Doctors Community Hospital Selects HealthMatics Emergency Department Information System from Allscripts

Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced that Doctors Community Hospital has selected the HealthMatics(R) ED Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to automate opera

CHICAGO, and LANHAM, Md (March 29, 2007) –

Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced that Doctors Community Hospital has selected the HealthMatics(R) ED Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to automate operations and improve access to patient information for its more than 50,000 annual emergency room visits.

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Doctors Community is a 186-bed acute care medical and surgical hospital in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC that has been repeatedly ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News and World Report. HealthMatics ED ( http://www.allscripts.com/healthmaticsed ) will streamline processes for the hospital’s entire Emergency Department, including patient tracking and triage, nurse and physician charting, reporting and disposition.

“Allscripts will improve our workflow, make optimum use of staff time, and greatly improve our ability to meet and exceed the expectations of our patients in the Emergency Department,” said Alan Johnson, Chief Information Officer for Doctors Community. “We also expect that HealthMatics will improve patient safety through its alerts, visual prompts, direct provider order- entry, automated care plans, and templates that help ensure comprehensive documentation. Additionally, the accuracy of our billing will improve since it will be an automatic byproduct of the system and much less a manual process subject to human error.”

After years of analyzing EDIS vendors, Doctors Community selected HealthMatics ED because the system provides comprehensive functionality with a track record of success at hospitals of all sizes across the country.

“We looked at a number of systems and, ultimately, we felt Allscripts was well beyond the ‘promise’ stage, with a solution that would deliver immediate results,” said Johnson. “The return on investment with this product is excellent, meaning that every month we let go by without it is truly a lost opportunity.”

Doctors Community will connect HealthMatics ED with its existing inpatient health information system from Meditech, enabling full interoperability of all clinical and financial information within the hospital. The Allscripts system also enables affiliated physicians outside the hospital to quickly determine the treatment and medications their patients received in the Emergency Department. Community physicians will be able to access Emergency Department records for their patients through the hospital’s Citrix physician portal linked to HealthMatics ED.

“Emergency department physicians need immediate access to up-to-date and accurate clinical information to make quick decisions under the toughest of circumstances,” said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “By selecting HealthMatics ED, Doctors Community Hospital is providing their physicians on the front lines with the tools to make the best and safest treatment decisions and to connect with the patient’s ongoing care.”

About Doctors Community Hospital

Doctors Community Hospital is an award-winning 186-bed acute care medical and surgical hospital founded in 1975 by leading physicians in Prince George’s County. The hospital has continued to be in the forefront in providing state- of-the-art medical care while remembering the elemental human touch. Doctors Community Hospital has received numerous awards including HealthGrades’ Specialty Excellence Award for Stroke Care, and several citations by U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s Best Hospitals. For more information, visit http://www.DCHweb.org .

About Allscripts

Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company’s business groups provide unique solutions that inform, connect and transform healthcare. The Clinical Solutions Group’s award-winning software applications include electronic health record, practice management, electronic prescribing, document imaging, emergency department and care management solutions. Additionally, Allscripts provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients through its Physicians Interactive(TM) Group and medication fulfillment services through its Medication Services Group. To learn more, visit Allscripts on the Web at http://www.allscripts.com .

This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts’ actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts, see the Company’s 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.

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