Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Results

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Results

CINCINNATI, April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRM) today announced the financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2007.

Revenues in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2006 were $3.8 million compared with the record $6.2 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005. Operating profit for the fourth quarter was $309 thousand compared with $1.9 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005. Net earnings for the quarter were $296 thousand or $0.03 per share, compared with $2.8 million or $0.30 per share in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005.

For the 2006 fiscal year ended January 31, 2007, revenues were $15.9 million compared with $16.1 million in fiscal year 2005. Operating profit for the fiscal year was $182 thousand compared with $1.7 million in fiscal year 2005. Net earnings for fiscal year 2006 were $96 thousand or $0.01 per share compared with $2.6 million or $0.28 per share in fiscal year 2005.

J. Brian Patsy, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Our fourth quarter performance was clearly disappointing and well below management's expectations. This was a direct result of the fact that we did not finalize contract negotiations on several significant transactions which we expected to close in the fourth quarter. However, it is important to note that none of these opportunities were lost. As a matter of fact, one of these transactions has already closed in the first quarter, and the remaining agreements are near completion. We are pleased to report that should the remaining agreements be completed as anticipated, we expect record first quarter revenues and an excellent start to our new fiscal year.

As I have stated in the past, significant quarterly fluctuations in revenues and operating profit may result from the timing of contract closings, as these contracts can be complex and often require extensive negotiations. Because our 2006 revenues were adversely impacted by these delays and not by the loss of any anticipated opportunities in the pipeline, we have revised our annual revenue growth expectations upward for fiscal 2007.

  Here are some of the more significant milestones for fiscal 2006:

  -- We signed several new major application-hosting services customers, one
     of which was the first through our largest remarketing partner.  These
     new hosted customers will contribute to our recurring revenues in 2007
     and beyond, once they are fully implemented,
  -- We signed several new software licensing customers through our direct
     sales force and through our remarketing partner, bringing the total
     number of healthcare facilities under contract to more than 180
     facilities,
  -- We continued to expand the depth and breadth of our document workflow
     solutions within our installed base, including an enterprise expansion
     of our software license at Albert Einstein Health Network,
  -- We released a major new version of our entire product portfolio and
     expanded our portfolio of workflow solutions,
  -- We have completed development of the integration with the GE Centricity
     Business(R) solution to complement our existing integration with the GE
     Centricity Enterprise(R) solution.  We also completed integration with
     Epic System's EpicCare(R) clinical information system and began
     integration with the Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager(R) system,
  -- We enhanced and expanded remarketing partner relationships with GE
     Healthcare, Standard Register and Healthcare Resolution Services to
     increase our market presence and further leverage our hosted document
     workflow solutions,
  -- We increased the number of independent directors to four with the
     addition of Andrew L. Turner,
  -- We were named by Forbes magazine as one of the 200 Best Small
     Companies, and
  -- We completed the name change to Streamline Health(R), which was
     approved by the shareholders at the 2006 annual meeting, to better
     describe the value we bring to our customers."

Mr. Patsy continued, "We have made significant investments in our future throughout 2005 and 2006, by increasing our staff an additional 50% over the past 2 years, in order to take advantage of what we believe are significant market opportunities."

Paul W. Bridge, Jr., Streamline Health's Chief Financial Officer, commented, "In January we entered into a new 5-year, $5 million revolving credit facility at favorable rates. This new credit facility provides us with the flexibility needed to achieve our anticipated growth. In early February, we repaid the outstanding balance of our debt and we are now debt free for the first time since July, 1998."

Mr. Bridge concluded, "Our 2007 operating plan is predicated on prudently investing in additional sales, product development and implementation staffs to provide the resources necessary to continue significant revenue growth in the years ahead."

Mr. Patsy continued, "We remain confident in our overall strategy, which includes expansion into new healthcare market opportunities in business process management and portal integration, while extending our distribution capabilities, domestically and internationally, through our current and anticipated new remarketing partners."

