Sentara Selects iXmatch for Advanced Search

iXmatch's Search Software Helps Healthcare Provider's Customers and Employees Easily Find Electronic Documents

MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 6, 2004 -- iXmatch Inc., a leader in advanced search software, today announced that Sentara Healthcare, a premier not-for-profit healthcare provider in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, licensed its state-of-the-art search engine, iXfind. iXfind enables Sentara customers and employees to easily find the information they are seeking.

Sentara uses iXfind to search its intranet, extranet and Web site. "With 1.6 million customers and 15,000 employees in 70 locations, we need to make sure everyone can quickly and easily find relevant content, no matter what they're looking for or how they come looking for it," said Sam Owens, Director of Systems Integration, Sentara. "iXmatch's innovative approach to search enables us to take full advantage of all the content we have available, and put it into context for everyone. We see iXmatch as part of a sophisticated knowledge-management system that connects our employees, customers and providers with the information they need."

iXfind, iXmatch's advanced search engine, incorporates innovative search methods to find, evaluate, and rank the most relevant results. iXfind puts these results into context by dynamically clustering them into groups of similar documents. For example, a search for "stress" returns thousands of results that are clustered on the fly into contextually relevant sub-groups such as stress management, heart attacks, headaches, and others. Employees and customers can better manage information overload and more easily navigate by selecting relevant content groups.

iXfind is tightly integrated with Sentara's content management system, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. It is used to search through all of Sentara's content, both in- and outside of Content Management Server. "The ability to search through all of their content through one interface was critical," said Gopal Sadagopal, iXmatch Cofounder and Vice President of Product Development. "Our approach to combining information from multiple sources and then providing contextually relevant results for all levels of users makes iXfind a perfect solution for Sentara."

About Sentara Healthcare
Sentara Healthcare is a premier not-for-profit health care provider in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, is comprised of more than 70 sites of care including 6 acute care hospitals, a hospital for extended recovery, 2 outpatient care campuses, 7 nursing centers, 3 assisted living centers, and 25 primary care practices. Sentara also offers a full range of award-winning health coverage plans, home health and hospice services, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, mobile diagnostic vans, and ground and air medical transport services, including Nightingale -- the region's only air ambulance service. Sentara also was the first in the nation to pioneer and develop eICU®, an electronic intensive care treatment system. Striving to improve the wellness of the community, Sentara continues to participate in national and international research trials as a means to increase the medical options available to patients well into the future. Sentara Healthcare has consistently ranked among the nation's top integrated health care networks as published in Modern Healthcare magazine. Garnering the No.1 position in the U.S. in 2001 and No. 2 in 2002 and 2003, Sentara is the only health care system on the East Coast to be ranked in the nation's top 10 all six years the survey has been conducted.

About iXmatch Inc.
iXmatch is a leading provider of advanced search software. It creates a positive impact on a customer's business by presenting people with the most contextually-relevant information. iXmatch is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its customers include Broward County, Florida, Carlson Companies, F.W. Webb, HighJump Software, LogicLibrary, Pro Staff, Sagebrush Corporation, ShopNBC, Thomas Publishing, TrueBeginnings, U.S. Department of Defense, and XIOtech.