LANV Lanvision Systems (MM)

LanVision Partners With IBM to Develop Integrated, Open Solutions for Healthcare Customers Companies Deliver On Demand Electronic Healthcare Solutions CINCINNATI, April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LANV) dba Streamline Health, a workflow and document management company specializing in streamlining business processes, has joined IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative for SMB. (NYSE:IBM) The IBM SMB initiative is a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to help meet the specific information technology needs of small and medium business (SMB) organizations. Streamline Health plans to utilize IBM's sales and support resources to expand its presence in the healthcare marketplace, with emphasis on small to medium-sized hospital organizations. Streamline Health provides workflow and document management solutions that streamline business processes in key areas of the healthcare enterprise, including Health Information Management, Patient Financial Services, Human Resources and Supply Chain Management. The Company's solutions capture document-centric information from disparate sources, move it throughout a facility using innovative workflow software, and securely deliver it to authenticated users. Streamline Health solutions offer healthcare organizations improved operating efficiencies by making critical information available to the right people at the right time. "Streamline Health is pleased to partner with IBM to improve operational efficiencies throughout small and medium size hospital organizations, which is over 50% of the hospital market opportunity," stated J. Brian Patsy, President and CEO of Streamline Health. "Together, we offer comprehensive and affordable solutions that integrate IBM's eServer platforms, storage and archival middleware and business process enhancement tools with Streamline Health's powerful workflows and document management solutions. Our partnership with IBM will allow Streamline Health to expand into the small to medium-sized hospital market much faster and more effectively." "Healthcare is a strategic industry that we are looking to influence with partners like Streamline Health as technology continues to change at a very steady speed," said Buell Duncan, General Manager, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM. "The sales and technical resources of the IBM ISV Advantage program will complement and enhance Streamline Health's capabilities to develop open solutions that address the diverse healthcare management challenges of small to medium-sized hospital organizations." As a part of the new arrangement, Streamline Health will incorporate the IBM WebSphere portal technology that is designed and priced specifically for small and medium businesses -- easy to install and manage, scalable to grow with a business, rich in functionality, and based on open standards to allow integration with existing software and hardware platforms. Streamline Health will also work closely with IBM to expand its visibility in targeting the healthcare industry through various co-marketing and sales activities. For more information about IBM ISV Advantage and other programs and resources available to developers, visit http://www.ibm.com/isv For more information about Streamline Health and its healthcare software products and solutions, visit http://www.streamlinehealth.net/ . IBM, the IBM Business Partner emblem, and WebSphere are trademarks or registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. About Streamline Health Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners, healthcare organizations, and customers to create and improve operational efficiencies through business process re-engineering and automating demanding document-intensive environments. The company's workflow- based services offer solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, abstracting and completion, remote physician order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and signature capture, insurance verification, secondary billing services, explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing. The company's solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human Resource and Supply Chain Management departments of the healthcare enterprise. All solutions are available for purchase or through a remote hosting services model that better matches customers' capital or operating budget needs. Streamline Health's solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location, including access using a web-browser through the Intranet/Internet. These integrated systems allow providers and administrators to link systems with documents, which can dramatically improve the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart processing, document retention, and archiving. Streamline Health provides remote hosting services to various healthcare providers including University Hospital, a member of The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, and Children's Medical Center of Columbus, OH. In addition, the Company has installed its workflow and document imaging solutions at leading healthcare providers including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Beth Israel Medical Centers, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical University Hospital Authority of South Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Statements made by LanVision Systems, Inc. that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, included herein. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, key strategic alliances with vendors that resell Streamline Health products, the ability of the Company to control costs, availability of products produced from third party vendors, the healthcare regulatory environment, healthcare information systems budgets, availability of healthcare information systems trained personnel for implementation of new systems, as well as maintenance of legacy systems, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the LanVision Systems, Inc. filings with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. DATASOURCE: LanVision Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Tom Agler, Media Relations of LanVision Systems, Inc., +1-513-794-7100 Web site: http://www.lanvision.com/ http://www.streamlinehealth.net/ http://www.ibm.com/isv

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