Picis Expands Customer Base within European Healthcare Market.

BARCELONA, Spain -- Impressive 2004 growth continues in 2005

Picis has seen a record number of direct sales and add-on sales in the European market for its CareSuite anaesthesia and critical care software in the last year. First quarter 2005 revenues jumped 200 percent compared to the same period in 2004. In 2004-2005 Picis increased its European customer base by 20 percent.

Higher demand for healthcare information technology within the European hospitals; CareSuite's information sharing, interoperability and proven functionality within the anaesthesia and critical care environments; and Picis' successful new distribution partnerships are reasons for this sharp rise in business.

"We are excited to see this surge in our European customer base, and we are committed to providing our customers exemplary service not only to consistently meet, but exceed their expectations," said Marc Prenafeta, general manager of european operations, Picis. "We believe quality service is vital for our customers to optimize the value of their IT investment."

The diversity of these clients demonstrates the popularity of Picis software in hospitals large and small, and single and multifacility organizations including:

--Allgemeines KrankenHaus - Austria

--De Tjongerschans Hospital - Netherlands

--Erasmus Medical Center, University of Rotterdam - Netherlands

--Hopital du Pays d'Aix - France

--Hopital Notre Dame de la Misericorde - France

--Hopital Universitaire de Strasbourg - France

--Hospital de Angra do Heroismo - Portugal

--Hospital de Fuenlabrada -Spain

--Hospital de Santa Maria Lisbon - Portugal

--Hospital de Sao Joao - Portugal

--Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa -Finland

--Hospital Son Llatzer - Spain

--Krankenhaus Wiener Neustadt - Austria

--LKH Bad Radkersburg - Austria

--LKH Stolzalpe - Austria

"We needed a system to adapt to our needs not only in the ICU and anaesthesia but in special areas such as neonatology," said Joaquin Alvarez, MD, chief of intensive care, Hospital de Fuenlabrada. "We decided to first implement CareSuite in the ICU and ORs and then in a second stage expand the system to neonatology. Picis recommended a six-month implementation of the system, which went quicker than expected and we implemented the system in three months in 2004, and by January had already purchased CareSuite to automate neonatology. When I look back, six months was a reasonable implementation time."

Hospital de Fuenlabrada, a 385-bed general hospital located near Madrid, Spain, opened in 2004. It has installed CareSuite for information management and medical device connectivity of intensive care, anaesthesia, recovery and neonatology areas, providing a much needed comprehensive electronic patient record.

CareSuite is being showcased at the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology in Vienna, Austria at booth number X74 (May 28-31).

About Picis

Picis delivers proven best-in-cluster solutions for high-acuity care areas - the emergency department, the operating room and the intensive care unit. Picis has offices in Barcelona, Spain; United Kingdom and United States. Picis employs more than 400 perioperative, emergency department and critical care experts, including engineers, customer service staff and product managers. Picis' systems are installed in more than 900 medical centers worldwide, automating more surgical procedures, emergency visits and critical care stays than any other system in the world. Clients include Calgary Health Region; Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore; Helsinki University Hospital; the Mayo Clinic; MedStar Health; Mt. Sinai Medical Center; the National Health Service of the United Kingdom; New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System; Odense University Hospital; Putrajaya National Medical Center in Malaysia; Rush University Medical Center; Stanford University Medical Center; University of Strasbourg; University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; and the University of Vienna Hospital. In 2004, Picis' critical care software was ranked number one by HCIT Research, an independent research firm. In addition, Picis was named one of the top 100 healthcare IT companies, by revenue, in the Healthcare Informatics report. More information is available at http://www.picis.com.