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HealthLink Dimensions Partners with Billian's HealthDATA to Enhance Hospital Database with Physician Data

Atlanta, GA - January 2, 2012

HealthLink Dimensions, a leading provider of healthcare data information in the U.S., announces a strategic alliance with Billian's HealthDATA, a comprehensive provider of hospital and healthcare facility contacts. As part of this strategic alliance, HealthLink Dimensions will bring hospital-affiliated physician data to Billian's already-robust family of inpatient, outpatient and long-term-care market data offerings.

HealthLink Dimensions is proud to partner with Billian's HealthDATA to strengthen its hospital data product with a comprehensive physician data set. The Billian's HealthDATA Portal, the company's flagship healthcare sales and marketing database, boasts over 3,000 data points on more than 40,000 healthcare facilities across the U.S. The HealthLink Dimensions partnership, brought about in direct response to client demand, will bring information on over 335,000 physicians - representing almost 200 specialties - to the same online Portal platform, offering vendors a one-stop-shop for comprehensive intelligence on U.S. healthcare accounts. The HealthLink Dimensions data will also document more than 375,000 physician affiliations with more than 6,700 unique hospitals. The addition of HealthLink Dimensions' emails will also bolster Billian's HealthDATA Portal product base.

Integrating hospital-affiliated physician data into the Portal's existing Hospital IT, financial standing, and clinical outcome and patient rating data sets offers the industry an unparalleled view of U.S. health Organizations. "We are excited about our new partnership and the opportunity to offer Billian's HealthDATA clients more visibility to the physicians working within the hospital networks." says Kevin Guthrie, Vice President and General Manager of HealthLink Dimensions.

About Billian's HealthDATA

Billian's HealthDATA is the leading provider of comprehensive market intelligence on the healthcare industry, covering facilities across the continuum of care - from Hospitals to Long Term Care. Billian's dedication to providing high-quality data via products like the Portal, coupled with partner company Porter Research's custom market research services, provides customers with healthcare business intelligence about multiple markets in scalable formats.

About HealthLink Dimensions, LLC

HealthLink Dimensions, LLC has been building core competencies around multiple source database management and data integrity services to become a leading provider of healthcare database products. HealthLink Dimensions LLC has capitalized on their multi-source data integration technology to build an industry-best physician and allied professional demographic database utilized by advertising and marketing agencies who seek to communicate with the healthcare professionals where they work.

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HealthLink Dimensions, LLC, Announces Strategic Partnership with MMIS

Atlanta, GA - April 28, 2011

HealthLink Dimensions, LLC, a healthcare data information company, has entered into a strategic partnership with MMIS to develop and market MediSpendâ„¢, a singular and comprehensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for Aggregate Spend tracking and reporting.

With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), the Federal government joins states and the District of Columbia in requiring Life Science companies to track and report specific expenditures made to Health Care Providers (HCP).

MediSpendâ„¢ is a secure hosted SaaS solution, which enables pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies to track, aggregate, and report all spend data consistent with state and federal requirements.

“This strategic partnership will combine the power and accuracy of our provider demographic data with MMIS' industry-best aggregate spends compliance solution, MediSpend™,” states Kevin Guthrie, Vice President of HealthLink Dimensions. “We are excited to partner with MMIS, who works with The Regulatory Law Group's team of regulatory and compliance experts to develop comprehensive solutions which will meet the needs of the industry.”

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Lodestone Solutions LLC Takes on New Shape as HealthLink Dimensions LLC

Atlanta, GA - February 7, 2011

Lodestone Solutions LLC has announced a change in name to more closely identify with the industry in which it operates and to more accurately reflect the products and services it provides. “The new name, HealthLink Dimensions LLC, more closely identifies us as a multi-faceted healthcare data service provider which links businesses to the providers that are important to them,” says Kevin Guthrie, VP General Manager. “As a premier source for physician e-mail address and marketing deployment we want to ensure that potential customers can identify our name with our services.”

Chris Lloyd, Director of Database Services states, “As we have developed our expertise of healthcare provider demographic data management over the last decade, we have added new dimensions to our services which now include master data hygiene and maintenance”. Lloyd also notes, “Every month we link over 400 sources of provider information to create the best business intelligence possible for our clients.”

About HealthLink Dimensions, LLC

HealthLink Dimensions LLC formerly known as Lodestone Solutions LLC has been building core competencies around multiple source database management and data integrity services to become a leading provider of healthcare database products. HealthLink Dimensions LLC has capitalized on their multi-source data integration technology to build an industry-best physician and allied professional demographic database utilized by advertising and marketing agencies who seek to communicate with the healthcare professionals where they work.

For more information about HealthLink Dimensions LLC, visit www.healthlinkdimensions.com or call 404-250-3900.

Contact

HealthLink Dimensions LLC
Kevin Guthrie, 404-250-3912

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Kevin Guthrie Named as Vice President and General Manager

ATLANTA, GA – December 13, 2010

Lodestone Solutions, a healthcare intelligence company based in Atlanta Georgia, has named Kevin Guthrie Vice President and General Manager to provide strategic direction for the future growth and expansion of the organization.

Guthrie brings 25 years of experience in the Healthcare Industry, most recently serving in roles as Vice President of Marketing, Sales, and Operations for Solvay Pharmaceuticals. He has also held Sales, Marketing, and Operational leadership roles within Bristol-Myers Squibb. He completed his B.S. in Business Administration at Murray State University and has completed the INSEAD International Executive Study Program in France and Singapore.

For more than a decade Lodestone Solutions has been building core competencies around multiple source database management and data integrity services to become a leading provider of healthcare database products. Lodestone has capitalized on their multi-source data integration technology to build an industry-best physician and allied professional demographic database utilized by advertising and marketing agencies who seek to communicate with the healthcare professionals where they work.

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Retirement of Jim Hake, Vice President and General Manager

Atlanta, GA – December 9, 2010

Lodestone Solutions, a healthcare intelligence company based in Atlanta Georgia, announces the retirement of Jim Hake who has served as Vice President and General Manager for the past 5 years. During his time at Lodestone, Hake led the organization to fourfold revenue growth and profitability through the strategic development of healthcare database products and expansion of customized services provided to healthcare advertising and marketing clients.

Hake is a 25-year veteran in the information services industry. After receiving a BBA in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin, he spent 6 years with Johnson & Johnson in Chicago, and has since served in senior level roles with several data dependent organizations, including TRW Information Services, First Data Corporation, and Lexis Nexis.

Hake will continue to support the Lodestone Solutions organization in an advisory capacity, ensuring continued client support and assisting with the development of products and services provided to the healthcare marketing industry.

For more than a decade Lodestone Solutions has been building core competencies around multiple source database management and data integrity services to become a leading provider of healthcare database products. Lodestone has capitalized on their multi-source data integration technology to build an industry-best physician and allied professional demographic database utilized by advertising and marketing agencies who seek to communicate with the healthcare professionals where they work.

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