HEALTHvision and Performance Logic Announce Availability of Proven, Online Project Management Solution

System to Help Healthcare Organizations Improve Employee Productivity

Irving, Texas – (BW HealthWire) – April 16, 2002 – HEALTHvision, Inc., a leading healthcare Internet company, and Performance Logic Inc., a leading provider of performance improvement tools, today announced a partnership offering the company's HealthCommander tool set as a value-added module for HEALTHvision's employee desktop solution suite. The solution suite, delivered via a secure web portal, includes resources that are designed to optimize workflow and centralize information for the health system's employees. HealthCommander will add an important element to the suite, with a project management and performance improvement application designed exclusively around the needs of healthcare professionals.

The integrated solution will allow healthcare organizations to more effectively plan and implement cost-saving and resource-preserving measures - key priorities as healthcare organizations continue to face pressure to reduce costs and improve patient care. Current HealthCommander customers have already used the tool set to manage core business initiatives ranging from raising profitability, to improving clinical outcomes, to reducing employee turnover.

"As healthcare organizations continue to be held to higher standards by their communities, boards and patients, the need to effectively research, plan and execute business-critical projects has increased dramatically," said Scott Decker, chief executive officer for HEALTHvision. "By working with Performance Logic to add the HealthCommander module to our employee desktop solution set, we're providing our customers not only the ability to meet this need, but ultimately, the ability to improve their organizations and better serve their patients."

While other project management software solutions have previously been used ad hoc by healthcare organizations, HealthCommander differentiates itself by focusing solely on the healthcare industry - offering specific and relevant content to guide and support healthcare managers through difficult strategic and operational initiatives that involve people, process and technology changes.

"We built the HealthCommander solution with the understanding that healthcare managers need more than just efficient project management tools. They need access to knowledge about how to design innovative operations and manage the complexities of organizational change," said Linus Diedling, executive vice president for Performance Logic. "We're delivering knowledge and experience to healthcare managers, helping them to implement their performance improvement programs with a clear picture of return on investment right from the start. Now, by integrating our tool set with HEALTHvision's employee desktop our customers have one-stop access to project management and administrative resources."

HEALTHvision already works with more than 300 healthcare organizations to address the needs of physicians, patients, consumers and employees. The employee-focused solution suite is designed to improve productivity and workflow through process automation and centralization of information. Tools like corporate calendaring, employee directories, human resources information, chats/forums and electronic meetings have been included in the suite and are delivered under the name and brand of the health system.

Performance Logic is a growing company and has relationships with many leading healthcare organizations. The HealthCommander Workbench provides expert-system software for managing performance, defining measurements, setting targets and analyzing performance issues. The workbench includes department-specific content for all major departments within a healthcare organization as well as in-depth analyses, performance measures and operational/productivity benchmarks.

About HEALTHvision

HEALTHvision is a leading healthcare Internet company focused exclusively on helping the local healthcare organization address the needs of physicians, patients, consumers and employees through locally branded, web-based solutions. A privately held company, based in Irving, Texas, HEALTHvision was formed in July 1999 through the merger of the Internet-based products and resources of Eclipsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ECLP - news; http://www.eclipsys.com) and VHA Inc. (http://www.vha.com). The company has grown to serve a customer base of more than 300 healthcare organizations, representing more than 8,000 clinicians, 5,000 physicians, thousands of patients and millions of consumers. HEALTHvision is a member of Health Internet Ethics (Hi-Ethics), a 22-member coalition of top e-healthcare companies committed to developing industry standards related to patient privacy. For more information, visit http://www.healthvision.com.

About Performance Logic

Performance Logic Inc. is the leading provider of knowledge-based, web-delivered business performance improvement solutions. The company combines the effective use of Internet technology with proven industry expertise to create powerful products for proactive management. Performance Logic's flagship offering, HealthCommander, is an innovative system of applications and knowledge resources designed to support hospital initiatives to improve cost, revenue, quality, and service. Additional information about PL is available at http://www.performancelogic.com.

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