Medialogic sells Medscape assets to WebMD.MediaLogic/Medscape, Inc. has agree to sell the assets and operations of its Internet portals business, including the Medscape brand, to WebMD (Elmwood Park Elmwood Park, village (1990 pop. 23,206), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1914. It is chiefly residential. , NJ) for $10 million in cash. The acquired Internet portals include www.mescape.com, designed for medical professionals, and www.meds-capehealth.com, targeted to consumers. MediaLogic (Hillsboro, OR) said it will continue to focus on the development and deployment of its Digital Health Record (DHR DHR De Heer (Dutch: Mister) DHR Department of Human Resources DHR Department of Historic Resources (Virginia) DHR Dihydrorhodamine DHR Device History Record DHR Director of Human Resources ) applications and services, products that enable physicians to access patient information share data and communicate among practice members. However, MediaLogic does not produce a financial applications element, a service increasingly in demand by clinics, physicians' offices and healthcare delivery systems. Neither MediaLogic nor Medscape are profitable. WebMD (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 ) products include "Medical Manager, providing physician practice management software and related services, "WebMD Envoy envoy: see diplomatic service. Envoy - Motorola's integrated personal wireless communicator. Envoy is a personal digital assistant which incorporates two-way wireless and wireline communication. ," a provider of electronic data interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. services for healthcare providers and commercial health plans, and "WebMD Health," a provider of online information, research, and educational services for physicians and consumers. |
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