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Lenox Hill Hospital Activates E&C’s Risk Reduction/Quality Improvement System for Obstetrics

New York City– November 15, 2005 – E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc., the leading provider of risk reduction and clinical quality improvement systems and services for obstetrics, today announced that Lenox Hill Hospital, New York has successfully activated E&C’s Intelligent Patient Record for Obstetrics (IPR_OB™). IPR_OB is recognized as the most advanced real?time best practice and risk management support tool for the OB practitioner. Used in over 90,000 births to date, IPR_OB has demonstrated statistical reductions in the risk and prevention of critical clinical errors. Lenox Hill is the first hospital in Manhattan to install this system in its OB Department.

“In a continuing effort to maintain the department’s proven record of excellence in obstetrical care, the IPR_OB system will enhance quality of care and management both on the labor floor and postpartum units,” said Michael Divon, MD, OB Chairman of Lenox Hill. IPR_OB provides unique, new tools to help eliminate clinical errors in real-time and improve the quality of care in the OB environment. Functioning as a complete intelligent OB chart for both physicians and nurses, the system proactively supports clinicians in providing the highest level of care and avoiding clinical mistakes, while generating meticulous documentation. At its core is a comprehensive clinical knowledgebase comprised of over 6,500 best practice protocols in OB and 13,000 clinical data fields. IPR_OB’s powerful inference engine analyzes the latest patient data against this extensive clinical knowledgebase to offer clinicians appropriate choices of care, documentation and risk management pathways for the current clinical situation. The complete IPR_OB package also includes an extensive risk management consultancy to help identify, isolate, and remediate quality deviations from the hospital’s accepted best practices.

About Lenox Hill Hospital
Lenox Hill Hospital, a 652-bed, acute-care hospital located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, has earned a national reputation for outstanding patient care and innovative medical and surgical treatments. Lenox Hill Hospital is renowned for its exceptional obstetrical services, from prenatal care to postpartum care. The Center for Maternal-Fetal Medicine is one of the most comprehensive of its kind in New York City. Lenox Hill Hospital physicians deliver more than 3,700 babies each year in newly renovated facilities.

About E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc.
E&C Medical Intelligence, Inc. is a pioneer in automated clinical management support and documentation. The company provides breakthrough real-time, knowledge-based best practice software systems featuring an intelligent patient record and associated consulting services that,together, reduce risk and improve the quality of care. E&C currently offers proven solutions along the obstetrics continuum: prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum. The company is based in New York City with offices in Chicago, Orlando, Phoenix and Nashville. Visit the E&C website at: www.ecmed.com.

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