For Immediate Release
Contact: Tracy Hartman
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Executives Choose Clinton as Best Presidential Candidate for Healthcare According to Beacon Partners’ Poll

Yet on Election Day, these same executives wouldn’t necessarily vote for her

WEYMOUTH, MA – March 3, 2008 – On the eve of what could be a make or break primary day in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont for Hillary Clinton, the results of a poll indicate she might be in more trouble with voters in spite of success on one of her signature issues, healthcare.

According to over 600 healthcare executives who were polled at a national healthcare conference that just ended in Orlando, Florida, Hillary Clinton would be the best presidential candidate to most positively impact the healthcare industry. Yet, when also asked which candidate they’d vote for on Election Day, Clinton ranked third among the four remaining candidates.

“We felt it was important to poll this select group of people, individuals who truly understand the issues and challenges facing the healthcare industry today, as to which presidential candidate they feel would have the greatest impact on healthcare,” says Ralph Fargnoli, president and CEO of Beacon Partners, the healthcare management consulting company who administered the “Beacon Partners 2008 Presidential Healthcare Poll” onsite at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition that just ended on February 28th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.

“We find it fascinating that while they think Hillary will have the greatest impact on healthcare as president, these same individuals wouldn’t necessarily vote for her.”

Choosing from the current presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton (D), Barack Obama (D), John McCain (R), or Mike Huckabee (R), healthcare executives attending HIMSS were asked via an electronic survey the following four questions:

1. Which candidate do you believe will be the biggest advocate for healthcare IT adoption?
2. Which candidate do you believe will have the most impact on empowering providers to deliver the best possible healthcare through the use of healthcare IT?
3. Which candidate do you believe has the best plan to improve healthcare quality and reduce healthcare costs?
4. If today was election day, which candidate would you vote for?

To view the results, please visit http://66.77.127.8/Beacon/Results.html

About HIMSS
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry’s membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Brussels and other locations across the United States and Europe, HIMSS represents more than 20,000 individual members and over 300 corporate members that collectively represent organizations employing millions of people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to ensuring quality patient care.

About Beacon Partners
Beacon Partners is one of the fastest growing privately held leaders in North America in IT, clinical, strategic and operations consulting for the healthcare industry. Focused on the client experience and backed by decades of healthcare industry knowledge, Beacon Partners is the only firm in the industry that provides a satisfaction guarantee for all of its services. Beacon Partners’ commitment is to maximize their client’s Enterprise Yield™, which is the alignment of that healthcare facility’s people, processes and technologies for optimal performance. Please visit http://www.beaconpartners.com and Beacon Partners’ special healthcare informational portal, http://www.spotlightonhealthcare.com.

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