Good Samaritan Hospital and Union Memorial Hospital of MedStar Health Select Canopy Systems, Inc

Business Wire, June 22, 2004

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Canopy Systems, Inc.(TM) announced today an agreement with Good Samaritan Hospital and Union Memorial Hospital, both members of MedStar Health, to implement Canopy Systems' Web-based care management solution. Both hospitals chose Canopy(R) to streamline and automate their case and utilization management processes.

"We chose Canopy because of the capability, flexibility and intuitiveness of the platform," said Steve Blau, Director of Case Management for Good Samaritan Hospital. "With its smart workflow design, Canopy clearly is the strongest system we have seen."

"The ability to customize the application to meet our workflow and care management needs is a key advantage of choosing Canopy," said Margy McMorrow, Director of Case Management for Union Memorial Hospital. "Screen set-ups, work lists, reporting and much more can be customized making the flexibility and user-friendliness of Canopy impeccable."

"MedStar Health is the premier health system in the area and we are thrilled that both Good Samaritan Hospital and Union Memorial Hospital selected Canopy to automate and improve their care management processes," said Alan Winchester, CEO of Canopy Systems.

Good Samaritan Hospital and Union Memorial Hospital are part of MedStar Health, the largest integrated health care system in the state of Maryland. Good Samaritan, a 271-bed adult care community teaching hospital, provides comprehensive services, which include intensive and cardiac care units, an expanding number of innovative medical and surgical capabilities, and primary care physicians and specialists who are rated tops in their fields. Union Memorial Hospital is one of the top specialty hospitals in Baltimore, Maryland and has been caring for members of the community for nearly 150 years.

With a client base of over 150 facilities across the United States, Canopy Systems, Inc. (www.canopysystems.com) is the leader in providing secure, Web-based solutions for care management. The Canopy product line utilizes the ASP model to provide utilization and case management applications across the continuum of care. Canopy Systems, Inc., located in Chapel Hill, NC, is a subsidiary of The Medical Mutual Group of North Carolina.