Mr. Patsy concluded, "Our vision is to provide enterprise-wide business process improvement solutions to healthcare organizations through the application of the following six integrated technologies: document workflow, document management, portal connectivity, e-forms, integration/interoperability with legacy systems and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Our comprehensive solutions and services address and improve inefficient business processes to eliminate process "Friction Points(TM)" that impede the flow of document-centric information throughout the healthcare enterprise.

We are excited about our workflow, document management and portal connectivity solutions that 'make information flow' seamlessly throughout healthcare organizations, thereby improving operating efficiencies. Our business solutions offer healthcare organizations the tools needed to provide improved productivity, reduced administrative costs, and enhanced patient care."

CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION

The fourth quarter and fiscal year end conference presentation and call will be held at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, on Tuesday April 3, 2007. The call will feature remarks from J. Brian Patsy, President and Chief Executive Officer, William A. Geers, Chief Operating Officer, and Paul W. Bridge, Jr., Chief Financial Officer.

To listen to the call please go to http://www.streamlinehealth.net/ approximately twenty minutes before the conference call is scheduled to begin. You will need to register as well as download and install any necessary audio software. The webcast will be available on the website for 30 days.

About Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.

Streamline Health is a leading supplier of 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, portal connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR) and interoperability.

The Company's workflow-based services offer solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, abstracting and completion, remote physician order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and signature capture, insurance verification, secondary billing services, explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing. The Company's solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human Resource and Supply Chain Management processes of the healthcare enterprise. All solutions are available for purchase or through a remote hosting services model that better matches customers' capital or operating budget needs.

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. These integrated solutions allow providers and administrators to link existing systems with documents, which can dramatically improve the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart processing, document retention and archiving. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net/.

Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Statements made by Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, included herein. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the expectations and timing of the execution of new licensing agreements and the related timing of the revenue recognition related thereto, the impact that increased expenditures on infrastructure and products could have on operations which may not result in projected increases in revenues, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, key strategic alliances with vendors that resell Streamline Health products, the ability of the Company to control costs, availability of products produced from third party vendors, the healthcare regulatory environment, healthcare information systems budgets, availability of healthcare information systems trained personnel for implementation of new systems, as well as maintenance of legacy systems, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. filings with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

             STREAMLINE HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
                  CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS


                                Three Months Ended     Fiscal Year Ended
                                    January 31,            January 31,
                                 2007        2006       2007        2006

  Revenues:
   Systems sales               $802,271  $3,778,511  $4,278,792  $6,112,727
   Services, maintenance
    and support               2,204,586   1,626,600   8,314,979   6,950,182
   Application-hosting
    services                    836,874     794,499   3,273,202   3,063,899
     Total revenues           3,843,731   6,199,610  15,866,973  16,126,808

  Operating expenses:
   Cost of systems sales        377,334     858,073   2,426,595   2,256,046
   Cost of services,
    maintenance and support     960,113     840,086   3,609,386   3,130,374
   Cost of application-
    hosting services            274,936     298,339   1,130,583   1,050,470
   Selling, general and
    administrative            1,432,992   1,657,023   5,802,656   5,218,303
   Product research
    and development             489,398     637,927   2,716,163   2,733,293
     Total operating
      expenses                3,534,773   4,291,448  15,685,383  14,388,486
  Operating profit              308,958   1,908,162     181,590   1,738,322
   Other income (expense):
     Interest income             13,062      28,114      77,337      93,322
     Interest expense           (23,879)    (40,846)   (131,286)   (147,933)
  Earnings before income taxes  298,141   1,895,430     127,641   1,683,711
   Income tax (expense) benefit  (2,180)    867,361     (31,180)    867,361
  Net earnings                 $295,961  $2,762,791     $96,461  $2,551,072

  Basic net earnings
   per common share               $0.03       $0.30       $0.01       $0.28
  Diluted net earnings
   per common share               $0.03       $0.29       $0.01       $0.27

  Number of shares
   used in per common
   share computations -
   basic net earnings         9,211,399   9,152,824   9,195,415   9,121,369

  Number of shares
   used in per common
   share computations -
   diluted net earnings       9,712,825   9,629,868   9,722,346   9,425,050



