MedAssets Selects ShiftWise to Provide Services to Customers

Leading GPO Chooses ShiftWise to Bring Staffing Efficiency to Customers Nationwide

Portland, ORE., July 31, 2006— ShiftWise, the nation’s leading provider of online healthcare staffing management services, today announced MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, one of the nation’s largest healthcare group purchasing organizations, has selected ShiftWise to provide automated internal and agency staff management services to its customers. Through this partnership, MedAssets will expand its product offerings to provide ShiftWise, the industry standard service for supplemental staffing management, to its expansive membership of hospital and health systems to improve and streamline their staffing processes.

ShiftWise's Web-based automated staffing management solution enables hospital customers to effortlessly manage their internal staff online and request resources from external staffing companies.Providing hospitals with control over their staffing processes, the service consolidates staff search, booking, billing and record-keeping into a single, easy-to-use online service. ShiftWise is currently used by hundreds of hospitals across the country.

“The supplemental staffing process requires a complex balancing act, and our customers are regularly seeking solutions to simplify and streamline their efforts,” said Nadia LaFlam, director, Executive Services, MedAssets Supply Chain Systems. “We expect that offering ShiftWise will enable MedAssets to help its healthcare customers improve operational efficiencies. ShiftWise’s service will deliver the most efficient staff booking system available to address our clients’ needs.”

MedAssets is dedicated to improving healthcare organizations' financial outcomes by delivering revenue solutions, supply chain analytics, decision support, group purchasing and consulting services.  Ultimately, this allows healthcare providers to reinvest in their facilities and continue to serve their communities.

"MedAssets is the country’s leading GPO and has an impressive customer base comprised of numerous healthcare relationships nationwide,” said Jason Lander, vice president, business development, ShiftWise. “By leveraging the company’s strong industry ties to introduce hospitals to our service, we hope to better equip them to deal with the staffing crisis that is rampant in the healthcare industry. Ultimately, this will enablehealthcare employees to shift focus on patients instead of staffing issues.”

About MedAssets
MedAssets, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, improves healthcare providers' margin and cash flow through revenue cycle and supply chain initiatives as well as decision support technology and services. As a strategic business partner, MedAssets can replace multiple vendors and decrease supply costs by 3-10 % and increase net patient revenue by 1-3 %. MedAssets Net Revenue Systems provides best-of-breed revenue solutions including defensible pricing, charge capturing, and ongoing chargemaster management tools, all of which have been Peer Reviewed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. MedAssets Net Revenue Systems also offers denials management and a tool to link supply cost data with charge data. MedAssets Supply Chain Systems is one of the fastest growing group purchasing organizations in the U.S. and builds customized solutions encompassing procurement of common medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, physician preference supplies, food and nutrition items, and capital equipment. The newly formed MedAssets Analytical Systems offers supply chain analytics and decision support tools while clinical and operational consulting services are provided through MedAssets’ subsidiary, Aspen Healthcare Metrics. Avega Health Systems, a subsidiary of MedAssets, ranked "Best in KLAS" in Business Decision Support - KLAS Enterprises, LLC 2005. For more information about MedAssets go to www.medassets.com or contact Gary Johnson, corporate senior vice president of Marketing and Marketing Services, 100 North Point Center East, Suite 200, Alpharetta, GA 30022.

About ShiftWise
Founded by healthcare staffing professionals, ShiftWise delivers a more efficient way for hospitals and other healthcare providers to quickly and efficiently find and book supplemental healthcare workers. The Web-based ShiftWise service provides hospitals with an unprecedented level of control over their staffing processes, consolidating staff search, booking, billing and record-keeping into a single easy-to-use interface. Based in Portland, ORE., ShiftWise provides automated staffing management technology to hundreds of healthcare organizations and multiple state hospital associations nationwide. To learn more about ShiftWise, call 866-399-2220 or visit www.shiftwise.net.