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Bethesda Memorial Hospital Selects Eclipsys Sunrise Critical Care(TM) to Help Improve Patient-Care Outcomes in High-Acuity Care Setting

Posted on: Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 09:05 CDT

BOCA RATON, Fla., June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eclipsys Corporation(R) , The Outcomes Company(R), today announced that Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boynton Beach, FL, has selected Eclipsys' Sunrise Critical Care solution to help improve patient-care outcomes. Sunrise Critical Care will help provide clinicians and other key staff with immediate and simultaneous access to patient information and advanced documentation, order entry, and content to support care for patients in the hospital's critical care units. Sunrise Critical Care also provides a comprehensive audit trail for released documents, which Bethesda Memorial Hospital will use to support its quality initiatives and help ensure regulatory compliance.

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With Sunrise Critical Care, Bethesda Memorial Hospital's clinicians will be able to improve their ability to monitor and assess the condition of patients during what is called the "window of opportunity" -- the six to eight hours of time after admission when rapid therapeutic intervention can have the most-positive impact on a patient's condition. In real time, Sunrise Critical Care continuously cross-checks incoming test results and information from patient-monitoring devices against the patient's age, condition, gender, treatment history and evidence-based standards of care to quickly alert clinicians to potentially dangerous downward trends in a patient's health.

"We selected Sunrise Critical Care over the competition because it was built to handle the specific needs of a critical care department and has a very user-friendly interface," stated Raina O'Connor, Bethesda Memorial Hospital's director of Critical Care. "The solution will give our physicians a clear and concise view of patient information at the touch of a button, which we anticipate will lead to increased patient safety and improved outcomes."

A Foundation for Quality

Recently, Bethesda Memorial Hospital enacted organization-wide quality initiatives designed for each unit to achieve a ranking in the top 10 percent for care delivery. O'Connor said that the selection of Sunrise Critical Care is an important foundation for the critical-care units to reach this milestone and help the department receive the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence.

O'Connor noted that "Eclipsys' track record of consistently achieving industry-leading levels of solution adoption in high-acuity care settings was another important factor in our selection of Sunrise Critical Care. For the solution to help us improve patient-care outcomes, it was important for us to select a vendor with a proven implementation methodology for getting physicians and other key staff to use the solution once it's activated."

Sunrise Critical Care's electronic medical record is easily accessed by multiple users simultaneously, enabling a variety of clinicians to proceed with treatment rather than waiting on the availability of a single paper record. Additionally, by automating so many paper-intensive processes, Sunrise Critical Care delivers not only improved care quality and operational efficiencies but also reduced supplies and storage costs.

Best-of-Class Approach

"We empower each department's staff to determine which clinical information solution best works for them," said Geralyn Lunsford, Bethesda Memorial's vice president of Patient Services and chief nursing officer. "This requires tremendous coordination between our Information Systems (IS) and Patient Services departments, and we feel it will deliver the best results for our organization. Eclipsys Sunrise Critical Care met both of these requirements by demonstrating it can deliver real value for a critical care unit as well as seamlessly integrate with other clinical information solutions."

Sunrise Critical Care's seamless integration is due to its open XA(TM) architecture and its ObjectsPlus/XA(TM) technology. They provide an application-development model for achieving high levels of interoperability among disparate systems, enabling hospital IS staff to easily integrate Sunrise Critical Care with their other clinical information solutions. This helps ensure consistent, real-time access to data for those who need it, and smooth handoffs of patient care and information across systems, caregivers, shifts, departments and even facilities.

"Eclipsys continues to win new customers due to our solutions' proven ability to deliver improved patient-care outcomes in high-acuity care environments, and our track record of delivering on-time, on-budget implementations with superior rates of clinician adoption," said Jay Deady, Eclipsys executive vice president, Client Solutions. "This new contract win against our major competitors also demonstrates that the flexibility of our XA architecture makes our clinical information solutions attractive to healthcare organizations taking a best-of-breed approach to automate their high-acuity clinical areas."

About Sunrise Critical Care

Sunrise Critical Care is a fully integrated module of Sunrise Clinical Manager(TM), the Eclipsys enterprise-wide clinical information solution. Sunrise Critical Care is designed to meet the information-intensive and fast- paced needs of the critical-care environment, helping save time, save costs and save lives by streamlining time-consuming tasks, eliminating unnecessary steps from the care process and enabling clinicians to focus on direct patient care.

About Bethesda Memorial Hospital

Since 1959, Bethesda Memorial Hospital, a fully accredited, 390-bed, not- for-profit community hospital based in Boynton Beach, FL, has served the residents of south Palm Beach County with a mission "to provide quality health services in a caring manner." With more than 500 physicians in 40 areas of specialty, Bethesda Memorial Hospital and its affiliates offer a full array of healthcare services, including the Bethesda Comprehensive Cancer Center, an affiliate of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, In addition, Bethesda has a certified Primary Stroke Center, a nationally accredited vascular institute, and the Center for Women and Children including a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The hospital's newest addition, the Cornell Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, is a 28-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility. Construction is currently underway for the new Bethesda Heart Institute, scheduled to open in 2008. For details, see http://www.bethesdaweb.com/.

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 benefits provided by Eclipsys software and implementation 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 Critical Care, XA, ObjectsPlus/XA, and Sunrise Clinical Manager 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 Bethesda Memorial Hospital Cynthia M. Forkner Assistant Director, Public Relations (561) 737-7733, ext. 4810 Cynthia.Forkner@BethesdaHealthcare.com

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Eclipsys Corporation

CONTACT: Jason Cigarran, Director of Media Relations, +1-561-322-4355,jason.cigarran@eclipsys.com; or Robert J. Colletti, Chief Financial Officer,+1-561-322-4655, investor.relations@eclipsys.com, both of EclipsysCorporation; or Cynthia M. Forkner, Assistant Director, Public Relations ofBethesda Memorial Hospital, +1-561-737-7733, ext. 4810,Cynthia.Forkner@BethesdaHealthcare.com

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

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