Business: QMed, Inc.'s, ohms|cvd (On-Line Health Management System for Cardiovascular Disease) is a powerful and elegant proprietary information technology bringing combined patient-specific prognosis and national standard therapeutic recommendations to primary care doctors, while incorporating process reports of expense and health outcomes for the managed care organization. This cost-effective and cost beneficial system is currently utilized by health plans in nine states including: Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon and Utah; by Regence BlueShield in Idaho and the State of Washington; by PacifiCare Health Systems in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Texas; by CHA Health in Kentucky; by DAKOTACARE in South Dakota and by Providence Health System in Oregon.