. The firm has more than 800 staff working out of 28 offices in 13 countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information please visit www.merceroliverwyman.com

Microsoft

Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Together with its industry partners, Microsoft helps healthcare and life sciences organizations improve health and reduce costs through innovations that are simple by design, improve collaboration and take advantage of existing investments. Please see our website at www.microsoft.com.

Oracle Corporation is the world's largest enterprise software company, providing enterprise software to the world's largest and most successful businesses and institutions. With annual revenues of more than $10 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100 percent Internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, server, enterprise business applications, and application development, and decision support tools.

Perot Systems Healthcare is one of the largest providers of consulting, business process, and technology-based solutions for the healthcare industry. More than 7,000 global healthcare associates provide integrated, comprehensive business and technical services to all facets of the healthcare marketplace. Perot Systems Healthcare clients include four of the top 20 U.S. health systems, more than 350 healthcare providers and 130 health insurance organizations, thousands of caregivers, and a variety of leading biopharmaceutical and healthcare supply chain companies. For more information please visit: www.perotsystems.com

Pfizer

Founded in 1849, Pfizer is the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company taking new approaches to better health. We discover and develop innovative medicines to treat and help prevent disease for both people and animals. Through consistent, high-quality manufacturing and distribution operations, our medicines reach patients in 180 nations. We also partner with healthcare providers, governments and local communities around the world to expand access to our medicines and to provide better quality healthcare and health system support. At Pfizer, our colleagues work every day to help people stay happier and healthier longer and to reduce the human and economic burden of disease worldwide. For more information please visit www.pfizer.com

Press Ganey Associates, Inc. is the United States’ premier vendor of health care satisfaction measurement and improvement services. Press Ganey partners with more than 7,000 facilities to improve the delivery of care through the collection and analysis of patient, employee, and physician survey data. Press Ganey’s comparative databases are the largest in the industry and provide the most meaningful benchmarking. The company also offers comprehensive management reports with actionable data, solution resources, and unparalleled customer service.

About one-third of inpatient hospitals measure patient satisfaction through Press Ganey, with 39% of hospitals with more than 100 beds choosing to partner with the company. In fact, more hospitals select Press Ganey than all other vendors combined. In addition, 1 out of every 11 households will return a Press Ganey questionnaire in 2006.

Press Ganey is proud to be associated with 4 of the 5 health care facility recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige Award—Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, St. Luke's Health System in Kansas City, and SSM Healthcare in St. Louis. For more information please visit: www.pressganey.com

Committed to the transformation of healthcare through innovation, collaboration and thought leadership, PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group is the nexus of industry and technical expertise across all health-related industries, including providers and payers, health sciences, biotech/medical devices, pharmaceutical and employer practices. Through its focus on performance improvement, risk management, regulatory compliance, tax, financial assurance, transaction support and human resource management, PricewaterhouseCoopers help clients address critical issues associated with maximizing stakeholder value, including: revenue enhancement, organizational simplification, mergers, and acquisitions, regulatory demands, crisis management, optimizing current strategies, attracting and retaining talent, and managing risk.Visit PwC at pwc.com/healthcare, or 800-211-5131.

TriZetto is distinctly focused on accelerating the ability of healthcare payers to lead the industry's transformation, by providing premier information technology solutions that enhance its customers' revenue growth, increase their administrative efficiency and improve the cost and quality of care for their members. TriZetto payer-focused information technology offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., TriZetto can be reached at 800-569-1222 or at www.trizetto.com

 
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