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Former Straub Clinic and Hospital Executive Joins Convergence CT to Head Its Global Analytics Group

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 October 2006, 06:00 CDT

Convergence CT, a Honolulu, Hawaii-based healthcare informatics company, today announced that Edwina Lee, former Vice President at Hawaii Pacific Health and Administrator of Straub Clinic and Hospital, has joined its ranks as Vice President, Global Analytics.

Ms. Lee, a high-ranking member of Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH) and Straub Clinic and Hospital leadership for over ten years, served as Vice President and Hospital Administrator- Nurse Executive/Clinical Operations. Prior to her tenure at HPH/Straub, Lee held senior administration positions at Castle Medical Center and Aloha Management Company in Hawaii and Platte Valley Medical Center in Colorado, responsible for Patient Care Services, Hospital Quality Assurance, Procedural Services and Clinical Operations.

At Convergence CT, Lee will take the lead to provide clients with comparative reports to facilitate benchmarking, and highlight areas for improvements in quality of care, operational costs, disease management, and health services research.

Priority report sets being made available will initially include Diabetes, Asthma, Ancillary Services, Utilization, Prevention, Mental Health, Surgery Preparation and Follow-up, Otitis Media, Inpatient Resource Use, Pregnancy, Risk-Adjusted Utilization by Disease/Condition, Outpatient Clinical, Efficiency, Pneumonia, Low Back Pain, Clinical Productivity, and Product Line Analysis.

"Having been in hospital administration positions for the past twenty-five years, Edwina instinctively knows what to look for operationally, in a clinical setting," says Lambert Onuma, Convergence CT's President and Chief Executive Officer.

"Edwina's Global Healthcare Analytics group will provide the participating organizations' reports providing comparative data and key benchmarks for practice management, clinical performance, product performance, health outcomes, economics and quality of care, highlighting the organizational strengths and weaknesses in their respective operations," Onuma continued. "Her leadership and expertise will unquestionably be a tremendous asset to Convergence CT, and to our clients."

"I am looking forward to working for Convergence CT, and working with the world-class healthcare organizations that its client base is composed of. I am confident that we will provide these groups with information and reports that will be invaluable to their operations, and will ultimately improve the level and quality of care that they provide their patients," said Lee.

Ms. Lee received her Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from Loma Linda University and her Master's in Nursing Administration from The University of Hawaii-Manoa.

Convergence CT is working with leading healthcare organizations in establishing a global Consolidated Data Warehouse through the deployment of its DB*FOCUSTM product suite in hospitals, clinics, and medical groups in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. The Company provides these organizations with analytical and comparative business reports, offering patient health data services to research hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and medical device manufacturers worldwide, to aide in the clinical trials they are conducting.

About Convergence CT

Convergence CT, headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, has offices in San Francisco, California, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tokyo, Japan, and Berlin, Germany. Founded in Hawaii in 2001, Convergence CT is a global, medical informatics company with unique technology that provides access to provider-based clinical and financial patient data. The Company then converts this rich clinical data into actionable knowledge through its medical informatics group.

Convergence CT was recently selected as the vendor of choice over some of the largest and most prominent healthcare organizations in the U.S., by the board of directors of both the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), and Anceta LLC, the group chartered with project implementation and a wholly owned subsidiary of AMGA. The Company inked a ten-year agreement with AMGA (see announcement of January 17, 2006) to integrate its 280 Medical Groups into a consolidated health data network.

It is Convergence CT's vision to build a Global Healthcare Research Network of rich clinical data obtained from medical groups, healthcare plans, hospitals and clinics. This network, along with Convergence CT's analysis services, facilitates the advancement of patient care, clinical research, and operational decision-making.

Convergence CT's provider-based, patient-level data, brings a new level of precision to pharmaceutical marketing and clinical research strategies. By providing an evidence-based assessment of treatment practices and patient outcomes across care settings, life science companies get a better understanding of untapped market potential. This information leads to better decisions regarding resource allocation, targeting, positioning, and messaging.

For more information, contact Convergence CT at 808-536-3040 or toll free at 888-222-0024. Visit our website at http://www.convergencect.com.

Source: Business Wire

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