Albuquerque's largest integrated delivery system selects PHAMIS-LASTWORD.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 1996--PHAMIS Inc. (NASDAQ:PHAM), Seattle-based developer of the LASTWORD healthcare information system, announced today that it has signed a contract to install its PHAMIS-LASTWORD system throughout Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS), based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

PHS is an integrated delivery system consisting of 11 hospitals and medical centers ranging in size from 20 to 500 beds, a health maintenance organization, convalescent centers, home healthcare agencies, urgent care centers, outpatient clinics and doctor offices throughout the state of New Mexico. These include:

-- Albuquerque Hospitals: Presbyterian Hospital, Presbyterian

Kaseman Hospital and Presbyterian Pickard Convalescent Center

-- Regional Hospitals: Artesia General Hospital, Colfax General

Hospital, Dan C. Trigg Hospital, Delta County Memorial Hospital,

Espanola Hospital, Lincoln County Medical Center, Plains Regional

Medical Center-Clovis, Plains Regional Medical Center -- Portales 

and Socorro General Hospital

-- Numerous other New Mexico hospitals and physicians practices

throughout New Mexico affiliated with Presbyterian Health Plan

"We are very pleased that Presbyterian Healthcare Services has chosen the LASTWORD system to meet the goals of its growing regional integrated delivery system," said Frank T. Sample, president and CEO, PHAMIS Inc. "We consider PHS to be the leading provider of patient care in the state of New Mexico and are looking forward to working with this premier organization. PHS selected PHAMIS Inc. because of LASTWORD's ability to support the organization across the healthcare enterprise."

"The application of information technology for improved business processes is a strategic priority for our organization," said Jim Hinton, president and CEO of Presbyterian Healthcare Services. "We believe the PHAMIS-LASTWORD system will create added value for customers by helping us to develop a seamless and much improved patient record system. We view this as a key decision which will result in better service to the over 400,000 New Mexicans who have chosen healthcare from Presbyterian.

PHS will install the following LASTWORD applications: -0-

-- LASTWORD Base Applications: Patient Information Management,

LASTWORD Utilities and LASTWORD Client for Windows

-- LASTWORD for Admission Discharge Transfer

-- LASTWORD for Visits: Encounters and Patient Locator

-- LASTWORD for Medical Records: Abstracting

-- LASTWORD for Enterprise Scheduling: Appointment Scheduling,

Exam Scheduling, Clinic Check-In/Check-Out

-- LASTWORD for Financial Management: Patient Accounting, Clinic

Billing & Receivables Management -0-

The PHAMIS-LASTWORD healthcare information system is an integrated hardware and software solution that constructs an on-line lifetime medical record that is simultaneously accessible throughout the healthcare delivery enterprise. The system consists of more than 40 modular applications that collect, store and organize patient-centered information as a single relational database that is used to support enterprise-wide decision making in patient care, finance and administration. LASTWORD operates on the fault-tolerant computing platform provided by Tandem Computers Inc.

CONTACT: Heather Miller Public Relations

Heather Miller, 206/689-1378

or

Phamis Inc.

Cheryl Isen, 206/689-1306