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VISICU, Inc. (NASDAQ:EICU) today announces that during President Bush�s recent visit to Saint Luke�s East � Lee�s Summit hospital he witnessed the power of VISICU�s eICU� Program. Prior to participating in a healthcare roundtable with local small business owners to discuss his healthcare initiatives, President Bush observed Saint Luke�s eICU� Program monitoring patient ICU beds in a remote location six hours away. According to Jennifer Ball R.N., Operations Director for the eICU� Program, �The President was impressed with the technology and asked about the penetration of its use across other healthcare systems.� The President later proceeded to emphasize �the power of information technology to help compassionate doctors and nurses better do their job while holding the cost of healthcare down � its affordability and availability of healthcare. It�s very exciting.� During the President�s visit, G. Richard Hastings, Saint Luke�s Health System President and CEO, reported on eICU� Program benefits which reflect a mortality rate approximately 20 percent less than the national average for ICU treatment with reduced costs of approximately 25 percent. More than 250,000 patients are currently being monitored by eICU� Programs across the country. Saint Luke�s Health System is the first in the Kansas City region to provide caregivers, even in remote locations, with tools that enable them to look after critically ill patients around the clock. The eICU� Program combines proprietary early warning software and remote monitoring to connect off-site critical care physicians and nurses to ICU patients and their providers throughout the healthcare system. This method has been proven to reduce unnecessary complications therefore improving mortality rates and shortening hospital length of stay. About Saint Luke�s Health System Saint Luke's Health System consists of 11 area hospitals and many primary care practices and provides a range of primary, acute, tertiary, and chronic care services. The health system is an organization in which the physicians and hospitals, functioning as an integrated unit, assume responsibility for the delivery of comprehensive, cost-effective, quality health care for people in the metropolitan Kansas City area and the surrounding region. For more information visit saintlukeshealthsystem.org. About VISICU VISICU, Inc. (NASDAQ:EICU) is a healthcare information technology and clinical solutions company focused on transforming the delivery of critical care through its eICU� Program. Through remote monitoring technology and clinical intelligence, experienced critical care resources are leveraged to provide coverage and early intervention for safer, more effective patient care. A study (Crit Care Med 2004; 32:31-38) documented the clinical and financial benefits of the program. The eICU� Program enables hospitals to meet The Leapfrog Group�s ICU patient care safety standards. For more information, visit www.VISICU.com. VISICU� and eICU� are registered trademarks of VISICU, Inc. All rights reserved. All other brand names, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. VISICU-G Safe Harbor Statement This release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the provisions of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Investors are cautioned that statements in this release that are not strictly historical statements constitute forward-looking statements. 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Factors that could cause results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: market acceptance of our principal product offering and any new product releases; the price, performance and reliability of our products and services; our ability to attract and retain new customers and renewal rates of our existing customers; unanticipated delays or problems in releasing new products and services; financial and budget constraints of hospitals, changes in our pricing practices or our competitors� pricing practices and changes in the healthcare industry; the introduction or availability of competing products or services and other competitive factors; and changes in the government regulation of our products and services.