Health System Finds Gold at the End of Technology Rainbow North Philadelphia Health System Calculates Substantial Savings from Handheld Devices using Numoda Corp.'s wireless applications

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Philadelphia, PA - November 12, 2001 - Embedded in the middle of a federal empowerment Zone, North Philadelphia Health System has taken a step forward in the past year through collaboration with another Philadelphia native, Numoda Corporation. Today, NPHS announced the results of a joint pilot project that incorporated Numoda mobile wireless healthcare technologies, CareLink, into the everyday environment of the hospital setting. Both partners were pleased to announce that the cutting-edge technology brought the health system greater revenue as well as substantial savings and improved quality.

"I knew this technology would be a great help to our nurses and physicians before we even started," stated Marva James, speaking about the Quality Management project at St. Joseph's Hospital, a 145 bed acute care facility. "What I didn't know was that handheld devices have a way of benefiting many of the processes they are around, such as eliminating service delays that result in reductions in lengths of stay. We have information to make decisions more quickly."

NPHS can now generate quality reports in ten minutes. Before the Numoda solution, reports took an average of 3 hours to produce. "Saving time means saving money in healthcare," said George Walmsley III, President and CEO, NPHS. "Because of this, CareLink helps us provide our community with the very best healthcare and that is why we are here."

"I knew that we would be able to help our neighbors at NPHS fulfill their mission as a premier healthcare provider," Said Mary Schaheen, CEO of Numoda. "We have proven our abilities, including 4 of the 100 largest companies in the world as customers, but working with NPHS was particularly rewarding. It is always nice when you have an opportunity to help out right at home."

About North Philadelphia Health System (www.nphs.com)
North Philadelphia Health Sytem (NPHS) is comprised of two hospitals located in the heart of North Philadelphia, Girard Medical Center (GMC), a 168 bed long-term acute care hospital and 59 bed skilled nursing facility, and St Joseph's Hospital (SJH), a 146 bed acute care hospital. First created in 1849, SJH remains as one of the city's oldest continuously operating hospitals. NPHS provides services to one of the most under-served communities in Philadelphia. NPHS is not only a healthcare provider, but is a major employer and economic anchor in the North Philadelphia community.

About Numoda Corporation (www.numoda.com)
Numoda Corporation software, systems and services attack the weaknesses of data collection, distribution and integration within an organization by using their wireless handheld data systems to provide point-of-service collection and one-time data entry, with instant delivery of that information to the enterprise database, unlike desktop, laptop or cradle-based systems. Reports are instantly available and can be customized as desired. Numoda products provide full access and customizable query capabilities of corporate databases. Numoda technologies deliver not only great flexibility and immediacy, but also significant cost reductions, improved data quality, reliability and speed. Numoda has Fortune 500 customers in the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Financial Services and Insurance industries and Government.

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