Millbrook Practice Manager Named as Finalist as Best Medical Practice Management System by MS-HUG.

Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers

CARROLLTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2002

Millbrook Is Among MS-HUG Finalists for 2002 in the Category of

Ambulatory Care: Administrative/Financial Systems

Millbrook Corporation, developer of Millbrook Practice Manager(R) physician practice management software, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in Microsoft Corp. and Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) Inc. Industry Solution Awards for Healthcare (ISAH). MS-HUG holds the annual Industry Solutions Awards for Healthcare (ISAH) event to recognize independent software vendors that utilize Microsoft technology to provide significant business benefits to healthcare organizations. An independent panel of judges selected finalists based on their use of Microsoft(R) technology to provide tangible business benefits to healthcare organizations.

For 1997, 1998 and 1999, Millbrook software was selected as the best medical practice management system running on Windows by MS-HUG. According to Millbrook President and CEO Michael Nissenbaum, "We are very proud that Millbrook is again a finalist in the Industry Solution Awards for Healthcare. We won this award three years in a row, and are very pleased to be in the running again. This honor, combined with our recent TEPR awards and recognition by KLAS, again demonstrates Millbrook's dedication to quality and innovation and our commitment to using Microsoft technologies to provide physicians with the fastest, most flexible and easiest to use computing environment in the healthcare industry."

Finalists in the ISAH categories will demonstrate their solutions in the Microsoft booth at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, February 9-13, 2003, in San Diego. Winners of the awards will be announced at the Microsoft booth at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, February 11th.

Mostly recently, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, the healthcare IT business of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced that it will enter the physician practice market with its definitive agreement to acquire Millbrook. GE's acquisition of Millbrook, which is subject to customary approvals, is expected to close in December 2002.

About Millbrook Corporation

Since 1993, Millbrook practice management solutions have been the software of choice for thousands of physicians. They are designed to be regulatory compliant using both client/server and web-hosted technologies, and are also Microsoft BackOffice-certified. In May 2001 and again in 2002, Millbrook won the TEPR Award from the Medical Records Institute as the best practice management system in the U.S. Millbrook software was also selected three times as the best medical practice management system by MS-HUG, the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group. Millbrook is the only company to have received this prestigious award for three consecutive years. In July 2002, Millbrook was included in the Healthcare Informatics 100 list. By achieving the ranking on the Healthcare Informatics 100 list, Millbrook is considered to be in the top ten percent of all healthcare IT companies. In December 2001, Millbrook was ranked Number 249 on Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 500 Program, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America.

Millbrook solutions are built from the ground up exclusively on the Microsoft Windows operating system with SQL Server. This means physician organizations can quickly and affordably upgrade to the fastest, most flexible and easiest to use computing environment in the healthcare industry. Millbrook's installed base includes small and large physician groups, ambulatory surgical centers, single-site and multi-site practices and multi-specialty organizations of all types and sizes in every state. Millbrook Corporation is privately held and based in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Texas. Millbrook is committed to solving customer problems and increasing productivity in physicians' offices through technological innovation. For more information, visit Millbrook on the Web at www.millbrook.com or call 1-[phone].