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LUMEDX CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Lumedx And Agilent Establish Integrated Cardiac Data Solution For Top Cancer Hospital

ASE Booth # 201

Houston, TX-June 28, 2001 The LUMEDX Corporation (formerly Seattle Systems, Inc.) and Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A) have completed the joint implementation of a cardiac data management solution at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. M. D. Anderson's growing Department of Clinical Cardiology chose the Apollo32TM database by LUMEDX and two Agilent interfaces as a centralized data solution for their research and patient-care reporting needs. M. D. Anderson interfaced Agilent's EnConcert and Tracemaster diagnostic systems with LUMEDX's Apollo32 clinical data repository. "The LUMEDX and Agilent umbrella solution covered our needs in the echocardiography lab, and the joint database system is a key addition as we move toward electronic medical records," said Joseph Swafford, M.D., Director of Cardiology (Non-Invasive Lab) and Director of Clinical Cardiology at M. D. Anderson. "It all connects with our hospital information system and the two can talk back and forth and that's crucial for electronic medical records." The LUMEDX/Agilent solution resolved three key needs:

• Secure, centralized data repository for streamlined, long-term research;
• Secure compatibility with a pre-established hospital Intranet, enabling doctors to access data anytime, anywhere from their network;
• Streamlined care delivery and controlled costs through future EMRs.

"We needed a system that would store our data in a centralized area and allow us to query and extract whatever we needed," Dr. Swafford said. "Because we're an academic center we need to have reliable access to data."

As Dr. Swafford's department grows and colleagues' offices are expanded and relocated, M. D. Anderson has faced the problem of providing data to doctors where and when they need it. The LUMEDX/Agilent solution offers an open architecture design and standard data languages that work with the hospital's Intranet system.

"The ultimate beneficiary is the patient," said Allyn McAuley, Co-founder and CEO of the LUMEDX Corporation. "This sort of teamwork demonstrates how innovative hardware and software integration can pull together vital diagnostic data at the point of care", McAuley said.

The LUMEDX/Agilent technology solution was selected as a comprehensive data management system for research and clinical data, as well as an efficient means for outcomes reporting. The technology also fits certain business models devised to control costs, in part, through future electronic medical records.

"The flexibility was the most impressive thing...the fact that EnConcert could talk to Apollo," Dr. Swafford said.

About LUMEDX: Privately held LUMEDX Corporation (formerly Seattle Systems, Inc.) is the market leader in cardiovascular information systems (CIS) for the acute-care setting, serving the information needs of one in four of the top 40 U.S. cardiology centers. Worldwide, more than 300 leading hospitals use the LUMEDX system, including Massachusetts General, Hartford Hospital, Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas), New England Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, Washington Heart Center and Stanford University Medical Center. International customers include Singapore Heart and Thorax Centrum, Netherlands. The company's Apollo32 clinical data repository gathers and merges complex clinical and cost information streams throughout the cardiovascular department, providing physicians and administrators with desktop access to longitudinal and cross-sectional patient data, as well as aggregated clinical and cost outcomes information. For more information, visit www.lumedx.com.

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