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Lahey Clinic Implements BI Solution to Enhance Quality Initiatives

December 19, 2006

BURLINGTON, MA - Dimensional Insight announced today that Lahey Clinic of Burlington, Massachusetts has committed to improving its clinical reporting capabilities by implementing a business intelligence solution that will allow the organization to better focus on outcomes measurement.

Lahey's initial reporting efforts will focus on JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) core measurement standards - Acute Myocardial Infarction, Community Acquired Pneumonia, Heart Failure, and Surgical Infection Prevention. Dimensional Insight's The Diver SolutionTM for Healthcare will automate the process of tracking these outcomes by integrating data from Lahey's disparate source systems including their Eclipsys (NASDAQ: ECLP) decision support system and MEDITECH billing system. In addition, Diver will aid in analyzing benchmark data that is provided by Premier's Healthcare Informatics unit, a national performance measurement and benchmarking company. By integrating data from its various source systems, Lahey will be able to analyze its data from several different angles. For example, with Diver, Lahey is able to view patient satisfaction levels for heart failure patients and analyze underlying detail data to reveal any differences in the satisfactions levels of patients that received discharge instructions compared to those that did not.

"High quality care is extremely important at Lahey. Effectively analyzing outcomes data allows us to improve care quality. In the past this was a time consuming manual process," explains Jim Vaillancourt, Project Manager for Outcomes Measurement and Reporting with Lahey's Quality and Safety Department. "Distribution of data analysis is now done mostly in Excel spreadsheets or from standard reports available in our systems. Dimensional Insight's solution is flexible and allows us to customize and automate this process to get the right information to the right people so that decisions can be made in a timely manner."

Outcomes data will be available through DivePort, Dimensional Insight's portal product for easy point-and-click access. "We were looking for a solution that could provide our physicians and management team with clinical information in an easy to view format. The real benefit is two-fold: it gives us one interface for us to access data and it allows us to pull disparate data together. In the end we can see a much richer story of our care processes. Dimensional Insight is allowing us to move towards achieving this goal," says Vaillancourt.

"Dimensional Insight is proud to have Lahey Clinic join our network of healthcare clients. Healthcare providers have unique data requirements, challenges and needs," says Ed O'Brien, Director of Healthcare at Dimensional Insight. "We are uniquely positioned to meet these needs in a cost-effective and timely manner. The Diver SolutionTM allows providers to implement reporting applications (such as quality/outcomes measures or productivity tracking) in just days or weeks, not months. Providers can easily merge data from disparate sources to see a more complete view of their performance. Our clients also enjoy the ability to both customize reports and "slice and dice" these reports to see the underlying detail right down to the patient/incident level."

About Lahey Clinic
Lahey Clinic, a physician-led, nonprofit group practice, is world-renowned for innovative technology, pioneering medical treatment, and leading-edge research. A teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine, the Clinic provides quality health care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty, from primary care to cancer diagnosis and treatment to kidney and liver transplantation. For more information, please visit www.lahey.org

About Dimensional Insight
Established in 1989, Dimensional Insight, Inc. is a privately held pioneer in developing and marketing multi-dimensional data visualization, analysis, and reporting solutions. Dimensional Insight's Diver SolutionTM for Healthcare delivers powerful analytic and reporting capabilities to provider organizations. Founded upon 17 years of business intelligence technology leadership, The Diver Solution™ for Healthcare specializes in the integration of patient, cost accounting, clinical, quality, HR, and financial analysis solutions that help healthcare companies improve patient satisfaction, quality of care, and their bottom lines.

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Dimensional Insight, Inc.
Tel: 781-229-9111
Fax: 781-229-9113
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