The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Selects Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager to Drive System-Wide Patient Safety, Integration Initiatives.

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Leading-Edge Eclipsys Solution to Facilitate System-Wide

Integration of Multiple Clinical Applications

Eclipsys Corporation(R) (Nasdaq:ECLP), The Outcomes Company(R), today announced that The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the world's premier pediatric hospitals and research facilities, has selected Eclipsys' Sunrise(TM) Clinical Manager solution as the centerpiece of its clinical-integration and patient-safety strategies.

Founded in 1855 as the nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to children's care and recently ranked as the best children's hospital in the U.S. in a comprehensive survey by Child magazine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will implement Sunrise Clinical Manager's knowledge-driven physician order-entry, results reporting, clinical documentation and clinical data repository features in its flagship Philadelphia facility, providing physicians with access to patient data in the hospital and across the health network.

"Children's Hospital has enjoyed a successful relationship with Eclipsys over the years and has realized significant benefits from use of the Eclipsys 7000 clinical information system," said Al Sinisi, Children's Hospital vice president and CIO. "We believe that evolving from the 7000 system to Sunrise Clinical Manager with its enhanced feature-functionality will support our strategic goal of providing clinicians with the tools they need to enhance productivity, improve the quality of care they provide and reduce avoidable medical errors. We view Clinical Manager's electronic data repository, Knowledge-Based Orders(TM) feature and integrated clinical-documentation capabilities as critical to achieving these goals."

Clinical Manager to integrate disparate systems

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia joins a growing number of prestigious healthcare organizations that are evolving from the Eclipsys 7000 heritage clinical system and related components to the open, component-based architecture and advanced clinical-management capabilities of Eclipsys' leading-edge clinical solution, Sunrise Clinical Manager.

Now in use or being implemented at nearly 100 healthcare facilities, Clinical Manager features Knowledge-Based Orders, providing physicians and other clinicians with multiple levels of clinical decision support based on multi-factorial data, ranging from real-time checking of drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions to more-advanced time- and location-specific duplicate order checking. Using the full extent of electronic patient information available, Sunrise Knowledge-Based Orders provides expert levels of checking relative to changes in a patient's condition. Clinical Manager also features order communication and management, multidisciplinary clinical documentation, physician office documentation and workflow, and disease-management care-documentation capabilities.

Clinical Manager is unique in enabling customers such as Children's Hospital to transition and upgrade from both Eclipsys heritage and non-Eclipsys products. Clinical Manager will retain clinical data that currently resides in the hospital's Eclipsys 7000 system and also will serve as the single-source repository of clinical information now housed in disparate applications throughout the organization. These applications from vendors such as Meditech Inc., IDX Systems Corp. and others -- in areas such as transcription, pharmacy, laboratory, radiology and patient registration -- will be incorporated in Clinical Manager's clinical data repository.

"Sunrise Clinical Manager's ability to integrate information from both Eclipsys and non-Eclipsys applications offers flexibility and added value that other clinical systems can't match," Sinisi noted. "Clinical Manager will allow us to evolve from the Eclipsys 7000 while also supporting a variety of non-Eclipsys legacy systems now in use at the hospital. This will enable us to preserve and leverage our investment in those existing systems while substantially upgrading the overall quality of our clinical information-management system."

Clinical Manager also will facilitate the hospital's efforts to integrate physician practice patterns across its growing health network. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's affiliated physicians are dispersed throughout a geographic network encompassing the Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware tri-state area. "Sunrise Clinical Manager, whether the desktop or Web-based versions, will provide our clinical community with continuous access to patient records from virtually any location within the network, thus enabling the organization to accomplish a key strategic objective -- enhanced system integration," stated Gordon Zeis, manager, Clinical Applications.

Knowledge-driven insight: New care frontiers

"Children's Hospital also is counting on Clinical Manager features to obtain even greater levels of clinical and financial ROI," Zeis continued. "We will utilize Knowledge-Based Orders to assist the clinician at the point of data entry to further our proven ability to provide excellent pediatric care." Like healthcare providers across the nation, Children's Hospital is turning to sophisticated, computer-based information solutions to even further reduce clinical risk factors that may lead to errors. The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM), whose initial 1999 report and March 2001 follow-up study have greatly increased public awareness of the need to dramatically reduce medical errors, has recommended expanded use of knowledge-driven information solutions such as Sunrise Clinical Manager to achieve the goal of reducing avoidable medical events by at least half within five years.

Providing its clinicians with the advanced, computerized tools needed to respond proactively to the challenges set forth by the Institute of Medicine is a major priority for the hospital. "Maintaining the highest quality of patient care is always a fundamental guiding principle," stated Sinisi.

"Eclipsys is extremely pleased to expand our long-time partnership with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and to assist its efforts in implementing an enterprise-wide clinical information system that will enable clinicians to access patient data from different applications in an easy-to-use format that simplifies and enhances workflow and clinical processes throughout the organization," said Harvey J. Wilson, Eclipsys chairman and CEO. "We believe that Clinical Manager's integrated KBO, clinical-documentation and decision-support capabilities will be key drivers in helping Children's Hospital achieve its strategic goals of improved patient and satisfaction outcomes through system integration, thereby further strengthening its reputation as a world-class pediatric-care facility."

About Children's Hospital

For more information on The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, see its Web site at http://www.chop.edu.

About Eclipsys

With a mission of "better healthcare through knowledge(TM)," Eclipsys Corporation delivers advanced, knowledge-driven information solutions used by more than 1,450 healthcare organizations worldwide to balance and improve clinical, financial and customer-satisfaction outcomes. Sunrise(TM), Eclipsys' clinically focused enterprise solution set, is built on a single, open, component-based Web architecture -- e-healthSOURCE(TM) -- based on Microsoft .NET and utilized by both Sunrise and the customer relationship management products of Eclipsys' HEALTHvision affiliate (see http://www.healthvision.com). Products are complemented by Web-based integration technology, ASP delivery options, wireless access smart devices and network solutions, business process reengineering and full IT outsourcing to provide comprehensive, enterprise-wide solutions. For more information, see http://www.eclipsys.com or email [e-mail].

Statements in this news release concerning future results, performance or expectations are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Eclipsys as of the date hereof and Eclipsys assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Because such statements involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks include potential financial constraints and other factors faced by the healthcare industry, changing customer requirements and other risks described in the filings of Eclipsys with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2000. Eclipsys, Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks and Sunrise and the phrase "better healthcare through knowledge" are trademarks of Eclipsys Solutions Corp. e-healthSOURCE is a trademark of HEALTHvision, Inc. Other product and company names in this news release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.