SYSTEMS XCELLENCE TO PROVIDE LIVE AUDIO WEBCAST OF ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

MILTON, ON, July 11, 2002 -- Systems Xcellence Inc., (TSX: SXC) a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions throughout the pharmaceutical benefits supply chain, will hold its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders on Wednesday, July 17th at 4:30pm.

Mr. Gordon S. Glenn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Systems Xcellence, will review the important events of the past year and present the Company's outlook for fiscal 2003 and beyond.

What: ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF SYSTEMS XCELLENCE INC.

Location: THE TSX CONFERENCE CENTRE, 130 KING STREET WEST, TORONTO, ONTARIO

When: WEDNESDAY, JULY 17th at 4:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Webcast: A live audio webcast of the call will be available at www.sxc.com and www.financialdisclosure.ca.Webcast attendees are welcome to listen to the conference in real-time or on-demand at your convenience. The webcast will be archived for 1 year. Please connect to this website at least 15 minutes prior to the conference call to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be needed to hear the webcast.

About Systems Xcellence Inc

Systems Xcellence (SXC) is headquartered in Milton, Ontario with offices and processing centres in Lombard, Illinois; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Victoria, British Columbia. SXC is a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions and services to the healthcare benefits management industry. The Company's product offerings and solutions combine a wide range of software applications, ASP processing services and professional services, designed for many of the largest organizations in the pharmaceutical supply chain, such as pharmacy benefit managers, managed care organizations, retail pharmacy chains and other healthcare intermediaries.

The Company's products offer its customers comprehensive pharmacy benefits management, claims switching and processing, drug dispensing, data warehousing and analysis, and rebate contract management systems. SXC delivers these solutions to its customers as software products bundled with systems implementation and consulting services, or on an ASP basis from its data centres in Scottsdale, Arizona and Lombard, Illinois. The Company's shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SXC. SXC can be found on the Internet at www.sxc.com.