VIRTUA SELECTS EMAGEON FOR MEDICAL IMAGING MANAGEMENT.

Emageon, a leading provider of enterprise solutions for medical imaging, has been selected by Virtua Health, the largest healthcare provider in southern New Jersey and a nonprofit healthcare organization, to provide its enterprise-class software technology solution to manage the storage and distribution of images throughout its enterprise.

"Virtua was seeking a partner that provided a scalable enterprise solution that would address the demanding storage and distribution needs of an IDN our size," said Linda Reed, VP Technology, Virtua Health. "The technologies available to our medical staff are evolving at an unprecedented pace. A standards-based technology was paramount in our decision so that we can continue to support the acquisition of emerging clinical applications for our patients and physicians. After having done an extensive evaluation of the available options in the marketplace, we concluded that Emageon offered the most comprehensive value proposition. In addition, its flexible business model provided an overall solution that allowed us to stay within our operational budget."

"We are honored to have been selected by Virtua Health, one of New Jersey's largest IDNs," said Milton Silva-Craig, Emageon's Chief Operating Officer. "Virtua joins a list of more than eight IDNs, representing over 100 sites, such as Kaiser Permanente, Sisters of Mercy, Sutter Health, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, and LibertyHealth that have chosen Emageon. Large hospital systems like Virtua must place more emphasis on the robust implementation of standards and strict adherence to open-systems principals when acquiring new technologies. This approach improves enterprise integration, reduces total cost of ownership and increases access to future innovations."

About Virtua Health

Virtua Health, with more than 7,000 employees and 1,700 physicians, is the largest healthcare provider in southern New Jersey and a nonprofit healthcare organization. It is comprised of four hospitals including Virtua Memorial Hospital Burlington County in Mount Holly and Virtua West Jersey Hospitals in Berlin, Marlton and Voorhees. More than 7,000 babies are born annually at the hospitals in Mount Holly and Voorhees, where comprehensive neonatal intensive care for premature newborns is available. Pediatric primary and specialty care services are offered as part of the Virtua/duPont Children's Health Program, an affiliation with the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. With five strategically located emergency centers, it handles more emergencies -- and pediatric emergencies -- than any other hospital in South Jersey. Virtua Health also serves the community with comprehensive primary care and emergency services at its outpatient center in Camden; two long-term comprehensive care centers located in Berlin and Mount Holly; two outpatient surgery centers located in Mt. Holly and Voorhees and a home-health care agency.

For more information about Virtua Health, visit http://www.virtua.org.

About Emageon

Emageon enables IDNs (integrated delivery networks), hospitals, healthcare systems and imaging facilities to have an enterprise-wide, fully-open, multi- "ology," multi-modality, digital imaging environment -- featuring immediate cost savings, extreme scalability and performance, no risk of obsolescence and minimal capital outlay. With essentially limitless scalability, our solution can manage any size facility or complexity -- even extremely large, multi- site, multi-specialty medical image repositories -- which may be centralized or distributed. Emageon's high-performance software and vendor-neutral, open- systems approach lowers total cost of ownership and eliminates technical obstacles that prevent a healthcare enterprise from converting to a fully digital environment.

Emageon's cost-effective, managed-use business model also eliminates financial obstacles to digital transformation and has two solution configurations. The first includes our enterprise medical image storage and distribution management software bundled with storage management hardware. The second adds our enterprise storage infrastructure's seamless integration of all necessary open-systems display and workflow software and hardware, and all necessary services for rapid implementation, process optimization and adoption success management. This total solution enhances image reading capability, patient care delivery and workflow efficiency of all specialty physicians and supporting professional staff as well as improved financial performance for the healthcare enterprise.

For more information, visit http://www.emageon.com or call 205/980-7542.