ADAM.com Forms Content License Partnership with Excite.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1999-- More than 4,000 medical articles and illustrations from ADAM Adam, the first man, in the Bible Adam (ăd`əm), [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. .com will be hosted on Excite's new Health Channel A.D.A.M. Internet Health's ADAM.com group (Nasdaq: ADAM) today announced a license agreement with Internet portal Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT) that makes ADAM.com a content partner for the Excite Health Channel. ADAM.com's content, including the A.D.A.M. Online Medical Encyclopedia and portions of A.D.A.M.'s award-winning visual medical content, will provide Excite users unique health education information. Each of the thousands of pages of ADAM.com content will be branded with a link to ADAM.com, a premier consumer health information and e-commerce web site to be launched this spring. "We are pleased to work closely with Excite to provide important health information to millions of their daily users," said Robert S Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. . Cramer, Jr., A.D.A.M.'s chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The Excite agreement is a strong endorsement of A.D.A.M.'s position as the leading Internet health information provider. This will also be an excellent opportunity to generate increased awareness and introduce new users to ADAM.com." "Excite is thrilled to offer A.D.A.M.'s incredible collection of clinical and visual health information to Excite Health Channel users," said Joe Kraus Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer. A long time entrepreneur, Joe has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. , Excite's senior vice-president and co-founder, Excite, Inc. "We believe this is just the start of a strong relationship between Excite and A.D.A.M." The Excite-A.D.A.M. agreement is a major step for A.D.A.M.'s new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. initiative, ADAM.com, making A.D.A.M. the leader in Internet health information. About A.D.A.M. Internet Health, Inc. Based in Atlanta, A.D.A.M. Software, Inc. d/b/a A.D.A.M. Internet Health is an online health information content developer with over 500 gigabytes of medical illustration, animation, video and interactive 3D content. A.D.A.M. is developing ADAM.com - one of the premier destination sites on the Web for consumer health and medical information. A.D.A.M. also has a business to business division that licenses content and software components to the healthcare, education and other professional markets. A.D.A.M. works with industry leading companies such as Cerner, IDX (IDX Systems Corporation, South Burlington, VT, www.idx.com) One of the largest health care information systems companies in the country, acquired in 2006 by GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com), a unit of the General Electric Company. , QuadraMed, Healtheon, WebMD and Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. . Statements in this news release concerning A.D.A.M.'s future results, performance or expectations are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Actual results, performance or developments could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors including those described from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, press releases and other communications. |
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