Provider Advantage Selects Quovadx Financial Interoperability Solution to Increase Efficiency for Its Insurance Verification Sys

  
    
  
  
    
      Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), a global software and vertical solution 
      company, today announced that Provider Advantage NW, Inc., a national 
      provider of automated, integrated real-time healthcare information 
      software, selected the Quovadx Cloverleaf® 
      Integration Suite in the fourth quarter of 2006, to increase the 
      efficiency of its insurance verification solution by accelerating 
      connectivity from its customers to its payer insurance organizations and 
      Hospital Information System (HIS) vendors.
    
    
      Through its relationship with Quovadx, Provider Advantage will be able 
      to achieve greater interoperability for its customers and bring direct 
      connectivity to market more quickly. The Cloverleaf Integration Suite, 
      the most widely selected integration engine in the industry, will 
      collect and translate the data sent from disparate payer systems to the 
      Provider Advantage insurance verification solution, thereby 
      accelerating connectivity to its payers and HIS vendors. Additionally, 
      the Cloverleaf® product will be used for core 
      development efforts by Provider Advantage, allowing its programmers to 
      readily build and customize Health Level Seven (HL7) interfaces to 
      seamlessly communicate with the products of all major HIS vendors, 
      providing streamlined interoperability to all of Provider Advantage’s 
      customers.
    
    
      The Cloverleaf Integration Suite will also help the Provider Advantage 
      insurance verification solution accelerate the billing cycle, 
      reducing the total number of claims that are rejected by payer 
      organizations and minimizing the number of re-worked claims -- saving 
      Provider Advantage customers overhead costs and man-hours from 
      re-billing.
    
    
      “QUOVADX Financial Interoperability Solutions, 
      powered by the Cloverleaf Integration Suite, will provide us with the 
      tools and services we need to more efficiently connect our customers’ 
      systems to multiple insurance organizations through a single product, 
      thereby saving valuable time and money,” said 
      Ted Tomkins, president, Provider Advantage. “We 
      are gratified to be working with Quovadx to help us manage our internal 
      development projects because the company has best-of-breed technology 
      and proven interoperability solutions, which will help us achieve 
      greater interoperability with HIS vendors and payer organizations.”
    
    
      QUOVADX Financial Interoperability Solutions enable single-source 
      revenue and financial transaction management. Used for financial system 
      integration and workflow to support HIPAA requirements, including 
      eligibility, national provider ID implementation, and direct 
      transactions between health plans, QUOVADX Financial Interoperability 
      Solutions enable hospitals, HIS vendors and health plans to share 
      financial and administrative data critical to important business 
      partners to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and minimize overhead 
      and resource drains. The Cloverleaf Integration Suite, the 
      infrastructure backbone of QUOVADX Financial Interoperability Solutions, 
      enables the real-time sharing of clinical, administrative and financial 
      data throughout and between organizations. These solutions deliver 
      message, protocol, standard and version translation for ANSI - X12, 
      HIPAA transactions, XML, HL7 and NCPDP formats among others.
    
    
      “Efficiently obtaining accurate patient 
      insurance information at the point-of-service is a challenge facing 
      healthcare providers today,” said Afshin 
      Cangarlu, president, Integration Solutions division, and executive vice 
      president, Quovadx. “We are pleased that 
      Cloverleaf technology will be able to achieve greater efficiency for the 
      Provider Advantage insurance-verification solution by 
      accelerating direct connectivity to its payers, which will help reduce 
      the time it normally takes to process and verify a patient’s 
      insurance information at point-of-service.”
    
    
      About Provider Advantage
    
    
      Since 1991, Provider Advantage NW, Inc. has been providing innovative 
      products and services to access real time healthcare data. Provider 
      Advantage develops, markets, installs, and supports electronic data 
      interchange (EDI) technologies that allow organizations to obtain, 
      utilize, and manage insurance data to generate operational efficiencies 
      and improve cash flow. Conforming to the needs of each customer, 
      Provider Advantage’s products and services 
      enable organizations to optimize revenues by establishing responsibility 
      for healthcare services. For more information, contact Provider 
      Advantage NW at [phone] or visit www.provider-advantage.com.
    
    
      About Cloverleaf® Integration Suite
    
    
      The Cloverleaf Integration Suite, a system integration solution for 
      healthcare providers and payers, has installations in over 2,000 sites 
      worldwide and in 40 percent of all large IDNs (Integrated Delivery 
      Networks) in the U. S. Cloverleaf technology connects disparate IT 
      systems and applications across an enterprise or beyond, normalizes the 
      data for presentation and transforms the data into value-rich 
      information. Based on a flexible and reliable messaging platform, the 
      Cloverleaf solution enables real-time sharing of clinical, 
      administrative and financial data throughout an organization, maximizing 
      the value of existing technology systems and decreasing the cost of 
      integrating the healthcare enterprise.
    
    
      About Quovadx, Inc.
    
    
      Quovadx (Nasdaq:QVDX) offers software and services for system 
      development, extension, integration and analysis to enterprise customers 
      worldwide. Quovadx has three divisions, including the Integration 
      Solutions division (ISD), which offers private and public healthcare 
      organizations software infrastructure to facilitate system 
      interoperability and leverage existing technology, the CareScience 
      division, which provides care management and analytical solutions to 
      hospitals and health systems and pioneered regional healthcare 
      information organization (RHIO) technology, and the Rogue Wave Software 
      division, which provides software and services for enterprise-class 
      application development and high-performance SOA. Quovadx serves 
      companies in the healthcare, financial services, telecommunication and 
      public sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com.
    
    
      QUOVADX, the QUOVADX logo and Cloverleaf are registered trademarks of 
      Quovadx, Inc in the US and other countries. All other company and 
      product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which 
      they are associated.