For Third Straight Year, AMICAS Named One of New England's Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 50 Program.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2003

Fast 50 Honor Comes on the Heels of Latest KLAS Survey Results Establishing AMICAS as Top PACS Performer

AMICAS, Inc., the Web-based Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) company, has been named to Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for New England for the third consecutive year. The Fast 50 ranks the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the region by Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services firms. Fast 50 rankings are based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues over five years, from 1998 to 2002. A formal announcement of rankings is scheduled for September 18, 2003.

Coupled with the latest KLAS PACS Report naming AMICAS among the top PACS providers, the Fast 50 honor is further testament to both the company's growth and its success within the healthcare technology arena, according to AMICAS' President and CEO, Hamid Tabatabaie. The 2003 Spring KLAS Industry Top 20 Report (June 16, 2003, www.healthcomputing.com) ranked AMICAS as one of the top three among all PACS providers for overall performance.

Tabatabaie credits the company's fast growth over the past five years to remaining ahead of the curve technologically and staying steadfast on focused attention to customer needs. AMICAS is now installed in more than 180 hospitals and imaging centers nationwide and processes more than five million exams per year. In December 2002, AMICAS launched its industry-altering Web-based PACS platform, The Vision Series(TM), which has received accolades from hospitals and imaging centers, helping them meet and exceed image management demands across the healthcare enterprise.

"Through technology, AMICAS is addressing - and solving - a significant healthcare need through our PACS solution. To be named to the Technology Fast 50 Program for the third year in a row is not only a great honor and testament to our team, but a reflection of the impact our approach and products continue to have on physicians, radiologists, hospitals and other healthcare systems," said Tabatabaie. "We're moving the PACS market forward with technology that caters to the specific needs of all customers. For instance, community hospitals, prior to working with AMICAS, would have had to purchase expensive, bundled, legacy systems ill-suited to help them meet their specific goals. As proud as I am of our business growth, our real success is measured through the hospitals and imaging centers that are realizing real ROI while meeting their critical patient care needs."

"To succeed during prosperous times is one thing; to succeed in adversity is much more challenging, and that's exactly what the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 winners have done," said Stephen J. DiPietro, co-chair of the 2003 New England Technology Fast 50 and a partner in Deloitte & Touche's Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice. "We applaud AMICAS for its tremendous accomplishments during economically challenging times and for being one of the elite Fast 50 companies in New England."

Winners of the 20 regional Technology Fast 50 programs in the United States and Canada are automatically entered in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks North America's top 500 fastest growing technology companies. For more information on the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 or Fast 500 programs, visit www.fast500.com.

About AMICAS, Inc.

Established in 1995, AMICAS provides Web-based, software-only medical and diagnostic image management solutions - anywhere patient care needs demand. With visionary foresight, AMICAS conceived the agile software architecture of The Vision Series, combining PACS functionality into a centralized, standards-based and manageable platform. In a healthcare environment wrought with a scarcity of resources, AMICAS continues to execute upon its attractive core philosophy, crafting scalable, feature-rich solutions to meet the workflow, integration and care needs of all institutions, filling the performance and scalability void left by legacy approaches. AMICAS promotes truly affordable solutions, leveraging the cost efficiencies of an elegant, technology-forward design that adeptly responds to emerging technologies. Purposely selecting a vendor-neutral hardware approach, AMICAS' proven value proposition remains unmatched in the industry, affording clients an average two to three year ROI - half that of traditional solutions.

AMICAS' demonstrated leadership is evident in a diverse customer base encompassing more than 180 facilities, processing more than five million exams per year. AMICAS solutions are implemented at renowned institutions, including Intermountain Health Care, New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System and Massachusetts General Hospital for enterprise distribution of images, and Rush North Shore Medical Center, Michigan State University, Cayuga Medical Center and Porter Memorial Health System for end-to-end PACS.

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