Authentidate Holding Corp. : Premier Healthcare Alliance and Authentidate Enter into a Group Purchasing Program Agreement to Offer Premier Members Authentidate’s Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions

Premier Healthcare AllianceAuthentidate Enter into a Group Purchasing Program Agreement to Offer Premier Members Authentidate's Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ

January 03, 2012

Authentidate Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: ADAT), a provider of secure web-based software applicationstelehealth productsservices for healthcare organizations, today announced that the Premier healthcare alliance, a national performance improvement organization, has awarded a group purchasing agreement to Authentidate for the provision of remote patient monitoring telehealth solutions in the Premier Physiological Monitoring, Vital Signs category. As a contracted supplier, Authentidate's Electronic House Call™ (EHC), Kiosk,Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions will be available for purchase by the hospitals, clinicsother healthcare organizations who are members of Premier.

Authentidate's remote patient monitoring telehealth solutions enable patients to return to their normal routines, while providing frequent updates of patient vital signsrelated data to healthcare providers.  By allowing healthcare providers to set-up tailored monitoring sessions to meet specific patient needs, the Authentidate remote monitoring solutions are designed to contribute to improved patient outcomes with fewer in-person doctor or emergency room visits.   Providers can use remote patient monitoring, which reduces costsallows for improved patient care, to oversee patients who have chronic diseases such as Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Diabetes, HypertensionSleep Apnea.

The EHCthe multi-user Kiosk touch screen devices are designed to improve patient carereduce costs by delivering patient vital signspatient responses to session questions about their condition to healthcare providers through the secure web-based application.  The EHCKiosk devices both connect to a wide variety of industry-standard peripherals that measure patient vital signs. The IVR service uses the latest in voice recognition technology to allow patients to answer their session questionsenter their vital signs data verbally or using the key pad from any touch tone phone. IVR is great for patients who require a flexible, mobile solution for care plan remindersvital signs monitoring.

With all of the Authentidate telehealth solutions, a patient's vital signsanswers to session questions are immediately viewable on the secure web-based application by authorized care providers. Automated reminders are available for monitoring sessions, medication schedules, diets, disease specific education modules as well as follow-up physician visit reminders. These features help to increase care plan compliance, prepare patients to self-manage their disease in accordance with the care plan devised by their healthcare providercontribute to improved overall outcomes.

"Authentidate's remote patient monitoring telehealth solutions offer Premier members leading-edge tools to support the ongoing managementcare coordination needs of their patients with chronic diseases. It is our expectation that our telehealth productsservices will help Premier members achieve improved outcomesreduced hospital readmissions for their patients. We are proud to be an authorized Premier supplierlook forward to serving their member organizations.  This relationship is an important part of our marketing strategy that will support our long-term growth objectives in the marketplace," commented Seth Loonan, Director of Marketing at Authentidate Holding Corp.

About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals80,000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by hospitals, health systemsother providers, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financialoutcomes informationoperates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier has worked with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servicesthe United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in Washington. , .

About Authentidate Holding Corp.
Authentidate Holding Corp. is a provider of secure web-based software applicationstelehealth productsservices that enable healthcare organizations to coordinate care for patientsenhance related administrativeclinical workflows. Our productsservices enable healthcare organizations to increase revenues, reduce costsenhance patient care by eliminating papermanual work steps from clinicaladministrative processes. Our ExpressMD™ telehealth solution combines Electronic House Call, an FDA 510(k) cleared in-home patient vital signs monitoring system, with a web application that streamlines patient monitoring. Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), customers only require an Internet connectionweb browser to access our web-based applications thereby utilizing previous investments in systemstechnology. The company's healthcare customersusers include leading homecare companies, health systems, physician groupsgovernmental entities. These organizations utilize the company's productsservices to coordinate care for patients outside of acute-care.

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