Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) and Sansio Announce Automated Interface between Healthcare Software Programs

Duluth, MN, May 23, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), provider of real-time data services, outcomes, and benchmarking to the home care market and Sansio, provider of automated data collection and web-based back office solutions to the home care market are pleased to announce the release of an automated data interface between the two companies’ systems. This interface facilitates automatic, electronic exchange of data, including OASIS data and other key information, from Sansio’s HomeSolutions.NET® application to SHP for Agencies™.

According to Barbara Rosenblum, Chief Executive Officer of SHP, "Our mutual customers will benefit significantly from the interface through instant and simple access to information like expanded OASIS audits with alerts, current clinical and financial benchmarks, data drill-down reports, and PPS tools. Live application interaction occurs between HomeSolutions.NET® to SHP for Agencies™, reducing the tasks an agency has to manage, enabling real-time access to key PPS and outcomes reports. Sansio customers can now, more easily than ever, participate in the leading and most comprehensive data service and benchmarking program on the market.”

David Barthel, VP of Homecare Services at Sansio, states, “Automated integration with SHP enhances Sansio's customer's quality assurance workflow by focusing attention on customizable adverse events and targeted outcomes through timely alerts supported by detail reports. Automation means that remembering to send data is no longer necessary whereby clinicians and support staff can focus on doing what they do best, taking care of their patients and improving their outcomes.“

About SHP
Strategic Healthcare Programs, LLC, is based in Santa Barbara, California. SHP offers award-winning performance data services, industry benchmarks, and patient satisfaction programs to over 1500 customers. SHP sweeps data from software applications and automatically returns real-time, actionable information. Web-based analytic tools and drill downs make ad hoc reporting available to the entire home health organization. To learn more about SHP for Agencies™ or other programs for the sub-acute market, visit www.SHPdata.com.

About Sansio
Sansio, established in 1997, is headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota and serves a national base of prestigious healthcare organizations who deliver over $1B of healthcare services annually using Sansio solutions. Sansio is the market leader in web deployed decision support solutions for the homecare, emergency medical services (EMS) and assisted-living markets. Sansio web properties and solutions include GetHomeCare.com, HomeSolutions.NET®, GetHomeCare.com, HealthEMS®.NET, RediPay.com™, and ResiDexWEB™. More information can be found at www.Sansio.com.

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