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Perot Systems Teams With Medicity to Deliver Delaware's Statewide Health Information Network

Posted on: Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 15:01 CST

PLANO, Texas, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perot Systems Corporation has teamed with Salt Lake City-based Medicity, Inc. to build the first statewide health information exchange for the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN). The six-year contract, with two automatically renewing two-year extensions, was awarded in competitive bidding in October.

The DHIN Clinical Information Exchange Utility is designed to help the state of Delaware monitor public health, allow providers to better manage patient care, and provide consumers with tools to become more engaged in their own healthcare. The DHIN expects the network to support more than six million secure, fast, and reliable health information exchanges per year. The first phase of the project involves three hospitals, several physician offices, and a clinical laboratory network, and is expected to be operational within six to nine months.

Perot Systems will work with Medicity and the state of Delaware to develop, implement and operate the network to deliver real-time clinical information sharing among all healthcare providers, hospitals, labs and pharmacies across the state. Medicity will provide its innovative Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) software platform with its flexible health information exchange architecture. Perot Systems will provide state- of-the-art data center services from its Plano Technology Center, technical and provider help desks, and outreach training; as well as on-site customer service.

"Perot Systems offers DHIN market-leading best practices and tools, and extensive experience in the healthcare industry. This combination of expertise and resources will give Delaware the predictable technology environment to reliably connect physicians, hospitals and other organizations in the statewide network," said Chuck Lyles, president of Perot Systems' healthcare industry group. "We are pleased about our collaboration with Medicity and the DHIN, and look forward to delivering an information network that will bring great benefit to the residents of Delaware."

"We are pleased to have Perot Systems working with us on this first project," said Kipp Lassetter, Medicity CEO. "Medicity brings to the Delaware initiative years of experience acquiring data from disparate systems in the care community and distributing it to physicians in the way they want to receive it. Using our platform, DHIN will be able to deliver results to physician electronic medical record systems, physician practice printers, faxes, and a DHIN sponsored web application."

Perot Systems now serves more than 590 hospitals with information technology, clinical transformation and financial optimization solutions. The company is a recognized leader in the healthcare industry and is known for its innovative approach to helping providers execute strategic transformational initiatives to improve patient care. Perot Systems associates worldwide provide business and technical services for all segments in the healthcare marketplace.

About Perot Systems

Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information technology services and business solutions. Through its flexible and collaborative approach, Perot Systems integrates expertise from across the company to deliver custom solutions that enable clients to accelerate growth, streamline operations and create new levels of customer value. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Perot Systems reported 2005 revenue of $2.0 billion. The company has more than 20,000 associates located in North America, Europe, and Asia. Additional information on Perot Systems is available at http://www.perotsystems.com/ .

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Among many factors that could affect our business and cause actual results to differ materially are that we may bear the risk of cost overruns for custom software development and implementation services, our contracts generally contain provisions that could allow customers to terminate the contracts and sometimes contain provisions that enable the customer to require changes in pricing, and some contracts contain fixed-price provisions or penalties that could result in decreased profits. Please refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at http://www.sec.gov/ , for additional information regarding risk factors. We disclaim any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.

Perot Systems Corporation

CONTACT: Sharon Lakes of Perot Systems Corporation, +1-972-577-6012, orsharon.lakes@ps.net

Web site: http://www.perotsystems.com/

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