Emeryville, CA, March 31, 2008 – MedeFinance (Mede), the leading healthcare analytics company, announced the appointment of Sandy Cugliotta as vice president, Provider Solutions for the Eastern Division. Cugliotta will dedicate his deep healthcare experience in sales and marketing management to building a team of world-class sales executives and further developing large health system client relationships in the East.

Cugliotta will report directly to Mede CEO Mike Gallagher and is charged with driving sales and support in Mede’s Eastern Division. Prior to joining Mede Cugliotta served as senior vice president at Thompson Healthcare where he led its $250 million provider sales organization in offering value-driven software and clinical decision support solutions to improve hospitals’ financial and clinical outcomes.

“Joining Mede is an opportunity to be with the leader in business intelligence for healthcare,” said Cugliotta. “It’s exciting to be able to offer large health systems such powerful analytics to help them make sense of their data for better and faster business decisions.”

Cugliotta has also served as VP & General Manager for Cerner North Atlantic where he significantly grew Cerner’s new business in the Northeast. Prior to Cerner, Cugliotta spent over ten years in sales, marketing, and engineering roles with eCLARO and Shared Medical Systems (SMS).

“Sandy brings tremendous executive sales and management experience in healthcare to Mede,” said Gallagher. “We’re fortunate to have someone with his knowledge and proven success to help expand our Eastern Division and provide the leadership and credibility our clients expect from Mede.”

Mede delivers instant, user-friendly healthcare business intelligence at a low-cost of ownership through a software-as-a-service model. Healthcare executives and managers are empowered to improve clinical, financial and operational performance with actionable data and innovative services that create sustainable value through advanced adaptive analytics, an instantly available IT environment and unparalleled client services. The company serves over 700 healthcare organizations in the U.S. and U.K., and has been recently recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 most rapidly growing privately-held companies in the United States. To find out more about Mede, visit www.medefinance.com .