Aetna U.S. Healthcare Presents the Future of a health.e.nation in a Year-Long, Nation-Wide Mobile Exhibition; Provides a Glimpse Into Technology's Role in the Future of Healthcare.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999-- Aetna U.S. Healthcare U.S. Healthcare is a now-defunct healthcare company. The logo had an apple. The merger with Aetna In 1996, the company merged with Aetna, calling it Aetna U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Healthcare apple logo was next to the Aetna name, and U.S. Healthcare under it. U.S. , the nation's largest health and related benefits organization, today launches the health.e.nation(TM) tour at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Columbus Circle. health.e.nation(TM) is an 800 square-foot, multi-media mobile exhibition that brings to communities around the nation a look into the future of American health care. "We expect this tour to help open a dialogue between Aetna U.S. Healthcare and the public about the future of health care, the interaction between health and technology, and what is going to be possible in the 21st century," said Michael J. Cardillo, president of Aetna U.S. Healthcare. "This type of grassroots focus is increasingly important in our industry, and it will help empower the public to become informed about their own healthcare choices." The health.e.nation(TM) exhibit is equipped with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) technology to bring its contents to life. "Information will be critical to empower consumers and physicians as the delivery of healthcare is transformed in the new millennium," said Dr. Russell Ricci, general manager, IBM Global Healthcare Industry. "IBM and its strategic portfolio will play a vital role in this transformation." According to Don Mele, Director of Government Affairs of the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Partnership, "This exhibit is a step in the right direction for bringing health care information and technology to consumers, business leaders and political figures. This initiative is beneficial to the community in understanding where managed care and health care are headed in 2000." Marilda Alfonso, president of the Aetna Foundation, said, "With this tour, we will help support the initiatives of the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, , American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association, or the ADA, is an American health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of , American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. and March of Dimes
The health.e.nation(TM) tour, supported by a participating strategic alliance with IBM, will make appearances in America's "town squares" and at key community events. Audiences will learn about the important role that information technology will continue to play in assuring high quality health care, and how resources like the Internet will help educate individuals for their own future as informed healthcare consumers. Visitors to the exhibition will experience a variety of informative exhibits regarding the future of healthcare, health technology, and disease management. Among them are: - film shorts profiling topics such as genetic screening, asthma, and preventive medicine preventive medicine, branch of medicine dealing with the prevention of disease and the maintenance of good health practices. Until recently preventive medicine was largely the domain of the U.S. - selected content from the largest consumer health website on the Internet today, www.Intelihealth.com - the future impact of information sharing and technology on changing provider/patient relationships, and the added value that managed care can bring to its members and providers by effectively wedding information and technology to support their needs "The health.e.nation(TM) tour highlights the significant ways technology contributes to the fact that people are living longer than ever, that our infant mortality rate infant mortality rate n. The ratio of the number of deaths in the first year of life to the number of live births occurring in the same population during the same period of time. is the lowest on record, and that immunization immunization: see immunity; vaccination. rates are at an all time high." Cardillo added. "A bold, new partnership between health care and information technology is being forged out of the explosion of this body of knowledge." Following two days at Columbus Circle, the health.e.nation(TM) tour will spend a day outside of the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. before embarking upon its year-long journey across the nation. BACKGROUND Aetna U.S. Healthcare is the nation's leading health and related benefits organization, providing a full spectrum of products ranging from health maintenance organizations (HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, ) to indemnity health insurance, group life and disability products, and dental, vision, and pharmacy benefits to more than 21 million Americans. In addition, Aetna U.S. Healthcare provides quality measurement and improvement programs and data analysis for providers and purchasers of health care. Aetna U.S. Healthcare's complete menu of health information and benefits products can be found on the worldwide Web at www.aetnaushc.com. IBM Global Healthcare Industry is one of eleven industry business units within IBM, chartered with understanding the customer's business needs and delivering integrated, flexible solutions that take advantage of leading-edge technologies and applications from IBM and its business partners, and add value for IBM's customers. Additional information on IBM Global Healthcare Industry products, services and solutions can be found on the IBM Global Healthcare Industry home page on the worldwide Web at www.solutions.ibm.com/healthcare. |
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