ADAM.COM PROVIDES MERCK-MEDCO CONSUMERS WITH INFO ON DEMAND.The web company adam.com (Nasdaq:ADAM), San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , a leading source for online consumer health information, and Merck-Medco Managed Care, L.L.C., the nation's leading provider of high- quality, affordable prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, care, have announced a co-branding arrangement in which adam.com provides Merck-Medco online consumers with specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. healthcare information on demand and customized for Merck-Medco's web site (www.merck-medco.com). "Merck-Medco and adam.com both have a reputation for helping to keep consumers and professionals informed on important healthcare topics. This relationship is an excellent example of our commitment to expand adam.com's health portal technology. Our trusted healthcare content becomes immediately and directly available to Merck-Medco consumers. Visitors to www.merck-medco.com will find this information presented in a format that is familiar and comfortable to them," said Brian Co, president of adam.com. adam.com offers healthcare information to consumers, educators and healthcare professionals and reaches millions of users via agreements with other leading Web sites and through its own web site www.adam.com, making the company the leading source for online medical and health information. adam.com's comprehensive content includes in-depth coverage of thousands of medical and health topics and the largest library of medical visual images on the Internet. adam.com dramatically improves consumer access to health and medical information by arranging the content within a context that is relevant to consumer's queries and by utilizing detailed, visual and multimedia responses. By offering easy access to high-quality illustrations and step-through animations, adam.com helps consumers understand often confusing con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. health concepts, helping the Internet fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. its promise as the ultimate global depository The place where a deposit is placed and kept, e.g., a bank, savings and loan institution, credit union, or trust company. A place where something is deposited or stored as for safekeeping or convenience, e.g., a safety deposit box. of health information. Stephen J. Gold, Merck-Medco, vice president of E-Commerce Strategy and Delivery, said, "Our Internet strategy is to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems the online healthcare consumer by providing value-added information and services that enhance patient care. This new arrangement with adam.com furthers our web expansion plans to continue to delight and educate our visitors by building a content rich site that is valuable to all consumers." This agreement allows Merck-Medco to provide its visitors with a full complement of health and medical information, integrating access to its disease management programs and drug information with use of the adam.com health encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books . From the Optimal Health(TM) area, consumers now have access to both Merck-Medco developed health information and adam.com content. Consumers can link to the adam.com content transparently and can browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. through the material or look-up specific content in response to their query. Merck-Medco maintains the consistency and integrity of its site while allowing right of entry to a vast store of appropriate and contemporary healthcare information. About Merck-Medco Merck-Medco Managed Care, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., is the nation's leading provider of high-quality, affordable prescription drug care, serving benefit plans of employers, unions, commercial and government health plans that provide benefits to more than 51 million Americans, including more than 14 million retirees. Merck-Medco Rx Services, its mail service pharmacy subsidiary, serves patients through 13 state-of-the-art mail service pharmacies, and its PAID Prescriptions, L.L.C., subsidiary manages prescriptions dispensed dis·pense v. dis·pensed, dis·pens·ing, dis·pens·es v.tr. 1. To deal out in parts or portions; distribute. See Synonyms at distribute. 2. To prepare and give out (medicines). 3. at 55,000 community pharmacies nationwide. The Merck-Medco web site (http://www.merck-medco.com) has been registering over 10 million hits monthly, with a growth rate of 30 percent per month since its launch more than a year ago. The company is also currently dispensing dispensing provision of drugs or medicines as set out properly on a lawful prescription. A prescription can only be filled, the drugs supplied, by a registered pharmacist, veterinarian, dentist or member of the medical profession. more than 20,000 prescriptions per week ordered through its site. About adam.com adam.com (Nasdaq:ADAM) is a leading provider of online medical and health information and publisher of an award winning Medical Encyclopedia and a variety of interactive, multi-media educational materials. Through partnerships with leading Web destinations adam.com has become the most widely referenced medical resource on the Internet. The company's complete body of knowledge includes more than 10,000 pages of medical and health information covering over 1,500 topics and a 500 gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time. (unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See prefix. library of medical illustrations, photos, animation, videos and interactive content. adam.com, formerly A.D.A.M. Software, is based in Atlanta with its major Internet operations in San Francisco. For more information, call 415/344-3708. |
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