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Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful

ATLANTA and REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Eclipsys Corp.® (Nasdaq: ECLP) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of closed, proprietary systems, the two companies will offer the market tightly integrated health IT solutions designed to make it easy for physicians, nurses and hospital administrators to gain insights from data aggregated from multiple clinical and financial systems across the hospital. The solutions also will support clinicians in acting upon a more complete health record.