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HIT Tip Sheet 1

Dear Journalists:

We're looking forward to seeing you HIT '98, which opens its doors next week at Boston's Hynes Convention Center. This inaugural event will have over 130 exhibitors and leading IT sources of information for the health industry at its conference and vendor session programs.

To help you plan your visit to HIT we've compiled a series of "Tip Sheets" designed to highlight activities, announcements and other pertinent information that we think will be of interest to you.

Below is information regarding your press credentials, the Press Center. A second note will give you highlights for press conferences.

1. BADGE PICK-UP/REGISTRATION

You will be able to pick up your press badge at the Press Center, Room 303.

Please go to one of the Press Center and present your business card, copy of by-lined article, masthead with your name, or other material we have requested. Press badges will not be distributed without presentation of these items. Thank you for your cooperation.

Press Registration hours are:

Monday, December 7: 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 8: 7:30-5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, December 9: 7:00-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 10: 8:00-11:00 a.m.

2. THE PRESS CENTER

Located in Room 303, the Press Center consists of the working press room, the press kit library and press office.

For your convenience, the working press room offers:

* Workstations running Windows 95, with word processing, browsers and e-mail

* Dedicated T1 Internet access and phone lines for dial-up access from laptops

* Technical consultants for assistance with equipment

The press kit library is the resource for exhibitors' press kits, which will be arranged alphabetically by company name on shelves for easy access.

Press Center hours are: Monday, December 7: 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 8: 7:30-5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, December 9: 7:00-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 10: 8:00-11:00 a.m.

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HIT Tip Sheet 2

Healthcare Information Technologies '98 will help close the knowledge gap of decision makers who do not completely understand or know how to implement effective, cost-efficient, enterprise-wide IT healthcare solutions. HIT '98 will provide in depth, real world business advice about the factors impacting their business.

Keynoting HIT '98 will be...

Tuesday, December 8th at 8:15 - 9:15 Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D. (Jeff Goldsmith is President of Health Futures, Inc. He is also Associate Professor of Medical Education in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia.)

Wedneday, December 9th at 11:00 - 12:00 David A. Kessler, MD. (David A. Kessler served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1990 to 1997, having been appointed by President Bush and re-appointed by President Clinton. In July, 1997 he became dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.)

Thursday, December 10th at 12:30 - 1:30 Professor John C. Henderson (Professor John C. Henderson is Chair of the Management Information Systems Department and Director of the Systems Research Center at Boston University's School of Management).

NEON/CAI

Media Alert: NEON/CAI Press Conference on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1998 At HIT '98, Boston

WHAT: New Era of Networks, Inc. (NEON) Press Conference.

NEON recently acquired Century Analysis, Inc. (CAI). Sara Lafrance, Senior Vice President Business Development for NEON (former CEO of CAI) and other company executives, will we discussing the strategy for integrating NEON and CAI's products, the benefits of the combined technologies and NEON's commitment to the healthcare industry.

WHEN: Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 9:30 to 10:30 A.M.

WHERE: Room 305

Hynes Conventions Center, HIT '98, Boston, MA

INFORMATION: Tom Kaser, Public Relations Manager, NEON

Ph: 800-815-6366, ext. 588 or 303-486-9588

tkaser@neonsoft.com

www.neonsoft.com

NOTE: Ms. Lafrance will be available for one-on-one interviews at HIT '98 on Tuesday, Dec. 8th and Wednesday, Dec. 9th. Contact Tom Kaser for an appointment.

Advanced Health Technologies

Media Alert: Advanced Health Technologies Press Conference on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1998 At HIT '98, Boston

WHAT: Advance Health Care Press Conference.

WHEN: Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 3:00 to 4:00 P.M.

WHERE: Room 305 Hynes Conventions Center, HIT '98, Boston, MA

INFORMATION: Jon Edelson/Chairman & CEO, (booth 804)

Victoria L Feder, Vice President, Marketing

Phone: 914-524-4204, vfeder@advhealth.com

Toll free: 1-877-DRCHART/Email: drchart@ahtech.com

www.ahtech.com

AHT is a leading provider of enabling technologies, including Internet-based applications, for e-commerce and communications among physicians and healthcare organizations. AHT develops and markets products and services that automate physicians' medical orders, specifically laboratories and prescriptions, which drive the cost and quality of nearly a trillion dollars in medical care in the US.

