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Streamline Health(TM) Announces Teaming Agreement With MCS Medical Coding Services - A Combined Marketing Effort to Provide Remote Coding Services to Hospitals - CINCINNATI and BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LANV) dba Streamline Health, a leading provider of workflow and document management-based tools, applications and services, announced a technology services agreement with MCS Medical Coding Services utilizing Streamline Health's codingANYware(TM), application an industry leading coding workflow that provides improved operational efficiencies for both in-house and remote coding processes. Under the terms of the agreement, MCS Medical Coding Services will use Streamline Health's codingANYware(TM), to provide remote coding services to MCS clients. Streamline Health's National Director of Sales, Dan O'Brien, stated, "We are extremely pleased to partner with MCS addressing critical business functions that focus on maximizing operational efficiencies. MCS is well known throughout the healthcare industry for their exceptional coding outsourcing services, and we are excited to extend their service offering through the implementation of our state-of-the-art codingANYware workflow. Our partnership offers exceptional outsourcing services as well as access to a fully automated remote coding process, which reduces overhead and accelerates the revenue cycle." Paul Arvantides, President, MCS Medical Coding Services, commented, "Our partnership with Streamline Health will bring the highest quality coding services to the forefront with industry leading workflow technology. Streamline Health's codingANYware workflow technology will enable our experienced coders to work with any hospital in the Country to improve efficiencies and reduce coding turnaround times. Together, we see the future as a solid partnership capitalizing on the commitment and dedication of Streamline Health and MCS to serve the needs of the healthcare industry." About MCS Medical Coding Services Based in Baldwinsville, NY, Medical Coding Services, Inc. (MCS) offers experienced and credentialed coding professionals to provide on-site and remote coding solutions to hospitals and health care networks. MCS provides temporary, permanent and on-call services for coding backlogs, department vacancies and special projects. MCSRemote(SM), a service of MCS, is an HIM coding solution combining web-based flexible remote coding capabilities with skilled coders, improving efficiency, production and revenue cycle management. For additional information on MCS, please visit the MCS website at http://www.mcscoding.com/ . 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 within the revenue cycle, such as remote coding, abstracting and chart completion, remote physician order processing, pre- admission registration scanning, insurance verification, secondary billing services, explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing. Streamline Health solutions also address the 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 solutions create an integrated repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly used with existing 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 dramatically improve the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart completion, document retention, and archiving. Streamline Health provides its 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, Streamline Health 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. For additional information on Streamline Health, 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. 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.streamlinehealth.net/ http://www.lanvision.com/ http://www.mcscoding.com/

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