Emageon Named National Distributor of TraumaCad Orthopedic Planning and Templating SolutionEmageon selects leading orthopedic planning software for its Enterprise Visual Medical SystemBIRMINGHAM, AL – (November 28, 2005) – Emageon Inc. (NASDAQ: EMAG), a leading provider of enterprise visual medical systems to hospitals and healthcare networks, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Orthocrat Ltd. to distribute TraumaCad, Orthocrat's market leading orthopedic surgical planning applications. This agreement allows Emageon to further extend its enterprise vision by offering additional leading edge tools to orthopedic specialists in its customer base of more than 600 hospitals. Distinguished by its standards-based architecture and installed in over 160 sites worldwide, TraumaCad is a thin-client DICOM application that integrates with a PACS and network architecture, while delivering a consistent orthopedic work environment over a web-enabled workstation. "We are pleased to enter into this agreement with Orthocrat, a leading innovator in the digital orthopedic surgical planning market," said Milton Silva-Craig, Emageon's President and Chief Operating Officer. "TraumaCad, which will be seamlessly integrated into our Enterprise Visual Medical System portfolio, is exactly the kind of offering that supports our focus on providing value-producing solutions for our customers." Emageon Medical Director, Neal Templeton, M.D. added, "Emageon has now extended its orthopedic functionality by incorporating Orthocrat's robust orthopedic toolset covering procedures for the knee, hip, shoulder and foot as well as trauma, correction of deformities, and pediatrics. This solution also includes broad coverage of U.S. orthopedic templates to facilitate pre-operative planning as well as tailored joint replacement procedures." Commenting on the relationship, Zeev Glozman, Orthocrat founder and CEO, said, "Emageon is known for its commitment to advanced technology. We are proud to have been selected to provide orthopedic functionality in their Enterprise Visual Medical System and look forward to a long-term relationship with Emageon." About OrthocratFeature-rich, user-friendly and web-based, TraumaCad is the industry's leading digital orthopedic surgical planning and templating solution. It streamlines interventions, enhances outcomes and cuts costs by enabling advanced orthopedic surgical planning through precise manipulation of 3D soft-copy images and application of fixation and prosthetic systems. TraumaCad also includes advanced modular deformity correction and pediatric packages. TraumaCad was developed by a team of highly experienced clinicians who recognized a gap in the marketplace and were committed to filling it with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed digital solution for orthopedic surgeons that they themselves would use. With offices in the U.S. and Israel, Orthocrat was formed in 2003 to market TraumaCad worldwide and maintain the company's strong commitment to research, development and quality that today has become its hallmark. For more information please visit www.ortho-cad.com. About Emageon IncEmageon provides an enterprise-level advanced visualization and infrastructure solution for the clinical analysis and management of digital medical images within multi-hospital networks, community hospitals and diagnostic imaging centers. Emageon's web-enabled software provides physicians in multiple medical specialties with dynamic tools to manipulate and analyze images in two and three dimensions. With these tools physicians have the ability to better understand internal anatomic structure and pathology, which can improve clinical diagnoses, disease screening and therapy planning. Emageon's open standards-based solution is designed to help customers improve staff productivity, automate complex medical imaging workflow, lower total cost of ownership and provide better service to physicians and patients. On November 1, 2005, Emageon announced that it had acquired Camtronics Medical Systems, Ltd., a leading provider of cardiology image and information management systems. For more information, please visit www.emageon.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements about Emageon which represent the Company's current views with respect to, among other things, future events and financial performance. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on Emageon's historical performance and on current plans, beliefs and expectations. 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