                  CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

                                                       January 31,
                        Assets                    2007            2006
  Current assets:
    Cash and cash equivalents                 $3,316,614      $4,634,219
    Accounts receivable, net of allowance
     for doubtful accounts
     of $200,000, respectively                 2,281,313       2,117,495
    Contract receivables                       1,357,433       2,268,913
    Other, including deferred
     tax assets of $625,000 and
     $601,000, respectively                    1,170,430         967,731
      Total current assets                     8,125,790       9,988,358

  Property and equipment:
    Computer equipment                         2,132,853       2,120,321
    Computer software                            847,328         989,556
    Office furniture, fixtures and equipment     733,320         736,858
    Leasehold improvements                       568,098         522,863
                                               4,281,599       4,369,598
    Accumulated depreciation
     and amortization                         (2,704,329)     (2,666,784)
                                               1,577,270       1,702,814
  Capitalized software development
   costs, net of accumulated
   amortization of $5,116,568 and
   $4,033,232, respectively                    3,753,361       2,706,697
  Contract receivables - non-current             554,888         728,541
  Other, including deferred tax
   assets of $1,250,000 and $1,274,000,
   respectively                                1,289,536       1,306,741
                                             $15,300,845     $16,433,151

        Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
  Current liabilities:
    Accounts payable                            $619,362      $1,055,539
    Accrued compensation                         432,142       1,139,587
    Accrued other expenses                       541,904         744,112
    Deferred revenues                          3,693,668       2,617,184
    Current portion of capitalized leases         91,002          84,951
    Current portion of long-term debt               ---        1,000,000
      Total current liabilities                5,378,078       6,641,373

  Long-term debt                               1,000,000       1,000,000
  Capitalized leases                              56,049         147,051
  Lease incentives                               222,484         293,409

  Stockholders' equity:
    Convertible redeemable preferred stock,
     $0.01 par value per share,
     5,000,000 shares authorized,
     no shares issued                               ---             ---
    Common stock, $0.01 par value per share,
     25,000,000 shares authorized, 9,211,399
     and 9,159,541 shares issued, respectively    92,114          91,595
    Capital in excess of par value            35,286,238      35,090,302
    Accumulated (deficit)                    (26,734,118)    (26,830,579)
       Total stockholders' equity              8,644,234       8,351,318
                                             $15,300,845     $16,433,151



                  Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

                                                  Fiscal           Year
                                                  2006             2005
  Operating activities:
   Net earnings                                 $96,461        $2,551,072
   Adjustments to reconcile net earnings
    to net cash provided by
    operating activities:
   Depreciation and amortization              1,819,233         1,470,659
   Equity award expense                         111,137                 -
   Net deferred income taxes                          -          (897,000)
  Cash provided by (used for)
   assets and liabilities:
   Accounts, contract and
    installment receivables                     921,316        (1,808,739)
   Other assets                                (178,699)           10,385
   Accounts payable                            (436,177)          169,449
   Accrued expenses                            (909,654)          888,272
   Deferred revenues                          1,076,484           385,742
  Net cash provided by operating activities   2,500,101         2,769,840

  Investing activities:
   Purchases of property and equipment         (610,353)         (867,620)
   Capitalization of software
    development costs                        (2,130,000)       (1,450,000)
   Other                                        (77,720)          116,191
   Net cash (used for) investing activities  (2,818,073)       (2,201,429)

  Financing activities:
   Proceeds from revolving credit facility    1,000,000                 -
   Repayment of long-term debt               (2,000,000)                -
   Payment of capitalized leases                (84,951)         (203,356)
   Exercise of stock options and
    stock purchase plan                          85,318            88,091
   Net cash (used for) financing activities    (999,633)         (115,265)
   Increase (Decrease) in cash
    and cash equivalents                     (1,317,605)          453,146
  Cash and cash equivalents
   at beginning of year                       4,634,219         4,181,073
  Cash and cash equivalents at end of year   $3,316,614        $4,634,219
  Supplemental cash flow disclosures:
   Interest paid                               $129,674          $148,338
   Income taxes paid (refund)                   $66,537          $(27,972)
   Leasehold improvements (included in
    property and equipment) paid for by the
    landlord as a lease inducement                   $-          $326,000
   Capital Lease                                     $-          $267,237
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