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Rush-Copley Medical Center Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management Solution

June 6, 2008 – 2:43 am

Hospital also implementing program to link hospital records with physician
offices

CHICAGO and AURORA, Ill., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Allscripts,
the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information
solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that
Rush-Copley Medical Center has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health
Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution for the 45 physicians
employed in the Rush-Copley Medical Group.

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Rush-Copley, a 183-bed hospital, offers extensive inpatient and
outpatient care, a level II trauma center (ER), a comprehensive cancer
center, a level III (the highest possible) neonatal intensive care unit
(NICU) and progressive medical technology. Rush-Copley is a member of the
Rush-System for Health.

“We’re convinced that Allscripts will help physicians and other
providers in our community treat patients more effectively by improving the
comprehensiveness and availability of the information we use to make care
decisions,” said Garrett Katula, O.D., Chair of the Medical Informatics
Committee at Rush-Copley. “Allscripts eliminates the inefficiencies of the
paper chart, and provides ‘best practice’ guidelines, automated safety
alerts, health management plans and other critical information where it’s
needed most, at the point of care.”

In addition to deploying Allscripts for its employed physician group,
Rush-Copley has partnered with Allscripts to enable the medical center’s
growing community of independent physicians to access patient visit
documentation and other hospital information electronically, in real-time
from their offices or remotely via the Internet. Physicians who are
affiliated with the medical center can leverage this agreement to acquire
Allscripts solutions for their practices, receive alerts when their
patients visit the Rush-Copley emergency room or are admitted to the
hospital, and receive a record of what happened to their patients while
they are in the hospital.

“The Allscripts EHR is a mature product that is designed especially for
smaller practices, particularly family medicine, and the Allscripts
deployment process really takes the pain out of implementing, which is
huge,” said Dennis DeMasie, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at
Rush-Copley. “We were originally looking at another ambulatory EHR from a
traditional hospital information system vendor, but we changed direction
and went with Allscripts because they understand our physicians’ business
practices and their practice model.”

Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, commented,
“Virtually everything we do in our daily lives requires access to the right
information at the right time, whether it’s online banking, investment due
diligence, or even traffic conditions. Yet in healthcare we expect
physicians to make critical decisions without access to all the information
they need. This has to change and we’re excited that Rush-Copley, in taking
on a leadership role in this critical area, has selected Allscripts to help
make it happen.”

The easy-to-deploy, physician-centric Allscripts solution improves the
delivery of safe, cost-effective, high-quality care by automating common
tasks such as prescribing and refilling medications, ordering and viewing
tests, and documenting care. Allscripts delivers a robust Practice
Management and Electronic Health Record system built on one intelligent
platform. The seamless look and feel throughout the entire application
provides practices with an easy-to-use, yet comprehensive patient
information management solution, enabling a practice’s clinical and
business operations to work hand-in-hand for better communication and
improved accuracy.

Aurora-area physicians who are interested in taking advantage of the
medical center’s offer can find out more by calling the Rush-Copley medical
staff services office.

About Rush-Copley Medical Center

Founded in 1886 as Aurora City Hospital, Rush-Copley Medical Center has
a rich history of providing healthcare services to the greater Aurora
community. Since moving to the far-east side of Aurora in 1995, Rush-Copley
has continued its tradition of caring and strengthening its service to the
community. The 183-bed hospital offers extensive inpatient and outpatient
care, a level II trauma center (ER), a comprehensive cancer center, a level
III (the highest possible) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and
progressive medical technology. Rush-Copley is a member of the Rush-System
for Health.

About Allscripts

Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) is the leading provider of clinical software,
connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve
healthcare. The company’s unique solutions inform, connect and transform
healthcare, delivering improved care at lower cost. More than 40,000
physicians and thousands of other healthcare professionals in clinics,
hospitals and extended care facilities nationwide utilize Allscripts to
automate everyday tasks such as writing prescriptions, documenting patient
care, managing billing and scheduling, and safely discharging patients, as
well as to connect with key information and stakeholders in the healthcare
system. To learn more, visit Allscripts at http://www.allscripts.com.

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 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available
through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission
at http://www.sec.gov.

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