Advanced Research Systems Promotes Torsten Kablitz to Director of Product Development.

SEATTLE--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 20, 1999--

Advanced Research Systems, Inc. (ARS), an advanced technology company offering care management software for clinical management, today announced that it has promoted Torsten Kablitz to director of product development. In this role, Kablitz will manage the software development process, quality assurance, technical support programs and internal systems.

"Torsten has an extensive product development background in both technology and healthcare," said Robert Nakahara, president of ARS. "With this promotion, he will play an important role in ensuring that we continue to achieve the high quality standards we have set for our products. I'm confident he will be an integral part of our success going forward."

Kablitz has more then 10 years experience in delivering enterprise software solutions. He has proven expertise in managing the software development process including requirements modeling, business analysis, object modeling and development, and implementing quality based development processes. Prior to joining ARS, Kablitz was principal engineer for a well-funded managed care Internet start up. In this role he helped architect and develop the company's n-tier enterprise architecture and Internet product. He also held a development management role successfully delivering several versions of the company's products. Prior to that, he consulted as an expert in enterprise systems for organizations such as US West and UNISYS. Kablitz attended the University of Utah where he majored in Computer Science and minored in Physics.

About ARS

Seattle-based ARS, developer of the ATLANTES Care Management System, was founded in 1989 by CEO Tracy Maxwell. ARS provides healthcare organizations with a solution for improving patient outcomes while effectively managing the delivery and cost of care. The ATLANTES Care Management System offers a complete suite of care management modules including Intake, Utilization Management, Case Management, Disease Management, Referral Management and a Survey/Assessment Tool. Last month, ARS announced the introduction of ATLANTES Care Manager Workstation(TM), a powerful Web-based tool that provides a single source of up-to-date, industry standard clinical and reference materials for care managers.

The ATLANTES Care Management System has been selected by premier healthcare organizations across the country such as Regence BlueShield of Washington, Southwest Catholic Healthcare and the State of Maryland Medicaid program under the University of Maryland in Baltimore County. ARS has strategic alliances with Resource Information Management Systems (RIMS) and Microsoft Corp. The company can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.ar-systems.com.