AHT advantages include:

• A leadership position in the electronic management of laboratory orders and results
• A customer base of prominent healthcare organizations
• Over 100 legacy system interfaces to connect to existing "legacy" systems
• Two US patents for the electronic management of prescriptions in the physician's office.

Performance Technologies, Inc

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT: "Building Non-Stop Networks" - Vendor Session #9

WHEN: Wednesday, December 9, 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Healthcare Information Technologies Conference and Expo (HIT)

Hynes Convention Center - Boston, MA

CONTACT: Donald H. Stothard

Manager, Marketing Communications

Performance Technologies, Inc.

Phone: 716-256-0200 ext. 299

E-mail: dhs@pt.com

Network failure is a major concern, especially in mission critical round-the-clock applications such as healthcare. Even a moment of downtime can be catastrophic. Performance Technologies' Nebula 8000 is the only true fault tolerant Ethernet switch that delivers non-stop protection against network failure, along with high performance and a wide array of advanced system features.

PTI invites you to attend our Vendor Session # 9, "Building Non-Stop Networks", on Wednesday, December 9 at 12:30 pm, at the Healthcare Information Technologies Conference and Exposition (HIT) in Boston to hear, first-hand, how our Nebula 8000 is the world's first and singularly unique fault tolerant 100/1000 Ethernet switch solution for non-stop networking applications.

Nebula 8000 is backed by Performance Technologies, a world class supplier of leading edge, high availability network switching and data communications solutions. Come join us at Booth 1034 during the show (December 8 - 10) to learn how Nebula eliminates the barriers associated with conventional approaches to fault tolerance.

Visit our Web site at www.pt.com and www.gigabit.com.

Exhibitor CONFERENCE SESSIONS are presented by leading FREE of charge for all attendees and press. Please mark your calendars for these informative presentations from the following companies:

TUESDAY, December 8th

10:45 - 11:45 Software Technologies - Room 204

10:45 - 11:45 CPM Marketing Group - Room 205

12:30 - 1:30 IBM - Room 204

12:30 - 1:30 Eclipsys - Room 205

2:00 - 3:00 Compaq - Room 204

2:00 - 3:00 QAD Inc - Room 205

2:00 - 3:00 Integrated Visions - Room 308

3:30 - 4:30 Shiva Corporation - Room 204

3:30 - 4:30 Berdy Medical Systems - Room 205

WEDNESDAY, December 9th

12:30 - 1:30 Health Systems Design - Room 205

12:30 - 1:30 Performance Technologies - Room 204

2:00 - 3:00 Per-Se - Room 204

2:00 - 4:30 Symbol Technologies - Room 205

3:30 - 4:30 American Management Systems - Room 204

THURSDAY, December 10th

9:30 - 10:30 EDS - Room 204

9:30 - 10:30 KPMG - Room 205

11:00 - 12:00 IBM - Room 204

11:00 - 12:00 ChannelPoint - Room 205

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Tip Sheet 3

A few highlights...from exhibitors and vendor sessions

AHT is a leading provider of enabling technologies, including Internet-based applications, for e-commerce and communications among physicians and healthcare organizations. AHT develops and markets products and services that automate physicians' medical orders, specifically laboratories and prescriptions, which drive the cost and quality of nearly a trillion dollars in medical care in the US.

AHT advantages include:

• A leadership position in the electronic management of laboratory orders and results
• A customer base of prominent healthcare organizations
• Over 100 legacy system interfaces to connect to existing "legacy" systems
• Two US patents for the electronic management of prescriptions in the physician's office.

· Contact: Jack Redding

· Toll free: 1-877-DRCHART

· Email: drchart@ahtech.com

· URL: www.ahtech.com

Advanced Research Systems, Inc. (ARS) is the leading developer of care management software that enables health care organizations to reduce costs, while improving the delivery of care for the high-risk, chronically ill patient populations. ARS provides integrated solutions to a broad range of managed care clients, such as: multi-product managed care organizations, integrated delivery networks and governmental managed care contractors. ATLANTES™ offers a complete suite of care management modules within a fully integrated system. These include Intake, Utilization Management, Case Management, Disease Management, Referral Management and a Survey/Assessment Tool. The ARS ATLANTES™ Care Management System is uniquely designed to seamlessly integrate with a client's existing host system and provides a rich graphical interface that allows optimization of workflows.

