Medscape Launches CBSHealthWatch.com With New Features; Site Enhancements Improve Ease of Use for Consumers Seeking Health Information Online.

Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2001

Medscape (NASDAQ:MDLI), the leading provider of digital health records (DHR) and online health information, announced today that it has enhanced its award-winning consumer health Web site, CBSHealthWatch.com, to offer consumers a more personal, interactive and user-friendly online experience. The new version includes a complete site redesign, stronger personalization and a wider array of interactive health tools.

CBSHealthWatch's new look features a consumer-friendly home page, easier navigation and an enhanced search engine. Specifically, the site introduces "Smart Search," a feature that allows users to refine their searches and quickly locate the information most relevant to them. Smart Search is one of the most important upgrades made to CBSHealthWatch. It enables consumers to specify the type of information they seek, using parameters that include subject, media type, publication date, level of complexity, age and gender.

"More than half of consumer health searches on the Web are for topic-specific information, most of it in particular diseases," said Glynna Prentice, executive editor for CBSHealthWatch. "Smart Search lets consumers obtain precise, relevant results in a very user-friendly, intuitive way."

Developed by Medscape, one of the most recognized clinical Web sites for healthcare professionals, CBSHealthWatch provides users with a broad range of information related to a specific health topic or disease through its 48 "Topic Centers." In addition, feature content is available in three levels - basic, advanced, expert - to meet the needs of individuals with different levels of knowledge.

- Basic content gives users a general overview of a health topic

- Advanced content provides users with more in-depth information about the
latest developments in specific health topics

- Expert content supplies users with information designed for healthcare
professionals through search engines such as MEDLINE and AIDSLINE, databases of
medical abstracts and specific HIV/AIDS research and treatment, respectively.

"CBSHealthWatch provides the most comprehensive resource of information for consumers based on their informational needs and actually goes `beyond the basics' to provide them access to advanced and expert level content," said Tammy Lewis, senior vice president, Marketing for Medscape. "It's features like these that differentiate us from other health Web sites."

Maintaining Web Leadership

"The site upgrade clearly enhances CBSHealthWatch as one of the leaders in the crowded health Web portal category," said Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. "In today's market, probably the two largest drivers of consumer use of the Internet for health information are the quality and the trustworthiness of content. Some sites have become much larger and more sophisticated in design and scope, but not necessarily better. We pride ourselves on the scope and credibility of the information our portals offer our audience."

While the new site has been designed and built from the ground up to include migration to the new Medscape corporate platform standard (Sun Microsystems/Oracle Corporation/Java) and implementation of leading-edge commercial engines, CBSHealthWatch will maintain those features that have driven consumers to the site. The site will continue to offer original editorial content, daily health news and features, online discussion boards, searchable directories and databases and interactive tools.

Medscape, which produces, hosts and maintains CBSHealthWatch, undertook this effort to ensure that it will remain one of the leaders of the consumer health portal category. This effort is designed to uphold Medscape's reputation for reliable, in-depth content and stature as a key resource for medical information online. A similar undertaking including site re-design and migration to the new technology platform is being conducted for Medscape.com, which Medscape expects to upgrade this fall.

About Medscape

Medscape(R) (NASDAQ: MDLI) is the leading provider of digital health records and online medical information. The Company delivers patient-centered, clinical healthcare data and medical information to healthcare professionals and consumers wherever that information is needed. The core of Medscape's product portfolio is the industry leading Digital Health Record (DHR). DHR applications and services are an integral part of the practice of medicine and are used everyday by physicians and consumers across the country.

Medscape's DHR enables physicians to access patient information, share data with existing systems, communicate among practice members and capture and store quantifiable data for patient-by-patient or population-based studies. The DHR also enables practice sites to interact with their patients electronically to answer questions, schedule appointments and address personal health concerns, while offering consumers private access to their medical records and related disease management information and services. More than 17.2 million patients now have digital records hosted on Medscape systems. Medscape is also the leading source of peer-reviewed medical information and continuing medical education on the Web. Approximately 3.3 million members, including 560,000 registered as physicians and more than 1.6 million registered as allied health professionals, use Medscape.com for immediate access to research, recent developments and information to guide their practices and support patient care. Consumers too have come to rely on CBSHealthWatch by Medscape for health information that comes from the same source their physicians use.

The integration of Medscape's authoritative Web sites with the breadth of its clinical applications and products, strengthen the physician-patient relationship at--and beyond--each encounter, resulting in a positive impact on healthcare costs, efficiencies, safety and outcomes. The merger of MedicaLogic, Inc. and Medscape, Inc., and MedicaLogic, Inc.'s acquisition of Total eMed, Inc., a privately held company, in May 2000 formed MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc., d/b/a Medscape. The company employs approximately 1,000 people and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Medscape, MedicaLogic, and Logician are registered trademarks of MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc. in the United States. Other product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.

The statements in this press release regarding our prospects for improved revenues through our launching of an enhanced CBSHealthwatch.com web site, the effect our efforts will have on maintaining our leading position among healthcare web portals, and our plans to introduce upgrades to our other web properties are forward-looking statements based on current information and expectations. Achievement of those results is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that our enhanced web sites will not be accepted by customers; the risk that we may not be able to introduce additional enhancements on schedule or at all; and the risk that revenue opportunities for the enhanced web sites may not materialize. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. For more information concerning these and other possible risks, please refer to our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov).