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Orlando, FL, February 25, 2008 - MediNotes to Acquire Bond Technologies

As you may have learned by now, Bond Technologies and MediNotes have come to a merger agreement, and announced it on Monday, February 25, at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida.

We at Bond Technologies are very excited that it is time for our beloved Bond Clinician EHR/PM (TM) software to implement at practices and medical institutions around the nations at lightning speed, and with a proven internal staff and a national reseller base, MediNotes has the right team in place to make Clinician the top-selling suite solution.

The same Clinician Development Dream Team will continue their work to make the ASP.NET application even more powerful. The same Implementation and Support Teams that have grown up with Clinician will continue to train and support it, with renewed resources and the ability to grow; we will educate and help you even better as we make this transition.

Bond Medical will remain, with services ranging from reselling MediNotes Clinician and Medisoft and hardware, supporting software, providing revenue cycle management services, and customized solutions for any imaginable need. We're excited that the changes are going to give Bond Medical 2.0 more time to dedicate to you!

Attached is the official press release from the MediNotes corporation.

Tampa, FL, October 22, 2007 - American Academy of Pediatrics Selects Bond Technologies for the 2007 Pediatric Office of the Future

Bond Technologies, an industry-leading provider of Electronic Health Record and Practice Management Software, announced today that Bond Clinician™ EHR/PM has been chosen by the American Academy of Pediatrics to be the Electronic Health Record & Practice Management solution demonstrated in the Pediatric Office of the Future.

Attendees of the AAP’s National Conference & Exhibition are able to tour the futuristic pediatric office, sponsored by Microsoft, and view a sampling of the latest technologies available to Pediatricians, including the robust functionality and innovative clinical and administrative tools included in Bond Clinician™.

“Bond has worked hard with our Pediatric customers to make the application practice-friendly and we are honored to participate in this event. Being chosen as innovative software is very exciting and we look forward to showing our software on Microsoft Vista PCs and interacting with other medical devices that are cutting edge,” said Amy Gleason, VP of Product Development and Implementation.

This selection follows on the heels of Bond Technologies’ first place finish in the TEPR (Towards the Electronic Patient Record) 2007 Pediatric Documentation Challenge, sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Tampa, FL, October 17, 2007 - Bond Technologies 2007 Fall Release Now Available

Bond Technologies, an industry-leading provider of Electronic Health Record and Practice Management Software, announced today that their 2007 Fall Release, containing almost 200 features and updates.

Practice Management additions in the Fall Release focus on improved performance in payment entry. Several of the new features include:

• Payments 2.0 drastically improve performance for entering and editing payments
• Improved workflow for bulk checks, notes, transfers, voids, and more
• Pop-up payment views allow editing of payments against line-item charges
• Easier to change insurance information after a claim has been created…for those pesky patients who don’t know what insurance they have
• Not just for batches…now you can select desired templates for on-demand statements.

Based on customer requests, some of the new EHR features include:

• Clinician Image Management has added icons for custom folder identification
• The best flowsheets available in an EHR are now even easier to read and use
• An interface to AmeriPath® for pathology reports has been created
• Query Builder’s robust abilities contain more detail fields for better appointment and demographic data reporting

October 5, 2007 - Integration Technology, Inc. Highlights Bond Technologies in PM Network Magazine : HEALTHY PROGRESS FOR MEDICAL SOFTWARE SUPPLIER

Bond Technologies, a provider of electronic health records and practice management software, needed a management software program of its own. The company wanted to improve expense tracking and determine the true cost for each project, which wasn’t always apparent in the multiple spreadsheets and applications Bond was relying on. The company was also looking for ways to reduce implementation and accounting costs, but it didn’t have a handle on the costs and time staff members spent on each task and project. Click here to download the entire PDF article.

September 11, 2007 - New Report: Dangerous Drug Side Effects and Deaths Doubled Since 1998... Seniors Hit Hardest

PCMA: Time to Require E-Prescribing in Medicare

(Washington, DC) — A new report that finds dangerous drug side effects and deaths—particularly among seniors—has more than doubled since 1998 underscores the urgency for Congress to act now to require electronic (e) prescribing in Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) said today.

