Heartlab Books over $8 Million in New Business for September.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

WESTERLY, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2003

Heartlab, Inc. announced today that the company has booked $8.1 million in new orders for its Encompass cardiac information network in the month of September. Most notable among the new projects are:

-- Sisters of St. Francis Health System (IL,IN): An

enterprise-wide Encompass deployment for all cardiac

modalities at 8 hospitals.

-- Winthrop University Hospital (NY): A key regional tertiary

care center, WUH will be deploying Encompass for multiple

cardiac modalities. This implementation will include the

replacement of an obsolete GE GEMnet archival system in the

cath lab and an outdated Digiview Echo Reporting database.

-- Medical College of Georgia (GA): A multimodality image network

and archival system with interfaces to a GE MacLab

hemodynamics system.

-- Novant Health System (NC): GEMnet data conversion services and

a multimodality image network and archival system including

DICOM Modality Worklist Management and interfaces to GE MacLab

and Mennen Medical hemodynamic systems at Presbyterian and

Forsyth hospitals.

-- United Hospital, John Nasseff Heart Center, Allina Health

System (MN): A multimodality image network system with a DICOM

interface to an Emageon archival system.

-- Mayo Foundation, Rochester Clinic (MN): Significant expansion

of the existing Encompass network with total replacement of an

obsolete GEMnet archival system.

-- VA Medical Center of San Francisco (CA): A multimodality image

network and archival system.

"These recent orders tell us that Heartlab's collaborative, consultative and cost-conscious approach is valued in the marketplace," says Heartlab's Vice President of Technical Operations Matt Aitkenhead. "Because our Encompass system is both flexible and robust, we can implement 'software-only' solutions hosted on hospital-furnished IBM, Compaq or Dell servers, storage units and workstations, and we can meet the demanding requirements of enterprise-wide projects for multi-hospital health systems."

Robert Petrocelli, Heartlab CEO states, "We continue to be extremely appreciative of our customers' overwhelming vote of confidence for Heartlab's approach to managing the vast quantities of time-critical data generated in today's busy cardiac programs. We have crossed a threshold in our business with nearly 200 large Encompass systems installed or planned. We have clearly have made the transition from a cath lab only company to a comprehensive enterprise information management provider.

"A significant part of our business has become replacement and modernization of antiquated proprietary architectures of the past," Petrocelli adds. "Customers who purchased first generation systems sold by equipment manufactures, GE Medical Systems, Siemens and Philips, are asking Heartlab to replace these proprietary data management systems and convert their data."

Heartlab is the world's leading designer and supplier of digital image and information networks for cardiology. Heartlab develops application software, integrates systems using industry-standard computer hardware, including Heartlab's own StoreSafe DVD-R archiving and Oracle's database technology. The firm sells turnkey solutions to hospitals in North America and supplies products and services sold through Toshiba in Japan and the U.S.