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Misys Healthcare Systems Partners with Precision Healthcare Delivery and Sterling Medical Consultants to Make Misys Solutions Available to 200 Offices

Integrated EMR Solution Will Enhance Office Efficiencies for Practices of All Sizes

RALEIGH, N.C. – February 21, 2006 –Misys Healthcare Systems, a market leader in healthcare IT, today announced it has partnered with Precision Healthcare Delivery (PHD) and Sterling Medical Consultants to offer Misys EMR® to physicians at two Kentucky Independent Physician Associations (IPAs). With these exclusive partnerships in place, clients utilizing PHD or Sterling for physician services can quickly and easily implement the innovative Misys solution in their practices. These clients are the Association of Primary Care Physicians and The Physicians’ Network, which represent over 900 physicians and more than 20 specialties in 200 offices throughout Kentucky.

“PHD sought an EMR solution that was easy-to-use, customizable, fast to implement and met the diverse needs of the physicians we represent, many of whom belong to smaller offices who lack the resources to evaluate vendors on their own,” said Barbara Newton, chief operations officer, Precision Healthcare Delivery. “Quality and stability, along with competitive pricing, drove our decision in EMR selection.  PHD chose Misys as an exclusive partner because it is an established and reliable company that offered us the best and most comprehensive value-add solution.”
With Misys EMR, physicians spend less time on administrative details, ensuring that even the smallest physician offices have the resources available to focus on offering their patients the best care possible. Furthermore, Misys EMR integrates easily into any practice management solution, meeting the organization’s interoperability needs.
Smaller physician offices in the IPAs also have the choice of utilizing an ASP model of Misys EMR with Sterling Medical Consultants.  This option allows smaller physician offices, which may not have the expertise to support EMR technology, to implement technological innovations like Misys EMR to achieve the same efficiencies as their larger counterparts.
“Offering a dependable product like Misys EMR as an ASP model gives physicians another option for deploying an EMR solution,” remarked Tom Samuels, president of Sterling Medical Consultants. “The partnership between Sterling and Misys helps the broadest range of our physicians improve administrative processes, regardless of size or specialty.”
To further customize the Misys EMR solution for IPAs, Misys Healthcare Systems has the Clinical Community Partnership Program (CCPP) in place to offer opportunities for volume discounts, additional revenue streams, and the ability to exchange clinical data between all practices within the IPA.
“Misys Healthcare Systems is committed to providing for the needs of physicians in both large and small practices. Our goal is to offer a variety of solutions that can be tailored for any size practice, creating administrative, clinical and financial efficiencies that allow physicians to focus on quality patient care,” explained Rob Kill, president of the Physician Systems Business Unit for Misys Healthcare Systems. “Our new partnerships with Precision Healthcare Delivery and Sterling Medical Consultants open the door for a large number of small Kentucky practices to reap the benefits of our innovative and market-leading EMR solution.”

For further information, please contact:      Mike Truell       
Misys Healthcare Systems               
(919) 329-1321                             
mike.truell@misyshealthcare.com
Amanda Sina
Schwartz Communications
781-684-0770
misys@schwartz-pr.com

About Precision Healthcare Delivery
Precision Healthcare Delivery, a privately-held Kentucky company founded in 2001, provides turnkey management services for Independent Practice Associations and hospital practices.  PHD offers medical management and physician consulting services. Current clients include IPAs, physician practices, health plans, and hospital systems. Visit www.phdelivery.com for more information.
About Sterling Medical ConsultantsSterling Medical Consultants, a privately-held company founded in 2001, provides physician management services to a wide range of specialties. Sterling Medical Consultants provides medical billing, coding, financial management, and compliance consultation. Visit www.SterlingMD.com for more information.
About Misys Healthcare SystemsMisys Healthcare Systems, one of the top five healthcare IT companies in North America, develops and supports reliable, easy-to-use software and services of exceptional quality that enable physicians and caregivers to more easily manage the complexities of healthcare. Misys’ family of leading clinical products and Web-based technologies – Misys Optimum™ solutions – are designed from the ground up to share patient data across all medical care settings. Misys Optimum connects community-based physicians and caregivers to the acute care enterprise, enabling increased efficiencies, better decision-making and improved hospital-physician relations. For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com.
About Misys plcMisys plc (FTSE: MSY), the global software company, is one of the world’s largest and longest-established providers of industry-specific software. Founded in 1979, Misys serves the international banking and healthcare industries, combining technological expertise with in-depth understanding of customers’ markets and operational needs. In banking Misys is a market leader with over 1,200 customers, including 49 of the world’s top 50 banks. In healthcare Misys is also a market leader, serving more than 92,000 physicians in 18,000 practice locations, 1,250 hospitals and 600 home care providers. In UK general insurance Misys is the market leader in software solutions. Through Sesame, a wholly-owned subsidiary, the company is also a leading provider of support services to about 7,800 financial advisers in the UK. Misys employs over 6,500 people who serve customers in more than 120 countries. For more information, visit www.misys.com.
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