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Misys Healthcare Systems Signs Major Agreement with King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to Deliver Radiology Information System; Streamlines Radiology Department Workflow and Operations

Tucson, Arizona, February 26, 2002 -- Misys Healthcare Systems (formerly Sunquest Information Systems), a market leader in healthcare IT, today announced that it has signed a significant agreement with King Edward VII Memorial Hospital located in the islands of Bermuda. The contract covers the deployment of Misys Radiology Information System (RIS), which is designed to optimize daily operations for a radiology department. Misys Radiology enables hospitals to standardize radiology data management functions enterprise-wide, streamline operations and workflow, facilitate orders, and intelligently schedule patients and radiology resources. The system also delivers patient tracking, film management, and feature-rich reporting.

Misys Healthcare Systems Signs Major Agreement with King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to Deliver Radiology Information System
Streamlines Radiology Department Workflow and Operations

Tucson, Arizona, February 26, 2002 -- Misys Healthcare Systems (formerly Sunquest Information Systems), a market leader in healthcare IT, today announced that it has signed a significant agreement with King Edward VII Memorial Hospital located in the islands of Bermuda. The contract covers the deployment of Misys Radiology Information System (RIS), which is designed to optimize daily operations for a radiology department. Misys Radiology enables hospitals to standardize radiology data management functions enterprise-wide, streamline operations and workflow, facilitate orders, and intelligently schedule patients and radiology resources. The system also delivers patient tracking, film management, and feature-rich reporting.

"Misys Radiology was selected as it met all our present practical and technical requirements. The company's product direction was also in keeping with our plans for integration with a PACS," said Dr. Daniel Stovell, Director of Diagnostic Imaging, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Misys RIS is an efficient, comprehensive system that is intuitive to the user. They provide excellent support and the implementation has been systematic and well managed."

About Misys Radiology
Misys RIS integrates information and images into one easy-to-use, easy-to-access electronic source that provides a wide range of functionality, including:
Patient registration with online review of patient exam history and interfaces to ADT and order entry.
Appointment scheduling with user-defined rules for automated appointment booking and effective room utilization.
Patient tracking that accommodates bar code entry of exam status updates and monitors patients and exams throughout the enterprise.
Film management that supports bar coding for quick processing of film as well as receipt and tracking of outside film.
Patient reports with customizable reporting template and voice recognition and playback to decrease exam-reporting time.
Fee billing that captures both hospital and radiologist charges and includes built-in options for dynamic electronic batch or file batch billing.
Integrated PACs and voice recognition options.
Optional Misys application modules for use with Misys Radiology include integrated mammography reporting and tracking, Misys Ad Hoc Report Writer, Misys Clinical Event Manager, a decision support system, and Misys Encompass, web-based clinical information access tool.
About King Edward VII Memorial Hospital
The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, a member of the Bermuda Hospitals Board, is the acute and long term care facility providing comprehensive medical care to the population of Bermuda and overseas visitors. Accredited by the Canadian council on health services, the hospital boasts a diverse nursing and medical staff, recruited locally and worldwide, providing quality nursing and medical care within the community and using up-to-date procedures and technological equipment. The hospital presently has 324 beds in private, semi-private, and public wards.

About Misys Healthcare Systems
Misys Healthcare Systems is a division of Misys plc -- one of the worlds largest independent application software products companies. Misys Healthcare Systems is among the top five healthcare IT companies in the United States.

The company designs, develops, and supports a comprehensive suite of information products for hospitals, commercial laboratories, physician practices and home care providers that serve the healthcare IT industrys broadening spectrum of needs. Misys Healthcare Systems three business units have a well-established customer base with 85,000 physicians, 1,200 hospitals, 600 home care providers, and hundreds of laboratories, clinics, managed services organizations and other related organizations using the companys products and services.

About Misys plc
Misys plc, a FTSE-250 company, is one of the world's leading software products suppliers. Misys partners with its customers to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries. The group develops and licenses products to the international banking and securities, US healthcare, and UK retail financial services sectors. Misys employs over 6,500 people.

Misys Radiology, Misys Clinical Financial, Misys Encompass and Misys Clinical Event Manager are trademarks of Misys Hospital Systems, Inc. d/b/a Misys Healthcare Systems. Other trademarks or registered trademarks are the marks of their respective owners.

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