Netsmart Technologies Partners With the Betty Ford Center

Netsmart Technologies Partners With the Betty Ford Center
Netsmart will incorporate the Betty Ford Center's 'best practices' clinical
protocol into Avatar productline 


GREAT RIVER, N.Y., May 21  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Netsmart Technologies,
Inc. , a leading supplier of enterprise-wide software for health and human
services providers through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Creative Socio-Medics
Corp. (Creative), announced today that Creative has entered into an agreement
with MSJ Communications Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Betty
Ford Center, to incorporate MSJ Communications' SATIS (Substance Abuse
Treatment Information System) product with Creative's Avatar productline.  MSJ
Communications provides IT solutions to organizations offering alcoholism and
drug dependency treatment services. Its SATIS productline is used by
approximately 30 treatment centers including the Betty Ford Center.

Creative's CEO, Jerry Koop, said in a statement: "We are excited about becoming
a partner of the Betty Ford Center, a leading alcoholism treatment
organization. We anticipate that a major benefit of this new partnership will
be the incorporation of the Center's SATIS software into Creative's Avatar
product suite. We believe that the integration of these two dynamic software
packages could become the industry standard."

Michael Neatherton, Betty Ford Center's Executive Vice President and COO
commented: "When we first decided to look for a partner, we performed an
industry search and due diligence on firms that not only had a reputation for
excellence in software and services for the health and human services industry,
but also demonstrated commitment to client satisfaction in both product and
technology vision. At the top of our final list was Creative Socio-Medics."

The Betty Ford Center created MSJ Communications to further its mission of
providing effective alcohol and other drug dependency treatment services to
help women, men and families begin the process of recovery. MSJ Communications
is a consulting and information technology company that specializes in
improving the performance of organizations that treat alcohol and other drug
dependencies. MSJ Communications fulfills this mission by working in
partnership with other organizations that share a commitment to excellence in
providing health care and other related services.

James Conway, CEO of Netsmart, said: "We are excited about the opportunity
presented by our partnership with the Betty Ford Center. This added capability
is consistent with our plans to become the leading supplier of information
services into the behavioral health marketplace. "

About Netsmart Technologies, Inc.

Netsmart Technologies, Inc. of Great River, NY, through Creative Socio- Medics,
is an established, leading supplier of enterprise-wide software solutions for
health and human services providers with over 580 clients, including 26 systems
with state agencies. Creative's clients include health and human services
organizations: public health agencies, mental health and substance abuse
clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and managed care organizations. Avatar Practice
Management and the Avatar Clinician Work Station, Creative's core products, are
full-featured information systems that operate on a variety of operating
systems, hardware platforms, and mobile devices and offer unlimited
scalability.

Statement on Behalf of Netsmart Technologies, Inc.

Statements in this press release may be "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as
"anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "intend" and similar
expressions, as they relate to the company or its management, identify
forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations,
estimates and projections about the company's business based, in part, on
assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future
performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult
to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may, and probably will,
differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking
statements due to numerous factors, including those described above and those
risks discussed from time to time in Netsmart's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. In addition, such statements could be affected by risks
and uncertainties related to product demand, market and customer acceptance,
competition, pricing and development difficulties, as well as general industry
and market conditions and growth rates, and general economic conditions.  Any
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made,
and the company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking
statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
Information on Netsmart's or Creative's website do not constitute a part of
this release. 

DATASOURCE: Netsmart Technologies, Inc.



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