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Surgical Information Systems Continues Its March into the Canadian Healthcare Market

Business Wire, Feb 10, 2005

ATLANTA -- SIS to Provide Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children with Updated Automated Clinical Documentation System

Surgical Information Systems (SIS), the leading provider of total perioperative information systems, announced today that The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids), one of the largest pediatric academic health science centers in the world, will soon implement the SIS system, the latest in technical innovation. Sick Kids selected the SIS system as part of a total enterprise package that includes IT solutions from Eclipsys. SIS is the exclusive provider of the Eclipsys Sunrise Surgical Manager Solution.

Sick Kids, based in Toronto, Canada, delivers medical treatment and care not just to Canadian children, but to children from around the world. In keeping with its goal to provide quality patient care, Sick Kids will implement the SIS Perioperative Nursing solution that minimizes nurses' non-clinical activity. In addition to SIS Nursing, Sick Kids will implement Scheduling, as well as the innovative SISWeb technology, which delivers enhanced communications, allowing surgeons to access their schedules from off site.

According to SIS President and CEO, Richard Jackson, "Improved accuracy, patient safety, operational efficiency and staff satisfaction combine to equal improved overall health and success for any hospital. Sick Kids chose SIS to achieve this environment in their organization, and we are committed to helping them achieve even greater successes as a world leader in pediatric healthcare."

Surgical Information Systems (SIS) provides automated intelligence across the entire perioperative continuum, empowering hospitals to enhance patient care and business operations. SIS centralizes and unites all information exchanged between the people, processes and resources associated with surgery to deliver fast, accurate and comprehensive information precisely when it is needed most - at the scheduling desk, point-of-care, O.R. control center, surgeon's office, with materials management, and in the executive boardroom. Surgical Information Systems is the exclusive technology provider of the Eclipsys Sunrise Surgical solution (NASDAQ: ECLP), and holds strategic partnerships with both Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) Corporations. For more information visit http://www.orsoftware.com/kidspr.>