Murfreesboro Medical Clinic Implements Paperless EMR from Allscripts; TouchWorks Offers Improved Patent Data Access

Business Wire, August 3, 2004

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. & CHICAGO -- Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Murfreesboro Medical Clinic has selected the TouchWorks(TM) EMR (electronic medical record) for their 55 physicians. Murfreesboro will use the TouchWorks EMR to improve access to patient data through paperless operations.

Murfreesboro's paper-based system presented challenges in routing patient data to physicians quickly. Currently, the organization has separate call center rooms for each of their departments that manage and route paper messages and charts. The resulting paper from these processes incurs financial and labor costs to maintain, and can cause bottlenecks and delays when transporting paper-based data from one department to another. Utilizing the Internet-based architecture of TouchWorks, physicians, nurses and staff will be able to retrieve patient records instantly and electronically from any location, including the clinic, the hospital or even their homes.

"Automating with the TouchWorks EMR will enable our physicians to access the patient information they need anytime and anywhere, without a team of support staff pushing carts of paper around the clinic all day, every day," said Joey Peay, Chief Executive Officer of Murfreesboro Medical Clinic. "We've invested heavily in our IDX practice management system and the integration with TouchWorks will help us to further leverage that asset."

Murfreesboro will integrate TouchWorks with their existing Groupcast solution from IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:IDXC). Groupcast is the leading provider of patient management, financial management, and decision support solutions for mid-to-larger-size group medical practices and physician service organizations. Through a strategic partnership between Allscripts and IDX, TouchWorks offers robust integration between clinical automation and practice management to the physicians and patients of Murfreesboro.

"Integration between IDX practice management systems and TouchWorks provides rapid access to the information physicians need to make the best decisions for their patients," commented Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. "This combined level of automation and integration delivers critical patient data to the physician who needs it exactly when they need it most, which results in better, safer, and more efficient care for patients."

About Murfreesboro Medical Clinic

Founded in 1949, Murfreesboro Medical Clinic has over 300 people on staff including 55 physicians. Murfreesboro Medical Clinic sees over 21,000 patients per month and averages over 250 new patients per week. The Surgicenter performs over 400 surgical cases per month.

About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (AHS) is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company's TouchWorks(TM) software is a modular Electronic Medical Record (EMR) that enhances physician productivity by automating the most common physician activities including prescribing, dictating, capturing charges, ordering labs and viewing results, providing patient education, and documenting clinical encounters. TouchWorks is available on the latest Tablet PCs, wireless handheld devices, desktop workstations and over the Internet. AHS also offers electronic document imaging and scanning solutions through its Advanced Imaging Concepts subsidiary. Additionally, AHS provides healthcare product education and market research programs for physicians through its Physicians Interactive(TM) unit and medication fulfillment services through its Allscripts Direct(TM) unit. Visit AHS on the Web at www.allscripts.com.

Strategic partners include IDX Systems (Nasdaq:IDXC); IMS Health (NYSE:RX); Microsoft; Hewlett-Packard Company; and Medco Health.

This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts' actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts, see the Company's 2003 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.