Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula Expands Eclipsys Relationship to Create Enterprise-wide Electronic Medical Record

Eclipsys Corporation^®, (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company^®, today announced that California-based Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (Community Hospital) will expand its use of Eclipsys solutions by activating Sunrise Ambulatory Care™ in outpatient facilities and other settings to create a unified electronic medical record (EMR) across its enterprise. Once complete, the ambulatory initiative will leverage its integration with Community Hospital’s inpatient EMR technology infrastructure to provide all Community Hospital’s caregivers a shared view of information related to the patient’s previous visits in support of enhanced patient experiences and improved care coordination.

"Eclipsys has proven to be a valuable partner to us, facilitating smooth activations and collaborative consultation on leveraging solutions to make a significant and measurable positive impact on our care delivery and our bottom line,” said Steve Packer, MD., Community Hospital chief executive officer. "We look forward to working with them on this new initiative to extend the power of Eclipsys’ EMR solutions to make it much easier for our care providers to make quicker, more informed care decisions that can lead to enhanced patient outcomes.”

The ambulatory initiative builds on Community Hospital’s highly successful, simultaneous enterprise-wide activation of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Clinical Manager ™ (SCM) suite of clinical solutions and Sunrise Patient Financials™. In combination, these applications, which are integrated components of the Sunrise Enterprise™ solution suite, have positively impacted Community Hospital’s care quality and financial performance. The hospital has successfully standardized and automated healthcare processes, made vast improvements in inter-disciplinary communications, and streamlined information flow to make patient care more efficient across acute care settings, including critical care and the emergency department.

The integration capabilities of Sunrise Patient Financials has not only enabled Community Hospital to streamline patient financial workflow, improve bill collections and raise its clean-claim submission rate to 90 percent, it played an important part in the community hospital achieving its strategic goals for expansion. Community Hospital’s significant improvement in accounts receivable days outstanding has enhanced cash flow and enabled the hospital to repay, in advance, a large loan for the construction of a new, digital hospital building.

A component of Sunrise Enterprise, Sunrise Ambulatory Care resides within the Eclipsys XA™ architecture and offers the advantage of supporting a single enterprise medical record across all settings of care with a single clinical decision support system, as well.

"We are proud of our history and strong relationship with Community Hospital, and we look forward to working with them as they focus to continually improve and extend their healthcare delivery system,” said Jay Deady, Eclipsys executive vice president of Client Solutions. "We believe this partnership is a great example of how our integrated ambulatory solution offers an existing SCM client a tremendous opportunity for clinical and operational outcome achievement.”

About Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, located in Monterey, California, was founded in 1934 and has grown and evolved in direct response to the changing healthcare needs of the people it serves. Today, it is a nonprofit, integrated healthcare delivery system providing a continuum of care from birth to end of life, and every stage in between. It serves the Monterey Peninsula and surrounding communities through 15 locations, including outpatient facilities, satellite laboratories, a mental health clinic, a short-term skilled nursing facility, Hospice of the Central Coast, and business offices.

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 features and benefits provided by Eclipsys software, content and implementation 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 software, content 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 Ambulatory Care, Sunrise Clinical Manager, Sunrise Patient Financials, Sunrise Enterprise and Eclipsys XA 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.