ATLANTA, February 7, 2005  - Billian's HealthDATA Group announced it has signed a formal alliance with Porter Healthcare to provide the Healthcare Industry with the best quality data and market research that are available on the market today.

"We have the most current and accurate information available in the industry", says Billian’s President Jay Perkins.  “We chose to partner with Porter Healthcare because of the quality of their research and their longstanding excellent reputation in the industry.  The combination provides our customers’ with excellent results from two organizations focused on doing one thing well.  Our contact, IT and facility information, coupled with Porter’s research, turns trade show business card drops and badge scans into actionable sales leads for our customers’."

"Getting accurate up-to-date data in our industry is one of the most daunting tasks Healthcare IT companies face today", says Porter Healthcare President Don Graham.  "Whether it's sales, marketing or other departments in an organization, companies deal constantly with changes in industry employees, executives, emails and phone numbers. We looked at a lot of potential information partners out there and we're convinced that Billian’s has the best, freshest data of anybody."

For over forty years, Billian's HealthDATA Group has offered customers comprehensive information about healthcare organizations across the continuum.  From the groundbreaking nationwide hospital directory, "The Hospital Blue Book", to online healthcare IT information, Billian's has successfully responded to customer requests for healthcare data about multiple markets in multiple formats.  To contact them, go to www.billianshealthdata.com or, call 800-533-8484.

Since 1989, Porter Healthcare has provided lead generation and customer loyalty programs that drive development of predictable revenue for hundreds of healthcare industry companies including global customers such as IBM, Siemens, McKesson and Per-Se Technologies. Porter Healthcare executives speak regularly at industry events such as the HIMSS Annual Meeting and have published articles in many industry journals including Health Management Technology. For more information on Porter Healthcare, visit www.porterresearch.com or call 800-613-9143.