Military Health System Renews, Expands Contract for HealthGate Content; HealthGate to Provide Healthcare Portal Content for 101 MHS Facilities.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003 HealthGate Data Corp. (HGAT) announced today that the Department of Defense's Military Health System (MHS (1) (Message Handling Service) An earlier messaging system from Novell that supported multiple operating systems and other messaging protocols, including SMTP, SNADS and X.400. It used the SMF-71 messaging format. ) has renewed and expanded its contract under the TRICARE Online initiative. Under the terms of the new contract, HealthGate will provide healthcare content to the portal for the complete network of 101 MHS healthcare facilities worldwide. HealthGate previously supplied content for several MHS hospitals in a pilot program in conjunction with Integic Corporation. TRICARE Online has been a successful resource for MHS beneficiaries who, through the use of HealthGate content, can research health-related topics online through the portal for the MHS facility they regularly visit. About HealthGate HealthGate Data Corp. (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 accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by URAC URAC Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (health care accreditation & certification) URAC University Recreation & Aquatic Centre Ltd (Australia) URAC Union Regional de Apoyo Campesino and is used by healthcare institutions 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 more than 690 healthcare institutions in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Some of the most respected healthcare institutions in the world, including Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. , Swedish Medical Center
Swedish Medical Center is a large nonprofit health care provider located in Seattle, Washington. , and HCA HCA, n.pr See acid, hydroxycitric. 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). About Integic Integic is an e-business integrator of software, people and processes that connects legacy environments to online business applications. e.POWER is Integic's software for the rapid integration of applications addressing the critical requirements of online business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets , including enterprise work management, integrated document and records management and portals. Integic is the leading provider of workflow applications to the federal government and has a growing client-base in targeted vertical industries including healthcare and life sciences. Integic leverages its applications suite and more than a decade of successful integration experience to deliver robust, flexible and scalable enterprise solutions. Clients include Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label , the Department of Defense, the Military Health System, FEMA FEMA, n.pr See Federal Emergency Management Agency. , FAA, Genomics Collaborative, Schering AG, and the NASDAQ/AMEX. For more information, please visit www.integic.com. Forward Looking Statements This press release contains certain statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and 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 keep up with the rapid technological developments in the electronic healthcare content industry; 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. |
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