Emeryville, CA, April 21, 2008 – MedeFinance (Mede), the leading healthcare analytics company, announced the promotion of Sandy Cugliotta to senior vice president, Provider Solutions. Cugliotta most recently served as vice president, Provider Solutions for Mede’s Eastern Division. He will continue to report to CEO Mike Gallagher and will be responsible for leading the U.S. Provider Market revenue growth and execution.

“Sandy has quickly been able to demonstrate his leadership qualities internally and externally, as well as his ability to drive Mede’s long-term success,” said Gallagher. “I am proud and excited to announce his promotion as a key member of the executive team.”

“I am honored by this opportunity,” said Cugliotta. “It’s a very exciting time at Mede as we continue to position ourselves as leaders in improving the business and quality of healthcare. It’s rewarding to be able to so quickly affect clients’ performance improvements with Mede’s powerful analytics and deep healthcare talent.”

Prior to joining Mede Cugliotta served as senior vice president at Thompson Healthcare where he successfully led its provider sales organization in offering value-driven software and clinical decision support solutions to improve hospitals’ financial and clinical outcomes.

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).

Mede delivers easy to use healthcare business intelligence at a low total cost of ownership and unequaled speed to value. Healthcare executives can readily identify and improve clinical, financial and operational performance using Mede. Through advanced adaptive analytics and an instantly available IT environment, Mede provides actionable data and unparalleled client services that create sustainable value. 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 .