FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: 
Simone Karp, R.Ph.
 Chief Business Officer
 CECity.com, Inc.
 1-888-669-7444 x 311
 412-586-3311
 skarp@cecity.com

CECITY’S REGISTRY PLATFORM APPROVED BY CMS
TO REPORT PHYSICIAN QUALITY DATA FOR PQRI 2008

CECity’s “PQRInet Wizard™” to provide physicians with an easy online approach for
participating in reporting quality data to CMS for incentive payment

PITTSBURGH, September 3, 2008 – The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced its approval of CECity as a qualified registry platform that can submit quality data to CMS on behalf of eligible physicians and other professionals for PQRI 2008 reporting.

To help professionals easily participate, CECity will be offering its simple web-based “PQRInet Wizard™”, which will enable professionals to rapidly and securely collect their quality data and submit the results to CMS for consideration under the PQRI incentive payment program for 2008.  Similar to online tax preparation software, the PQRInet Wizard will guide the professional step-by-step through a simple five (5) step process. Following submission professionals may opt to continue to use the system as a patient registry.
        
CECity will offer this convenient service to professionals, via the PQRInet website (http://www.pqrinet.com or http://www.pqrinet.net), beginning in mid-September. Eligible professionals can immediately pre-register for the program at http://www.pqrinet.com and will be notified as soon as the program becomes available.

Organizations interested in offering a private, custom-branded, PQRInet reporting solution for their own professionals (e.g. employees, members, associates, etc.), should contact CECity business development (skarp@cecity.com) for details.

“CECity is proud to have been selected by CMS as a qualified registry for PQRI 2008”, said Simone Karp, R.Ph., co-founder and Chief Business Officer for CECity, “Our hope is that by offering health care professionals, and professional organizations a cost-effective, convenient on-ramp, we can help to rapidly expand participation in quality reporting and drive performance improvement to enhance the quality of patient care”.

About CECity

CECity is the world’s leading SaaS (Software as a Service) provider of lifelong learning and performance improvement technology platforms, and distribution networks, in healthcare. CECity’s proprietary solutions are customizable and can be fully branded for its clients.  CECity’s Lifetime™ (patent pending) system integrates online data collection (e.g. registries), lifelong learning (continuing medical education and ePortfolio), and performance improvement management (performance assessment linked to performance improvement pathways), with social networking capabilities, to allow organizations to rapidly launch CQI, PI-CME, P4P, MOC-Part IV, PQRI, and other educational and quality initiatives.

CECity’s powerful networking capabilities connect clients with content partners, allowing for rapid distribution and access to content, and professionals with one another, to scale communities of practice and learners across the Internet. CECity clients represent leading healthcare organizations, including; the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), CVS/pharmacy, Rite Aid Corporation, the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), the American Pharmacists Association, Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, WellPoint, Inc., Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, and many others.