Healthvision Announces Strategic Investment from VeriSign to Help Build the Next Generation of Healthcare Information Infrastructure

Healthvision®, a leading healthcare information technology (HIT) solutions provider, today announced that it has received a strategic investment from VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), the leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world. As part of the agreement, both companies will work to integrate current VeriSign technologies into the current Healthvision solution suite, and to work together on the development of the next generation of healthcare information infrastructure solutions. The company also announced that VeriSign executive Matt Niehaus will join Healthvision’s board of directors. "Healthvision is focused on connecting healthcare communities by building health information exchanges among providers, hospitals, labs and patients,” commented Scott Decker, president and CEO of Healthvision. "By leveraging VeriSign’s resources and proven global digital infrastructure, Healthvision’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform will bring unmatched data exchange and communication capabilities to Connected Healthcare Communities.” According to Eric Brown, vice president of Forrester’s healthcare practice, "The United States healthcare sector is embarking on a massive effort to implement connectivity among doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies and other healthcare institutions to give healthcare providers a complete view of a patient's medical information. The goal is to improve the quality of care, avert medical errors, and save billions of dollars eliminating redundant diagnostic procedures, preventable health complications, delays waiting for paper charts, and other inefficiencies in the healthcare system.1” "It is clear that the healthcare industry has escalating needs around secure, scalable information exchange,” said Matt Niehaus, Health and Life Sciences Lead, VeriSign. "We‘re excited to be working with Healthvision to deliver current VeriSign solutions to this market, and we believe our investment in Healthvision will be a force multiplier enabling the creation of the next-generation of healthcare information infrastructure.” The agreement establishes joint sales opportunities whereby Healthvision will support the adoption of current VeriSign services into the healthcare market. VeriSign and Healthvision will also explore future joint development projects based on both companies’ technologies and capabilities to yield a complete solution for healthcare communities offering secure, real time and industry compliant communications and information exchange among all stakeholder groups. Healthvision will be exhibiting at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS: www.himss.org) annual conference, February 25-March 1, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Conference attendees can visit booth 2917 to learn more about Healthvision and its agreement with VeriSign. About Healthvision At Healthvision, we help hospitals, physicians, consumers and patients get anywhere, anytime access to the information needed to make healthcare decisions. Our industry-leading clinical solutions are currently at work in more than 350 healthcare organizations, Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and Connected Healthcare Communities (CHCs) across the country. Healthvision's Web-based infrastructure is the most widely used in the industry, hosting more than 10 million unique patient records. Our consumer solutions provide tools and consulting services that include integrated and targeted marketing, patient acquisition programs, Web site strategy, site design and development, trusted health content and content management. A privately held company, based in Irving, Texas, Healthvision was formed in July 1999. For more information, visit www.healthvision.com. About VeriSign VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) operates digital infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the world’s voice and data networks. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com. 1 Forrester’s Top Ten Healthcare Predictions for 2006 by Laura Ramos, Bradford Holmes and Eric Brown, December 9, 2006.