"ECM Pro saves healthcare organizations significant time and money
by completely assuming the burden associated with regulatory updates, "
said Leary. With the RHIO module, real time
communications and tight EMR and ePrescribing application integration are
available using the same software that hundreds of hospitals use today for
their Medicare connectivity.

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About BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is Tennessee's leader in health care
financing. They are an independent organization licensed by the
BlueCross BlueShield Association to use the BlueCross BlueShield service mark
in the state of Tennessee.
These solutions combine technology with HSS' nationally recognized
healthcare expertise. Already deployed to more
than 600 hospitals, physician offices, and healthcare payer institutions
VisionShare's Secure Exchange Software provides the foundation for SES-RHIO
and will enable quality and patient focused applications such as electronic
health record sharing and ePrescribing .
VisionShare software and services create safe, high-speed connections over
the Internet replacing leased lines and dial-up connections in order to speed
up the transfer of critical data, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce
risk.

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"We coined the term 'US-HIN' and
launched the concept well ahead of the market's interest and demand for such a
capability.

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ECM
Pro's Knowledge-Servers can be used by multiple software applications
from different vendors within the same enterprise, providing
tremendous economic and organizational savings.

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VisionShare is a leading provider of simple , secure, reliable data
communication services for healthcare and financial service organizations .

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ECM Pro's Knowledge-Servers include:

EASYGroup(TM) - Manages grouping, pricing, editing and mapping
for Federal (DRG, APC, ASC) Prospective Payment Systems (PPS)
and more than 20 state/payer-specific PPS implementations. This makes ECM Pro an extremely powerful solution
for IT vendors, who desire to provide their customers with the most
efficient technology available , and for providers, who are always
looking for ways to streamline operations and boost the bottom line. HSS' experience with providers and payers enables it to
provide the tools and methodologies for organizations to evaluate
financial and operational performance, target areas of performance
improvement and balance risk-assumption with profit opportunities. The service is fully
compliant with Internet guidelines specified by the Centers for Medicare +
Medicaid Services and is specifically designed to meet privacy regulations
such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and HIPAA.

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Headquartered in Chattanooga, the
Tennessee company employs approximately 4,300 people.webifysolutions., the nationally recognized leader in solutions for
streamlining coding, regulatory and reimbursement processes, today
introduced ECM Pro(TM) at the annual Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS ) Conference and Exhibition (HSS
booth #535). Includes
both a logic- and book-based encoder and a coding reference
library.
"Four years ago we set out on a course to deliver a secure information
exchange platform to enable a national health information network," says John
Feikema, VisionShare President and CEO.

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Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers
HIMSS 2005 Annual Conference
Booth #535

DALLAS----

Enterprise Content Management System Can Save the Average 200+ Bed
Hospital $300,000 Annually

HSS, Inc. The
company 's Secure Exchange Software(TM) uses military-grade encryption and
authentication methods to meet the escalating regulatory demands on today's
healthcare and financial service organizations.

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About Webify Solutions
Webify Solutions is a leading provider of on demand, service-oriented
business applications for the Insurance and Healthcare markets.

HSS Introduces ECM Pro for Simplifying the Management of Coding Reimbursement + Regulatory Content

ECM Pro is an enterprise content management (ECM) system
that helps healthcare information technology vendors and providers
increase efficiency and productivity by enabling them to depend on one
current source for managing the complexities of code-based
reimbursement. Rapid access is provided to
all of the information necessary to effectively manage code-based data
collection, editing and reimbursement including CPT-4, ICD-9-CM, DRGs,
APCs and much more.

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Webify Healthcare On Demand consists of a suite of
Service-Oriented Business Applications that enable BlueCross BlueShield of
Tennessee to rapidly expand the breadth and depth of information exchange and
process automation with its healthcare provider community by implementing a
direct connect strategy.

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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Selects Webify's Service-Oriented Business Applications

"As
healthcare costs continue to rise, the demand for streamlined information
exchange across the healthcare business ecosystem continues to increase. For over 50 years, the company has served Tennesseans as a not-
for-profit company.
ECM Pro will also allow IT vendors to save their clients money by
reducing or eliminating redundant software purchases.

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Establishes Secure Platform for Healthcare Information Exchange

WASHINGTON, At today's 2nd Annual Connecting
Communities for Better Health Conference in Washington, DC VisionShare
announced "SES-RHIO", a new software module which provides a secure
information exchange platform for RHIO initiatives. Based on a public key
infrastructure ("PKI") security platform, and a real time API (application
programming interface ), the software complies with all aspects of HIPAA
security rules and gives RHIO initiatives a clear path for implementing secure
connectivity between all healthcare constituents in their projects.

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he added.
Webify's On Demand industry solutions are delivering dramatic results for
leading insurance companies around the world by helping them streamline
operations, generate new revenue and comply with diverse regulations.
Privately held Webify Solutions is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices
in Europe and India. HSS solutions are used by more than 900
hospitals and 160 managed-care organizations. These products
enable secure, Internet connectivity between healthcare providers and Medicare
contractors. This patent-pending technology simplifies and protects data transfer
among healthcare providers and payers, both Medicare and private, as well as
between organizations and their customers and partners.

