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Lanier Healthcare and Allscripts Sign Distribution Agreement

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(PR NEWSWIRE) Lanier Healthcare and Allscripts Sign Distribution Agreement
Lanier Healthcare and Allscripts Sign Distribution Agreement

Voice and Document Solutions Leader to Distribute TouchWorks Applications

ATLANTA and CHICAGO, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Allscripts Healthcare
Solutions (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of wireless point-of-care
solutions for physicians, today announced a five-year agreement with Lanier
Healthcare, a company that offers document applications to help healthcare
professionals create and manage mission-critical health information, to
distribute and integrate Allscripts TouchWorks PDA applications with Lanier
Healthcare's voice and document solutions. Approximately 50 percent of U.S.
hospitals and nearly 285,000 physicians currently use Lanier Healthcare's
dictation and document management systems.
Allscripts will become the exclusive PDA provider for Lanier Healthcare,
who will market its VoiceWriter NT and Cquence Dictation solution fully
integrated with the Allscripts TouchWorks handheld wireless PDAs, providing
physicians with digital voice capture at the point of care while offering the
mobility they demand. This agreement will enable Lanier Healthcare to provide
a full suite of clinical solutions on the same PDA device that physicians will
use for dictation.
"The integration of TouchWorks will allow Lanier Healthcare to address our
clients' dictation needs with a proven PDA solution. In addition, Allscripts
ability to provide other key functions such as e-prescribing, charge capture,
and reference books via Pocket Library(TM) was the critical factor in our
decision to bring Allscripts to our clients," commented Dennis Mahoney,
president and CEO of Lanier Healthcare. "With this new agreement and our
comprehensive product suite, we are uniquely positioned to offer our customers
the best voice and document choices in the marketplace today."
Lanier Healthcare will immediately begin offering the Allscripts
TouchWorks Dictate(TM) and Pocket Library solutions on the Compaq iPAQ Pocket
PC PDA device to their physician customers. They will also act as a referral
source for the full TouchWorks suite of solutions.
"We are excited to be able to join forces with Lanier Healthcare, the
recognized leader in providing enterprise dictation and document management
solutions," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts
Healthcare Solutions. "This agreement provides another avenue to increase the
adoption of handheld technology at the point of care and provides an excellent
distribution channel into large physician practices. Many IDX customers also
use Lanier Healthcare and this will allow us to seamlessly integrate our
solution with those customers."

Lanier Healthcare
Lanier Healthcare ( www.lanierhealthcare.com ), located in Atlanta, is
focused on the delivery of enterprise and Web applications targeting the
creation and connection of mission-critical health information. It has
strategic partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other leading
technology developers. The company has an established customer base of more
(PR NEWSWIRE) Lanier Healthcare and Allscripts Sign Distribution Agreement
Lanier Healthcare and Allscripts Sign Distribution Agreement

Voice and Document Solutions Leader to Distribute TouchWorks Applications