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CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX) providing care management, clinical analysis and clinical quality improvement solutions, today announced that it has been named an approved Data Vendor by The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of large companies and purchaser coalitions working together to drive improvements in hospitals. As a result, CareScience will be able to streamline the data submission process for its new and existing customers participating in the Leapfrog Hospital Insights program through its CareScienceTM Standards of Care offering. �We are excited to work with CareScience, as they are an advocate for public reporting and a leader in helping hospitals measure and analyze patient outcomes; as well as a long-time certified JCAHO Core Measure vendor,� said Suzanne Delbanco, CEO, The Leapfrog Group. �CareScience, through its solid customer roster and strong customer relationships, will help us reach out to a greater number of hospitals to adopt a higher standard of care through our quality improvement programs.� Leapfrog Hospital Insights is a voluntary hospital performance measurement program that assesses hospital quality, efficiency, and overall performance in five clinical areas using nationally standardized measures (coronary artery bypass graft, percutaneous coronary intervention, acute myocardial infarction, community acquired pneumonia and deliveries/newborn care). The Leapfrog Hospital Insights measures form the foundation of the Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program� (LHRP) which is a customizable in-patient pay-for-performance program used by purchasers and payers. �At CareScience, we believe that clinical reporting should surpass benchmarking to allow healthcare providers to convert clinical data into valuable information � helping them advance patient safety and quality of care throughout the organization,� said Thomas Zajac, president, CareScience. �We are excited to enable participation in Leapfrog Hospital Insights and the Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program for our customers as we work together to respond to the growing market forces that are requiring more extensive public reporting of quality and performance data.� �Through the CareScience Standards of Care solution, we can now efficiently submit required clinical data to multiple organizations through one product, saving valuable time and resources and allowing for a more valuable analysis of that data,� said Simon Samaha, M.D., deputy chief medical officer, Cooper Health System. �We look forward to benefiting from the added value of the CareScience Standards of Care product as we collectively work to advance patient safety in hospitals.� CareScience Standards of Care allows hospitals and health systems to prepare for, manage and take action on existing and new quality measures for public reporting of clinical data. Through Standards of Care, providers can use data gathered for public reporting, prior to submission, along with data on internal reporting measures, to create and implement quality improvement plans and develop strategies to address areas with the greatest opportunity for clinical and financial improvement. Real-time quality indicator scorecard reports, combined with benchmarking capability against CareScience National Comparatives or customer defined benchmarks, allows clinicians and executives to enhance the delivery of patient care, as well as measure performance against peers on an ongoing basis. Standards of Care allows for submission of data requirements directly to external organizations seamlessly, including CMS, JCAHO, IHI, and most recently, The Leapfrog Group. To learn more about CareScience Standards of Care, please visit www.carescience.com/products/standardsofcare. About The Leapfrog Group On behalf of the millions of Americans for whom many of the nation�s largest corporations and public agencies buy health benefits, The Leapfrog Group aims to use its members� collective leverage to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for Americans. The Leapfrog Group is a voluntary program aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America�s health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded. The Leapfrog Group was founded in November 2000 by the Business Roundtable and has support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as its members and other funders. For more information, visit www.leapfroggroup.org. About CareScience CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (NASDAQ: QVDX), assists hospitals in translating organizational vision and goals into quality improvement plans that optimize patient outcomes and operational performance, increase staff efficiency and reduce costs. CareScience supplies the people and technology to help its customers ensure that high-quality care is delivered, throughout the healthcare system, through clinical data access and clinical process transformation. For more information, please visit www.carescience.com. CareScience is a trademark and QUOVADX and the CareScience logo are registered trademarks of Quovadx, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.