Adding an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) supports a Complete Perioperative Electronic Health Record (EHR)

ATLANTA – August 30, 2011 – Surgical Information Systems (“SIS”), a leader in perioperative information
systems, announced today that Ardent Health Services of Nashville, Tenn. will expand its system-wide
use of the SIS Solution to include anesthesia automation, analytics and patient tracking on a single
perioperative record. In preparation for upcoming meaningful-use criteria, Ardent will partner with SIS to
be interoperable with McKesson systems in its hospitals in Albuquerque, N.M. and Tulsa, Okla. in order to
improve patient safety, ease of use and functionality.

“The SIS Solution will allow us to improve our care to patients,” said Steve Landgarten, M.D., chief
medical officer and chief quality officer of Ardent Health Services. “With these modules, caregivers in our
hospitals can view important patient information in real-time such as which medications have been
administered, when they were administered and what impact those medications have over time. It’s a
much improved patient tracking, documentation and analytics process.”

SIS Anesthesia is the only specialty anesthesia system featuring a shared database with a perioperative
system. This shared database enables continuity of care as any change to the perioperative record that
impacts the anesthesia record is automatically reflected in the anesthesia record, optimizing the
automation of the care process. A single perioperative record is efficient, easy-to-use, cost effective and
provides for consistent documentation across the perioperative continuum – supporting a higher quality of
patient care.

In order to improve operational efficiencies and support continual process improvement, Ardent has also
elected to implement SIS patient tracking and analytics tools. SIS Web enables the health system’s
surgeons, anesthesia providers and others involved in the care process to view the entire OR schedule
and patient tracking information remotely. SIS Analytics provides role-based business intelligence to
support operational improvement efforts by enabling users to drill down into perioperative information to
easily identify root causes in an intuitive manner, using easy-to-understand tables and graphical displays.
“The SIS solution is an important part of our strategy to provide a higher-quality, more cost effective,
perioperative care,” said Landgarten.

SIS CEO Ed Daihl said that hospital-wide systems often struggle to provide the rich functionality and
seamless data entry available through the SIS Solution. “Hospitals are finding that a single integrated
perioperative record has tremendous patient safety benefits, which is the entire purpose behind
meaningful-use criteria,” said Daihl. “We are thrilled that our partnership with Ardent Health Services has
led them to choose SIS as a central part of their meaningful-use strategy. By leveraging the singledatabase SIS solution with McKesson HIS systems, Ardent will continue to provide its anesthesia
providers with exceptional functionality to deliver outstanding patient care.”
 

About Ardent Health Services
Ardent Health Services invests in quality health care. In people, technology, facilities and communities,
Ardent makes considerable investments – producing high quality care and extraordinary results. Based
in Nashville, Tennessee, Ardent subsidiaries own and operate health systems in the U.S. Its network
includes seven acute care hospitals, a rehabilitation hospital, a multi-specialty physician group, a 220,000
member health plan, retail pharmacies and a nationally-recognized medical laboratory.
For more information visit www.ardenthealth.com

About SIS
Surgical Information Systems (“SIS”) provides software solutions that are uniquely designed to add value
at every point of the perioperative process. Developed specifically for the complex surgical environment,
all SIS solutions – including anesthesia – are architected on a single database and integrate easily with
other hospital systems. SIS offers the only surgical scheduling system and the only anesthesia
information management system endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA), and a rulesbased
charging system that has been granted Peer Reviewed status by the Healthcare Financial
Management Association (HFMA). SIS is also the first AIMS provider to be designated as an AQI
Preferred Vendor by the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI).

Surgical Information Systems’ 5.0.3 release is an ONC-ATCB Modular EHR. This EHR Module is
2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable
certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not
represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the
receipt of incentive payments.

Surgical Information Systems’ 5.0.3 release was certified on November 19, 2010, Certification ID
11192010-6161-8.

SIS, the SIS logo, and Surgical Information Systems are trademarks of Surgical Information Systems,
LLC. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information visit our website, www.SISFirst.com.

CONTACT: EMMY WEBER
800-866-0656
weber@sisfirst.com