Eclipsys Announces General Availability of Sunrise Surgery Manager; Fully Integrates With Other Eclipsys Solutions to Help HCOs Balance, Improve Outcomes.

Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001

Eclipsys Corporation(R) (Nasdaq:ECLP), a leading provider of end-to-end information solutions that help healthcare organizations (HCOs) achieve balanced and improved clinical, financial and satisfaction outcomes, today announced the general availability of Sunrise(TM) Surgery Manager, a surgical process-management application designed to enhance the efficiency of HCOs.

"Today's healthcare industry faces challenges on two fronts," said James E. Hall, Eclipsys president and COO. "Healthcare organizations recognize the need to improve their quality of care, yet they also must control rapidly escalating healthcare costs. Because studies have shown that the Surgery department can represent up to 80 percent of a HCO's supply expense, the effective management of its resources from equipment and supplies to personnel and physical facilities enables the organization to better control its costs while improving both quality of care and customer and clinician satisfaction."

Eclipsys' Sunrise Surgery Manager enhances the management of healthcare organizations' surgical processes by providing a totally integrated set of modules that automate all aspects of scheduling, preference-card management, perioperative management and surgical charting. Surgery Manager enhances communication and decision-making by providing surgical staff with immediate access to physician, patient and procedure information. It helps the healthcare organization control its costs by supporting complete supply-chain management. Surgery Manager also provides the ability to manage shared equipment effectively, and links necessary supplies to last-minute equipment additions. It automates surgical scheduling, surgical charting, preference-card management and case-cart management, while also enabling thorough and efficient surgical case charting, including user-defined assessments. All of these advanced technology and integration features create a low total cost of ownership, Hall stated.

Although Sunrise Surgery Manager is a robust stand-alone application, Hall noted that healthcare organizations acquire additional functionality and benefits when they integrate Surgery Manager with other applications in Sunrise Enterprise Resource Manager (ERP) product suite. For example, the integration of Surgery Manager and Sunrise Materials Management enables an HCO to streamline the flow of supplies between inventory locations and surgical suites, provide automated filing of inventory orders in preparation for the next day's cases, and perform automated filing of returns upon case completion.

"We are excited to add the functionality of Surgery Manager to our Sunrise Enterprise Resource Manager solution, and to the entire Sunrise product line," stated Harvey J. Wilson, Eclipsys chairman and CEO. "The addition of Surgery Manager demonstrates Eclipsys' commitment to being a true provider of end-to-end solutions for the healthcare industry. Eclipsys is known as 'The Outcomes Company,' and Surgery Manager further adds to the arsenal of information-management solutions that the company provides, enabling customers to successfully balance and improve the mission-critical outcomes of clinical, financial and customer satisfaction.

"We're extremely proud of this addition to our line of healthcare solutions," Wilson continued. "The general availability of Sunrise Surgery Manager demonstrates Eclipsys' continuing leadership in information technology for the healthcare industry."

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys Corporation delivers comprehensive information solutions to healthcare organizations (HCOs), with one or more of its products installed or being installed in over 1,400 facilities in the United States and nine other countries. These solutions assist HCOs in balancing and improving clinical, financial and satisfaction outcomes. Sunrise(TM), Eclipsys' comprehensive software product line, includes integrated clinical, financial, health information, enterprise resource planning and management information solutions. Eclipsys also provides outsourcing, remote hosting, network services and business solutions consulting that complement its Sunrise solutions and assist its customers in meeting their healthcare information requirements. For more information, see www.eclipsys.com or email [e-mail].

Statements in this news release concerning future results, performance or expectations are 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 risks described in the filings of Eclipsys with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Eclipsys, Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks and Sunrise is a trademark of Eclipsys Solutions Corp. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.