PRESS: HEALTHVISION PORTS CLINICAL PATIENT RECORDS APPLICATION

HEALTHVISION PORTS CLINICAL PATIENT RECORDS APPLICATION TO INFORMIX FOR WIN WITH SUTTER HEALTH Menlo Park, Calif. (February 23, 1998) =AD Informix=AE Corporation (NASDAQ: IFMX), the leading provider of innovative database technology, announced today a contract with HealthVISION Corporation, a leading provider of clinical information systems, to integrate HealthVISION's flagship CareVISION=AE automated patient record management application with Informix database technology. The integrated product will use Informix Dynamic Server(TM) as CareVISION's clinical data repository. Sutter Health, a California based healthcare network, has recently signed a contract to incorporate the CareVISION product using Informix technology into all of its 26 acute care facilities. The implementation of CareVISION, already under way and planned to take place in a four to five year roll out, would replace Sutter's paper medical records and support proficient communication between enterprise caregivers. The reach of this application is expected to grow to over 3800 users within the next five years at Sutter Health, a conglomeration of physicians, hospitals and care centers serving more than three million people throughout northern California. Informix and HealthVISION are currently engineering the port to Informix Dynamic Server and are expecting its release to Sutter by end of April 1998. "Once the Informix Dynamic Server patient record repository is in place, customers like Sutter Health will have the option of considering further tools to extract business measures into a data warehouse or decision support system," said John McCauley, executive director of worldwide industry marketing at Informix. "Informix's relational database is a scalable and reliable platform for HealthVISION's dynamic patient records application." HealthVISION Corporation senior vice president of sales and marketing, Don Zeppenfeld said, "We are very excited about the tremendous win with Sutter Health and our developing relationship with Informix. Together, we will see that Sutter's caregivers will always have patient's clinical healthcare information instantly available at their fingertips." Both partners will be exhibiting at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. HIMSS, held February 23 - 26, 1998 at the Orange County Convention Center, is the largest North American Healthcare Conference and Exhibit. Informix will exhibit along with other prominent healthcare partners in Booth #2337. HealthVISION will exhibit in Booth #2315. About Sutter Health Sutter Health serves more than three million people throughout Northern California, from the Oregon border to the San Joaquin Valley, and from the Pacific coast to the Sierra foothills. The Sutter Health system consists of physicians, hospitals, and care centers in more than 100 Northern California communities; 26 acute care hospitals; relationships with more than 5,000 physicians; seven long-term care centers; region-wide health and hospice services; occupational health services; six medical research institutes; more than 35,000 employees; and more than $2.5 billion in= assets. About HealthVISION HealthVISION Corporation is a leading provider of clinical information systems to hospitals, integrated health networks and managed care organizations worldwide. All HealthVISION designs are based around CareVISION, a multidisciplinary electronic patient record and repository system. CareVISION supports clinical practice guidelines, cost effective resource utilization and provides caregivers with information to make quality patient care decisions throughout the health delivery network. Modules of CareVISION are fully integrated including Patient Profile, Clinical Order Entry and Communications, Results Reporting/Review, Clinical Pathways and Protocols, Patient Care Documentation, Enterprise Membership Index and Clinical Decision Support. About Informix Informix Corporation, located in Menlo Park, Calif., the world's database technology leader, provides innovative database products that enable the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solutions areas including data warehousing, OLTP and Web/content management. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.informix.com.