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Allscripts teams with Microsoft to enable greater online collaboration

between physicians and patients

CHICAGO, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, was featured in today's launch of Microsoft HealthVault at a Washington, DC press conference announcing the new consumer health platform. Allscripts is the first market-leading Electronic Health Record company to offer its products on the HealthVault platform, providing physicians a means of sharing health information over the Internet with their patients.

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During the press conference, Allscripts revealed its first product to connect to HealthVault -- eRx NOW(TM), the web-based electronic prescribing solution offered at no cost to physicians across America as a key part of the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative(TM), (NEPSI(TM)), a coalition of the nation's leading technology and healthcare organizations, including Allscripts and Microsoft.

"Allscripts is excited to be the first electronic health record company to connect to HealthVault, and we applaud Microsoft's efforts to enable consumers to create an 'electronic dialogue' with their physicians using our applications and HealthVault," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts and NEPSI Co-Chair, who spoke at today's news conference as a member of an industry panel. "More and more, patients want to access their healthcare information online, to
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