eMedicine Selected for Boston MedFlight Critical Care Transport Team.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004

eMedicine.com, Inc., announced today that the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base has been selected by Boston MedFlight, the largest non-profit provider of critical care transport services in New England, as the preferred information resource for their medical crews. eMedicine's clinical information system will be available on helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and critical care ground vehicles used by Boston MedFlight. The system will provide instantaneous medical information on more than 6,500 diseases and conditions. Jon Adler, MD, president and chief medical officer of eMedicine, said: "We're very pleased that Boston MedFlight chose eMedicine to provide dependable medical information to their in-flight medical staff. Having this information available during the transportation of critically ill and injured patients will support the high level of patient care for which Boston MedFlight is known." Suzanne Wedel, MD, Boston MedFlight's medical director and chief executive officer, adds: "We are very impressed with the breadth and depth of information provided in the knowledge base. We are confident that this resource will assist our critical care transport crews in providing the best possible patient care."

The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base provides comprehensive medical and drug information that is peer reviewed and updated continually. Over 10,000 authors and editors have contributed to the system, which is now the world's largest original, peer-reviewed knowledge base of its kind. Boston MedFlight will have access to the knowledge base via their PDAs and handheld computers, as well as on any Web-enabled computer.

About Boston MedFlight

Boston MedFlight is an independent, non-profit organization providing Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS)-accredited critical care air and ground transport to thousands each year. Boston MedFlight was created in 1985 through a collaborative effort of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the New England Medical Center.

Boston MedFlight's mission is to serve New England with skilled critical care, to provide rapid access by air and by ground to the resources of Boston's world-renowned tertiary care hospitals, and to provide communities and individuals with the knowledge and tools they need to prevent unnecessary accidents and injuries.

Operations are based at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, MA, and Plymouth Municipal Airport, in Plymouth, MA. With a fleet of three helicopters, one fixed-wing aircraft, and a specially equipped ground vehicle, Boston MedFlight is available, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to transport critically ill and injured adults and children. All services are provided regardless of a patient's ability to pay. Boston MedFlight often means the difference between life and death or between debilitating injury and the hope for recovery.

About eMedicine

eMedicine.com, Inc., owns and markets the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, the first peer-reviewed medical reference developed specifically for online and handheld use. It consists of clinical review monographs for more than 6,500 conditions and includes an extensive multimedia library, drug tables, and clinical tools. The company's major product offerings are the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, Institutional Edition, for hospitals, universities, and libraries; eMedicine SELECT, solutions for clinical decision support, computerized physician order-entry systems (CPOE), radiographic picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and electronic medical records systems (EMR); eMedicine.com, one of the most heavily trafficked medical Web services for professionals; eMedicineHealth.com, a lifestyle, wellness, and disease information resource for consumers; and CME Plus custom CME development and distribution for the pharmaceutical industry. eMedicine has the largest repository of original CME/CE on the Web, with 36,000 hours available to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and optometrists. The company is privately held, with offices in Omaha, NE; Boston, MA; Syracuse, NY; Lafayette, NJ; San Rafael, CA; and St. Louis, MO.

Addresses:

Boston MedFlight, Inc., Robins Street, Hangar 1727, Hanscom AFB, Bedford MA 01730

Tel: [phone]; www.bostonmedflight.com

eMedicine.com, Inc., 1004 Farnam Street, Suite 300, Omaha NE 68102

Tel. [phone]; www.iMedicine.com, www.eMedicine.com