EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 19, 2005 -- Avega Health Systems is pleased to announce that TMC HealthCare, Tucson, AZ, has recently purchased Alliance Decision Support and the myAlliance Portal from Avega.

TMC HealthCare is Southern Arizona's largest regional nonprofit hospital system with Tucson Medical Center and El Dorado Hospital at its core. Tucson Medical Center has become one of the 300 largest hospitals in the country and has earned numerous awards in recent years, including Quality Leader and Consumer Choice designations by the National Research Council, and listings in the Top 100 hospitals for stroke care and orthopedics by Solucient in Modern Healthcare magazine. TMC is licensed for 609 adult and skilled nursing beds, 62 psychiatric beds (Palo Verde Mental Health Services) and 90 bassinets. The hospital serves more than 30,000 inpatients and 122,000 outpatients yearly.

TMC HealthCare is a long-standing client with Avega, celebrating their 21-year anniversary in April 2005. Both TMC HealthCare and Avega are excited about the continuing relationship.

Bret Hicks, the TMC Corporate Director Finance, said, "As one of Avega's original clients, we have enjoyed a positive working partnership throughout the past 21 years. We chose to purchase Alliance Decision Support because of the strong costing and reporting capabilities as well as the high level of customer support." Mr. Hicks added, "We are excited to unleash some of the power of myAlliance. The flexibility of the system will allow TMC Healthcare to better customize data we will need on an ongoing basis and is a great fit given the strategic direction of our organization."

The Alliance Suite integrates financial, clinical, and administrative information to support decision-making across the healthcare enterprise. Combining OLAP and Ad-Hoc reporting with a web-based distribution tool, Alliance helps you improve clinical performance, control costs, manage and negotiate contracts, develop your budget and analyze productivity across one organization or many.

Avega is celebrating 22 years as healthcare's first choice for decision makers. Avega's award-winning Alliance Suite supports the decision support, enterprise-wide reporting, data warehousing and operational support needs of both providers and payers. In addition to its corporate office in El Segundo, CA, Avega maintains an office in Nashville, TN.

Mike L. Morgensen, 310-563-3200
marketing@avega.com
http://www.avega.com