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Lutheran Health Network Selects HealthGate for Online Collaboration and Document Standardization

Innovative Management Application to Facilitate Pre-CPOE Content Standardization at Northeastern Indiana Hospitals

BURLINGTON, MASS., SEPTEMBER 5, 2007 — HealthGate Data Corp. (www.healthgate.com) announced today that the Lutheran Health Network, LHN, consisting of seven hospitals in northeastern Indiana, has deployed HealthGate’s breakthrough solution, Collaboration ArchitectSM, to facilitate document and care process standardization in conjunction with its CPOE implementation.

Collaboration Architect is a web-based document and task management application that greatly accelerates the process of reviewing, editing and approving complex documents such as clinical decision support content, order sets, policies and procedures, by-laws, and other clinical and operational materials. Specifically designed to help hospital teams accelerate document standardization efforts and reduce the need for costly, inefficient committee work, Collaboration Architect enables hospitals and health systems to rapidly and effortlessly solicit contributions from geographically-dispersed participants. This asynchronous collaboration model fosters greater physician participation and reduces the total cost of standardization efforts.

“The process of collaborating on, and standardizing both clinical and operational documents is a time-consuming and costly aspect of any health system’s operations,” said Bill Reece, CEO of HealthGate. “By equipping Lutheran Health Network with a broad set of document management and collaboration tools, we are working to improve the efficiency of their CPOE roll-out and facilitate the larger effort of document standardization across the enterprise”.

With a reputation for innovation, Lutheran Health Network and its leaders have used Collaboration Architect to synthesize materials from various sources, including documents supplied by third-party content providers, as well as documents developed in-house, like forms and policies. Because Collaboration Architect was designed exclusively to meet the needs of time-pressed hospital staff by closely adapting internal review methodologies to a new, efficient online process, the application was quickly embraced by teams ranging from clinical departments to operational and administrative groups. In addition, Collaboration Architect enables LHN to create an online integration team that includes outside parties such as specialists from the network’s CPOE system developer, McKesson.

About HealthGate Data Corp.
HealthGate Data Corp., founded in 1994, brings innovative collaboration, document and knowledge management technologies to health systems to support their quality and standardization initiatives. HealthGate’s Collaboration Architect allows teams from various hospital disciplines, including clinical, operational, IT and legal, to collaborate, reach consensus and communicate asynchronously, anytime, through our structured collaboration platform. Visit www.healthgate.com or call HealthGate at 800-434-4283 for more information.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. HealthGate's actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations, are based on many assumptions, and, like HealthGate’s business and operations generally, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including, among other things: the market for HealthGate’s Collaboration Architect offering and other Quality Improvement and Risk Management Solutions products and services; HealthGate's ability to generate sufficient revenues from its current and future products and services; HealthGate's ability to keep up with the rapid technological developments in the healthcare industry; competition; reliance on computer systems and software; HealthGate's ability to retain key personnel; and other risk factors. HealthGate does not intend to update or publicly release any revisions to the forward-looking statements.

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