Misys Healthcare Systems Signs Strategic Alliance Agreement with Keane; Leading Healthcare Providers Combine Clinical and Revenue Cycle Offerings to Enhance Patient Care and Optimize Efficiency for Hospitals

Business Wire, July 6, 2006

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Misys Healthcare Systems, a market leader in healthcare IT, today announced that it has signed a marketing agreement with Keane's Healthcare Solutions Division, a provider of leading-edge software and services for healthcare organizations across the entire continuum of care. The agreement packages industry-leading products from both companies--Misys CPR(TM), a leading clinical information system with CPOE and clinical decision support, and Keane's EZ-Access Patcom revenue cycle management (RCM) solution--to offer healthcare organizations a robust solution that meets their needs from bedside to executive office.

"Misys brings a level of expertise to the market with its highly-acclaimed clinical information systems, and our arrangement with them - which makes our award-winning EZ-Access Patcom RCM solution available to their prospects - means they are offering better value all around," said Raymond Paris, senior vice president of Keane's Healthcare Solutions Division. "The Keane RCM solution now works in concert with Misys CPR to provide the more complete solution that hospitals are looking for to achieve their goals of providing top quality patient care and containing quickly spiraling healthcare costs."

This Misys-Keane agreement allows a hospital to implement a full solution from bedside charting to accounts receivable, providing them with a seamless user experience and a smooth and efficient deployment methodology. The Misys and Keane teams have engaged product architects at both companies over the course of the last several months to ensure seamless touch-points between the two applications.

"Hospitals have long had to worry about getting the patient accounting vendor and the clinical vendor to work through the necessary communication and interface challenges during the implementation process," said Randy Cox, CIO of Riverview Hospital, a 156-bed facility in Noblesville, Indiana that recently installed the Misys-Keane solution. "Therefore, it was refreshing to us that Misys Healthcare Systems and Keane worked very closely in partnership together on our installation; I'd say they are well on their way to delivering a seamless product integration that will offer great value here at Riverview."

"Keane's strong presence in the healthcare RCM marketplace and its exceptional commitment to customer service are what drew us to partner with them," said Richard Atkin, president of the Hospital Systems business unit at Misys Healthcare Systems. "The result is a workflow which brings to market a solution with the deep clinical decision support capabilities of Misys CPR and the performance-boosting flexibility of EZ-Access Patcom. It's truly a total package in one end-to-end solution."

Part of the Misys Optimum(TM) family of clinical products, Misys CPR is an enterprise-wide electronic health record solution with integrated computerized physician order entry, enabling physicians to save time, reduce medical errors and improve the quality of care. The solution features advanced functionalities such as browser-based access to patient data, clinical decision support and integrated medication management.

A member of the EZ-Access family of applications, EZ-Access Patcom is a comprehensive browser-based patient management system designed to help hospitals streamline their operations, enhance the revenue cycle process and increase return on investment by reducing AR days, improving staff productivity, and decreasing operating costs.

About Keane Healthcare Solutions Division (HSD)

Keane's Healthcare Solutions Division (HSD) provides proprietary software and services to more than 300 hospital-based clients and 4,000 long-term care facilities throughout the country. Since 1975, Keane's software has been helping clients increase efficiency, reduce medical errors, meet regulatory requirements, and enhance the revenue cycle process. Keane's core healthcare solutions include EZ-Access, EZ-Access Patcom, Keane InSight, and VistaKEANE. Information about Keane HSD is available on the Internet at www.keane.com/hsd.> About Keane

In business since 1965, Keane, Inc. (NYSE: KEA) is a leading business process and IT services firm. Keane delivers Application and Business Process Services to help clients transform their business and IT operations to achieve demonstrable, measurable, and sustainable business benefit. As a trusted advisor and partner for its clients, Keane solves real business issues through the development and implementation of cost-effective, change-oriented, industry-specific solutions. Specifically, Keane delivers highly synergistic application and business process services, including Application Development and Integration Services, Architecture Services, Application Outsourcing, Program Management, and Testing, as well as Business Transformation Services including Business Process Outsourcing. Keane believes that business and IT improvements are best realized by streamlining and optimizing business and IT processes, implementing rigorous management disciplines, and fostering a culture of accountability through meaningful performance metrics. Based in Boston, Mass., Keane delivers its services throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.keane.com.