RnetHealth.com Inks Wendy Borow-Johnson as Company President; Company Moves to Next Stage of B2B and B2C Cross-Platform Development.

Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2000

RnetHealth.com, Inc. (OTCBB:RNET) today announced that Wendy Borow-Johnson, former Vice President of the American Medical Association and founder of American Medical Television, has been named President and Director of RnetHealth.com, succeeding acting President, Bill Moses.

Ms. Borow-Johnson stated, "RnetHealth.com is uniquely situated to capture a significant leadership position to deliver a wide array of services via the Internet and cable television in the areas of Behavioral Health and Wellness. I would expect over the next few months that RnetHealth.com will evolve as an important player in the business to business and business to consumer aspects of the Internet through certain strategic alliances with major portal concerns and health care companies."

Robert E. Portrie, Chairman of the Board of RnetHealth.com, stated, "We at RnetHealth.com could not be more pleased in having Ms. Borow-Johnson take this strategic position within our company. Ms. Borow-Johnson brings a background and currency to Rnet that is unique in the industry, and we believe that the work she has done for companies such as AOL and NBC can be leveraged to bring Rnet to the forefront in the health, wellness and behavioral health industry that we are targeting with MyMindandBody.com and My Mind and Body TV."

Most recently, Ms. Borow-Johnson has been President of the interactive healthcare industry consulting company Com-Med Strategic Alliances, where she has provided strategic consulting services for healthcare and digital cable and internet companies including AOL Digital Cities, Source Media's Interactive Channel, CNN's Accent Health, Astra-Zeneca, Glaxo Wellcome, and Allergan, among others. Ms. Borow-Johnson is currently the Chair of the Board of the e-Healthcare Association and chairs the e-HealthcareWorld and E-Mediatainment World conferences.

Ms. Borow-Johnson was formerly Senior Vice President of McCann Consumer Healthcare and the first woman Vice President of the American Medical Association. From 1991-1994, she was the founder, President and CEO of American Medical Television, a joint venture between NBC cable and the American Medical Association. She served on the Media Council for America Responds to AIDS and has been Advisor to the FDA on DTC Advertising of Pharmaceutical Drugs. Ms. Borow-Johnson is a member of various trade associations and sits on the Board of Advisors for several healthcare Internet initiatives. She is a recognized spokesperson on healthcare and new media, has several peer reviewed published articles and is listed in Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in Executives and Professionals. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Public Relations Society of America's Bronze Anvil, The International Health and Medical Film Festival's Freddie Award, The New York Film Festival Gold Medal, the Skye Award from Women in Communications and the Alvarez Award from The American Medical Writers Association.

Ms. Borow Johnson has appeared on numerous cable television programs and was a health and consumer reporter for ABC in Boston. She is a Phi Beta Kappa Magna cum laude graduate of Goucher College and has a Masters degree in Counseling from Goddard and a certificate in psychotherapy from the Judge Baker Institute at Harvard. She is married and has two children.

About RnetHealth.com

RnetHealth.com (the "Company") is a digital media company converging digital technologies of the Internet and cable television network to deliver behavioral health support, programming, products and services to a national audience and to individuals.

The broadband component - MyMindandBody TV cable television programming service - reaches approximately 5.0 million cable households. MyMindandBody TV drives traffic to the Company's web site, thereby enhancing the scope of the web-based community and providing subscription and e-commerce revenue generation opportunities.

The Internet component -- RnetHealth.com - provides a branded, integrated, Web-based solution via a public platform for consumers, as well as a platform for the behavioral healthcare needs of individuals, employers, insurance companies, managed care organizations, and health care organizations and providers, universities and other organized communities.

The Company's primary market is individuals whose lives are impacted, either directly or indirectly, by behavioral health issues (e.g., eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, stress, anxiety, teen and domestic violence) as well as by the chronic diseases associated with behavioral health issues (including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, hepatitis, and others). The Company provides action plans for traditional forms of treatment, and as an adjunct to those traditional forms, clinically based alternative health solutions.

RnetHealth.com's efforts are uniquely integrated with the needs and efforts of leading nonprofit behavioral health care organizations. The Company's National Partnership for Recovery and Prevention (NPRP) consists of over 50 prominent national health, recovery and prevention organizations that represent over 40 million people throughout the United States.

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