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ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/-- MEDai, an Orlando-based firm that assists healthcare organizations in improving care by identifying high-risk patients, announced today that it has won the prestigious KDD Cup 2004. This marks MEDai's fourth straight win. It's an important victory for the company, which applies predictive modeling techniques to advancing healthcare delivery and improving patient outcomes. The Association for Computing Machinery's Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD) l officially presented MEDai with the award on Sunday, August 22, 2004 at the KDD Conference in Seattle, WA.

The KDD Cup is the most rigorous competition in the field of predictive technology and data mining with participants from all over the world competing to showcase their capabilities. The competition is open to all industries and hundreds of individuals from around the world participated. MEDai takes home first place honors this year after winning first place in 2003 and consistently placing among the top four in each of the previous two years, clearly marking their status as a market leader in the field of predictive modeling.

For full results of KDD Cup 2004, see http://kodiak.cs.cornell.edu/kddcup/.

For more information about MEDai, visit www.medai.com.