Allscripts Launches TouchWorks iHealth at HIMSS; Solution Enables Secu

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    HIMSS 2005 Annual Conference

    DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--From the floor of the 2005 HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) Annual Conference and Exposition, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced TouchWorks(TM) iHealth, a new solution that provides consumers secure online access to their own personal health record and online consultations with their physician. The comprehensive iHealth solution integrates Allscripts' award-winning TouchWorks EHR (electronic health record) with Medem, Inc., the premier physician-patient communications network, founded and governed by the nation's leading medical societies.
    TouchWorks iHealth will help meet the growing demand for electronic personal health records, which have recently become a top priority for leaders throughout government and industry. Fueling that movement, in July 2004 the Bush Administration released a comprehensive plan to encourage the adoption of health information technologies, including a strategy to 'personalize care' by enabling consumers to become more involved in managing their health and wellness. A key component of the strategy is to encourage the use of a personal health record, providing consumers real-time and secure access to their health information as well as customized guidance from their physician to enhance their care.
    TouchWorks iHealth provides a standards-based personal health record, automated patient education programs that help patients adhere to their care plans and medication regimens and the ability for patients to request medication refills and review lab results. Consumers using the solution also will be able to conduct secure online consultations with their physicians -- a service that extends the reach of physicians, enhancing the quality of care.
    "In order to truly improve health outcomes, patients need to be part of the care team and have more seamless access to information and their physician," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "This functionality is a critical component of our TouchWorks EHR, enabling physicians to more efficiently connect to their patients outside the four walls of the clinic and to enhance the level of service they provide while at the same time improving the quality of care."
    TouchWorks iHealth is based on the time-tested Medem platform of services, which provides HIPAA-compliant secure email, Online Consultation software, and trusted, award-winning clinical content from 45 of America's leading medical societies.
    Allscripts will demonstrate the TouchWorks iHealth solution at the 2005 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, the world's largest healthcare information technology conference, which takes place in Dallas, February 13 to 17.

    About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions

    Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Allscripts) is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company's business groups provide unique solutions that inform, connect, and transform healthcare. The Clinical Solutions Group's award-winning clinical software applications include electronic health record (EHR), e-prescribing and document imaging solutions. Additionally, Allscripts provides healthcare product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients through its Physicians Interactive(TM) Group and medication fulfillment services through its Medication Services Group. Visit Allscripts on the Web at www.allscripts.com.
    Strategic partners include IDX Systems; IMS Health; Microsoft; and Hewlett-Packard Company.

    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 2003 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.

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CONTACT: Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Dan Michelson, 312-506-1317 dan.michelson@allscripts.com

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