Boston, MA, November 17, 2005/PRNewswire/ - AMICAS, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMCS), a leader in radiology and medical image and information management solutions, announced that MIDI, LLC, a national network of 24 diagnostic imaging centers headquartered in Virginia, will deploy AMICAS® Vision SeriesTM RIS & PACS at each of its locations beginning December 2005. MIDI, which operates its centers under the name of Open Advanced MRI (OAMRI), has seven centers in the Portland, Oregon metro area, 14 in Illinois, two in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and one in Bethesda, Maryland. Expansion plans include near-term acquisitions and construction of new centers.

"Our business plan calls for significant growth, and AMICAS, with their fully Web-based technology, is the only provider that could expand with our needs and meet the ever changing requirements of our distributed imaging and workflow needs," said Mike Sloniewsky, Open Advanced MRI's Chief Operating Officer. "We wanted our RIS & PACS from the same provider, and with such a geographically dispersed operation, Web-based technology was a must to drive efficiency and productivity. When you look at the vendor market, there are very few that focus specifically on the imaging center needs while offering fully Web-based solutions."

"OAMRI has very complex needs with operations in multiple states. Their model of a central data center in Chicago, with distributed imaging operations across the country, represents a great opportunity to showcase AMICAS' Vision Series technology," said Peter McClennen, president of AMICAS. "AMICAS Vision Series provides a centralized IT system architecture for redundancy and integration, and allows regional facilities to have the specificity and independence of their particular markets."

"I am certain that AMICAS PACS will provide significant service enhancements to help solidify relationships with current referring practices and will benefit OAMRI's internal staff," said Rick Hatch, VP of Marketing for Open Advanced MRI. "There are aspects of the AMICAS system that other vendors simply cannot match. The RIS component will help OAMRI's front office staff become more efficient in the way they handle patients and will provide one more source of information to drive marketing and sales decisions. With AMICAS Vision Series, a patient or physician's office in Portland can call any of OAMRI's seven regional locations to schedule an appointment, without having to worry if he or she has the correct number."

The AMICAS Imaging Dashboard™ will enable OAMRI to provide subspecialty radiology, regardless of where the study was performed or where the radiologist is located. "This is tremendous for both the staff and the radiologists," said Sloniewsky. "In the past, staff had to guess-albeit not always successfully-where to route digital studies; and radiologists often had to physically travel to multiple locations to read analog films. This was vastly inefficient, and didn't allow us to fully leverage the expertise of our physicians. AMICAS Vision Series will translate into faster report turnaround, increased referring physician satisfaction, and a marked increase in radiologist productivity. AMICAS will no doubt help MIDI become the imaging provider of choice in each of our geographic markets."

About MIDI and Open Advanced MRI
MIDI, LLC develops, owns, operates and manages a network of outpatient medical imaging centers in several major metropolitan areas of the United States under the name Open Advanced MRI. MIDI's charter is to be the premier provider of outpatient imaging services to both the patient and referring physician. OAMRI utilizes the latest technologies of equipment and information support systems. This, combined with its emphasis on superior service, has earned MIDI, LLC a reputation as both a leader and gold standard setter in the medical outpatient imaging industry.

About AMICAS, Inc.
AMICAS, Inc. (www.amicas.com ) is a leader in radiology and medical image and information management solutions. The AMICAS Vision Series™ products provide a complete, end-to-end solution for imaging centers, ambulatory care facilities, and radiology practices. Acute care and hospital clients are provided a fully-integrated, HIS/RIS-independent PACS, featuring advanced enterprise workflow support and scalable design. Complementing the Vision Series product family is AMICAS Insight Solutions™, a set of client-centered professional and consulting services that assist our customers with a well-planned transition to a digital enterprise.

About KLAS Enterprises
KLAS is an organization established in 1996 to provide the healthcare information technology (HIT) industry with unbiased factual information on HIT vendor performance. With an average of 20 years in HIT /healthcare experience KLAS executives collect rankings and rating of HIT vendors and personally interview healthcare executives on their HIT vendor experience. KLAS, in concert with hundreds of CIOs and other healthcare professionals, has created a dynamic database of information about the performance of Healthcare Information Technology Software Vendors. This extensive database contains vendor performance data representing over 4500 Hospitals and 2500 clinics, 300+ vendors and 500+ different products. KLAS's performance reports are used by vendors to ensure they are meeting the needs of customers, and by health care providers to find out which vendors truly deliver what they promise. For further information contact KLAS Enterprises, LLC at 801-226-5120 or on the Web at www.healthcomputing.com.