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Northwestern Medical, Northwestern Memorial and Quovadx to Co-Host Continuity of Care Forum Led By Chair of HIMSS Health Information Exchange (HIE) Committee

Posted on: Monday, 2 July 2007, 12:17 CDT

The Integration Solutions division (ISD) of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), a global, market-leading integration and interoperability software business serving private and public healthcare and healthcare IT vendor organizations, is co-hosting, in conjunction with the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation of Chicago, one of Chicago's premier, multi-specialty physician organizations with more than 500 physicians and over 1,000 health professionals and Northwestern Memorial, a nationally recognized and primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine with 1,464 affiliated physicians and a major Midwest referral center, the upcoming Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Continuity of Care Executive Forum in Chicago on Tuesday, July 10, 2007. The event will bring together leading healthcare executives to discuss the improvements in patient safety and clinical workflow offered by regional and national health information networks.

The event is ideal for professionals who want to improve patient safety and streamline clinician workflow across an entire health network -- including those from regional health information organization (RHIO) and HIE associations, community leaders and public health officials, pharmacy chain executives, hospital and health system executives, directors of IT, and physician practice or practice management group executives.

The event will feature a keynote presentation by Mark J. Jacobs, director of technology for WellSpan Health, chair of the HIMSS HIE Exchange Committee and co-chair of the Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative. Attendees will also have the opportunity to share their views on the impact that federal government agencies will have on healthcare organizations and the importance of taking action to ensure long-term success.

If interested in attending, please see below for event details:

Event Details

What:

Executive Forum on Health Information Exchange & Continuity of Care

Who:

Hospital/health system executives and directors of IT; Professionals from RHIO and HIE associations; Community leaders and public health officials; Pharmacy chain executives; Physician practice or practice management group executives

When:

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Where:

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

251 E. Huron

3rd Fl., Conference Center (Rooms B&C)

Feinberg Pavilion

Chicago, IL 60611

Registration:

Registration is free at www.isd-quovadx.com/go/hieforum/

About The Integration Solutions Division (ISD) of Quovadx

The Integration Solutions division (ISD) of Quovadx provides proven enterprise integration and enabling solutions for private and public healthcare organizations, healthcare information technology vendors and government entities. ISD's clinical, financial and HIT software infrastructure are powered by award-winning Cloverleaf® technology and, coupled with domain-specific service expertise, are designed to increase interoperability, improve business process efficiency and leverage existing technology systems. Cloverleaf® Integration Suite, the most widely-adopted healthcare integration product on the market, has thousands of implementation sites worldwide, with up to 5,800 hospitals in the U.S. -- which represents 33% of all U.S. hospitals and 40 percent of all large IDNs (Integrated Delivery Networks) in the U. S. In addition, Cloverleaf solutions have significant share of medium and large hospital systems in Germany and the Netherlands and a growing presence in Canada, the U.K., Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and the Middle East. For more information, please visit www.isd-quovadx.com.

QUOVADX, CLOVERLEAF and the QUOVADX logo are registered trademarks or service marks of Quovadx, Inc. in the U.S. and/or select foreign countries. The absence of a trademark from this list does not constitute a waiver of Quovadx Inc.'s intellectual property rights concerning that trademark. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.

Source: Business Wire

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