LANV Lanvision Systems (MM)

A Coding Workflow Solution to Ensure Optimal Reimbursement CINCINNATI, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LANV) dba Streamline Health(TM) today announced it has signed a new contract with the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco for Health Information Management workflows and document management solutions. The solutions provide the ability to capture patient documents and perform coding operations. Used from the hospital, home, or remote office, the solutions will decrease coding backlogs and maximize coder efficiency. The contract includes the following Streamline Health solutions: - accessANYware(TM) provides enterprise access to a patient's medical and financial records to better coordinate patient care - codingANYware(TM) improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home-based employees - Document Capture Products delivers high speed production scanning and indexing as well as departmental document capture and management UCSF School of Medicine is one of the top ten medical schools in the nation. Recognized as a leader in medical innovations, UCSF excels in education, research, and patient care leading to improved and saved lives. UCSF will maximize productivity in partnering with Streamline Health, thereby saving time and money throughout the organization, while enriching patients' lives each step of the way. "We are very pleased to include the UCSF Department of Medicine among our growing list of prestigious customers. Physician organizations often face challenges when completing and coding their records for billing," noted J. Brian Patsy, Streamline Health's President and CEO. Mr. Patsy continued, "Our workflow-based solutions assist in answering and overcoming these difficulties. This partnership demonstrates Streamline Health's flexibility in extending our solutions beyond the hospital and into the physician organization setting. We are excited about this important strategic relationship with a premier organization and we look forward to assisting UCSF in their continued use of technology to drive operational excellence." About the University of California in San Francisco Ranked among the top ten medical schools in the nation, the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine earns its greatest distinction from its outstanding faculty -- including three Nobel laureates, 32 National Academy of Sciences members, 34 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members, 46 Institute of Medicine members, and 16 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. The school is comprised of 26 academic departments, including the Department of Medicine, nine organized research units, and eight interdisciplinary centers at sites throughout San Francisco. The School of Medicine earns renown for many groundbreaking medical and scientific discoveries, including the development of recombinant DNA techniques in 1974 and the genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine in 1985. The work of UCSF scientists has been recognized by three Nobel Prizes, most recently in 1997 for the discovery of prions. Founded in 1864 as Toland Medical College, the school became part of the University of California in 1873. In 1898, the school moved to its present Parnassus Heights campus. The first UC hospital opened in 1907, growing into Moffitt-Long Hospitals and Children's Hospital. These facilities together with Mount Zion Hospital now comprise the UCSF Medical Center. About Streamline Health Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners, healthcare organizations, and customers to create and improve operational efficiencies through business process re-engineering and automating demanding document-intensive environments. The company's workflow- based services offer solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, abstracting and completion, remote physician order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and signature capture, insurance verification, secondary billing services, explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing. The company's solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human Resource and Supply Chain Management departments of the healthcare enterprise. All solutions are available for purchase or through a remote hosting services model that better matches customers' capital or operating budget needs. Streamline Health's solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location, including access using a web-browser through the Intranet/Internet. These integrated systems allow providers and administrators to link systems with documents, which can dramatically improve the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart processing, document retention, and archiving. Streamline Health has installed its workflow and document management solutions at leading healthcare providers including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Beth Israel Medical Centers, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical University Hospital Authority of South Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net/. "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Statements made by LanVision Systems, Inc., d/b/a Streamline Health that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, included herein. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, key strategic alliances with vendors that resell Streamline Health products, the ability of the Company to control costs, availability of products produced from third party vendors, the healthcare regulatory environment, healthcare information systems budgets, availability of healthcare information systems trained personnel for implementation of new systems, as well as maintenance of legacy systems, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the LanVision Systems, Inc. filings with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. DATASOURCE: LanVision Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Tom Agler, Media Relations of LanVision Systems, Inc., +1-513-794-3620 Web site: http://www.lanvision.com/

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