HealthGate Unveils Collaboration Architect™

ASP Solution Provides Easy Secure Access to Document Management, Online Collaboration, Knowledge Libraries, and IT Administration

BURLINGTON, MA, DECEMBER 11, 2006 – HealthGate Data Corp., provider of software applications focused on the healthcare community, today announced the roll out of Collaboration Architect™ a powerful, seamless, Web-based suite of content management and communications solutions that enhance organizational efficiency through structured collaboration.

Collaboration Architect, a web application based on HealthGate’s Collaboration Engine™, provides robust collaboration tools and a system of assigned-workflow built on permissions. It has been specifically designed to meet the needs of teams within various hospital disciplines, including clinical, operational, IT and legal. Collaboration Architect enables these groups to assign, manage, research, develop, edit, discuss, and approve: clinical documentation, quality improvement programs, policies and procedures documents, contracts, and other materials. It also facilitates online knowledge and process management through anywhere, anytime collaboration and task control.

Collaboration Architect supplies tools that help eliminate expensive, time consuming committee work, assure confidential collaboration, and drive more efficient communication among departmental teams within a hospital setting.

“The true cost of poor collaboration is often completely overlooked or greatly underestimated” said Bill Reece, CEO of HealthGate. “These hidden costs can come in many different forms including inefficient and excess committee work, lack of standardized care plans and clinical documentation, or missed renewal or termination dates on contracts. HealthGate’s new Collaboration Architect helps healthcare institutions improve their financial and operational performance by providing easy online collaboration tools and document management. This Web-based application is controlled through an online dashboard that defines teams, allocates workflow permissions, supplies document templates, enlists industry-specific research, and provides easy online collaboration. Taken together, these features make Collaboration Architect invaluable to individual hospital departments as well as large health systems, and set it apart from any product or any company in the healthcare industry today.”

Collaboration Architect for Interdisciplinary Clinical Teams
It’s important that a health system’s interdisciplinary team leaders drive any clinical standardization policy and process projects. However, the commitment of time and effort to involve all relevant stakeholders (physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other allied healthcare professionals) can be enormous without contemporary collaboration technology.

Traditionally, in order to advance standardization initiatives, health system leaders have had to put in place the governance structures, committee designs, collaboration processes, review systems, and update processes that are necessary to achieve consensus around key aspects of care. Additionally, stakeholders have needed to apply an evidence-based methodology, when possible. These efforts on top of patient responsibilities can create grueling schedules for all involved and delay the approval process and dissemination of this information.

It is in this context that Collaboration Architect provides a welcome solution. Its robust technology enables the hospital to assemble teams, delineate tasks, review proposed clinical standardization processes, along with simultaneous access to evidence-based literature, have ongoing access to collaboration and discussion threads with colleagues, and track deadlines for task/ project conclusion, all accessible online. Its powerful anywhere, anytime, communication system allows clinicians to complete tasks when their time allows with simultaneous access to information and research necessary to make informed judgments.

The Collaboration Architect framework also helps organizations prepare for JCAHO, Magnet, and other accreditations, by making the most current version of policy and procedure documents available to authorized users.

Collaboration Architect For A Health System’s In-House Counsel

Among the several responsibilities of a hospital’s legal counsel are those of setting, reviewing, and updating policies on important topics such as confidentiality/patient privacy, quality benchmarking, ethical practices, and hospital compliance. These necessitate not only collaboration with interdepartmental professional colleagues, but also access to the most current rulings and thinking on the policies in question.

Collaboration Architect enables hospital counsel to assign teams with built-in permissions workflow to guarantee confidentiality of information, access appropriate third-party research in legal databases, delineate tasks, confer privately with colleagues online, track deadlines for task and project conclusion and build customized procedures.

Collaboration Architect Details

Collaboration Architect provides a means for departmental groups within the hospital community to streamline the creation of documents, including policies and procedures. Its structured collaboration feature provides initial templates as starting points for customization. Collaboration Architect enables the processes of editing, approving, publishing, and distributing versions of documents at various stages to be stored in a centralized Web database that is accessible to assigned members of a project group. Stored documents are available for comment and collaboration, whenever and from wherever an individual chooses, based on built-in permissions-based workflow.

Collaboration Architect’s email-based notification system and one-click access to documents empowers administrators to create, assign, and monitor tasks. Its sophisticated version control process enables document comparison, roll-back to previous version, and version history for total authority over the revision process. Collaboration Architect also allows for the easy integration of information (from HealthGate or a third-party vendor) to newly developed documents.

For more information on Collaboration Architect contact Skye Schulte, HealthGate’s Director of Quality Improvement at 781-685-4024 or at sschulte@healthgate.com. Download our white paper on structured collaboration at www.healthgate.com/ihi2006.

About HealthGate Data Corp.
HealthGate Data Corp., founded in 1994, brings innovative collaboration, content 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 anytime, asynchronously, 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 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 timely develop new 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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