Healthvision Chooses CareEvolve to Place Electronic Orders and Deliver

    Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

    IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2005--Healthvision, a leading healthcare Internet company, today announced that the company has selected CareEvolve, a web-based laboratory outreach solution, to serve as the lab connectivity service for healthcare professionals wishing to order tests via the Healthvision portal. The service allows providers to universally order laboratory and pathology tests, perform medical necessity verification and access lab results from the Healthvision system using any web-enabled computer. CareEvolve is delivering the laboratory connectivity component of the Healthvision Connected Healthcare Community (CHC).
    "The ability to deliver a patient's laboratory results to physicians in real time is a critical differentiator for us to offer our physician members," said Scott Decker, CEO of Healthvision. "Our hospital customers need laboratory orders to be 'clean'. Clean orders will reduce errors, write offs and follow up calls to physician offices. CareEvolve's laboratory expertise will allow for quicker turn around times on lab work and better access to clinical data. CareEvolve is the premier vendor for delivering clean orders and results to physicians and laboratories."
    "I find it personally gratifying to be recognized by Healthvision, in their mission to provide hospitals and physicians with the best clinical tools available," said Brian Jones, Vice President of Sales for CareEvolve. "We are looking forward to being Healthvision's partner in providing these much needed solutions."
    CareEvolve's ability to deliver clean orders and laboratory results real time further permits Healthvision's CHC concept to be fully realized. All applications have been designed and implemented to provide economies of scale down to the healthcare professional level. In all cases, this partnership provides applications that represent efficient use of time, resources and information.
    "Since CareEvolve is a true Internet-based, browser solution, there is no need to send anyone or anything to the healthcare professional's office in order to maintain the system," said Decker.
    "Healthvision and our partners are continually searching for new, better or more efficient solutions that can easily be integrated into our platform. CareEvolve provides the next piece of that puzzle."

    About Healthvision

    Healthvision creates Connected Healthcare Communities by helping market leaders quickly and cost-effectively plan for and deliver patient-centric information via shared information exchanges. Healthvision's capabilities cover the spectrum of needs ranging from a suite of strategic consulting services to web-based infrastructure and applications -- all designed to enhance decision making and effectiveness. The Healthvision e-Health Interoperability Platform and applications improve access to clinical information and enhance coordination and collaboration of care.
    The company's Web-based infrastructure, e-Healthsource, is the most widely used in the industry, hosting more than 7.5 million unique patient records. Additionally, more than 350 healthcare organizations use the company's solutions to make health care easier for their key audiences - a number that represents more than 23,000 clinicians (including 11,000 physicians), thousands of patients and millions of consumers. A privately held company, based in Irving, Texas, Healthvision was formed in July 1999. For more information, visit www.healthvision.com.

    About CareEvolve

    CareEvolve's mission is to provide "Better Healthcare Through Better Communications". Specifically, to the company improves a patient's health at the point of care by giving physicians access to their clinical information in usable discrete and formatted templates. CareEvolve's interface engine enables the transfer of clinical information from the laboratory to physician offices as well as their electronic medical record systems. LabEvolve's functionality will improve ordering and billing errors, enable quicker turn around times, provide complete clinical ordering information and manage business rules specific to our customers. CareEvolve is a leader in the field of web-based order entry results reporting systems. CareEvolve is a wholly owned subsidiary of BioReference Laboratories in Elmwood Park, N.J.

    Statements included in this release that are not historical in nature, are intended to be, and are hereby identified as "forward-looking statements". Statements looking forward in time are included in this release pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance suggested herein.

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CONTACT: Healthvision, Irving Bevey Miner, 972-819-4207 or CareEvolve Kara Kelly, 201-791-2600

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