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Milpitas, Calif., Oct. 4, 2006 — Quantros, Inc., a pioneer in web-based medical errors/incident reporting and analysis, and HealthGate Data Corp., a provider of highly specialized software applications for the healthcare industry, today announced a collaborative relationship. This definitive agreement provides Quantros client hospitals access to HealthGate's interactive informed consent solution, InteractiveICÅ, which is a cost-saving risk management tool designed to reduce healthcare provider risk and liability.

InteractiveIC provides comprehensive, interactive tutorials that test and record patient understanding in preparation for upcoming procedures. Quantros will distribute and offer InteractiveIC as part of its Safety and Risk Solution set.

"This agreement allows Quantros to continue providing key solutions that help make our healthcare systems safer," says Sanjaya Kumar, MD, president and CMO of Quantros. "Our solid partnership offers critically important education to patients prior to surgery or procedures. This is a significant benefit to Quantros customers and helps us fulfill our marketplace promise of continued leadership within the hospital safety and risk management arenas."

"The inclusion of our InteractiveIC tool in Quantros' Safety and Risk Solution set not only extends the performance of critical patient safety tools for hospitals, but also assures that patients are provided the best information to make sound decisions about their care," said Bill Reece, president and CEO of HealthGate . "Our relationship with Quantros is a very positive move."

About InteractiveIC
InteractiveIC empowers patients to actively participate in their care and course of treatment which promotes successful outcomes and better health. InteractiveIC allows healthcare providers to deliver comprehensive patient education in a convenient and easily accessible format. This helps enhance communication between provider and patient, encouraging better compliance and improved understanding of treatment directions.

InteractiveIC meets certain CMS/JCAHO and other regulatory requirements concerning medical procedure-based patient education. Each procedure presents a step-by-step multimedia tutorial, richly illustrated with medical images, animations, and descriptive text to create an unsurpassed patient education experience.

InteractiveIC:

• Improves compliance with pre-operative and post-operative instructions
  
  
• Documents and certifies the educational process
  
  
• Manages patients' understanding about an upcoming procedure
  
  
• Increases patient referrals by serving as a marketing differentiator
  
  
• Improves patient satisfaction and reduces risk

Source: Quantros, Inc.