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Streamline Health Signs Contract with Oregon Health & Science University To Improve Operational Efficiencies via Business Process Re-Engineering CINCINNATI, May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LANV) dba Streamline Health(TM) today announced that it has signed a new contract with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) for its Health Information Management and Patient Financial Services workflows and document management solutions. The contract calls for an unlimited use license for the large-scale deployment of Streamline Health's solutions throughout the OHSU enterprise. The contract includes the following Streamline Health solutions: * accessANYware(TM) provides enterprise access to a patient's medical and financial records to better coordinate patient care * Completion Workflow expedites the completion of the medical record and accelerates the completion of billing services * Release of Information Workflow(TM) facilitates efficient compliance with requests for patient information from third party requestors * codingANYware(TM) improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home- based employees * Document Conversion Services migrates OHSU's existing repository of document images from their existing vendor to the Streamline Health solutions * Custom Workflow Toolkit allows OHSU to internally develop and optimize their own unique workflow solutions The contract also includes integration of Streamline Health's solutions to OHSU's existing information systems, including the Epic Care clinical information system from Epic Systems. Located in Portland Oregon, the OHSU Health System includes OHSU Hospital, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, and dozens of primary care and specialty clinics serving every county in Oregon. The health system also includes four schools, multiple research institutes and several outreach and community service units. In addition, OHSU has a research and education West Campus in Hillsboro, and multiple education and patient care facilities throughout the state. OHSU meets the health care services needs of more than 175,500 medical and dental patients annually, who make up approximately 737,670 patient visits each year. OHSU is the state's fifth largest employer and Portland's largest. John Kenagy, chief information officer at OHSU commented, "OHSU is committed to high quality health care. To achieve that goal, we selected Streamline Health's comprehensive workflow and document management solutions to help streamline our document intensive environments and to ensure timely access to critical health information from virtually any location. We are excited to move forward on our business process re-engineering initiatives and deployment of a true enterprise-wide workflow and document management solution. This partnership will allow OHSU to improve efficiencies, augment patient care, accelerate cash flow and enhance decision making processes." J. Brian Patsy, president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health, remarked, "We are very pleased to include OHSU among our growing list of prestigious customers. Our workflow-based solutions solve a critical problem in multi-entity health care facilities such as OHSU, by linking documents with existing information systems in the clinical, patient financial services and administrative departments to streamline information and drive results. We are excited about this important strategic partnership with a premier organization such as OHSU." About Oregon Health & Science University The hospitals and clinics of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) provide leading-edge health care services to patients throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. As the state's only health and research university, OHSU blends education, research, patient care and community outreach into one shared mission: to improve the well-being of people in Oregon and beyond. Together, these pieces form the foundation for the university's patient care services. OHSU's high-quality health care incorporates the latest medical research, technology and innovation. Nationally recognized clinical researchers at OHSU take their knowledge from the laboratory directly to the patient. This proximity between medical breakthrough and applied health care enables a level of treatment unmatched anywhere else in the state. OHSU's outstanding health care services continue to score high points with patients and the general public. For the third consecutive year, OHSU has earned the Consumer Choice Award given by the National Research Corporation (NRC). The award is based on results from consumer preference surveys conducted by the NRC in the Portland metro area. NRC survey results showed OHSU leading Portland area hospitals in clinical services such as Cancer and Neurology, while OHSU Doernbecher was most preferred for pediatrics. OHSU Hospital was also perceived as having the Best Image/Reputation, Best Doctors, Widest Range of Services, and Latest Technologies & Equipment. 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. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net/ . "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Statements made by LanVision Systems, Inc., d/b/a Streamline Health 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, Manager - Media Relations of LanVision Systems, Inc., +1-513-794-7100 Web site: http://www.lanvision.com/ http://www.streamlinehealth.net/

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