(The product name ATLANTES includes a macron, horizontal line above the e.)

CONTACT: Suzanne Fairchild, Marketing Manager

PHONE NUMBER: (206) 622-1995 ext. 214

E-MAIL ADDRESS: suzannef@ar-systems.com

URL: www.ar-systems.com

Bell Atlantic has officially launched the Physician Linkage, a service that will change the way hospitals do business.

Bell Atlantic Launches Physician Linkage, The Virtual Medical Practice, Information Network Allows Even Doctors to Telecommute

NEW YORK - Physician Linkage, a new service launched today by Bell Atlantic, will create the virtual medical practice and change the way hospitals, health systems and doctors communicate and conduct business in the next century. Physician Linkage allows doctors to admit patients, update clinical information and medical records, have instant access to hospital records and lab results, access the Internet, prescribe medicine and participate in video-based telemedicine, teleradiology and distance learning. They will gain that access from any PC on any floor of a hospital, their office or their home. Bell Atlantic's package is a complete, end-to-end solution that can be customized according to the customer's information and data network technology need. Simply by plugging into their hospital's network, physicians can eliminate needless legwork with a point and click. This new efficiency can increase a doctor's ability to spend time with ailing patients.

ChannelPoint, Inc., which was featured in the November 30 issue of Forbes Magazine, is the developer of the ChannelPoint Insure (tm) software suite, the only fully integrated, Internet-enabled solution for streamlining insurance distribution processes. Insurance industry leaders such as United HealthCare and Regence Blue Cross/ Blue Shield are using the ChannelPoint solution as their e-commerce platform to grow revenues, increase profitability and provide greater levels of customer service.

To schedule a meeting with ChannelPoint during HIT Expo, please contact Laura Ramsey at 719-260-1232 x154 or visit the ChannelPoint booth --#215

Showcasing "The New World of Computing" (We're more than just a PC company) Vendor conference session featuring Gary Gorden, Director of Compaq talking to the New Enhanced Compaq.

PC Audit is a client-served, window based comprehensive healthcare claims auditing solution. Capable of handling fraud, clinical and financial audits. Combines client server performance with portability for field work. lectronic Authorization enables hospitals and physicians to request pre-certification and referral authorization electronically. Designed to work across all lines of business, it provides an integrated approach while reducing administrative expenses. Booth 829. Contact is Jill Rogers (888-538-4275 or j.rogers @dhrystone-systems.com

In its booth Eclipsys will be demonstrating and discussing our rapidly expanding Sunrise product line, including Sunrise Clinicials (featuring Knowledge-Based Orders), Patient and General Financials, Access, Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI), document imaging, managed care and other products which combine to make a total HIT solution that can be licensed as separate modules or combined for an enterprise-wide solution.

Effective Strategies for Communicating Provider Information. GeoAccess offers Internet technologies, software applications and outsourcing services that help companies better leverage their investment in managed healthcare. Our solutions for network accessibility analysis, communications and data management help managed care companies make more informed decisions and provide their members and employees with convenient access to current provider information. More than 600 managed care organizations, consulting firms, employers and government agencies utilize GeoAccess' solutions to cut costs, improve efficiency and provide value-added services to network members and employees.

PR Contact is Jenny Dunlay, 800-457-4697, jennyd@geoaccess.com

Medical Executive Information System (MEIS) is a powerful data tool that enable medical practices to use data warehousing, COGNOS Business Intelligence tools with OLAP to facilitate enhanced decision making. MEIS provide superior ad hoc reporting and graphic capability. Booth 417. Rob Culbert (617) 232-3020 or crulbert@hayesmanagement.com

Innovation will exhibit and demonstrate its online performance support, multi-method training solutions.

Booth 836, Contact is Doug LaPerry (732) 225-0700 or info@itraining.com

Y2K - THE MILLENIUM BUG in Health Care

Find out about KPMG's unique, multi-pronged approach to solving the millenium bug problems for health care payors and providers by addressing:

-risk assessment

-risk mitigation

-contingency planning

-crisis preparedness/management

CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT for Health Care

KPMG will have some exciting news about next-generation customer management solutions for the $670 billion U.S. insurance industry. You can also learn about two recent KPMG studies:

"Equal Footing: The Hospital CEO Perspective on Balancing Market Power," which found that next-generation information technologies would let doctors and hospitals drive health care delivery by significantly increasing customer influence. The study also proposes a new provider business model, the Care Management Organization, that would level the influence disparities between payors and providers.

