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February 27, 2006

Lifetime Health Medical Group of Western New York to Provide Electronic Prescribing to 30,000 Additional Patients

Lifetime Health Medical Group of Western New York to Provide Electronic Prescribing to 30,000 Additional Patients.

Lifetime Health Medical Group of Western New York to Provide Electronic Prescribing to 30,000 Additional Patients

Secure eScript service from RelayHealth Corporation Allows Doctors to Improve
                       Quality and Convenience of Care

    BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Lifetime Health Medical Group

announced today that it will expand its current electronic prescribing

initiative to serve an additional 30,000 patients. The service will be made

available through eScript(R), the secure e-prescribing service from

RelayHealth Corporation.

    The expansion will begin in late February, when RelayHealth completes the

loading of Lifetime's patient database into its eScript e-prescribing system.

Up until now, e-prescribing has been available to approximately 900 patients.

These patients have also had access to the full suite of online

patient-physician communication tools available from RelayHealth including

appointment scheduling, lab and test results delivery, webVisits and Personal

Health Record.

    Lifetime Health's decision to expand its e-prescribing initiative comes in

advance of a change in New York Public Health Law that takes effect April 19,

2006. RelayHealth eScript will eliminate the need for special bar-coded

prescription pads for most prescriptions. These new pads, designed to protect

against fraud, will be mandatory for New York physicians according to a new

Section 21 of the state law.

    Because the secure data exchange will include information about patient

diagnoses, physicians will be armed with more information about the patient's

health record when prescribing at the point of care. RelayHealth eScript

service will increase quality of patient care by reducing the possibility of

prescribing errors and supporting online detection of possible drug

interactions. It will also bring greater efficiency to Lifetime Health's

practices by reducing the number of pharmacy calls and call-backs.

    "At Lifetime Health Medical Group, we continually seek ways to improve the

quality of patient care and practice efficiency. Using a technology solution

like RelayHealth's eScript service is a simple and cost-effective way for us

to meet both of these goals," said Arthur Orlick, MD, Chief Medical and

Operating Officer for Lifetime Health Medical Group.

    eScript is RelayHealth's "connected" e-prescribing solution -- the only

e-prescribing solution that connects all parties in the prescribing

transaction, including the healthcare consumer. With all parties working

together online, prescription data is more accurate and available. The eScript

user interface also streamlines the prescribing process, leading to dramatic

workflow efficiency. The point of care and renewal process now takes just

minutes instead of hours. Because eScript can be embedded in the RelayHealth

online communications service, prescription management is fully integrated

with overall patient care. eScript offers physicians best-in-class

e-prescribing features such as formulary status via RxHub, interaction

checking, and electronic submission to virtually all retail and mail order

pharmacies.

    About Lifetime Health Medical Group

    Lifetime Health Medical Group provides primary healthcare to more than

100,000 patients in Buffalo and Rochester. In Buffalo, Lifetime Health Medical

Group operates seven sites with a variety of services offered at each health

center. Services include pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, internal medicine,

pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, family practice, and specialty care.

Lifetime Health Medical Group also offers complementary/integrated medicine, a

dental center, physical therapy, mammography, colonoscopy, endoscopy,

nutrition counseling, behavioral health, and urgent care.

    About RelayHealth Corporation

    RelayHealth is the premier provider of secure online healthcare

communication services linking patients, healthcare professionals, health

plans, and pharmacies. A secure, clinically structured productivity platform

for the medical office, the RelayHealth service is an emerging online

communication standard, interfacing with both commercial and custom-built

electronic medical record systems through the company's Interoperability

Toolkit. Research studies show RelayHealth reduces phone traffic and increases

physician productivity through modular features like the webVisit (R) clinical

consultation and eScript(R) electronic prescribing-one reason leading health

plans nationwide increasingly reimburse providers who use the RelayHealth

service. For healthcare consumers, RelayHealth improves convenience, access

and communication with their own doctors. For information, visit

http://www.relayhealth.com.

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