Streamline Health Announces New Regional Director of Sales

CINCINNATI, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NasdaqCM: STRM), a market leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, announced today that Ryan Brown has been appointed Regional Director of Sales – Eastern Region. Mr. Brown's main focus will be on new sales opportunities in the Eastern United States. His hiring confirms the company's commitment to building a world-class sales team with the ability to pursue all new enterprise healthcare document management and workflow sales opportunities.

Mr. Brown brings to the Company more than 10 years of experience selling enterprise software solutions in the healthcare industry. Previously Mr. Brown was regional sales manager for the southeast region at A.D.A.M., Inc., where he also focused on international sales opportunities. Mr. Brown was also employed by McKesson Provider Technologies for more than ten years, managing enterprise software solution sales within the corporate accounts division. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

"As part of our company's commitment to continuous growth we are focused on hiring talented associates with experience and knowledge in the healthcare technology space," said Robert Watson, president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health. "As our products evolve to continue to meet the enterprise needs of today's healthcare systems, it becomes even more important to have sales associates who understand document management and workflow challenges within the entire system. The addition of Ryan Brown to our sales team reflects our belief in the company's ability to continue to be an innovative market leader in the healthcare technology space."

Mr. Brown commented, "I am excited to have the opportunity to join a company that is positively contributing to the landscape of healthcare technology through the conversion of unstructured documents and images into digital assets that help improve the healthcare experience and reduce costs. I look forward to building the new business pipeline and actively contributing to Streamline Health's future as an innovative market leader."

Mr. Brown joins Gabriel Waters, vice president, business development for Streamline Health, the company's most recent addition to its sales team. Mr. Waters stated, "Ryan Brown's hiring shows the company's dedication to growing our salesforce by adding key personnel with the background and know-how within our space. I am pleased to have him join our team."

The Company also announced that in connection with Mr. Water's earlier hiring, he received 5,000 shares of Streamline Health common stock. Mr. Waters also received an option grant for 200,000 shares of Streamline Health common stock, with an exercise price equal to the greater of $2.00 per share or the fair market value of a share of Streamline Health common stock on the date of grant, which was April 30, 2011. This option will vest during the first three years of employment. The share and option awards described in this paragraph are inducement grants, pursuant to Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5635(c)(4).

About Streamline Health

Streamline Health is a leading supplier of document workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners and healthcare organizations to improve operational efficiencies through business process optimization.  The Company provides integrated tools and technologies for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR) and business process integration.

Streamline Health's solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location, including secure web-based access. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net.  

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