“This study found that seniors are disproportionately affected by serious adverse drug events, which underscores why we need to require e-prescribing in Medicare immediately. Requiring e-prescribing in Medicare could prevent up to 1.9 million medication errors over the next decade,” said PCMA President & CEO Mark Merritt.

The report, published in this week’s issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, analyzed serious adverse drug events received by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between January 1998 and December 2005, including death, disability and hospitalizations. The study found 467,809 such occurrences during the period studied, with the number of deaths due to drugs spiking from 5,519 to 15,107.

PCMA recently released a study from the Gorman Health Group that found requiring e-prescribing in Medicare could prevent up to 1.9 million medication errors over the next decade. E-prescribing technology helps consumers avoid adverse drug events by providing physicians with a comprehensive patient medication history and automatic electronic safety alerts before the prescription is sent to the pharmacy.

“By providing physicians with real-time safety alerts and their patients’ medication history, e-prescribing prevents dangerous drug-to-drug interactions and doctor shopping,” added Merritt.

PCMA is the national association representing America’s pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which administer prescription drug plans for more than 210 million Americans with health coverage provided through Fortune 500 employers, health insurance plans, labor unions, and Medicare
Part D.

Bond Technologies Awarded Top Pediatric EHR

Dallas, TX, May 22, 2007 - Bond Technologies, an industry leading provider of Electronic Health Record Software, was awarded 1st place today for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Pediatric Clinical Documentation Challenge held at the 23rd Annual Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference being held in Dallas, Texas this week.

The Clinical Documentation Challenge offers electronic health records vendors the opportunity to demonstrate their pediatric functionality in two presentations, based on scenarios released 24 hours prior to the presentation. Some of the functionality required for the morning presentation includes demonstrating the ability to import Continuity of Care Records (CCR), as well as five or six crucial elements for Pediatric EHR requirements. Vendors are given approximately 15 minutes to demonstrate the requested functionality. At the end of the “visit,” vendors are required to produce an AAP/ACEP Emergency Information Form for the patient, as well as to show how they electronically export both a prescription, and the CCR. The afternoon presentation demonstrates a typical office visit that a pediatrician would see in a normal work day.

Scoring is weighted at 70% for the morning presentation, and 30% for the afternoon scenario demonstration. Judges are all practicing pediatricians who are members of the Council on Clinical Information Technology of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Each is familiar with EHR software, but has no conflicts of interest with any of the participants.

Bond Technologies’ demonstrations were led by Amy Gleason, Bond’s VP of Product Development and Implementation, as well as practicing pediatrician, Dr. Gregg Alexander of Madison Pediatrics. Dr. Alexander has been using Bond Clinician™ in his state-of-the-art pediatric clinic, for over a year.

About Madison Pediatrics
Madison Pediatrics is devoted to providing the best pediatric medical care in a child-friendly atmosphere with compassion and understanding. Dr. Gregg Alexander and his team continuously strive to provide the most complete and technologically advanced pediatric medical services with easy and prompt access to care. For more information about Madison Pediatrics, visit www.madisonpediatric.com.

CCHIT TAPS SURESCRIPTS TO CERTIFY E-PRESCRIBING INTEROPERABILITY OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

Pre-Existing SureScripts Certification Prepares 14 EHR Vendors for Meeting Requirements for Exchanging Health Information

Alexandria, Va. – April 17, 2007 – SureScripts® today announced that the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT^SM ) has selected it as one of the health information exchanges to certify e-prescribing interoperability for electronic health record (EHR) systems. Vendors of ambulatory (office-based) EHR products can satisfy the CCHIT certification requirements for electronic prescribing and sharing of prescription information by completing certification for the following SureScripts services:

• E-Prescribing – facilitates the electronic transmission of new prescriptions from physician to pharmacist;
• E-Refills – enables physicians to electronically receive and respond to refill authorizations from pharmacies;
• Rx History – allows physicians to electronically access patient medication history from pharmacies and payers;
• Eligibility and Formulary – provides physicians with real-time, electronic access to information from patient drug plans.

