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Eclipsys Sunrise ED Manager(TM) Activated at New York University Medical Center

Posted on: Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 09:01 CST

BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eclipsys Corporation(R) , The Outcomes Company(R), today announced that New York University (NYU) Medical Center, New York, NY, has activated the company's Sunrise ED Manager in the medical center's Emergency Department in midtown Manhattan. The Level II trauma center treats approximately 35,000 patients each year.

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Sunrise ED Manager supports Emergency Department clinicians who must make decisions quickly and keep track of several patients in varying stages of care. By providing the right clinical information at the point of care at the right time in the patient's course of treatment, Sunrise ED Manager facilitates optimum workflow, efficiency and accuracy in the unpredictable Emergency Department. In addition, by automating functions such as registration, triage, patient tracking, physician orders, documentation and prescription writing, the system helps Emergency Departments streamline workflows and improve patient outcomes.

"We're proud to be a part of NYU Medical Center's successful deployment of Sunrise ED Manager and to continue our long partnership with this prestigious healthcare provider," said R. Andrew Eckert, Eclipsys president and chief executive officer. "NYU Medical Center shares the Eclipsys Vision of Health(TM) in which information is always available to clinicians across the organization -- including the fast-paced Emergency Department -- enabling the best possible decisions and patient outcomes."

"Eclipsys has been a terrific partner," said Pravene Nath, MD, senior director of Information Technology and assistant professor of Emergency Medicine for NYU Medical Center. "We never felt that the success or failure of the project was ours alone. We have always believed that it was a shared effort and we are happy that it has become a shared success."

One of the key features of Sunrise ED Manager is an electronic ED Display Board, which replaces the traditional "white board" on which clinicians would manually track a patient's location and status. Because tracking information is displayed on large-screen monitors, NYU's ED staff can now track patient location, status and result availability at a glance, which reduces response time and improves outcomes. Driven by a highly configurable rules engine, Sunrise ED Manager enables NYU's ED clinicians to create color-coded alerts and custom-configured columns.

NYU Medical Center is a long-time user of Eclipsys clinical solutions, having first implemented the company's heritage Eclipsys 7000(TM) system in the early 1980s. Using the E7000(TM), NYU Medical Center has been widely recognized as the first hospital in the world to achieve 100-percent computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The hospital is now in the process of installing Eclipsys' latest-generation solution, Sunrise Clinical Manager(TM).

Because Clinical Manager and ED Manager are integrated components of the Sunrise(TM) advanced clinical suite and share a common architecture and clinical data repository, they support continuity of care across the organization. As a result, inpatient clinicians are able to see all orders, results, treatments, and triage notes entered on the patient's ED record, eliminating the need to re-order already completed tests or make new clinical observations for the patient's record. This level of integration eliminates duplication and unnecessary actions, allowing healthcare organizations to improve clinical operations and care delivery.

About New York University Medical Center

NYU Medical Center, one of the nation's premier centers of excellence in healthcare, scientific research and medical education, consists of two hospitals, Tisch Hospital and the New York University School of Medicine. Tisch Hospital, an acute-care general hospital of 704 beds, contains important treatment and diagnostic units and is a focus for a wide spectrum of regional patient care programs. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine is the world's first facility devoted entirely to rehabilitation medicine. NYU School of Medicine spans a history of excellence of more than 160 years in the education and training of physicians, in patient care, and in scientific research. For details, visit http://www.med.nyu.edu/ .

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced clinical, financial and management information software and service solutions to more than 1,500 healthcare facilities. Eclipsys empowers healthcare organizations to improve patient safety, revenue cycle management and operational efficiency through innovative information solutions. For more information, see http://www.eclipsys.com/ or email info@eclipsys.com .

Statements in this news release concerning the scope of the agreement and the benefits provided by Eclipsys software are forward-looking statements and actual results may differ from those projected due to a variety of risks and uncertainties. Implementation and customization of Eclipsys software is complex and time consuming. Results depend upon a variety of factors and can vary by client. Each client's circumstances are unique and may include unforeseen issues that make it more difficult than anticipated to implement or derive benefit from the software. The success and timeliness of the company's services often depend at least in part upon client involvement, which can be difficult to control. Eclipsys is required to meet specified performance standards, and the contract can be terminated or its scope reduced under certain circumstances. More information about company risks is available in recent Form 10-K and other filings made by Eclipsys from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Special attention is directed to the portions of those documents entitled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations." Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks of Eclipsys Corporation. Sunrise ED Manager, the phrase "Vision of Health," Sunrise Clinical Manager, Sunrise, Eclipsys 7000, and E7000 are trademarks of Eclipsys Corporation. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Eclipsys: Michael E. Donner Chief Marketing Officer (media) (561) 322-4485 michael.donner@eclipsys.com Robert J. Colletti Chief Financial Officer (investors) (561) 322-4655 investor.relations@eclipsys.com

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Eclipsys Corporation

CONTACT: Media, Michael E. Donner, Chief Marketing Officer,+1-561-322-4485, or michael.donner@eclipsys.com, or Investors, Robert J.Colletti, Chief Financial Officer, +1-561-322-4655, orinvestor.relations@eclipsys.com, both of Eclipsys

Web site: http://www.eclipsys.com/http://www.med.nyu.edu/

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