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IBM and Convergence CT Team to Provide Clinical Data Warehousing for Healthcare and Life Sciences

(Feb 28, 2007)--IBM and Convergence CT announced an agreement to jointly market clinical data warehousing products for the healthcare and life sciences industries. The new Clinical Data Warehouse will be based on the IBM Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU) for Linux and Convergence CT's DBFOCUS Clinical Data Warehouse technology. The fully integrated solution will be jointly marketed worldwide.

"We are extremely excited about this partnership with IBM to develop and market our highly advanced, newest generation of Patient Data Warehousing technology," stated Lambert Onuma, President and CEO of Convergence CT. "In combination with our DB*FOCUS technology and analytics, the advances that IBM's platforms and Business Intelligence tools bring will be unmatched in the industry."

In addition to offering healthcare providers the Clinical Data Warehouse, IBM and Convergence CT will market a joint solution to life sciences companies (Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Medical Device firms) based on longitudinal patient data and advanced analytics. Moving forward, the two firms will continue to work together on the development of a variety of new technologies and product offerings.

Convergence CT is also the data warehousing and analytics partner of Anceta LLC, a health informatics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), which supports AMGA's strong tradition of collaborative quality improvement. Convergence CT, Anceta and the AMGA are collaborating with AMGA's multi-specialty medical groups to extract, aggregate and analyze comprehensive, HIPAA-compliant patient data among participating AMGA members. Through this collaboration, Convergence CT has successfully implemented and refined its data integration and warehousing applications across the enterprise and among multiple organizations. This relationship has created the tools and information resources to assist providers, policy makers, and purchasers (including patients) in making better decisions regarding healthcare choices. The Anceta Collaborative Data Warehouse and its health informatics tools will assist providers, policy makers, and purchasers (including employers and employees) in making better decisions regarding healthcare choices.

DB*FOCUS creates a comprehensive patient Electronic Health Record (EHR) by extracting data from existing hospital and clinic information systems whether they are integrated or not. As new patient information is added, their data elements are converged to the existing patient record seamlessly. Data can be easily analyzed via built-in query tools and users have the ability to export the data to other applications. This capability enables clinicians, researchers and management to quickly develop actionable knowledge based on up-to-date patient-level data.

The IBM BCU is a fully integrated and scalable data warehouse solution for Linux that combines software, server, and storage resources to maximize business intelligence and information management performance for enterprises. The D5000 BCU model chosen by Convergence CT features the latest DB2 9 technology for data compression and XML data capability and is built around the DB2 Data Warehouse Edition 9, eServer x3650 and EXP3000 disk storage.

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