Part of CCHIT’s recently approved 2007 criteria for ambulatory (office-based) EHRs requires that, to achieve certification, EHR products demonstrate the ability to provide electronic connectivity to pharmacies for the transmission of new prescriptions and refill authorizations. These criteria will take effect May 1, 2007.

CCHIT has developed certification criteria based on technical standards for sharing information that have been reviewed and approved by the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). Once HITSP approves a standard, CCHIT’s work groups may reference that standard in the development of conformance criteria used in its voluntary certification program for EHRs. CCHIT is a federally Recognized Certification Body in the United States for certifying health information technology products.

“CCHIT’s work is essential to advancing the interoperability of the nation’s healthcare system,” said Kevin Hutchinson, president and CEO of SureScripts. “This step taken by CCHIT to require EHRs to be interoperable with pharmacies is the first step toward overall healthcare interoperability. The pharmacy industry has spent tens of millions of dollars and thousands of man hours in preparation for full electronic interoperability with physicians. Many EHR vendors have previously taken advantage of this interoperability for their customer base by achieving certification prior to its becoming CCHIT criteria. It is a positive step to see those EHR vendors rewarded for their effort to improve their application for their users. Integrated electronic prescribing is quickly replacing a very old and tired traditional prescribing process based on illegible handwriting and unreliable fax machines.”

For SureScripts Certified Solution Providers
For those EHR vendors who have already been certified by SureScripts for a given standard, one step in the process of complying with CCHIT’s Ambulatory EHR 2007 criteria has been simplified. To meet the new e-prescribing interoperability criteria, the EHR vendor forwards the certificate they received upon completion of the SureScripts product certification process to CCHIT with other required product documentation.

Today, there are 60 SureScripts Certified Solution Providers that have completed SureScripts certification for e-prescribing and e-refills -- 14 of which have products certified by CCHIT based on Ambulatory EHR 2006 criteria:

• Allscripts (TouchWorks™ EMR)
• Bond Technologies (Bond Clinician™ EHR)
• Community Computer Service (MEDENT)
• eClinicalWorks (eClinicalWorks)
• e-MDs (e-MDs Solution Series)
• EPIC Systems (Epicare Ambulatory EMR)
• Integreat Concepts, Inc. (IC-Chart Release)
• McKesson (Horizon Ambulatory Care™)
• MCS-Medical Communication Systems (mMD.Net EHR)
• MedPlexus, Inc (MedPlexus EHR)
• MedicWare (MedicWare EMR)
• NextGen Healthcare Information Systems (NextGen EMR)
• Practice Partner (Practice Partner)
• SSIMED (EMRge™)

An additional 14 EHR vendors that have products certified under the CCHIT 2006 criteria are in the process of completing SureScripts certification for e-prescribing and refills. Physicians and health IT industry watchers can track the status of a vendor’s SureScripts certification status at
http://www.surescripts.com/certified.

About CCHIT
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT^SM ) is an independent, nonprofit organization that has been recognized by the federal government as an official certification body for electronic health record products. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of health information technology by creating a credible, sustainable product certification program. The certification requirements are based on widely accepted industry standards and involve the work of hundreds of expert volunteers and input from a variety of stakeholders throughout the health care industry. More information on CCHIT and CCHIT Certified^SM products is available at www.cchit.org.

About SureScripts
Founded by the pharmacy industry in 2001, SureScripts® operates the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™, which facilitates the secure electronic transmission of prescription information between physicians and pharmacists and provides access to lifesaving information about patients during emergencies or routine care. Today, more than 95 percent of all pharmacies and all major physician technology vendors in the United States are certified on the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange. More information about SureScripts is available at www.surescripts.com.

SureScripts Contact:
Rob Cronin
917-414-5289
rob.cronin@surescripts.com