Quovadx Announces Three New Families of Industry-Specific Adaptive Applications

Quovadx has announced new Adaptive Applications for Medical Management, Transaction Management, and Life Sciences vertical areas. The integration applications help streamline business processes, facilitate collaboration, and manage transactions/information flow.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 20, 2002 -- Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), a leading provider of Total Business Integration (TBI) software and services, today announces three families of QDX Adaptive Applications: Transaction Management, Medical Management, and Life Sciences -- all built on the QDX Platform. These applications provide Total Business Integration solutions by combining domain knowledge with the QDX Platform to streamline business processes, accelerate time to market, and unlock previous IT investments.
"QDX Adaptive Applications provide customers with 75% of the functionality they need to meet the general business process requirement," said Lorine Sweeney, CEO of Quovadx. "The other 25% of the functionality -- specific to the customer's environment -- is quickly developed using the QDX Development tools and our domain expertise, allowing our customers to get-up-and-running quickly while providing a platform to optimize their processes as their business changes."

"Companies use business process management to improve margins and reduce costs. Quovadx's business process systems provide optimization as a way to save money," said Susan Eustis, President of WinterGreen Research. "QDX Adaptive Applications provide a flexible environment to build and modify companies' business processes. The unique benefits include an industry specific implementation and a strong platform security offering."

Quovadx Adaptive Applications deliver the technical infrastructure, integration points and business process engine required for a specific business process.

1. Medical Management Adaptive Applications offer vertical-specific solutions for healthcare organizations looking to incorporate their process expertise into a flexible disease management, utilization management and case management application.

-- QDX Disease Management provides a general framework for defining disease states to be managed, stratifying patients by risk, and managing the patient's disease management process ensuring appropriate resources are utilized to deliver the proper care guidance and educational materials.

-- QDX Utilization Management provides a flexible business process-oriented method for the payer to define authorization and workflow management rules to ensure clinically appropriate and cost-effective treatments prospectively, concurrently and retrospectively.

-- QDX Case Management provides a consistent, reproducible, and automated framework for the highly efficient coordination of patient care according to client guidelines. QDX Case Management provides an ability to monitor the return on investment and effectiveness of case managers through goal achievement, health status improvement and dollar savings.

-- QDX CustomerFocus is a powerful healthcare relationship management solution that automates the tracking, routing, management, and reporting of all customer interactions within the health plan to improve customer service, increase member retention, and improve compliance reporting.

2. Transaction Management Adaptive Applications improve the flow of information between partners, facilitating information sharing across industries and between partners.

-- QDX InsureNet is a browser-based adapter solution that allows access to full-cycle insurance eligibility verification transactions in real-time, ensuring patient insurance information is quickly verified. QDX InsureNet offers real-time connections to more payers than any other product in the market today.

-- QDX Trading Partner is a Web service that manages information exchange and collaboration among trading partners, allowing organizations to expand their trading partner community. Other features include rules-based transaction routing and support for multiple data formats and message protocols to create a flexible platform for partners to exchange and share information.

3. Life Sciences Adaptive Applications support pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, and provider organizations managing complex processes.

-- QDX Quick Trials manages the clinical trials process to reduce overall trial costs and bring products to market faster by assisting in automatically driving studies to closure.
"QDX Integrator, BPMS, and Development Studio provide a proven platform to develop our Adaptive Applications," said Deborah Dean, Quovadx Executive Vice President of Product Management. "As our customers continue to embrace QDX Adaptive Applications, it further enhances and demonstrates the viability and value of the QDX Platform."

Pricing and Availability: Quovadx offers QDX Adaptive Applications through a variety of pricing options including product licensing, transaction and subscription pricing. QDX Adaptive Applications can be hosted in the Quovadx data center or installed in the customer's environments.

About Quovadx, Inc.

Quovadx, Inc. is a trusted provider of Total Business Integration (TBI) products and services. The company provides an end-to-end business infrastructure and integration software suite, as well as end-to-end service capabilities including consulting, transaction hosting, operations management and outsourcing for business-critical applications. Quovadx technology helps more than 1500 organizations in healthcare and media & entertainment streamline business processes, solve difficult process integration challenges, and unlock the value of legacy system investments to achieve rapid return on investments. The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, and operates nationally with locations in nine major metropolitan cities in the U.S., as well as internationally in London. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com .