Aurora patients and physicians to benefit from enterprise storage and distribution of digital medical images

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Noel Gartman
(205) 980-7602
ngartman@emageon.com

Bill Funderburk
(205) 980-7542
bfunderburk@emageon.com

BIRMINGHAM, AL - (September 17, 2003) - Emageon, a leading provider of enterprise solutions for medical imaging, has been chosen by Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, WI to provide its enterprise-class software technology solution to manage the acquisition, archiving, distribution and viewing of digital images across its integrated delivery network (IDN).

The agreement precedes the opening of Aurora Health Care's new state-of-the-art facility under construction in Oshkosh, WI that is scheduled to open in October 2003. Aurora Medical Center in Oshkosh will be the first Aurora facility to utilize the Emageon enterprise solution.

"After conducting a thorough vendor evaluation process, Aurora is confident that the selection of Emageon will address the demanding storage, distribution and viewing needs of an IDN as large and diverse as Aurora," said Patrick Trim, Director Capital Equipment Services. "Emageon's highly scalable solution will allow us to build a standards based, open systems infrastructure that will enable us to continue providing the highest quality of care to the communities that we serve."

"We are pleased to add Aurora Health Care to a rapidly growing list of prestigious and diverse IDNs which have partnered with Emageon in order to realize their goal of maximizing image value through the use of an enterprise-centric approach in the management of digital imagery," said Milton G. Silva-Craig, Emageon's Chief Operating Officer. "The new, advanced digital hospital in Oshkosh will open its doors utilizing an Emageon Image Management infrastructure. Our open-standards, high-performance solution will allow Aurora to manage a greater volume of patient data, speed and enhance patient care and increase the level of services provided to referring physicians, while minimizing total costs."

ABOUT AURORA HEALTH CARE

Established in 1984, Aurora Health Care is a nationally recognized leader in efforts to improve the quality of health care. It has care sites in more than 75 communities throughout eastern Wisconsin, including 13 hospitals, more than 100 clinics and 135 community pharmacies. More than 3,300 physicians are affiliated with Aurora Health Care, including more than 600 who make up Aurora Medical Group. Aurora offers inpatient care at 12 acute-care hospitals and one psychiatric hospital, and its hospital services include some of the nation's most respected cardiac and cancer treatment programs. The Aurora hospitals are: St. Luke's Medical Center, St. Luke's South Shore, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, West Allis Memorial Hospital, Aurora Psychiatric Hospital, Aurora Medical Center in Hartford, Aurora Medical Center in Kenosha, Memorial Hospital of Burlington, Aurora Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn, Aurora Medical Center in Two Rivers, Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center, Aurora Valley View Medical Center in Plymouth, and Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay. For more information, go to www.AuroraHealthCare.org

ABOUT EMAGEON

Emageon enables IDNs (integrated delivery networks), hospitals and large multi-site imaging centers to rapidly access medical images, workflow and clinical information using enterprise class, standards-based advanced visualization and infrastructure software – in centralized or distributed environments. Emageon’s comprehensive, vendor-neutral solutions demonstrate immediate cost savings to the healthcare enterprise, offering reliable performance, scalability, and low total cost of ownership.

Emageon’s business models facilitate conversion to a digital imaging environment, including software tools for display and storage management – bundled with all necessary hardware. Its open systems architecture and adoption success programs facilitate rapid implementation, process optimization and workflow integration to promote integration across the enterprise. Emageon delivers and guarantees solutions that improve the diagnostic capability of physicians and medical professionals to effectively enhance patient care. For additional information on Emageon, visit www.emageon.com.

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