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Harrison Medical Center Selects Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager(TM) to Support Patient Safety Initiatives

Posted on: Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 09:01 CST

BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eclipsys Corporation(R), , The Outcomes Company(R), today announced that Harrison Medical Center, Bremerton, WA has signed an agreement to implement Sunrise Clinical Manager in support of key patient safety initiatives designed to improve its care delivery across the organization. Harrison Medical Center will implement Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager and its fully integrated modules including Sunrise Acute Care(TM), Sunrise Emergency Care(TM), Sunrise Critical Care(TM), Sunrise Surgery(TM) (powered by Surgical Information Systems), Sunrise Patient Acuity(TM) and Knowledge-Based Charting(TM) as the clinical information technology foundation to support its initiatives to transform its quality of care delivery from "good to great."

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Sunrise Clinical Manager's single integrated clinical platform will enable patient information to flow easily across Harrison Medical Center's acute care venues, and provide its clinicians with an electronic medical record based on clinician-centered workflows. Harrison Medical Center will now have a comprehensive overview of patient data in a single view that is tailored to individual requirements so clinicians can easily see the full patient picture and make efficient, informed decisions about the care patients need.

"Harrison Medical Center is committed to excellence in healthcare delivery and patient safety, as evidenced by being a recent recipient of the HealthGrades Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award, with a number one ranking in Washington State and a top ten rank nationally," said Scott W. Bosch, president and chief executive officer, Harrison Medical Center. "Given the company's track record in helping its customers achieve improved patient-care outcomes in high-acuity care settings, Eclipsys was the logical choice to provide the technology platform to help us achieve our goal of turning more care delivery units at Harrison Medical Center into award-winning and nationally-recognized centers of care."

To help Harrison Medical Center achieve a consistently high-standard of care, the organization will integrate Eclipsys evidence-based clinical content into its care delivery processes to provide its clinicians access to critical information where and when they need it. Additionally, by integrating Eclipsys' computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with the evidence- based clinical content, Harrison Medical Center will be able to standardize high-quality care delivery processes across its organization.

"A committee of more than 600 employees, comprised primarily of clinicians, led our decision to select Sunrise Clinical Manager, as they determined it was the best clinical information solution to help Harrison Medical Center improve care delivery," said Adar Palis, vice president, operations and chief information officer, Harrison Medical Center. "We are also very excited to engage Eclipsys Consulting Services to help us optimize our care delivery processes and achieve high rates of clinician adoption. This will help us drive measurable outcome improvements across our organization and maximize our investment in Sunrise Clinical Manager."

"Harrison Medical Center is well-known for its commitment to quality in care delivery and we are honored to add them to the growing list of healthcare organizations using Sunrise Clinical Manager solutions to achieve desired quality, safety, and financial outcomes," said Jay Deady, Eclipsys executive vice president, Customer Solutions. "We look forward to leveraging our experience working with community hospitals and our proven clinician adoption and outcome achievement methodologies to deliver an on-time, on-budget implementation that helps Harrison Medical Center achieve its care improvement goals."

Harrison Medical Center will also use Eclipsys' newly acquired solution Sunrise Patient Acuity(TM), which automatically determines patient acuity as a byproduct of clinical documentation, which will help the medical center optimize staffing to help improve patient safety and cost-effectiveness of care.

About Sunrise Clinical Manager

Sunrise Clinical Manager is an enterprise-wide advanced information solution that provides immediate, secure access to patients' complete records, streamlines care processes and improves the quality and cost-efficiency of care. Its fully integrated solutions for the acute, ambulatory, critical care and Emergency environments share a state-of-the-art workflow engine, CPOE system, embedded evidence-based clinical content and sophisticated interdisciplinary clinical documentation capabilities.

About Harrison Medical Center

Harrison Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital and the region's largest medical center, with three campuses in Bremerton, Silverdale, and Port Orchard serving the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas. With 350 physicians representing 40 specialties, Harrison Medical Center offers medical and surgical services, and 24-hour emergency care at two sites. Harrison Medical Center also serves as a regional center, providing specialized treatment in cardiology, including open-heart surgery; oncology; orthopedics; obstetrics and gynecology; and pediatrics. Harrison is a Level III Trauma Center.

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced integrated information software, clinical content and professional services that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial, operational and customer- satisfaction outcomes. For more information, see http://www.eclipsys.com/ or email info@eclipsys.com.

Statements in this news release concerning the implementation, features of and benefits provided by Eclipsys software, evidence-based content, implementation and consulting services 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 software. The success and timeliness of the company's services will 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-Q and 10-K 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 Clinical Manager, Sunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Emergency Care, Sunrise Patient Acuity, Sunrise Critical Care, Sunrise Surgery, and Knowledge-Based Charting 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 Jason Cigarran Director of Media Relations (media) (561) 322-4355 jason.cigarran@eclipsys.com Robert J. Colletti Chief Financial Officer (investors) (561) 322-4655 investor.relations@eclipsys.com Harrison Medical Center Patti Hart Director of Public Relations & Marketing (360) 792-6769 phart@harrisonmedical.org

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Eclipsys Corporation

CONTACT: Jason Cigarran of Eclipsys, Director of Media Relations(media), +1-561-322-4355, or jason.cigarran@eclipsys.com, or Robert J.Colletti of Eclipsys, Chief Financial Officer (investors), +1-561-322-4655, orinvestor.relations@eclipsys.com, or Patti Hart of Harrison Medical Center,Director of Public Relations & Marketing, +1-360-792-6769, orphart@harrisonmedical.org

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

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