Cissec Corporation announces strategic partnership with Nightingale electronic medical records

electronic medical records Nightingale integrates Cissec's wait time management functionality into its EMR offering
KINGSTON, ON, July 6 /CNW/ - Cissec Corporation ("Cissec") today announced that is has entered into an exclusive strategic partnership with Nightingale Informatix Corporation ("Nightingale") (TSX-V: NGH - News), a healthcare application service provider (ASP) of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and practice management software, that will see Nightingale integrate Cissec's Patient Care Monitor technology ("PCM") into its "Nightingale On-Demand" EMR product suite."We are pleased to be partnering with Nightingale to bring this unique technology to the healthcare market," said Mike Rimmer, President and CEO of Cissec Corporation. "With its leadership position in the Canadian EMR market and its growing footprint in the U.S., Nightingale is well positioned to successfully roll out this powerful, integrated application across North America."

PCM is a clinical management tool that enables physicians, clinics and hospitals to track patient progress through the clinical care pathway in real-time, manage the entire process and measure patient wait time at any point in the system. In addition, PCM offers standardized workflow options and creates patient timeline targets based on individual care requirements.

Physicians can use PCM to evaluate timelines on a patient-by-patient basis, or across their entire patient base. PCM also provides administrators with the ability to identify, monitor and correct suboptimal processes and resources within their facilities, thereby improving patient wait time management.

"A key component of our organic growth strategy is to maintain our technology leadership by consistently enhancing our product suite," said Sam Chebib, President and CEO of Nightingale. "Further strengthening our position in the North American EMR market by partnering with Cissec on this exciting initiative is a natural fit."

Mr. Chebib continued: "Healthcare practitioners are increasingly faced with the pressure to manage patient care cycles more efficiently, especially as governments have now begun to set wait time objectives. By integrating Cissec's PCM technology with our EMR solution, we have provided physicians and practice managers with the tools they need to automatically measure and manage patient timelines, identify bottlenecks in their processes and in turn improve upon the timeliness and quality of patient care they deliver."

About Cissec

Cissec Corporation (www.cissec.com) is an information engineering firm based in Kingston, Ontario. A privately held company, its genesis was as the technology resource at QUAIL (Queen's University Advanced Informatics Laboratory) for health care research projects at Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital. Over the past seven years Cissec's team has developed innovative solutions with local, provincial and national scope. This has been accomplished in collaboration with researchers, clinicians and administrators who share Cissec's belief that technology can play an important role in alleviating some of the challenges facing health care with the ultimate benefit of improved patient outcomes.

About Nightingale

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (www.nightingale.md) is one of North America's fastest growing healthcare application service providers (ASP). Nightingale's Internet-based Electronic Health Record (EHR), Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and practice management solutions are designed to help physicians, health centers, hospitals and other healthcare organizations more efficiently manage their operations and patient records.

Nightingale's products and services offer physicians in United States and Canada leading-edge functionality for clinical documentation, patient scheduling, resource scheduling, billing, transcription, end-to-end coding and claims processing, data management, work flow tools, laboratory interfaces, documentation management and patient portals, along with other real-time services. The Company's proprietary offerings of software include Nightingale On-Demand, RidgeMark, Medical Helper, Therapist Helper, Northern Health Anesthesia, Entity and Physician WorkStation and SecureConnect, providing physicians with fully integrated, simple-to-use systems that automate daily tasks and create a single, accessible source of patient data.

Forward Looking Statement

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may" ,"could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Nightingale to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: risks related to the offering and the acquisition not being completed on favourable terms, or all, speculative nature of the medical software industry, which is affected by numerous factors beyond Nightingale's control; the ability of Nightingale to successfully integrate its acquisitions and any liabilities arising as a result of such acquisitions; the existence of present and possible future government regulation; the significant and increasing competition that exists in the medical software industry; the early stage of Nightingale's business; and therefore it is subject to the risks associated with early stage companies, including uncertainty of revenues, markets and profitability and the need to raise additional funding. In particular, there is no assurance that the Offering will be completed as it is subject to market conditions

Although Nightingale has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Nightingale does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. Further information on Nightingale Informatix Corporation is available at www.sedar.com

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For further information

Dave Mason, Investor Relations, The Equicom Group, Tel: (416) 815-0700 x237, dmason@equicomgroup.com
Crystal Quast, Media Relations, The Equicom Group, Tel: (416) 815-0700 x240, cquast@equicomgroup.com
Justin Rimmer, Director, Sales & Customer Relations, Cissec, Tel: (613) 389-2756 ext. 118, JRimmer@cissec.com