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Media Release -- September 25, 2006

THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY SELECTS ORMED SOFTWARE TO STREAMLINE ITS SUPPLY CHAIN, REDUCE COSTS

EDMONTON, CANADA: Ormed Information Systems today announced that The Good Samaritan Society (Edmonton, Alberta) has selected ORMED MIS™ Supply Chain Management and Accounts Payable software. Implementation is scheduled to begin December 2006.

“The Good Samaritan Society chose ORMED MIS as it will provide the Society with a streamlined and integrated system that will allow all sites across two provinces to share the same information and improve purchasing efficiencies,” says Hans Lung, vice president, finance, The Good Samaritan Society.

Among the largest not-for-profit, voluntary care providers in Alberta and British Columbia, The Good Samaritan Society provides complex/continuing care, assisted living, and other specialized health and community care services to more than 4,400 individuals, most of whom are elderly and/or physically and mentally challenged.

Ormed develops, implements, maintains, and supports fully integrated MIS software and e-commerce services that re-engineer business processes to significantly increase efficiency and profitability in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and healthcare organizations and regions. There are ORMED MIS software solutions for supply chain, e-commerce, finance, business intelligence, human resources and payroll, and systems management.   

“We are excited to be able to help The Good Samaritan Society reduce its supply chain and payment costs,” says Steve Caughers, Ormed’s vice president of sales. “This will enable them to invest ‘recovered dollars’ into other activities and initiatives that have a direct impact on their clients’ quality of life.”

About Ormed Information Systems Ltd.

Since 1989, Ormed has won staunch customer loyalty by developing and implementing easy-to-use, richly functioned, robust MIS solutions that transform critical business processes by connecting people and processes around the world, in real-time, to create new efficiencies and productivity. With built-in e-commerce through the ORMED X B2B portal, integrated ORMED MIS software makes accurate information accessible to any authorized user at any desktop, reduces errors and costs, and facilitates collaborative and fully informed decision-making. The largest Canadian supplier to Canadian healthcare facilities, there are more than 2,700 Ormed applications running at over 340 sites in North America. For more information, please visit www.ormed.com.

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Media Contacts:

Pam Patten
Corporate Communications
Ormed Information Systems Ltd.
780.482.7200 (ext 225)

pam_patten@ormed.com

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