SYSTEMS XCELLENCE TO HOST CONFERENCE CALL TO DISCUSS FISCAL 2003 SECOND QUARTER RESULTS

- Results to be released on Thursday, October 17 at 8:00am ET -

MILTON, Ontario - October 10, 2002, Systems Xcellence Inc., (TSX: SXC) a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions throughout the pharmaceutical supply chain, will be holding a conference call to discuss its fiscal 2003 second quarter financial results. Mr. Gordon Glenn, President and Chief Executive Officer will be hosting the call.

DATE: Thursday, October 17, 2002

TIME: 10:00am, Eastern Standard Time

DIAL IN NUMBER: 416-695-5806 or 1-800-273-9672

TAPED REPLAY: 416-695-5800 or 1-800-408-3053 Available until October 24, 2002

REFERENCE NUMBER: 1286693

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 90 days.

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 (IT) 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 (PBM's), managed care organizations (MCO's), 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.