Founded in 1993, Tampa, Florida-based Gold Standard is a leading developer of drug information databases, software, and clinical information solutions. Our products are developed by a staff of highly trained professionals with extensive experience in pharmacy practice, electronic publishing and software development. Gold Standard's customers include hundreds of hospitals, the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains and consultant pharmacy organizations, leading health information websites, and the nation's leading pharmacy and medical schools.

Gold Standard's mission is to improve the quality of patient care by providing our customers with a current source of the highest caliber of drug information and solutions at an exceptional value. We define "value" as much more than just a cost-savings measure - to Gold Standard, value also means:

• Treating our customers with respect and friendliness.
• Providing our customers with the highest standard of customer service and support.
• Listening to the feedback of our customers and taking a proactive stance to best meet their needs.
• Treating our employees with care and consideration; valuing our relationships with them; and providing opportunities for their professional growth.
• Protecting and enhancing the Gold Standard brand and the quality and assurance that it represents.
• Ensuring honesty and integrity in all of our business and personal relations.

For our employees, Gold Standard aspires to be a "learning organization," providing an environment where employees strive for personal growth, professional development and involvement. For our customers, we aspire to provide efficient, effective access to our products and services through enhanced delivery systems.

The Gold Standard Way - built on our personal commitment to enjoy our work, to provide you, our customers, with the quality tools you need to enjoy your work, and to grow and develop together, so we may all perform at our personal best!

About Informed Decisions

Based in Tampa, Florida, Informed Decisions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gold Standard that provides a full array of strategic health information technology services to healthcare interests including state governments, commercial insurance payers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and professional healthcare associations. Informed Decisions' mission is to apply clinical and technical expertise to aid customers in the continued advancement of clinical, financial and humanistic outcomes for the healthcare providers they support and, ultimately, the beneficiaries of their care.

Informed Decisions is committed to ensuring:

• Clinical integrity in our data and our products
• Quality and consistency in the services we provide
• The provision of top-quality customer service, including listening to the needs and wants of our customers and their clients
• Access to the most current, accurate clinical information possible

Visit the Informed Decisions website at informeddecisions.com.