LanVision Partners With IBM to Develop Integrated, Open Solutions for Healthcare Customers

LanVision Partners With IBM to Develop Integrated, Open Solutions
for Healthcare Customers
Companies Deliver On Demand Electronic Healthcare Solutions 


CINCINNATI, April 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:LANV) dba Streamline Health, a workflow and document management
company specializing in streamlining business processes, has joined IBM's ISV
Advantage Initiative for SMB. (NYSE:IBM) The IBM SMB initiative is a program
designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and
marketing support to help meet the specific information technology needs of
small and medium business (SMB) organizations.  Streamline Health plans to
utilize IBM's sales and support resources to expand its presence in the
healthcare marketplace, with emphasis on small to medium-sized hospital
organizations.

Streamline Health provides workflow and document management solutions that
streamline business processes in key areas of the healthcare enterprise,
including Health Information Management, Patient Financial Services, Human
Resources and Supply Chain Management.  The Company's solutions capture
document-centric information from disparate sources, move it throughout a
facility using innovative workflow software, and securely deliver it to
authenticated users.  Streamline Health solutions offer healthcare
organizations improved operating efficiencies by making critical information
available to the right people at the right time.

"Streamline Health is pleased to partner with IBM to improve operational
efficiencies throughout small and medium size hospital organizations, which is
over 50% of the hospital market opportunity," stated J. Brian Patsy, President
and CEO of Streamline Health.  "Together, we offer comprehensive and affordable
solutions that integrate IBM's eServer platforms, storage and archival
middleware and business process enhancement tools with Streamline Health's
powerful workflows and document management solutions.  Our partnership with IBM
will allow Streamline Health to expand into the small to medium-sized hospital
market much faster and more effectively."

"Healthcare is a strategic industry that we are looking to influence with
partners like Streamline Health as technology continues to change at a very
steady speed," said Buell Duncan, General Manager, ISV & Developer Relations,
IBM. "The sales and technical resources of the IBM ISV Advantage program will
complement and enhance Streamline Health's capabilities to develop open
solutions that address the diverse healthcare management challenges of small to
medium-sized hospital organizations."

As a part of the new arrangement, Streamline Health will incorporate the IBM
WebSphere portal technology that is designed and priced specifically for small
and medium businesses -- easy to install and manage, scalable to grow with a
business, rich in functionality, and based on open standards to allow
integration with existing software and hardware platforms.  Streamline Health
will also work closely with IBM to expand its visibility in targeting the
healthcare industry through various co-marketing and sales activities.

For more information about IBM ISV Advantage and other programs and resources
available to developers, visit http://www.ibm.com/isv

For more information about Streamline Health and its healthcare software
products and solutions, visit http://www.streamlinehealth.net/ .

IBM, the IBM Business Partner emblem, and WebSphere are trademarks or
registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries,
or both.

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 provides remote hosting services to various healthcare
providers including University Hospital, a member of The Health Alliance of
Greater Cincinnati, and Children's Medical Center of Columbus, OH.  In
addition, the Company has installed its workflow and document imaging solutions
at leading healthcare providers including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Albert
Einstein Healthcare Network, Beth Israel Medical Centers, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical University Hospital Authority of South
Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

"Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995

Statements made by LanVision Systems, Inc. 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.,

[phone]



Web site:  http://www.lanvision.com/

http://www.streamlinehealth.net/

http://www.ibm.com/isv 

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