Honolulu, Hawaii, January 5, 2009-  Convergence CT, a Honolulu, Hawaii-based healthcare informatics company, announced today that it has won one of the Innovative Solution Awards presented by Information Management Online's
DM Review site on December 22, 2008.  

Competitive advantage is based on innovative uses of technology across and beyond the organization that result in high impact and value creation. DM Review's Innovative Solution Award was created to recognize solutions that are ground- breaking and provide quantifiable business value. DM Review is proud to recognize the innovation and inventiveness of the forward-looking companies honored today. Congratulations to the 2008 DM Review Innovative Solution Award winners.

DM Review editors took a great deal of care and time in considering each submission for its innovativeness and business value. The editors review case studies and product pitches every day. Based on this experience, the editors deliberated extensively to choose the solutions they felt best exemplified unique software solutions or a new application of traditional software to achieve exceptional business value from 71 submissions received in eight categories.  Convergence CT with IBM was selected as the winner of the Data Warehousing category.

Convergence CT installed its clinical data warehouse on IBM's Balanced Warehouse D5000. The clinical data warehouse eliminated partial views of information, providing a 360-degree view of clinical, laboratory, operational and financial details. The Balanced Warehouse is helping Convergence CT and medical facilities around the world identify the best ways to treat cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.

"Convergence CT's clinical data warehouse demonstrates impressive performance, helping health care organizations to realize the value of their own data that had been hidden in separate systems." — Jim Ericson

The full text of the SourceMedia DM Review award press release can be found at http://www.information-management.com/news/10002338-1.html

About Convergence CT

Convergence CT, headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, has regional offices in San Francisco, California, Tokyo, Japan, and Berlin, Germany. Founded in Hawaii in 2001, Convergence CT’s mission is to establish a large, multi-national network of participating hospitals, clinics, and Medical Groups through partnerships with multi-member healthcare organizations, providing comparative analytics for heath services improvements, and to leverage this global Collaborative Data Warehouse for Life Sciences organizations conducting research for the improvement and extension of life, and quality of care advancements.

Emphasizing the “convergence” of rich clinical data with advanced information technology and analysis, Convergence CT is able to offer a fresh and innovative approach to accelerating medical research, clinical development, and departmental analysis, significantly enhancing and improving the ability of healthcare and life science organizations to use patient-level data for research, clinical trial planning and recruitment, and improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. The Company’s solutions offer improved efficiencies for healthcare organizations’ data management and research for global markets.

Convergence CT’s Clinical Data Warehouse is a solution designed to address patient confidentiality, healthcare analysis, and patient safety issues that hospitals, and medical groups face operationally. The solution takes extracted patient health data from a wide variety of healthcare systems (for example, pharmacy and admissions systems, laboratory systems, Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), and other clinical systems) consolidating it into a secure, centralized location, permitting controlled access by researchers.  The Healthcare Intelligence Dashboard enables actionable analytics by presenting a high-level view of clinical and operational measures that can be "drilled into" to provide fine-grained detail as needed at the click of a button. Security features of the Clinical Data Warehouse protect the identities of patients and physicians, while tracking all activity into and out of the patient record. Not only has this solution found its niche within healthcare research, but has also gained considerable interest in the hospitals’ IT departments as a way of controlling and protecting the health information of its patients. De-identification / re-identification, security methods and the Company’s business model are unique in the industry, and Convergence CT has filed for technology patents through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Convergence CT’s Clinical Data Warehouse currently supports English and Japanese.

For more information, contact Convergence CT at 808-536-3040 or toll free at
888-222-0024.