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Streamline Health to Deliver Hosted Document Workflow Solution to Leading West Coast University-Affiliated Surgery Department

Posted on: Thursday, 26 March 2009, 06:30 CDT

World class healthcare provider looks to improve operating efficiencies with advanced SaaS solution

CINCINNATI, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRM) announced today that a leading West Coast university-affiliated surgery department will implement Streamline Health's enterprise document management and workflow solutions via Streamline Health's Software as a Service (SaaS) model, hosted in its advanced Cloud Computing Center. The deployment of Streamline Health's document management and workflow solutions will address the need to enhance the institution's operational efficiencies and streamline overall business processes.

By utilizing Streamline Health's SaaS-based solutions, billing professionals at the institution's department of surgery will gain seamless access to document-centric patient information through a permanent, document-based repository of essential patient billing information. Streamline Health's accessANYware(TM) document management solution, as well as Coding Workflow, expects to improve labor-intensive chart coding processes while minimizing capital costs through Streamline Health's remotely hosted Cloud Computing Center.

"We are pleased to provide the innovative SaaS-based technology that ensures higher accuracies and improved chart coding turnaround time, while minimizing capital expenditures by delivering our solutions via our Cincinnati-based Cloud Computing Center," said J. Brian Patsy, president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health. "The remotely hosted solution eliminates the need for extensive on-site capital investments and utilization of scarce IT resources for the surgery department."

Mr. Patsy continued, "Streamline Health's document management and workflow solutions offer improved operating efficiencies by allowing the institution to hire, manage and retain excellent employees that may work remotely or from home with the implementation of our coding workflow. We look forward to the department achieving a greater return on investment that assists them in offering the highest quality medical treatment available today."

About Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.

Streamline Health is a leading supplier of document workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners and healthcare organizations to improve operational efficiencies through business process optimization. The Company provides integrated tools and technologies for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR) and business process integration.

The Company's workflow-based services offer solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, abstracting and completion, remote physician referral order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and signature capture, financial screening, perioperative processing, secondary billing services, explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing. The Company's solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human Resource and Supply Chain Management processes of the healthcare enterprise. All solutions are available through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model via its Cloud Computing Center that better matches customers' capital or operating budget needs, or via a locally installed software licensing model.

Streamline Health's solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location, including secure web-based access. These integrated solutions allow providers and administrators to link existing systems with documents, which can dramatically improve the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart processing, document retention, and archiving. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net.

"Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Statements made by Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, included herein. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, key strategic alliances with vendors that resell the Company products, the ability of the Company to control costs, availability of products produced from third party vendors, the healthcare regulatory environment, healthcare information systems budgets, availability of healthcare information systems trained personnel for implementation of new systems, as well as maintenance of legacy systems, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. filings with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

MEDIA CONTACTS: INVESTOR CONTACTS: Melissa Vincent Lytham Partners, LLC Marketing Communications Joe Diaz, Robert Blum or Joe Dorame (513) 794-7100 (602) 889-9700 STRM@lythampartners.com

SOURCE Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.

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