HealthGate Launches Enhanced Multi-Dimensional Content Repository.

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BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BW HealthWire)--May 14, 2002

Benefits Customers with Unparalleled Customization;

Develops New Revenue Stream with Microsoft .NET Tools

HealthGate Data Corp., (NASDAQ: HGAT), a market-leading provider and electronic publisher of healthcare information for health-related organizations, today announced the launch of its newly enhanced, multi-dimensional content repository. HealthGate re-architected its data repository in response to the healthcare industry's growing need for customized content. Built with Microsoft's .NET set of software technologies, HealthGate is now able to create new products quickly and easily to meet customer demand. HealthGate's content, which includes both proprietary and licensed information, provides health-related organizations with a means to customize and enhance patient education and safety initiatives.

With this flexibility, HealthGate can now offer its customers greater value and more options. Until now, customers have traditionally accessed HealthGate's content repository to receive specific "menus" of information, whether data on diagnostic and surgical procedures, general and specific drug information, alternative medicines, illnesses, surgeries and medical news. Now, HealthGate can offer customers individually-tailored services based on the same repository. For example, hospitals could relate HealthGate content to diagnostic or procedure data that they already use, thus providing a link between the content and their internal databases. This would provide a flexible way to integrate HealthGate content into various hospital applications.

"With this dynamic new technology infrastructure in place, HealthGate is well positioned to meet the challenges of the evolving healthcare content industry head-on and exceed the expectations of its customers," said Bill Reece, HealthGate's CEO. "By taking advantage of the best new technology that is available, we are continuing to take our content to greater levels of customization and flexibility, enabling our customers to truly dictate their healthcare information needs."

"In addition, our new repository architecture provides opportunities for future revenue streams for HealthGate because we can now easily segment content in any way that a customer requires -- now and in the future," concluded Reece.

Over the next quarter, HealthGate expects to rollout additional products made possible by its enhanced repository and introduce new Web services for its customers. The first Web service that the company expects to offer is automated locally-mounted content "pushes." These services could enable healthcare organizations to address any local health concerns that emerge. For example, HealthGate and a customer could mutually define content products around disease-specific clusters of information. This information could then potentially be distributed to the customer via a variety of channels.

HealthGate's technology platform and application tools have enabled the evolution from a traditional two-dimensional view of content to a multidimensional perspective, which allows for greater customization and the ability to easily adopt future delivery mechanisms such as Web services. Traditional development technologies did not fully meet HealthGate's high requirements for a dynamic infrastructure that would meet customer needs for customization and allow the company to develop new products and services. As a result, the company became an early adopter of Microsoft's recently-launched .NET platform and in just three months, fortified its comprehensive content repository with a technical backbone designed to maximize content delivery and services. Following a short-learning curve, HealthGate optimized its architecture with the .NET technology and transformed more than 20,000 files into validated, well-formed XML. With XML, and related classification and delivery applications, content can be segmented more efficiently, value-added meta-data can be added at the database level, and different collections can be rendered at the point-of-delivery according to business rules defined by the customer.

About HealthGate

HealthGate Data Corp. (NASDAQ:HGAT) is a market-leading provider and electronic publisher of healthcare information. HealthGate offers customers the most comprehensive content repository of healthcare information, unrivaled in its breadth and depth of content. HealthGate's authoritative content is used by more than 600 hospitals in the U.S. to provide the capability to drive down costs through more effective research and treatment, regulatory compliance, and clinician and patient education. The company's multi-dimensional XML-based content can be delivered electronically across virtually any technology and tightly integrated into a variety of applications used by its customers.

Since 1999, HealthGate has become an integral part of operations in approximately 12 percent of all hospitals in the United States. Some of the most respected healthcare institutions in the world, including Brigham and Women's Hospital, Swedish Medical Center, and HCA now utilize the data provided by HealthGate. The company's content repository is supported by a flexible, multi-dimensional technology infrastructure designed to enable HealthGate to rapidly develop products and services for customers as well as additional markets such as pharmaceutical companies and payors (insurance companies, governments, and self-insured organizations).

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. HealthGate's actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations, are based on many assumptions and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including among other things, HealthGate's ability to generate sufficient revenues; HealthGate's ability to sell its products and services; HealthGate's ability to maintain a listing on Nasdaq; HealthGate's ability to develop and implement its Project Intellect strategic initiative; reliance on significant customers; unpredictability of quarter-to-quarter results; competition; reliance on content providers, computer systems and software; HealthGate's ability to retain and attract key personnel; and other risk factors that are described in the periodic reports and other documents HealthGate files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. HealthGate does not intend to update or publicly release any revisions to the forward-looking statements.