CPOE Pioneer Alamance Regional Medical Center to Deploy Eclipsys' SunriseXA.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

BURLINGTON, N.C. & BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2004

Eclipsys Corporation(R), The Outcomes Company(R), (Nasdaq:ECLP), today announced that Alamance Regional Medical Center, Burlington, NC, will implement its SunriseXA(TM) advanced clinical solution and workflow modules.

Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) will migrate from Sunrise(TM) Clinical Manager to SunriseXA as part of an ongoing strategy to maximize the value obtained from clinical information technology. In doing so, the 238-bed community medical center will streamline the flow of information and reduce the number of disparate systems it uses. ARMC is actively working to simplify its information technology (IT) platform by delivering technology solutions from a single vendor.

"Alamance Regional Medical Center is looking to build upon its wide-reaching success in utilizing computerized physician order entry (CPOE) by migrating to SunriseXA," said Jesse Long, director of Information Systems at Alamance Regional Medical Center. "Additionally, we will add secure messaging capabilities to deliver a seamless method of sharing and protecting information across the organization. Our decision to consolidate the clinical information infrastructure to a single vendor solution from longtime IT partner Eclipsys is a testament to Eclipsys' ability to help us achieve our strategic objectives."

ARMC was the first community-based hospital in North Carolina to embrace CPOE, knowledge-based orders and an electronic medication administration record. With Sunrise Clinical Manager as the foundation for the medical center's strategies to improve workflow, cost efficiency and patient safety, ARMC has achieved excellent results. These include: a high rate of physician adoption; a 72 percent reduction in potential medication errors; a decrease in medication order processing cycle time from 86 minutes to three minutes; and a 58 percent reduction in duplicate lab orders.

"Alamance Regional Medical Center sets the standard for achieving positive outcomes with CPOE," said Paul L. Ruflin, president and CEO at Eclipsys. "As an Eclipsys Alliance program partner, ARMC has been instrumental in Eclipsys' continued advancement of clinical information technology. It also provides a premier site visit experience to share its successes with other healthcare organizations looking to transform patient care. Migrating to SunriseXA will empower ARMC to drive additional value from its IT solutions."

The medical center's impressive achievements using Sunrise Clinical Manager have been chronicled in numerous articles and presentations over the past year. They have also resulted in the medical center's being recognized with an Award for Excellence from the Healthcare Delivery Solutions Congress as the "Best Example of Innovation in Quality Care and Patient Safety in a Hospital/Health System."

In addition to what it currently has installed, the SunriseXA workflow modules to be deployed at ARMC include the enterprise Computer-based Patient Record (CPR) and workflow engine. ARMC will also be implementing Eclipsys' Knowledge-Based Charting(TM) and Knowledge-Based Transcription(TM) solutions.

About Alamance Regional Medical Center

As a not-for-profit, private, community healthcare system, ARMC serves Burlington, NC, and the surrounding area with a state-of-the-art, 238-bed medical center, 81-bed nursing home, and continuing care retirement community. The health system offers a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient services to more than 140,000 patients annually. For more information, see http://www.armc.com.

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced clinical, financial and management information software and service solutions to more than 1,500 healthcare facilities. Eclipsys empowers healthcare organizations to improve patient safety, revenue cycle management and operational efficiency through innovative information solutions. For more information, see http://www.eclipsys.com or e-mail [e-mail].

Statements in this news release concerning future results, performance or expectations are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Eclipsys as of the date hereof and Eclipsys assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Because such statements involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks include several risks in connection with our SunriseXA strategy, including the uncertainty of the time and costs required to implement the strategy, the potential that our strategy could change, the potential that we may encounter technical difficulties in implementing our strategy, and the potential that the changes to our products may affect customer demand. Other risks include potential financial constraints and other factors faced by the healthcare industry, changing customer requirements and other risks described in the filings of Eclipsys with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003. Eclipsys, Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks and SunriseXA and the phrase "better healthcare through knowledge" are trademarks of Eclipsys Technologies Corporation. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.