Exogen Signs Major Data Migration Contract

Tue Jan 8, 2008 9:00am EST
 
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North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System Chooses Exogen's Data
   Certainty Solution to Manage Migration of Its Digital Image Data
CHICAGO--(Business Wire)--Exogen, a business solutions company focused on creating value for
healthcare providers and manufacturers, and wholly-owned subsidiary of
Technology Solutions Company (NASDAQ:TSCC), announced today that it
was chosen by North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System to manage
the data migration and consolidation of medical image data from its
legacy systems to their enterprise medical image storage system.
Exogen's Data Certainty solution combines its newly developed,
patent-pending technology with its value focused professional services
to provide the industry's most comprehensive approach to analyzing,
characterizing, cleansing and ensuring the migrating of legacy medical
image data into a consolidated enterprise approach.

   "Exogen's Data Certainty approach is unique," commented John
Bosco, Chief Information Officer, North Shore-LIJ Health System.
"Unlike other data migration solutions we have used in the past or
have investigated, Exogen takes a very holistic and complete approach
to ensuring the integrity and migration of our data. Prior to moving
one pixel of data, they were able to characterize our legacy data,
tell us what was good and bad, what could be cleansed, and how fast
the migration would take. This compares to the industry norm where
vendors either provide you a piece of software to move the data
yourself or worse, they begin moving data without regard to its
integrity or impact to the organization."

   "We are pleased to have been chosen by this prestigious Health
System to assist them with their data management needs," said Milton
Silva-Craig, President and CEO of Exogen. "After several years of
working with clients on data migration projects and developing a deep
understanding of the challenges associated with migrating large
amounts of proprietary and inconsistent data, we came to the
realization that there were opportunities for significant improvements
in innovation and process which would enhance the data migration
experience resulting in more direct and tangible customer value
creation. We look forward to helping North Shore-LIJ leverage their
medical image data in a more meaningful manner."

   ABOUT NORTH SHORE-LIJ HEALTH SYSTEM

   The nation's third largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system,
the North Shore-LIJ Health System cares for people of all ages
throughout Long Island, Queens and Staten Island - a service area
encompassing more than five million people. Including its clinical
affiliates, the health system consists of 16 hospitals, 13 long-term
care facilities, a medical research institute, four trauma centers,
five home health agencies and dozens of outpatient centers. The
members and affiliates of North Shore-LIJ house more than 9,300 beds,
and are staffed by over 8,000 physicians, about 11,000 nurses and a
total workforce of more than 38,000 - the largest employer on Long
Island and the ninth largest in New York City.

   ABOUT EXOGEN

   Exogen is a business solutions company that is focused on creating
value for healthcare providers and manufacturers. Our solutions help
lead the transformation of healthcare providers and manufacturers from
a traditional inside-out thinking to an Outside-In value-driven
customer perspective. Our teams of value creation experts have
intimate knowledge of the challenges facing healthcare providers and
manufacturers today and share a common vision for the future. We
combine our knowledge and vision, with best-in-class solutions
developed in other industries, to bring to market unique products and
services for healthcare providers and manufacturers. We refer to our
industry leading solutions as Experience and Certainty. Our proven
Experience solutions leverage our exclusive Outside-In intellectual
property helping our customers identify, understand and quantify value
creation opportunities through the eyes of their customers. Our proven
Certainty solutions deliver and sustain value in the areas of digital
healthcare and operational transformation. Our entire suite of
business solutions exist to deliver results. We have delivered
hundreds of successful strategy, planning, implementation and
optimization projects with extraordinary results and outstanding
client references. For more information, please visit:
www.exogeninc.com.

   Exogen is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Technology Solutions
Company.

   ABOUT TSC

   Technology Solutions Company (TSC) is a leading business solutions
provider that partners with clients to expose and leverage
opportunities that create, measure, and sustain the delivery of value
to their customers. TSC serves the healthcare and manufacturing
industries. For more information, please visit: www.techsol.com.

   CERTAIN FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND FACTORS THAT MAY AFFECT
FUTURE RESULTS

   This press release contains or may contain certain forward-looking
statements concerning TSC's financial position, results of operations,
cash flows, business strategy, budgets, projected costs and plans and
objectives of management for future operations as well as other
statements including words such as "anticipate," "believe," "plan,"
"estimate," "expect," "intend," and other similar expressions. These
forward-looking statements involve significant risks and
uncertainties. Although TSC believes that the expectations reflected
in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable
assumptions, readers are cautioned that no assurance can be given that
such expectations will prove correct and that actual results and
developments may differ materially from those conveyed in such
forward-looking statements. TSC claims the protection of the safe
harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for all forward-looking
statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements in this press release include, among
others, TSC's ability to manage decreased revenue levels; TSC's need
to attract new business and increase revenues; TSC's declining cash
position; TSC's ability to manage costs and headcount relative to
expected revenues; TSC's ability to successfully introduce new product
and service offerings; TSC's ability to successfully introduce its new
Exogen business subsidiary; TSC's dependence on a limited number of
clients for a large portion of its revenue; the potential loss of
significant clients; TSC's ability to attract new clients and sell
additional work to existing clients; TSC's ability to attract and
retain employees; the rapidly changing nature of information
technology services, including TSC's ability to keep pace with
technological and market changes and its ability to refine and add to
existing service offerings; the lack of shareholder approved stock
options available for grants by TSC to retain existing employees; and
changing business, economic or market conditions and changes in
competitive and other factors, all as more fully described herein and
in TSC's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, press
releases and other communications. Forward-looking statements are not
guarantees of performance. Such forward-looking statements speak only
as of the date on which they are made and, except as may be otherwise
required by law, TSC does not undertake any obligation to update any
forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the
date of this press release. If TSC does update or correct one or more
forward-looking statements, investors and others should not conclude
that TSC will make additional updates or corrections with respect
thereto or with respect to other forward-looking statements. Actual
results may vary materially.

Technology Solutions Company
Chief Financial Officer
Timothy Rogers, 312-228-4848
Tim.rogers@techsol.com
or
Exogen
55 East Monroe Street
Suite 2600
Chicago, Illinois 60603
312-228-4500

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