Omtool Debuts New Integrated Healthcare Suite to Improve Handling of Medical Documents, Forms, and Images

Omtool,™ Ltd. (Nasdaq: OMTL), a leading provider of document handling solutions and services, today unveiled the Omtool Healthcare Suite, a comprehensive set of products designed specifically for healthcare providers to streamline the medical document lifecycle, improve the patient experience and patient safety, and accelerate reimbursement processes. The company will demonstrate the Omtool Healthcare Suite this week, at HIMSS in booth No. 1955. From patient access through discharge, healthcare facilities face a daunting array of complex forms, documents, and verification data – all carefully governed by clinical practices, strict patient confidentiality requirements, regulatory constraints, and reimbursement requirements. As a result, providers spend millions of dollars each year just to produce and process documents and forms. Further, the adoption of electronic medical records is driving the industry to higher levels of electronic automation. Omtool’s Healthcare Suite responds to these dynamics with integrated technologies that help eliminate a significant portion of a facility’s forms inventory and improve productivity through electronic form delivery. Hundreds of healthcare facilities have already adopted technologies from Omtool’s Healthcare Suite. These products include: ADT eForms™ production system provides hospitals with on-demand ADT (Admissions, Discharge, and Transfer) electronic forms for registration and patient identification such as ID bracelets and patient identification labels. eForms Station™ electronic forms library gives immediate access to hospitals’ custom library of electronic and printable forms. Image-In™ Point of Service context-sensitive image capture system scans images of clinical and non-clinical documents such as insurance cards, driver’s licenses, referral forms, triage forms, etc. from scanners, cameras, signature pads, fax files and previews them prior to archiving. Image-In Business document capture and archive system converts paper-based business documents to electronic records. Image-In Clinical back-office scanning completes the capture of the entire patient medical records file after discharge. Image-In Queue document processing enables administrators to manage, view, and disseminate electronic documents to the proper departments and/or patient files. AccuRoute provides a document handling platform that supports distributed document capture for scanning, routing, and archiving medical information throughout the patient encounter cycle and provides document distribution into the document workflow products found in Omtool’s Healthcare Suite. ObjectArchive™ electronic archive provides the foundation to securely store information designed, developed and captured through any of the Omtool Healthcare Suite products. "The adoption of Omtool technologies by facilities such as Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital can produce significant cost savings,” said Mark Freitas, business office and IT director of Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. "But more importantly, they improve the patient experience and safety from the minute they walk through the door. We saved more than $150,000 in the first year we implemented these technologies and Omtool was able to decrease our gross days revenue outstanding in accounts receivable to an average of 50 days.” Traditionally, Omtool has been a significant technology provider to the healthcare market with its enterprise fax and document handling solution. The company also has established several strategic partnerships with companies that offer complementary technologies, services and expertise to the healthcare market. "Omtool’s expanded focus in the healthcare market will help healthcare providers efficiently manage hardcopy and electronic information,” said Roger Ellefson, manager of solutions marketing, Xerox Corporation. "By combining Omtool’s offerings with Xerox multifunction systems, hospitals and healthcare systems will be able to streamline the work in this document-intensive industry.” About Omtool, Ltd. Omtool, Ltd is a leading provider of document handling solutions that simplify the integration of paper and electronic documents in enterprise information management systems. Our flagship product family, AccuRoute, streamlines the capture, conversion, communication, and archive of paper and electronic documents, enabling fast, secure, simultaneous distribution to multiple destinations in multiple formats. AccuRoute products deliver faster, more efficient workflows, while reducing cost, complexity and risk. Omtool solutions are used worldwide by businesses in document-intensive industries that demand secure handling, integration and tracking of documents in full compliance with a range of regulatory requirements. Based in Andover, Massachusetts with offices in the United Kingdom, Omtool can be contacted at 1-800-886-7845 or www.omtool.com. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Omtool's future financial and operating performance; customer interest in and acceptance of Omtool's products; long-term sales strategy; distribution channels; and the future plans of Omtool's management. These forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations set forth in these forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, risks associated with Omtool’s business, including introduction of new product offerings, concentration of all products in the electronic document exchange market, focus on specific vertical markets; Omtool’s strategic focus on new vertical markets; and those other risk factors described in Omtool's periodic reports and registration statements as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Omtool undertakes no responsibility to update any such forward-looking statements.