Prominent Healthcare Orgs Select W3Health's Web-Based W3 DRS

W3Health announced that four new healthcare organizations have licensed the company's Internet-based reporting and analysis solution, W3 DRS. The organizations, which represent a broad range of healthcare industry players, will utilize W3 DRS to manage data and turn it into information they can use to improve quality and reduce costs in their delivery networks. These four most recent W3Health customers join an elite group of payor and provider organizations already deriving value from W3 DRS.

"We are pleased with the diversity of our growing client base," noted Tom McNamara, president and COO of W3Health, "Our solutions are custom built to address the specific analytic challenges within each organization, making W3 DRS a powerful and versatile tool for all types of healthcare entities."

Healthcare organizations licensing W3 DRS include:

• HealthChoice: Health Choice LLC, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is the exclusive managed care contracting organization for Methodist Healthcare and MetroCare Physicians. Founded in 1985, today this joint venture provides one of the most comprehensive networks of hospitals, physicians, outpatient facilities, affiliated health care professionals and ancillary services in the Mid-South.
• Advantage Health Networks: Nashua, New Hampshire-based Advantage Health Networks is the physician-hospital organization affiliated with The Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, serving providers and patients throughout northern New England.
• Central & Western Maine Regional PHO: Headquartered in Lewiston, Maine, the Central & Western Maine Regional PHO encompasses more than 250 physicians affiliated with Central Maine Medical Center and three other hospitals across the state.
• Mercy Healthcare: Mercy Healthcare is an Integrated Delivery Network headquartered in Sacramento, California. Mercy is a division of Catholic Healthcare West, the nation's fifth largest nonprofit healthcare system, and includes six hospitals serving Sacramento, Yolo and Nevada counties in California.

W3 DRS enables healthcare organizations to make better business decisions by helping them turn the data they collect into meaningful, actionable information. This is accomplished by aggregating claims data from multiple sources, systems and formats to deliver a comprehensive view of utilization and cost activity and quality of care in an intuitive, user-friendly reporting environment.

About W3Health

W3Health delivers innovative analytic software solutions to healthcare payor and provider organizations through an Application Service Provider (ASP) model. W3Health's ASP model allows HMOs, PPOs and Integrated Delivery Networks to outsource the entire data management, application hosting and maintenance functions for their reporting infrastructure, accelerating implementation and delivering a rapid return on investment. W3Health's customers therefore deploy a robust reporting and analysis application to a wide base of users over the Web, eliminating major hardware and maintenance expenses and reducing their total cost of ownership for the application.

W3Health's core product offering is W3 DRS - the W3 Distributed Reporting System - a Web-based reporting and analysis solution that delivers robust decision support functionality to users across today's extended healthcare enterprises.

W3Health also provides in-depth, analytical consulting services and ongoing implementation support to ensure the successful rollout of W3 DRS within client organizations.

For more product and services information, contact W3Health at 1-877-W3HEALTH, or visit us on the Web at www.w3health.com.

Contact Alex Sutton, PAN Communications, 978-474-1900 or Matt Crozier, W3Health, 978-284-0134.