"Consumerism in Health Care: New Voices," which found that consumers are demanding a stronger voice in the delivery of health care services and suggests the increasing use of next-generation information technologies will empower consumers and provide doctors and hospitals with the means to more effectively drive health care delivery.

To schedule a meeting, stop by the KPMG booth or call:

Timm Fair (tfair@ccipr.com)

Cunningham Communication, Inc.

(617) 374-4210 - direct or 1-800-759-8888, pin #170-5444

SunGard Healthcare MACESS Division

Provides a comprehensive imaging based solution called I-MAX designed exclusively for health insurance companies. MACESS' integrated imaging application automates the manual entry, routing and storage of claims, enrollments, correspondence and other documents. I-MAXTM emphasizes accountability and problem resolution enterprise wide within healthcare organizations. Utilizing Microsoft Windows 3.x, 95, NT and or Novell Netware, I-MAXTM is a client/server application that is currently integrated with all major vendors of claims and administrative systems.

PR Contact: Paul Gartman-Marketing Manager pgartman@macess.com

Sharon Tinsley 205-870-4100 Fax# 205-870-4283 <STinsley@macess.com>

intends to announce its new suite of administrative/financial management software solutions for healthcare organizations. Those solutions include a patient financial management offering, a physician practice management system, E-commerce services and a partnership with PhysMark through which we will re-market their managed care offering. Per-Se already provides a full suite of demand/resource management solutions and clinical offerings to more than 2,000 healthcare organizations. Per Se Technologies' Business1 is an enterprisewide patient financial management system. It integrates traditional patient accounting system functions with contract management and physician billing to help manage complex contractual and service requirements between patients, providers and payers. E-Commerce Services seamlessly link organizations with other healthcare entities to cover the entire spectrum of transaction-based requirements. Booth 311. Leigh Asher, 770-444-5249 or leigh.asher@per-se.com or Janet S. Harrell, The Point Communications, Tel: 770-938-9192 janet.harrell@worldnet.att.net.

Nebula 8000 will be introduced at HIT 98. It is the only true fault tolerant backbone Ethernet switch that delivers non-stop protection against network failure, along with high performance and advanced system features. Vendor session #9, Building Non-Stop Networks and at Booth 1034.

Persoft's Persona 4.0 web to host connectivity solution supports a wide range of platforms, browser versions, emulation types, increased security, and offers enhance functionality. IS managers can choose from either Java or Persona's newly introduced Windows thin clients to securely access IBM mainframe, AS/400, Unix, Digital or Data General hosts. As a thin-client solution, Persona's central management and thin client architecture significantly reduce the IS manager's time and costs in deployment connectivity. Persona's Windows Thin Client for 16 bit and 32 bit environments, addresses the limitations that are inherent in Java. Persona's mapping functionality is improved with access to all keyboard functions. Plus, the Windows Thin Client is fast since it is written specifically for 16 bit and 32 bit Window platforms. And because a browser is not required, variable associated to performance differences among browser versions are eliminated. Booth 833. Contact is Terri Hayes (608-223-6000, hayes@persoft.com)

Product Name: The RFP Machine For The Web...The RFP Machine For The Web is an intelligent, thin client software solution that significantly streamlines and improves the process of responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for health care sales and marketing professionals. The RFP Machine For The Web allows intranet/Internet users to quickly and easily respond to RFPs with unmatched quality, precision and accuracy.

PR Contact: Marcia Goff or Michael Goff marcia@goffpr.com or michael@goffpr.com

Goff Communications 508-429-0788 508-429-0744 (fax)

Entering data from Medicare claim forms costs a fortune. RAF Technology makes software to do this automatically that actually works. What a concept -- software that does what it's supposed to.

RAF Technology publishes software for capturing and perfecting forms data. RAF's Cartouche(tm) Medical converts paper forms to computer data using RAF's unique C5 technology, offering the highest data capture accuracy at the lowest cost. Cartouche Medical includes current AMA CPT and ICD9 codes and includes pre-defined support for HCFA1500 and UB92 forms.

Rick Tyler<rick@raf.com>

Director, Product Marketing

RAF Technology

425-867-0700