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Streamline Health(R) to Implement Integrated Document Management Solutions for Midwest Healthcare Network

Posted on: Friday, 18 May 2007, 09:00 CDT

CINCINNATI, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. , a leading provider of integrated document management solutions, today announced that a multi-facility healthcare organization in the Midwestern region of the U.S. will implement Streamline Health's enterprise workflow and document management solutions, integrated with its current GE Healthcare Centricity(R) Enterprise system. This regional hospital system plans to enhance their health information management processes, boost productivity and promote exceptional patient care with the integrated solutions.

Streamline Health's solutions offer this multi-facility hospital system seamless access to various media of patient health information. They will utilize Streamline Health's document management solutions to provide convenient electronic access, including secure web-based access, to all forms of patient information from any location. The implementation and integration of these solutions will alleviate friction points associated with business processes and improve the flow of information.

The healthcare system will deploy the following Streamline Health solutions across their enterprise:

-- AccessANYware(TM) - HIM: Provides enterprise access to a patient's medical records to better coordinate patient care. -- Completion Workflow: Expedites the completion of the medical record, including online review of chart documents and electronic signature by physicians. -- Coding Workflow(TM): Improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home-based employees. -- Release of Information Workflow(TM): Facilitates efficient compliance with requests for patient information from third party requestors. -- Document Capture Solutions: Delivers high speed production scanning and indexing as well as departmental document capture and management.

"With the proven integration between the Streamline Health and GE Healthcare solutions, this large healthcare network will be able to achieve a flexible, automated document workflow process that will increase productivity and reduce costs across their enterprise system," commented Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. "The capabilities of our document workflow solutions offer a direct path to drive operational efficiencies and elevate patient care. We are very pleased to add another very large mutual GE Healthcare - Streamline Health customer."

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre- symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company . Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at http://www.gehealthcare.com/.

About Streamline Health

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. is a leading supplier of 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, portal connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR) and interoperability.

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 order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and signature capture, insurance verification, 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 for purchase or through a remote hosting services model that better matches customers' capital or operating budget needs.

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 timing of the closing of contracts and the timing of the subsequent revenue recognition related thereto ,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.

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.

CONTACT: Carolyn Stendahl, Marketing Communications Mgr. of StreamlineHealth Solutions, Inc., +1-513-794-7100,carolyn.stendahl@streamlinehealth.net

Web site: http://www.streamlinehealth.net/http://www.gehealthcare.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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