A.D.A.M. Internet Health's New License Agreements With Leading Healthcare Companies Make A.D.A.M. The Industry Standard For 'Embedded' Visual Component Products

Business Wire, Feb 18, 1999

ATLANTA--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 18, 1999--A.D.A.M. Internet Health (Nasdaq: ADAM), the Internet's premier developer of online health information, today announced that it has signed licensing agreements with a number of leading healthcare information companies including Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq: CERN), Healtheon Corporation (Nasdaq: HLTH), IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: IDXC), Oceania, Inc., QuadraMed, Inc. (Nasdaq: QMDC), and WebMD, Inc.

These partnerships together represent a major step in making A.D.A.M. the standard in visual component products for the healthcare industry. It also signals that A.D.A.M. is making significant strides in penetrating the healthcare market through an integrated delivery model, whereby A.D.A.M. content becomes part of a larger clinical application or information system solution.

A.D.A.M.'s visual components bring expanded functionality to electronic medical record products and other clinical applications. A.D.A.M.'s exclusive "Structured Data Capture" package provides an intuitive method of data entry that makes it easier and faster for clinicians to document their findings. Using A.D.A.M.'s "Structured Data Capture" component, clinicians can navigate through the body and click on "hot spots" to record the location of clinical findings, eliminating the need to work through complex and non-intuitive hierarchical menus. In addition, the "Structured Data Capture" component features a hot web link back to ADAM.com, A.D.A.M.'s premier consumer health destination where patients and physicians will be able to share health information.

A.D.A.M is also offering its "Image Annotation" component that provides the highest-quality charting images for clinical annotation, and A.D.A.M.'s "Dissectible Anatomy" component that provides an interactive, in-depth anatomical tool "on board" for quick reference by clinicians for all types of uses.

A.D.A.M. will be demonstrating its visual components SDKs next week at the 1999 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Atlanta, Georgia. HIMSS is the world's largest healthcare information systems conference with over 17,000 participants expected this year. A.D.A.M. will be showcasing its new line of products and discussing its plans for further expansion into the healthcare market.

More about A.D.A.M. Internet Health

Based in Atlanta, GA, A.D.A.M. Software, Inc., d/b/a A.D.A.M. Internet Health, is an online health information content developer with over 32 gigabytes of medical illustrations, animation and interactive 3D content. The company also is producing www.adam.com - one of the premier destination sites on the Web for consumer health and medical information. ADAM.com features The A.D.A.M. Online Medical Encyclopedia, an extensive reference source on the Internet for consumer-level disease and symptoms-related information. In addition to developing ADAM.com, the company licenses content and software components to the healthcare, education and other professional markets.

Statements in this news release concerning A.D.A.M.'s future results, performance or expectations are forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or developments could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors including those described from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, press releases and other communications.