Vital Images Launches the ViTAL Enterprise

Vital Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: VTAL), a worldwide leader in enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis solutions, has launched the ViTAL Enterprise, enabling unlimited enterprise access to the complete ViTAL solution offering. The ViTAL Enterprise provides customers with full access to Vital Images' best-of-breed clinical solutions and comprehensive services, including education, consulting and maintenance.

The ViTAL Enterprise has the flexibility to scale to the size of the customer's enterprise by providing access to the complete ViTAL solution based on unlimited users or concurrent users. Additionally, the ViTAL Enterprise offers customers the ability to license the solution through capital or subscription pricing. The ViTAL Enterprise is also available to the company's worldwide installed base of over 3,200 customers.

"We are focused on making the customer experience a positive one," said Michael H. Carrel, Vital Images president and chief executive officer. "From the initial purchasing process to the easy-to-use clinical applications, education, services and the ongoing relationship, the customer has full access to resources that support their unique requirements. With the ViTAL Enterprise, customers have anytime, anywhere access to clinical tools and the comfort of knowing they can expand their solution as their requirements change."

As a pioneer in advanced visualization for nearly 20 years, ViTAL continues to offer industry leading clinical solutions that help healthcare providers enhance efficiency and improve patient care. The ViTAL Enterprise offers customers the most complete advanced visualization solution offering on the market today and represents the next step in ViTAL's long history of defining this market space.

About Vital Images, Inc.

Vital Images, Inc., established in 1988 and headquartered in Minneapolis, is a leading provider of enterprise-wide advanced visualization software solutions. The company's technology gives radiologists, cardiologists, oncologists and other medical specialists, time-saving productivity and communications tools that can be accessed throughout the enterprise and via the Web for easy use in the day-to-day practice of medicine. Vital Images also has offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.vitalimages.com.

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