RALEIGH, N.C. -- Promoting widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR), Misys Healthcare Systems - a leader in healthcare IT - today announced its new Community Clinical Partnership Program for hospitals.

With the program, hospitals can gain exclusive rights in their area to provide Misys' electronic medical records solution, Misys EMR(TM), to its admitting physician practices. This helps hospitals establish themselves as preferred healthcare facilities with added services for its community-based physicians.

"The ability to interconnect medical care setting through the use of electronic health records is critical to the establishment of a national electronic health information infrastructure," said Scott Sanner, vice president of sales for Misys Healthcare Systems. "Hospitals, because of their unique position, have the ability to facilitate EHR usage, one community at a time. And with our Community Clinical Partnership Program, Misys is offering them the product to help them leverage this capability."

Sanner added that the program, with its ability to provide a quality EHR solution, serves as a differentiator for hospitals and helps them connect with area physicians.

"Although the hospitals and Misys certainly benefit with the program, the real winners are the patients," Sanner said. "By disseminating EHRs to the communities, we're helping raise the quality of healthcare for everyone."

About Misys Healthcare Systems

Misys Healthcare Systems, one of the top five healthcare IT companies in North America, develops and supports reliable, easy-to-use software and services of exceptional quality that enable physicians and caregivers to more easily manage the complexities of healthcare. With 25 years of industry experience, Misys currently serves more than 92,000 physicians in 18,000 practice locations, 1,250 hospitals, 600 home care providers and hundreds of commercial laboratories, clinics, managed services and other related organizations. Misys' family of leading clinical products and Web-based technologies - Misys Optimum(TM) solutions - are designed from the ground up to share patient data across all medical care settings. Misys Optimum connects community-based physicians and caregivers to the acute care enterprise, enabling increased efficiencies, better decision-making and improved hospital-physician relations. For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com.

About Misys plc

Misys plc, the global software products and solutions company, serves customers in the international banking and securities, international healthcare, and UK general insurance industries. Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Sesame, it also provides business process outsourcing to services to independent financial advisors (IFAs) in the UK. Misys partners with its customers to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries, and employs over 6,000 people internationally. For more information, visit www.misys.com.