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Streamline Health Signs Contract With Sarasota Memorial Hospital Deal Will Improve Operational Efficiencies and Drive Paperless Organization CINCINNATI, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc.(TM) (NASDAQ:LANV) dba Streamline Health(TM) today announced it has signed a new contract with Sarasota Memorial Hospital for its Health Information Management, Patient Financial Services, Supply Chain Management and Human Resource workflows and document management solutions. The contract calls for an enterprise license for the deployment of Streamline Health's solutions throughout the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System and will seamlessly integrate with current Eclipsys Sunrise(TM) Clinical Manager, Access Manager/Patient Financial Manager and PeopleSoft applications. The contract includes the following Streamline Health solutions: - accessANYware(TM) provides enterprise access to a patient's medical and financial records to better coordinate patient care - Completion Workflow expedites the completion of the medical record and accelerates the completion of billing services - Release of Information facilitates efficient compliance Workflow(TM) with requests for patient information from third party requestors - codingANYware(TM) improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home-based employees - Physician Orders Workflow captures and routes a referring physician's hand written, faxed orders to the hospital's scheduling office while linking the order to the patient's medical record for follow-up care - Financial Screening Workflow reduces billing rejections by capturing insurance cards and financial documents at time of admission and forwarding the information to insurance specialists for special payment program analysis - Cash Posting Workflow manages the electronic parsing of Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) to the patient's record for access while posting payments - Custom Workflows for Supply increases efficiencies and Chain Management and Human productivity through the linkage Resources of disparate systems, such as the Eclipsys SCM and PeopleSoft and the distribution of information through optimized workflow and business processes Denis Baker, vice president and chief information officer at Sarasota Memorial commented, "Our decision to select Streamline Health is an indication of our commitment to leverage technology to drive down our operational costs and set new standards in quality health care. Streamline Health's comprehensive workflow and document management solutions, along with their ability to link disparate systems across our enterprise, will streamline our document intensive environments and ensure timely access to critical health information from virtually any location. Our goal is not just a paperless medical record, but a paperless organization, and Streamline Health will help get us there." J. Brian Patsy, president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health, remarked, "We are extremely pleased to have a strategic partnership with Sarasota Memorial. Their vision of a connected health care enterprise driven by efficient, value-based workflow processes is one that we share and one that we are eager to help them realize. Our relationship is yet another example of a prestigious health care organization recognizing the tremendous benefits of our workflow and document management solutions. Streamline Health's applications and services link documents with existing information systems to streamline information and drive results. We look forward to helping Sarasota Memorial achieve the operational efficiencies necessary to reach their operational and financial objectives." About Sarasota Memorial Sarasota Memorial Hospital is a fully JCAHO accredited 845 bed hospital, located on the west coast of Florida. It is the second largest public hospital in the state of Florida. Sarasota Memorial is among the top 25 hospitals in the United States for the number of open-heart surgeries performed annually, and in the top 10 for the number of joint replacements performed each year. As the first non- academic hospital in the nation to develop a clinical research service, Sarasota Memorial has conducted almost 200 clinical trials during the past 10 years. Recognized as one of Florida's most progressive health care systems, Sarasota Memorial is dedicated to setting new standards in quality health care with a state-of-the-art facility, innovative technology and dedication to high quality patient care. About Streamline Health Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners, healthcare organizations, and customers to create and improve operational efficiencies through business process re-engineering and automating demanding document-intensive environments. 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 departments 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 access using a web-browser through the Intranet/Internet. These integrated systems allow providers and administrators to link 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. Streamline Health provides remote hosting services to various healthcare providers including University Hospital, a member of The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, and Children's Medical Center of Columbus, OH. In addition, the Company has installed its workflow and document management solutions at leading healthcare providers including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Beth Israel Medical Centers, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical University Hospital Authority of South Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. For additional information please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net/. Eclipsys and Peoplesoft, and their product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Statements made by LanVision Systems, Inc., d/b/a Streamline Health 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 and uncertainties 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 impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, key strategic alliances with vendors that resell Streamline Health 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 LanVision Systems, 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. DATASOURCE: LanVision Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Tom Agler, Manager - Media Relations of LanVision Systems, Inc., +1-513-794-7100 Web site: http://www.streamlinehealth.net/

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