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AMICAS and MEDITECH Continue to Reap Success With Seven New PACS Implementations; Collaboration Around Customers, Integration, and Development RIDGEFIELD, Conn., Nov. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMICAS Inc., a leader in Web-based image and information management, and MEDITECH Information Technology, Inc., a leader in health care information systems (HCIS), today announced new customer signings, additional product integration, and joint marketing activities at the upcoming 2004 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago, IL. Building upon a long-standing commitment to MEDITECH institutions and with MEDITECH, AMICAS is pleased to announce the recently signed additions of Delnor Community Hospital (Geneva, IL), Androscoggin Valley Hospital (Berlin, NH), Person Memorial Hospital (Roxboro, NC), Portage Health System (Hancock, MI), Johnston Memorial Hospital (Smithfield, NC), Quincy Medical Center (Quincy, MA), and Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals (Columbia, SC) to its considerable base of MEDITECH customers now running its Vision Series(TM) PACS. Since their first joint PACS integration to MEDITECH's HCIS over two years ago at Satilla Regional Medical Center (Waycross, GA), AMICAS and MEDITECH have honed a robust integration platform based upon customized AMICAS integration scripts. The integration has been implemented across dozens of healthcare institutions, providing clinical users with fast, easy access to medical images and reports through the MEDITECH electronic medical record. Tightly integrated with MEDITECH, Vision Series PACS' Forever Priors(TM) architecture provides one-click access to all imaging studies from a centralized spinning disk repository. Within a single sign-on environment secured and managed with HIPAA auditing, physicians can quickly review a patient's history, including prior images and reports for comparisons, from any desktop PC. Since it occurs within MEDITECH's enterprise and electronic medical record products and/or its emergency department management application, there is no additional end user training or support required. The integration between these applications places all images and patient information securely in the hands of clinicians wherever they are and whenever they want, both improving physician efficiency and raising the standard of patient care. "MEDITECH and AMICAS have a long history of working cooperatively to offer fully-integrated RIS, PACS, and EMR solutions to our customers," said Hoda Sayed-Friel, vice president of marketing at MEDITECH. "Our long-standing relationship has benefited our customers through improved workflow, secure integration, and image distribution based upon the full complement of bi- directional HL7 messaging from the MEDITECH PACS Integration Suite." "We continue to dedicate significant resources to our integration efforts with MEDITECH," said AMICAS president Hamid Tabatabaie. "Our efforts have resulted in an integration methodology that is both successful and repeatable across every MEDITECH environment. Our customers are comforted by the strength of our technology and the breadth of our MEDITECH experience. But we pledge to go further. We will continue to innovate, delivering integrations that help our customers achieve filmless and paperless operations, improving patient care and optimizing workflow across their healthcare enterprises." At RSNA 2004, AMICAS Vision Series PACS and MEDITECH EMR integration will be demonstrated in the AMICAS booth (8520). Representatives will be available in both AMICAS' booth as well as in MEDITECH's booth (8954) to answer any questions or to discuss any aspect of the integration. To schedule a demonstration appointment, please follow the attached link: http://www.amicas.com/RSNA2004/default.asp About AMICAS AMICAS is a leading provider of Web-based medical image and information management solutions. With over 700 unique customers and over 1,500 installations, AMICAS provides its clients with the Vision Series(TM) family of products. Our ambulatory care, imaging center, and radiology group clients are served with the end-to-end functionality of Vision Series RIS, Vision Series PACS, Vision Series Document Management, and Vision Series Financials. Our acute care and hospital clients value our acclaimed Vision Series PACS with its RIS independence, enterprise workflow, and scalable design. Complementing the Vision Series product family, AMICAS' Insight Services(TM) are a set of client-centered professional and consulting services that assist our customers with a well planned transition to a digital enterprise. AMICAS is the radiology division of VitalWorks Inc. (NASDAQ:VWKS), a leading provider of image and information management technology and services targeted to healthcare practices and organizations throughout the United States. Additional information about AMICAS can be found at http://www.amicas.com/. Additional information about VitalWorks can be found at http://www.vitalworks.com/. About MEDITECH MEDITECH has been the leader in the Health Care Information Systems (HCIS) industry since 1969. MEDITECH's applications unify clinical, administrative, and financial information across a health care organization, including acute care, long-term care, home health care, and physician practices. Today, more than 1,800 customers worldwide use MEDITECH's information systems. Information on MEDITECH and its products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at http://www.meditech.com/. Safe Harbor Statement Except for the historical information herein, the matters discussed in this release include forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release include statements about future financial and operating results and the proposed acquisition. When used in this press release, the words: believes, intends, anticipates, expects, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward- looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties include: the risk that VitalWorks and AMICAS' businesses and/or products will not be integrated successfully; the risk that AMICAS' businesses relationship with its customers will not be successful; the failure by the companies to retain key employees, integrity of the intellectual property of AMICAS, continued compliance with all government laws, rules and regulations for all applicable products; the failure by the company to complete and deliver products and services within currently estimated time frames and budgets, the inability to achieve revenues from combined lines of products, economic and political conditions in the United States and abroad and other risks affecting AMICAS' and VitalWorks' businesses generally and as set forth in VitalWorks' most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and are made only as of the date of this press release. VitalWorks and AMICAS are under no obligation to (and expressly disclaim any such obligation to) update or alter their forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. DATASOURCE: AMICAS Inc. CONTACT: Margaret Turano of AMICAS, Inc., +1-617-779-7819, Web site: http://www.amicas.com/ http://www.vitalworks.com/ http://www.meditech.com/ http://www.amicas.com/RSNA2004/default.asp http://www.rsna.org/rsna/index.html

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