Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange Implements Axolotl`s Community Wide Virtual Health Record

Authorized Physicians Have Access to Complete Patient Data at the Point of Care
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County, the lead organization of the
Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange (HIE), has implemented the Elysium
Virtual Health Record from Axolotl Corp., the nation`s premier provider of HIE
solutions and services. Building on more than a dozen years of successful
information delivery and interchange using Axolotl`s Elysium Exchange,
authorized physicians are now able to query community wide data for a more
complete clinical picture, improving the quality and timeliness of patient care.

"We are excited to have taken our Elysium implementation to the next level,"
said Bill Beighe, Chief Information Officer of Physicians Medical Group, a three
hundred physician member IPA at the heart of the longest running,
self-sustaining HIE in the country. "We have been using Axolotl`s solutions to
exchange clinical information between disparate systems for the last thirteen
years. With a single click, extended patient information is accessible and
displayed like a patient chart."

"Axolotl has been our HIE partner, continually evolving our solutions to meet
our current health care needs," said Marvin Labrie, Chief Executive Officer,
Physicians Medical Group. "Our clinicians, at the point of care, can view
patient labs, medications, allergies, radiology reports and more - assisting
them in making quality decisions in a timely manner."

"Our emergency department physicians will no longer have to play a guessing game
or waste valuable time and resources by ordering duplicate lab and imaging
tests, or calling primary care physicians," said Nancy Greenstreet, MD, Medical
Director, Physicians Medical Group. "From any secure browser they can quickly
find a patient`s medical history, medications, specialty care, recent tests and
procedures, and treat accordingly - in the ED this can mean the difference
between life and death."

Axolotl`s Elysium Virtual Health Record (VHR) provides a comprehensive view of
the patient, allowing authorized physicians to electronically locate, connect
to, and review a holistic patient chart that is drawn from data in multiple
health care systems. All available patient data is assembled using a record
locator service to create a complete electronic health record without
commingling data from disparate sources. Authorized VHR users may also select
specific data from a patient`s health record and download it to their EMR or EMR
Lite application.

"Santa Cruz has been a role model for HIE in the United States," said Ray Scott,
Axolotl CEO. "The IPA spearheaded the initiative, bringing on board competing
hospitals, labs, radiology centers and pharmacies to create an interoperable
health care environment. The community has grown to include more than 95 % of
the region`s population and more than 700 regular on-line healthcare
professionals -Santa Cruz is healthcare connected."

About Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange

Santa Cruz County is the most advanced and mature RHIO in the country. The
clinical network connects a large IPA, two competing local hospitals, the County
Health Clinics, two national and two local reference labs, two imaging centers
and several FQHC safety net clinics. More than one million web transactions
occur each month on the Exchange as well as tens of thousands of new electronic
prescriptions and refills.

About Axolotl Corp

Founded in 1995, Axolotl Corp. is North America`s leading provider of
browser-based products and services for secure health information exchange and
management. Its award-winning Elysium Exchange suite of solutions enables
healthcare providers to instantly share information, reduce costs, and improve
quality and efficiency.

Today, Elysium helps thousands of healthcare entities-including hospitals,
health systems, regional health information organizations (RHIOs/HIEs), clinics,
laboratories, radiology centers and physician practices-to securely exchange
clinical information for more than 25 million patients. Elysium`s community-wide
Master Patient Index, EdgeServer(s), Interoperability Hub (I-Hub), Community
Virtual Health Record, and EMR Lite with integrated e-prescribing are all
provided as a software service (SaaS). In addition, Axolotl-employed U.S.-based
transcriptionists provide high-quality medical transcription services, rapid
turnaround and total billing transparency using Elysium technology for report
delivery.

Axolotl is based in San Jose and best known for introducing Clinical Messaging,
now at the heart of all health information exchange. For more information about
Axolotl, see www.axolotl.com.

Axolotl Corp
Nicole Spencer, 530.269.1806
pr@axolotl.com

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