Allscripts And Intel Team To Advance Wireless Computing For Physicians

Companies to Focus on Wireless Connectivity and Joint Marketing

Libertyville, Ill., May 15, 2001 -- Allscripts Healthcare Solutions and Intel Corporation today announced an agreement to help accelerate the adoption of wireless computing for integrated healthcare delivery networks. The combination of Allscripts TouchWorks™ solution and the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN products gives physicians the ability to access information wirelessly while moving through the most common tasks associated with providing care, such as prescribing medication, dictating notes and capturing billable activities.

Intel and Allscripts recently began working together to enhance the performance of wireless connectivity for physicians utilizing the iPAQ* Pocket PC from Compaq. Allscripts has selected the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card as part of its drive to make point-of-care computing faster and easier for physicians. Intel will support Allscripts with technical expertise for its wireless connectivity solution, which is based on the IEEE 802.11b (also know as Wi-Fi™) wireless networking specification. Intel will also contribute marketing funds to help accelerate the adoption of the wireless technology. Allscripts recently announced similar technology alliances with Compaq and Microsoft.

"Physicians want to spend time with their patients, not at their desks," said Stephen Saltzman, general manager of Intel's Wireless LAN Operation. "Allscripts wireless solutions are utilized by thousands of physicians today because they free physicians from their offices without sacrificing access to the information needed to make important health care decisions."

Allscripts and Intel will conduct joint forums with the chief information officers and physician executives of leading health care organizations on how wireless point-of-care systems can help lower cost while simultaneously improving the quality of patient care. The companies will also demonstrate the solution at various healthcare and technology events.

"Our agreement with Intel completes Allscripts' goal of assembling key infrastructure companies to help accelerate the adoption of point-of-care computing using premier software, hardware and wireless technology," said Glen Tullman, Allscripts' chief executive officer. "By combining the Allscripts software and services with products from industry leaders such as Intel, Compaq and Microsoft, we believe we have an powerful combination for successfully automating healthcare processes."

About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is the leading provider of point-of-care decision support solutions for physicians. The Company's TouchWorks™ software products are designed to enhance physician productivity and are accessed using wireless handheld or desktop workstation devices to automate the most common physician activities including prescribing, dictation, charge capture, lab orders and results, patient education, and clinical notes. The TouchWorks™ software runs on Microsoft's PocketPC operating system. Allscripts provides its applications on the Compaq iPAQ and the Hewlett-Packard Jornada* handheld wireless hardware. Allscripts also offers its e-prescribing clients the option of its FirstFill™ program, which allows physicians to provide patients with the first dosage of the most commonly prescribed medications directly from the office or clinic. Additionally, Allscripts provides patient compliance and healthcare product education services for physicians from its Physicians Interactive unit.

Strategic partners include IDX Systems Corporation, a provider of complete healthcare information solutions for physician group practices, management service organizations, academic medical centers, and integrated delivery networks; IMS Health, the world's leading supplier of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries; Express Scripts, the nation's largest independent full-service pharmacy benefit manager; Compaq a leading global provider of technology and solutions; Merck-Medco, one of the nations leading pharmaceutical benefits management companies; and Microsoft Corporation the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing.

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Allscripts is headquartered in Illinois and provides services to over 15,000 physicians at more than 4,000 sites across the U.S. Visit Allscripts on the Web at Allscripts.com. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Allscripts, ChannelHealth, TouchWorks, TouchWorks Professional, TouchWorks Enterprise, TouchScript, Allscripts FirstFill and Physicians Interactive are all trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions or its affiliates.

This announcement contains forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. These statements often contain words like will, believe, expect, anticipate, intend, contemplate, seek, plan, estimate or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. These statements are made under the protection afforded them by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 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 2000 Annual Report on Form 10-K. This document can be obtained through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.