Centura Health Selects Citrix XPS, MetaFrame XP and NFuse Software to Provide Access to Applications and Information for its Physicians and Staff.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001

Colorado-Based Healthcare System Employs Citrix Software

for Enterprise Portal to Enhance Delivery of Care

and Reduce IT Costs

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), a global leader in application serving and portal software and services, today announced that Centura Health, Colorado's largest healthcare system, is creating an enterprise portal based on Citrix(R) XPS(TM) portal software, MetaFrame XP(TM) application serving software and NFuse(TM) application portal software. The portal is designed to allow Centura Health to reduce IT support and administration costs, and enhance the delivery of care by providing secure browser-based access to information resources for 13,000 physicians and staff, within a 12-month rollout period.

According to Elaine Callas, Centura Health's chief information officer, the portal will give physicians immediate and secure remote access to patient information. In addition to its physicians, the portal also will benefit Centura associates, giving them remote access from home or any other location with an Internet connection.

"In the healthcare industry, it is critical to be able to securely access the information you need, when you need it, no matter where you are," said Callas. "By implementing Citrix XPS and MetaFrame software, our portal will be able to provide our physicians and staff with the fastest and most efficient way to access information and applications that will help them best serve our patients, residents and their families."

Physicians using the portal gain secure access to network resources, such as lab results, coding, drug interaction software and, in the near future, order entry capabilities, streamlining processes and enhancing the delivery of care. For example, a clinical messaging system will provide over 4,000 physicians with encrypted patient information from any browser, replacing the current fax-based process.

"Centura Health's adoption of Citrix's application serving and portal software products reflects our strategy of providing customers with a suite of products and services that lets them carry forward the applications and content they have today, while they take advantage of all the great things coming from Web computing," said David Jones, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development for Citrix.

Citrix XPS portal software gives users a single, personalized and secure point of access to the applications, information and business processes they depend on to do their jobs and interact with peers within and beyond the enterprise, whether they are customers, suppliers or partners. For IT administrators, XPS provides command and control over these resources through a central management interface.

By implementing XPS, MetaFrame application serving and NFuse application portal products, Centura is able to securely deploy all of its business-critical applications -- whether Web, Windows(R) or UNIX(R) -- to any number of users across its organization, regardless of the client device being used.

About Centura Health

Centura Health is Colorado's largest healthcare system, serving the Denver metro area, Summit County, Colorado Springs, Canon City and Pueblo. It encompasses 10 hospitals, four full-service medical/surgical centers, 10 senior living facilities and a home care and hospice division. Centura Health was established in 1996 through a joint operating agreement between Catholic Health Initiatives and the PorterCare Adventist Health System. Centura employs more than 12,000 workers throughout Colorado. For more information, see http://www.centura.org.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in application serving and portal software and services that provide personalized access to any application or information source -- whether Windows(R), UNIX(R) or Web-based -- through any device, over any connection. Companies worldwide use Citrix technologies to integrate applications, content and business processes into a pervasive digital environment -- a virtual workplace -- offering seamless connectivity and a consistent user experience across the Internet, intranets, extranets, WANs, LANs and wireless networks. Citrix solutions drive cost efficiency, productivity and enhanced e-business opportunities by enabling companies to leverage existing IT resources and extend personalized information access to employees, partners, customers and suppliers.

Citrix products offer rapid, cost-effective deployment and include MetaFrame(R) application serving software, NFuse(TM) application portal software, XPS(TM) portal software, application management products, and Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA(R)), a core application serving technology. The company markets its application serving products through a well-established reseller channel and sells its portal software products directly to customers to provide the level of customization they need. Citrix is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market(SM) under the symbol CTXS, and is part of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index. Citrix is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, please visit the Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.com.

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