Jackson Rivers Technologies Signs LOA to Build a Medical Practice Management System.

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. -- Agreement showcases STEPS(TM) Platform's open architecture, which accelerates development cycles for rapid time-to-market

The Jackson Rivers Company (JRC) (OTCBB:JRVC), announced today that its subsidiary, Jackson Rivers Technologies (JRT), has signed a Letter of Agreement (LOA) with Strategic Healthcare Systems, Inc. (SHS) of San Jose, CA to provide SHS with a comprehensive Medical Practice Management System (MPMS). The system will be deployed throughout SHS's chain of outpatient medical clinics, as well as marketed to all types of medical practices as Evolve Medical Solutions (EMS(TM)).

Under the business arrangement between SHS and JRT, the EMS solution will be marketed throughout the United States whereby SHS and JRT will generate revenues through license fees, support and maintenance. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

When complete, the MPMS will provide seamless information flow between patients' diagnoses and their care management plans, laboratory results, prescriptions and other clinical inputs, together with standardized procedural codes and patient bio-data inputs to confirm patient identity for improved security. Designed to integrate the business of medicine with the practice of medicine, the system will also be able to access other health care information systems, provide for fast and efficient messaging capability, and manage patient appointments and third-party billing.

"After extensive research, we determined that rather than pick a commercialized system from the market and adapt the workflow of the clinics to the system, we would rather have a system built to suit the workflow of each clinic. We felt that a medical practice management system to be used by doctors should be designed by doctors and not by computer scientists and we were delighted to find that JRT has exactly the same philosophy.

"This new information system will give us complete visibility of a patient's health management, coordinating diagnoses with appropriate care plans, ensuring regulatory compliance, defining proper billing coding and increasing patient privacy and safety. We believe that this system, which is based upon open standards and simple user interfaces, will heighten staff productivity while minimizing clinical errors," noted Albert Gomez, MD, president of SHS.

The STEPS Platform is an open-architectured development environment that enables small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and professional service organizations to tightly integrate work-flow functions and clinical information throughout their organizations. Unlike large proprietary platforms that require extensive months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to deploy, STEPS is a streamlined solution that provides the pre-formatted application modules and basic functionality that SMEs and service organizations require, without paying for extraneous applications and development fees.

Joseph Khan, CEO of JRT, indicated that the agreement calls for integration of an advanced billing system, databases of procedural codes that assist in the assignment of reimbursement amounts, and external inputs for patient finger prints and digitized photos. He said that the STEPS Platform is based on the interoperable Java programming language, utilizes the open-source MySQL database repository, and provides for fast, efficient communications using OpenIM instant messaging.

"Based on the design provided by Dr. Gomez and applied to STEPS, this system will be built by JRT with full participation of SHS. The major advantage of this approach, provided by the unique design of STEPS, is that it neither requires the transfer of medical knowledge from SHS to JRT, nor of technical knowledge from JRT to SHS. This allows for a much shorter time-to-market for the EMS solution and eliminates errors caused by ambiguous communications so often associated with such projects," added Mr. Khan.

About Strategic Healthcare Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1996, SHS coordinates the interaction of a select group of subsidiary core medical companies organized as a virtual vertically integrated healthcare delivery system. Each core company contributes its products and services to support physicians in diagnosing and treating patients with state-of-the-art knowledge and technology. (www.shsmedical.net)

About The Jackson Rivers Company

Founded in 2001, The Jackson Rivers Company is based in Mount Kisco, NY and San Diego, CA. Its principal subsidiaries are JRC Global Products, a product distribution company, and Jackson Rivers Technologies, a provider of integrated information technology solutions. (www.jacksonrivers.com)

The Jackson Rivers Company is now trading under the symbol JRVC.OB.

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