IBM AND CONVERGENCE CT TEAM TO PROVIDE CLINICAL DATA

WAREHOUSING FOR HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES

Secure Patient Data Warehouse Can Help Providers Make Critical Decisions Quickly

ARMONK, NY and HONOLULU, HI, February 28, 2007 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and

Convergence CT today announced an agreement to jointly market clinical data warehousing

products for the healhhcare and life sciences industries.

The new Clinical Data Warehouse will be based on the IBM Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU)

for Linux and Convergence CT's DB*FOCUSTM Clinical Data Warehouse technology. The fully

integrated solution will be jointly marketed worldwide.

"We are extremely excited about this partnership with IBM to develop and market our highly

advanced, newest generation of Patient Data Warehousing technology," stated Lambert Onuma,

President and CEO of Convergence CT. "In combination with our DB*FOCUS technology and

analytics, the advances that IBM's platforms and Business Intelligence tools bring will be

unmatched in the industry."

In addition to offering healthcare providers the Clinical Data Warehouse, IBM and Convergence

CT will market a joint solut ion to life sciences companies (Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Medical

Device firms) based on longitudinal patient data and advanced analytics. Moving forward, the

two firms will cont inue to work together on the development of a variety of new technologies

and product offerings.

"One of the greatest challenges facing our healthcare clients has been gaining access to

integrated patient data that meets today's compliance requirements," said Karen Parrish, Vice

President, IBM Business Intelligence Solutions. "The combinat ion of IBM's Balanced

Configuration Unit for Linux and Convergence CT's DB*FOCUS provides a pre-packaged

Clinical Data Warehouse solut ion for this highly sensit ive information."

Convergence CT is also the data warehousing and analytics partner of Anceta LLC, a health

informatics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), which supports

AMGA's strong tradition of collaborative quality improvement. Convergence CT, Anceta and

the AMGA are collaborating with AMGA's multi-specialty medical groups to extract, aggregate

and analyze comprehensive, HIPAA-compliant patient data among participating AMGA

members. Through this collaboration, Convergence CT has successfully implemented and

refined its data integration and warehousing applications across the enterprise and among

multiple organizations. This relationship has created the tools and information resources to assist

providers, policy makers, and purchasers (including patients) in making better decisions

regarding healt hcare choices. The Anceta Collaborative Data Warehouse and its health

informatics tools will assist providers, policy makers, and purchasers (including employers and

employees) in making better decisions regarding healthcare choices.

Through a long-term agreement executed in January 2006, Convergence CT and Anceta are

assist ing AMGA medical groups in making the next leap in applying information technology,

data standards, and advanced analyt ics to effect ive, secure data sharing among multiple

organizations.

"We are pleased to have IBM join Convergence CT in its efforts to assist Anceta and AMGA's

medical groups in making this next leap forward in applying informat ion and information

technology to enhance healthcare qualit y and efficiency," noted Donald Fisher, Ph.D., President

and CEO of AMGA and Chairman, Anceta. "We look forward to the enhancements that IBM's

plat forms and business tools will bring to the Anceta Collaborative," he added.

DB*FOCUS creates a comprehensive patient Electronic Health Record (EHR) by extracting data

from existing hospital and clinic information systems whether they are integrated or not. As new

patient information is added, their data elements are converged to the existing patient record

seamlessly. Data can be easily analyzed via built-in query tools and users have the ability to

export the data to other applications. This capability enables clinicians, researchers and

management to quickly develop actionable knowledge based on up-to-date patient-level data.

"By signing this partnership agreement with IBM, Convergence CT has received a very

prestigious stamp of approval on the technology that we have put our lifeblood into developing,"

said former Hawaii Governor George Ariyoshi, Chairman of Convergence CT. "We are very

pleased to be joining IBM in this endeavor, and we are looking forward to the strategic

improvements that the integration of our products will bring to the health and welfare of the

world population."

The IBM BCU is a fully-integrated and scalable data warehouse solution for Linux that

combines software, server, and storage resources to maximize business intelligence and

informat ion management performance for enterprises. The D5000 BCU model chosen by

Convergence CT features the latest DB2 9 technology for data compression and XML data

capabilit y and is built around the DB2 Data Warehouse Edition 9, eServer x3650 and EXP3000

disk storage.

In addition, IBM's Life Sciences Global Business Services Group has created a set of

customized offerings for those medical practice groups whose data complexity and readiness for

next generation analytics does not match the system requirements for the latest DB*FOCUS

product.

For more information on IBM and the Balanced Configuration Unit for Linux, visit www. ibm.com/bi.

For more informat ion, on Convergence CT, visit www.convergencect.com.