Publication Scheduled in Journal of Operations Research

WALTHAM, Mass. – July 09, 2008 - D2Hawkeye Inc., the market leader in transforming healthcare data into valuable information for managing clinical risk and costs, announced today that its research group, working in collaboration with the Operations Research Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has had a major predictive modeling paper accepted by the premier Journal of Operations Research, a top-tier, peer-reviewed journal.

The article, "Algorithmic Prediction of Health Care Costs," will be published this fall in a special issue of Operations Research dedicated to healthcare. While the content is embargoed until just prior to publication, the article describes the accuracy of D2's data mining methodology and risk management technology; and it challenges R-squared measures as relative (not absolute) measures of fit, highlighting the added contribution of medical knowledge to the accuracy of prediction of high cost individuals.

About D2Hawkeye

D2Hawkeye (D2) is the market leader for data service solutions for the healthcare industry. D2’s products include data mining, decision support, clinical quality analysis and risk analysis tools. The Company builds and manages fully-integrated medical and financial databases for its customers, applying its proprietary evidence-based medical rules, and provides an intuitive, easy-to-use, ASP-based interface for medical analytics and reporting. Industry professionals use D2’s tools to estimate cost and risk trends, to identify emerging high-risk consumers for optimal allocation of medical management resources and interventions, and to compare performance against industry benchmarks. The Company also provides medical advisory, medical analytics, benchmarking and other business services on an outsourced basis. For more information, please visit www.d2hawkeye.com.

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