Harbin Clinic Chooses Allscripts Healthcare Solutions to Automate Patient Records

July 31, 2002 CHICAGO, Jul 31, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --

Georgia's Largest Privately Owned Multi-Specialty Practice Builds mEMR with TouchWorks

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of point-of-care decision support tools for physicians, announced today that Harbin Clinic (Harbin), the largest privately owned multi-specialty practice in Georgia, has selected the full suite of TouchWorks(TM) modules for an initial group of physicians. Harbin expects to implement the TouchWorks Dictate(TM) and TouchWorks Document(TM) modules in the next six to eight weeks and will ultimately roll out the full TouchWorks suite of clinical applications using the Allscripts mobile and modular approach to the electronic medical record, or mEMR(TM).

Physician Accessibility Is Key to Choosing a Solution

With many of their physicians practicing medicine outside their main clinic, Harbin sought a technological means to consolidate patient information, yet enable their physicians to access this data anytime and anywhere. In choosing a solution, Harbin focused on four criteria: 1) multiple hardware form factors and access points -- including wireless handheld device (PDA) access, 2) a modular implementation strategy, 3) integration with their existing IDX practice management system, and 4) a server-based application model. Harbin determined that Allscripts was the only vendor that met all of these conditions.

"We knew technology was the key to collecting patient data from multiple points and delivering it back to the physicians where and when they need it," said J. Paul Ferguson, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Harbin Clinic. "The TouchWorks solution brings patient data to our physicians through PDA's on a wireless network, through desktop workstations, and even through their PC's at home while maintaining confidentiality and decreasing potential errors." Harbin officials also cited an established customer base, user-friendly interface, and the financial stability of Allscripts as additional reasons for selecting the TouchWorks solution.

"Harbin Clinic and Allscripts share the same goal: improving healthcare by bringing the right information to physicians wherever care is delivered, a concept we call Just Right, Just-in-Time Information(TM)," stated Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. "Allscripts actively seeks to work with healthcare leaders, like Harbin, to improve healthcare by leveraging leading-edge software and hardware technology."

Allscripts has recently announced several other agreements with leaders in the healthcare industry, including Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) -- the largest healthcare insurer in Hawaii, Aurora Health Care -- the largest not-for-profit health care system in Wisconsin, and two divisions of Advocate Health Care -- the largest integrated health care delivery network in Illinois.

Harbin will integrate TouchWorks with their existing IDX Group Practice Management System (GPMS). Harbin has been an IDX customer since 1997. The integration of TouchWorks and GPMS drives operational improvements by more directly linking clinical and financial activities. For example, using a handheld device, doctors and nurses can enter patient encounter related information at the point of care using TouchWorks Charge(TM) and then submit the data wirelessly to the GPMS software, a more efficient process that ensures accuracy and speeds reimbursement. Through an exclusive 10-year alliance, Allscripts and IDX provide integration between TouchWorks clinical applications and IDX practice management software. As a part of this alliance, IDX customers receive this integration at no additional cost.

About Harbin Clinic

The Harbin Clinic staff includes more than 115 physicians who represent the following medical specialties: anesthesiology, cardiology, cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgery, endocrinology, infectious diseases, orthopedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, hematology/oncology, family practice, internal medicine, gastroenterololgy, pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, obstetrics/gynecology, psychology and psychiatry, otolaryngology, general surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology and urology.

The Harbin Clinic physicians have a multi-county primary referral base including Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Polk, Walker, and Paulding counties in Georgia and Cherokee and DeKalb counties in Alabama.

About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is the leading provider of point-of-care decision support solutions for physicians. The Company's TouchWorks software products enhance physician productivity using a wireless handheld device or desktop workstation to automate the most common physician activities including prescribing, capturing charges, dictating, ordering labs and viewing results, providing patient education, and taking clinical notes. The Company also provides medication fulfillment services. Additionally, Allscripts provides patient compliance and healthcare product education services for physicians through its Physicians Interactive(TM) unit. Allscripts provides services to over 20,000 physicians across the U.S.

Strategic partners include IDX Systems (Nasdaq: IDXC); IMS Health (NYSE: RX); Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT); HP (NYSE: HPQ); Express Scripts (Nasdaq: ESRX); and Medco Health.

TouchWorks, TouchWorks Dictate, TouchWorks Document, mEMR, Just Right, Just-in-Time Information, TouchWorks Charge, and Physicians Interactive are trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. Visit Allscripts on the Web at www.allscripts.com .

This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts' actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts see the Company's 2001 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.

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CONTACT: Dan Michelson, Vice President of Marketing of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, +1-800-654-0889, Ext. 4330, [email protected] , or Natalie Simms, Marketing Manager of Harbin Clinic, +1-706-238-8005, [email protected]

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