Skyscape Brings the Power of Handheld Devices To Nurses; Company to Deliver $199 Palm Handheld Nursing Solution for America's 2.7 Million Nurses and Students.

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HIMSS 2003 Annual Conference

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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003

Skyscape(R), Inc., (www.skyscape.com), the leading provider of enterprise-wide mobile medical and nursing reference solutions, today announced that it is bringing the power of nursing references on Palm(TM) handheld devices to the 2.7 million nurses and nursing students in the U.S. - increasing their access to critical information at the point of care.

At the HIMSS Conference & Expo, Skyscape will introduce one of the first solutions targeted to the nursing community. Priced at $199.95, it includes a Palm m130 color handheld and a leading "powered by Skyscape" nursing reference. This offering, geared toward those nurses looking to purchase their first PDA or upgrade their existing handhelds, will be available for purchase at www.skyscape.com/nurse beginning on February 14, 2003. Pre-orders will be taken at HIMSS.

The solution will enable nurses and nursing students to consult a comprehensive knowledge base via their Palm handhelds, helping them make informed decisions. Research has shown that the ability to capture and retrieve information at the point of care can cut in half the time it takes for delivering care and significantly reduce medical errors. Through its patented smARTlink(TM) technology, Skyscape brings critical information to more than 150,000 healthcare professionals in a context they can use--reducing the time nurses need to spend consulting information so they can spend more time with patients. This directly improves the quality of patient care.

"We're enabling nurses and nursing students to consult trusted nursing references on a handheld to make better informed decisions," said Kelli Bravo, director of marketing at Skyscape. "We are excited to bring this highly functional nursing package to nurses everywhere at an attractive price. Now nursing practitioners and students can afford to take advantage of this powerful capability to rapidly access critical information, help reduce medical errors and enhance the care they give to their patients."

"The challenges of nursing are innumerable, and we're pleased to see the Palm m130 assisting in providing healthcare professionals and organizations with a real solution that increases productivity as well as the quality of patient care," said Michael Buhr, senior director of enterprise marketing at Palm Solutions Group. "The Skyscape solution will help nurses access the critical information they need, while alleviating the additional time burden of seeking out inconvenient nursing references when they'd prefer to be caring for their patients."

Skyscape recognizes that nurses are indispensable providers of patient care and a vital link in the healthcare delivery system today. The Skyscape solution combines the best nursing medical references with the versatile and extensible Palm handheld platform. The entire product, including the Palm handheld and nursing reference, will cost just $199.95 and will be available for purchase at www.skyscape.com/nurse beginning on February 14, 2003. Pre-orders will also be taken at HIMSS.

Skyscape is offering the Palm m130 color handheld, customized with one of two software offerings:

-- DrugGuide(TM) is the handheld version of the well-known Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses published by F.A. Davis, which provides a detailed and up-to-date drug resource for nursing practitioners. It includes more than 1,000 drug monographs covering more than 5,000 trade and generic drugs as well as herbal products; more than 150 drug classifications, both therapeutic and pharmacologic (if available); more than 500 commonly used combination drugs, including the dosage amount of the active generic ingredient.

-- RnNDH(TM) is the handheld version of the popular Nursing 2003 Drug Handbook published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, which gives access to available forms, actions, indications and dosages, adverse reactions, interactions, effects on lab test results, contraindications, I.V. administration (where applicable), nursing considerations, patient teaching, and appendices, with applicable links to monographs including herbal medicines, infusion rates, therapeutic drug monitoring guidelines, selected local and topical anesthetics.

A wide variety of additional handheld nursing references are available at www.skyscape.com/nurse. Now, every RN, LPN, NP and nursing student can customize their handheld with exactly the information they need for their specialty or environment.

About Skyscape

Skyscape is the leading provider of interactive, intelligent mobile solutions for healthcare enterprises and individual practitioners. Skyscape's mobile platform enables the enterprise-wide deployment of the industry's most extensive portfolio of handheld medical and nursing reference information to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare decision making at the point-of-care. Skyscape utilizes its patented ART(TM) (Advanced Reference and Transaction) infrastructure technology to create compelling high-value solutions for handheld devices that reflect and support the intuitive thought processes of the medical practitioner.

Skyscape has the largest installed base of paying customers in the industry including individual and communities of medical practitioners at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Stanford Medical School, Partners Health System, Duke University, Mayo Clinic, and Kaiser. Skyscape's solutions are available on multiple platforms including Palm OS(R), Windows(R) CE, and Pocket PC. For more information about Skyscape, please visit our Website at www.skyscape.com.

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