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Webify Healthcare On Demand Provides Better Provider Services, Improved Claims
Visibility, and Reduced Administrative Costs

AUSTIN, Texas, Webify Solutions, a leading
provider of Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBA) for the healthcare
and insurance industry, today announced that BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
has selected and begun to implement applications from Webify's Healthcare On
Demand industry solution . Please visit us at http://www.

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"We are delighted to be chosen by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee," said
Robert Golladay, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Webify Solutions. Webify
develops and markets a family of On Demand industry solutions to deliver
business agility and measurable business value for healthcare and insurance
companies. (www.

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ECM Pro, through its "Knowledge-Server" architecture, manages both
structured (code lists, classification systems, edit rules, pricing
algorithms) and unstructured (program memoranda, industry research)
content.

EASYCode(TM) - Provides rich encoding functionality.

Content Builders - Customizable utilities for managing,
deploying, monitoring and updating regulatory content. They are also embedded
in health information management applications offered by 27 of the
industry's major software vendors .
VisionShare's SES platform is the only "many-to-many" secure connectivity
software available in the marketplace.

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For example, Medicare's frequent updates are
cascaded automatically to both local and remote users in a timely
manner, reducing IT workloads and ensuring that staff are always
working with the most current information. VisionShare
continues to sell SES-Enterprise and SES-Desktop software .

About VisionShare Inc.

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"Webify's Service-Oriented Business Applications provide
capabilities for automating mission-critical administrative processes with our
provider community while leveraging our current EDI and claims
infrastructure," he added.
According to Gartner's research director , Janice Young, "Healthcare payers are
beginning to invest on behalf of physicians in technologies to better automate
business and clinical administration. All other company and product names mentioned
may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are
associated. Today we are excited to bring to
market a product and service that builds on our existing success and which
provides a secure infrastructure for the quick deployment of RHIOs. Innovation and
the use of information technology to provide better safety, quality and
efficiency in a secure healthcare environment will benefit all Americans.

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EASYEdit(TM) - Manages the numerous edit requirements of
code -based reimbursement, including the Medicare Code Editor,
Outpatient Code Editor, National Correct Coding Initiative
Editor, Local Medical Review Policies (LMRPs), and HSS'
clinical and reimbursement edits.

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call 866-4WEBIFY for more information.hssweb .

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Webify Healthcare On Demand replaces the inefficient tangle of phone and
paper-based transactions between healthcare payers and providers with
solutions that provide on demand collaboration and process automation. In 2005, healthcare payer organizations
will begin to shift their IT focus from internal operational improvements to
exploiting technology to share information with key stakeholders. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's service area
is made up of all 95 counties in Tennessee.
ECM Pro is designed to be either embedded into the advanced
technology solutions of healthcare IT vendors, or integrated into the
information systems healthcare providers already have in place.

Knowledge Reference Library - A comprehensive collection of
healthcare reference materials including coding policies and
procedures, as well as regulatory guidelines that are
continually updated. Comes
pre-integrated with numerous regulatory contract arrangements
for modeling commercial contracts. Since then, we've been planting the seeds for a secure yet fully
interoperable health information exchange.

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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will use applications from Webify
Healthcare On Demand to provide end-to-end claims lifecycle management across
its provider networks to help increase first pass and auto-adjudication rates,
support provider-side claims correction , and deliver full claims visibility
from submission to reimbursement.
"After a detailed product evaluation, we chose Webify Solutions based on
their prior experience and results with other prominent healthcare payers and
plans," said David Marckel, Director, Corporate Systems, BlueCross BlueShield
of Tennessee. "And this does not even include the
organizational benefit of having all of your people using the same
timely, accurate information."

About HSS

HSS, Inc.com) develops solutions that streamline the
coding, regulatory and reimbursement processes at provider and payer
organizations."
SES-RHIO combines VisionShare's widely deployed Secure Exchange Software
(SES) platform with several new features and professional services for
regional health information organizations (RHIOs).

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Webify Healthcare On Demand enables
collaboration and automation, not only between Payer and Provider trading
partners, but also across complete HIPAA transactions themselves by
eliminating manual touches and interventions.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is a progressive company that understands
the importance of leveraging Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) to support
their long-term goal of streamlining healthcare information flow and obtaining
greater business agility in a highly complex and tightly regulated industry.
"We estimate that the average hospital over 200 beds can save
$300,000 annually by implementing ECM Pro throughout the enterprise,"
said Bob Leary, CEO of HSS. "We
applaud our member VisionShare and their new SES-RHIO product."
SES-RHIO software will be available in the fall of 2005.

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ECM Pro's Knowledge-Servers are based on Web Services
technology, so regulatory content can easily be published where and
when users need it.

ECM Pro, EASYGroup, EASYEdit and EASYCode are registered
trademarks of HSS, Inc.
"The eHealth Initiative is working hard with all of our members and others
to ensure a secure, efficient and scalable healthcare network," says Bill
Braithwaite, MD PHD and Chief Medical Officer of the eHealth Initiative.

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"Organizations no longer have to expend significant IT
resources to implement the updates, and because end users are always
working with the most current regulatory information , compliance will
increase and claims rejections will decrease, ultimately leading to
improved cash flow.

VisionShare Announces RHIO Products and Services

As the need for secure point-
to -point communications grows, scalable VisionShare solutions will grow both
in size and sophistication to keep pace with the demand for compliant,
reliable connectivity.