Children's Health System Selects Eclipsys for New, Fully Digital Expansion Facility

Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today announced that Birmingham, AL-based Children’s Health System (CHS), one of the 10 busiest pediatric medical centers in the country, has selected Eclipsys to create an advanced clinical information technology platform for a new, fully digital expansion facility.

As part of its “Keeping Promises” initiative to create a state-of-the-art facility to help deliver the highest levels of pediatric patient safety amid a growing patient population, CHS will deploy Eclipsys’ acute care, pharmacy, medication management and evidence-based clinical documentation solutions. In combination, these integrated applications will help to create a closed loop medication management process, support complex dosing protocols, as well as more standardized care delivery across multiple sites to improve the quality and efficiency of pediatric care.

“Children’s Health System’s goal is to provide accurate, timely clinical data from anywhere so we can deliver the very best possible care to our patients. We envision doing this by implementing the Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager™ suite, in particular its medication management solutions. By jump-starting this project using Sunrise Clinical Essentials™, we should be able to start seeing benefits in as little as nine months,” said Pamela Atkins, CPHIMS, Division Director, IT & HIPAA Security Officer, Children’s Health System. “This project, renamed ‘i-Connect,’ has gained approval and support from the highest levels of CHS. We are looking forward to a successful implementation and a continued partnership with Eclipsys.”

CHS has selected Eclipsys’ integrated applications, Sunrise Acute Care™, Sunrise Pharmacy™, Sunrise Medication Management™, and Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting™, all of which are part of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterprise™ suite of solutions that reside on the Eclipsys XA extended architecture™. In addition to other safety and quality of care benefits, the hospital plans to take advantage of the XA architecture to connect to its total perinatal nutrition (TPN) calculator, enabling clinicians to perform the highly-complex dosing required for certain pediatric patients within the closed-loop medication management system.

Clinicians also will be able to take advantage of PocketXA™, a hand-held version of the Eclipsys acute care solution to support easy, secure access to the most current patient information across multiple sites. All of these mission-critical applications will be remote hosted by the Eclipsys Technology Solutions Center in New Jersey. As a result, the hospital gains system availability commitments, along with monitoring, reporting, disaster recovery and response-time warranties — based on a predictable monthly service fee.

Plans call for the hospital to activate Eclipsys’ computer physician order entry solution in existing campus facilities a year prior to the completion of the new construction to support its cultural and process transformation.

“Children’s Health System’s decision to partner with Eclipsys is testament to our company’s leading position providing clinical information solutions to Children’s Hospitals, as our solutions not only support simple order entry but also the most complex orders and documentation required in a pediatric care environment,” said Jay Deady, Eclipsys executive vice president, Client Solutions. “This is an important move for this organization, and we look forward to providing them with the resources and support they need to successfully activate these advanced technologies and to help drive high levels of adoption and clinical outcomes.”

About Children’s Health System

The Children’s Hospital of Alabama is the 10th busiest pediatric medical center in the United States. Located in Birmingham, Children’s is one of only about 45 freestanding acute care hospitals of its kind in the nation and the only hospital in Alabama dedicated solely to the care and treatment of children. Children’s Hospital, the centerpiece of Children’s Health System, is home to the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center, the only pediatric renal care center, the largest pediatric burn center in the Southeast and is one of the largest pediatric outpatient centers in the nation. It is closely affiliated with the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) but it is not part of UAB. Children’s is a private, not-for-profit hospital governed by a volunteer board of trustees. The hospital was recently recognized for the excellence of its nursing care by achieving Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Children’s will celebrate its centennial anniversary in 2011.

About Eclipsys

Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced integrated clinical, revenue cycle, and business process improvement software, clinical content and professional services that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes. For more information, see www.eclipsys.com or email info@eclipsys.com.

Statements in this news release concerning the timing of implementation and features and benefits provided by Eclipsys software, evidence-based content and implementation and remote hosting services are forward-looking statements and actual results may differ from those projected due to a variety of risks and uncertainties. Implementation and customization of Eclipsys software is complex and time-consuming. Results depend upon a variety of factors and can vary by client. Each client’s circumstances are unique and may include unforeseen issues that make it more difficult than anticipated to implement or derive benefit from Eclipsys software or services. The success and timeliness of the company’s services will depend at least in part upon client involvement, which can be difficult to control. Eclipsys is required to meet specified performance standards, and the contract can be terminated or its scope reduced under certain circumstances. More information about company risks is available in recent Form 10-Q and 10-K filings made by Eclipsys from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Special attention is directed to the portions of those documents entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Eclipsys Corporation and The Outcomes Company are registered trademarks of Eclipsys Corporation. Sunrise Enterprise, Sunrise Clinical Manager, Sunrise Clinical Essentials, Sunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Pharmacy, Sunrise Medication Management, Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting, XA extended architecture and PocketXA are trademarks of Eclipsys Corporation. Other product and company names in this news release are or may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.